Students will learn how international and non-governmental organizations in Geneva are addressing today’s most pressing global challenges.

Global Health Track
Humanitarian Action: Crises, Refugees, and Human Rights Track
International Trade Policy Track
The week includes meetings with approximately 20 practitioners, site visits to Geneva-based IGOs and NGOs, networking events, professional coaching, group case simulations, and a culminating policy memo assignment. It’s a rigorous week that shapes students’ professional and personal ambitions.

The intensive course week will address critical questions like:

How can globalization be a catalyst for development and improved living standards?
Is multilateral cooperation irreparably broken?
Could a new, fairer form of global health and humanitarian action be forged in the post-pandemic era?
How can trade policy be used to address conflicts between countries over the use of industrial policy and subsidies?
Students will meet with leading global health, international trade, and humanitarian practitioners from key multilateral agencies, such as the International Committee of the Red Cross, Médecins Sans Frontières, World Trade Organization (WTO) International Organization for Migration, World Health Organization (WHO), International Trade Center(ITC) the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and UNHC.

Students will go on site visits related to their track to see the inner workings of these agencies.
Speakers will include scholars and practitioners from high burden nations.
Debates, readings, case studies, and a culminating policy memo assignment: all planned activities will help to put theory into action.