University of Geneva

The University of Geneva (UNIGE) and University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG) represent a hub in academic global health, mainly because Geneva has become progressively after the second world war the capital of global health, with the World Health Organization and the International Committee of the Red Cross setting up their headquarters, followed by many of the major agencies and international organizations, public-private partnerships, non-governmental organizations, scientific and medical societies, which play a leading role in global health and humanitarian action. UNIGE and/or HUG have created at the Faculty of Medicine the Institute of Global Health (which trains public health practitioners, hosts the MAS in public health, the PhD in global health, the World Federation of Public Health Associations and the Geneva Health Forum); the RAFT (Telemedicine in francophone Africa); the Department of tropical and humanitarian medicine; the Center for humanitarian action (CERAH, jointly with the Graduate Institute Geneva); the Geneva Center for Emerging Viral Diseases; the interfaculty Global Studies Institute (which hosts the master of science in global health); and many other Faculty members are tightly involved in many facets of global and public health.

Institute of Global Health

The Institute of Global Health at the Faculty of Medicine does not pretend to be the only actor of its sector in Switzerland or even in Geneva, since most of the SSPH+ Faculty members have competencies, projects and expertise in the field of global health. However, it may act and serve as a hub for academic global health since it is ideally located in the middle of la Genève Internationale, at the Campus Biotech (which is a facility run jointly by UNIGE and EPFL).