It is privilege to have students from Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Vietnam, Myanmar, Timor Lester and Indonesia, to take parts as international students on this postgraduate program supported by the World Health Organization-Tropical Disease Research (WHO-TDR). The total students of this batch is 15 students.
Universitas Gadjah Mada in collaboration with WHO TDR has been initiating Graduate Program on Public Health-Special Program of Implementation Research on Tropical Diseases since December 2015. The program curricullum is designed with Public Health syllabus as its core and Tropical Medicine for its elective topics. This idea of this program was to enhance future researchers capacity in designing and conducting implementation research, particularly on tropical disease which are still common in South East Asia region. The program curricullum consist if participatory teaching methods such mini lecture, case study, field visit and course project.