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Editorial
. 2020 Aug;5(8):e003310.
doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003310.

Global health degrees: at what cost?

Anita Svadzian  1 , Nathaly Aguilera Vasquez  1 , Seye Abimbola  2 , Madhukar Pai  3
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Editorial

Global health degrees: at what cost?

Anita Svadzian et al. BMJ Glob Health. 2020 Aug.
No abstract available

Keywords: health education and promotion; public health.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: MP is on the editorial board of BMJ Global Health. SA is editor-in-chief of BMJ Global Health. They are from India and Nigeria, respectively, but had the privilege of training in HIC universities. They are currently based in HIC universities, and are aware of their obligation to address the inequities discussed in this paper.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Geographical distribution of Master’s degrees in global or international health, and mean tuition costs for the entire degree in USD (n=41).
Figure 2
Figure 2
International versus domestic tuition fees for Master’s of Global or International Health Programmes by region and scaled to account for cost of living as per the UN postadjustment multiplier. UN postadjustment multiplier is a measure of relative cost of living used to reflect changes in the cost of living in a given duty station/city as compared with New York city. The scale of the bubbles in the graph above are proportional to their relative size for this indicator and are colour coded by WHO Region. The bubbles lie in the plane in relation to their contribution to domestic versus international tuition, respectively, with programmes where the X-axis equally the Y-axis in a diagonal line, connoting an equivalence between costs for international and domestic students. UN, United Nations.
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