The Institute for Global Health and Development fosters an interdisciplinary and multicultural learning environment that encourages innovative ideas and intellectual truth-seeking for cultivating next generations of global health experts, policy makers, researchers, and health diplomas. iGHD provides students semester-based courses, workshops and seminars, one-on-one academic research advisories, as well as opportunities to project researches, international exchanges, and on-the-job practices. Students are expected to develop a box of conceptual and professional tools, which help build rigorous scientific thinking, broad international visions, effective communication skills, and abilities to solve complex and challenging real-world problems.

The Doctoral Program requiring 4-5 years to complete, covers core curriculum including applied economics, public health science, international relations and diplomacy, population science, and environmental science, political science, and other theoretical and professional courses in humanities and social sciences. A doctoral candidate must complete required credit hours for graduate work, pass comprehensive qualification examination and field specialized examinations, conduct academic research and write doctoral thesis and dissertation with theoretical and/or practical contributions to major issues of global health and human development under the supervision of advisers, and pass the dissertation defense. A doctoral degree will be conferred to a candidate after his or her successful completion of required credits and dissertation.