History of the consortium
Since its founding in 2010, the consortium has welcomed new partners and now stretches out over four continents. This diversity is indispensable for realizing our ambition to address global health issues with sensitivity for locally grounded realities.
University of Alabama at Birmingham and Bangladesh University for Professionals become full members of the consortium.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham and Bangladesh University of Professionals join the online courses Foundations of Global Health 1 & 2 and the Manipal Learning Symposium.
Students from Thammasat University and Niigata University participate in the Learning Symposium in India.
Students from Universidad del Rosario take specialisations at Maastricht and McMaster Universities, following up the online participation during the covid-19 pandemic.
Students from Niigata University are welcomed in the joint online courses Foundations of Global Health 1 & 2.
The Learning Symposium moves online because of the covid-19 pandemic, and is highly valued by the students.
To celebrate the tenth cohort, the Advisory Board meets with Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of The Netherlands and ambassadors from all consortium countries.
In 2019, the independent Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO) grants the Maastricht program an overall assessment of good and excellent, declaring the online courses, the learning symposium and the consortium best practices in Global Health.
Students from Ahfad University for Women participate in the joint online courses Foundations of Global Health 1 & 2 and the Learning Symposium in Manipal.
The University of South-Eastern Norway joins the consortium, offering specialisations to students from the other consortium partners.
Students from Universidad del Rosario are welcomed in Foundations of Global Health 1 & 2 courses.
Ahfad University joins the consortium and consortium students participate in specialisations at Ahfad University.
In 2015, the McMaster program received the Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE) Panorama Award for Outstanding International Education (Academic category).
Universidad del Rosario joins the consortium by offering specialisations to consortium partners’ students.
First Learning Symposium in Manipal, India.
First student batches start at the four partner universities, Thammasat University, Manipal University (now Manipal Academy for Higher Education), McMaster University and Maastricht University and are pioneering in the online courses Foundations of Global Health 1 & 2.
Founding Advisory Board meeting hosted in the Dutch Embassy in Ottawa, Canada, in the presence of Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of The Netherlands.