The Burden of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs)

The course The Burden of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) offers a comprehensive overview of the rising global burden of NCDs, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income countries. Participants will explore key risk factors, health transitions, and socioeconomic, environmental, and gender-related determinants of NCDs. The course covers screening, surveillance, and prevention strategies, alongside health system challenges such as task shifting and continuity of care. Special attention is given to NCDs in humanitarian settings and high-risk populations. By the end of the course, participants will be equipped to analyze global targets like the SDGs and Voluntary Targets for 2025, and contribute meaningfully to NCD prevention and control efforts in diverse settings.

Here you can find the 2025 course agenda.

• Overview of NCDs and risk factors
• Burden of NCDs
• Health Transition
• Environmental, Nutritional & Gender Issues of NCDs
• Screening & risk assessment of NCDs
• Surveillance of NCDs
• Prevention & Control Strategy of NCDs
• Global Voluntary Target 2025 & SDG
• NCD in humanitarian crisis and high risk population
• Health System Challenges (Task shifting & Continuity of Care)

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

1. understand the magnitude of major NCDs in developing and developed countries,
2.  know the burden of risk factors of NCDs and identify the shared and clustering of risk factors of NCDs,
3. learn the prevention strategies for different NCDs,
4. recognize the socioeconomic burden of NCDs,
5. interpret different health transitions of NCDs,
6. understand the globalization of NCDs,
7. explain the environmental & gender related issues and special concerns of NCDs, and
8. know the health system challenges in tackling NCDs.

Course participants should belong to one of these three groups:

• Students who have completed their Bachelor's degree (min. 4 years) in health sciences including MBBS, MD, BDS, BPT, Nursing, Public Health, etc.
• Students who have completed or are pursuing any postgraduate studies related to health sciences
• Health professionals working in governmental, private or non-governmental institutions in the field of public health

A certificate of completion will be issued when

• 80% of all course sessions were attended, and
• all 3 course assignments were submitted on time, and
• the final course assessment was successfully submitted.

The Teaching and Training Unit (T&TU) together with the Bangladesh University of Health Sciences would like to offer four students from a low- and middle-income country the opportunity to receive a scholarship to waive 50% of the respective tuition fee. Interested participants should send us their CV and a motivation letter (no longer than 500 words) outlining their current situation and personal motivation for participating in this advanced module. In addition, the motivation letter should also include information on how the course would advance their personal career and support the applicant's home country in the fight against NCDs. Please submit all documents no later than 30 May 2025. For further information, feel free to contact our team at the T&TU: ttu@lrz.uni-muenchen.de

Registration is Closed.

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