Our Program

The Graduate Program in Global Health offers courses and opportunities for research leading to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Global Health. Graduates may serve as agents of change fulfilling leadership and advocacy positions in higher education, research, health systems, and/or business locally, nationally, and internationally. The standout attributes of the PhD in Global Health are:

Interdisciplinary, critical, equity- and solutions-oriented global health research, specifically:

• To engage critically with the root causes of global health problems
• To support an infusion of ideas across disciplines and sub-disciplines in the health, social and natural sciences
• To build equitable partnerships with communities and stakeholders
• To imagine, enable and/or evaluate approaches that support the achievement of global health equity

Independent Learning Plan

• An ILP, developed in the first year of the program, enables students to chart a PhD journey that is tailored to their professional and research goals, including tailored course selections, milestone examination formats, and opportunities for research funding and partner engagement, culminating in the development of a traditional, manuscript-based, or multi-modal dissertation in the fourth year.

Cotutelle Options

• While the PhD in Global Health is already interdisciplinary, we have novel structures in place to support cotutelle arrangements with another doctoral program at York University, or with another university, conditional on supervisor and program commitments.

We invite you to explore this site and learn more about the Admission and Degree requirements.