Utrecht University Courses

Ebola: Essential Knowledge for Health Professionals

158 ratings at Coursera

March 2014 marked the starting point of the largest outbreak of Ebola virus disease in history. Although the disease seems to be on a decrease, we are not there yet and new outbreaks will surely emerge. New efforts to combat the outbreak are necessary. T…

• Coursera
• 17 hours worth of material, 9 weeks long
• 13th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Responsible Conduct of Research

As a PhD student in academia, there are difficulties you may encounter in the area of integrity, such as power relations and issues around social safety, authorship, intellectual property, and ensuring academic quality. How can you properly determine the…

• Coursera
• 7-8 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 13th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Clinical Epidemiology

315 ratings at Coursera

Evidence forms the basis of modern medicine. Clinical research provides us with this evidence, guiding health professionals towards solutions to problems that they face in daily practice. Transferring existing problems in medical practice to a research s…

• Coursera
• 13 hours worth of material, 7 weeks long
• 3rd May, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Human Rights for Open Societies

482 ratings at Coursera

Human rights are under pressure in many places across the globe. Peaceful protests are violently quashed. Voting is tampered with. And minorities are often excluded from decision-making. All of this threatens the ideal of an open society in which each of…

• Coursera
• 14 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 3rd May, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Understanding child development: from synapse to society

238 ratings at Coursera

In this course, we dive into the topic of child development.

• Coursera
• 28 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 3rd May, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Unravelling solutions for Future Food problems

137 ratings at Coursera

Our society depends on the availability of food and accessibility to it. According to the United Nations nearly 800 million people are hungry and on the other hand, over 650 million people are obese. While many people in developing countries experience…

• Coursera
• 16 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 3rd May, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The exposome: cracking the science about what makes us sick

What are the causes of disease? We know that most diseases result from a combination of genes and environment (nature and nurture). Our genes alone do not determine our fate. For most complex diseases, externalities - environmental factors in the broad s…

• Coursera
• 15 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 3rd May, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Professionalism in an era of change

43 ratings at Coursera

In this course we aim to provide you with an insight into how recent societal and technological developments have changed the work of professionals in a variety of professional domains and how this in turn affects professionalism. The course highlights c…

• Coursera
• 27 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 3rd May, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Inequality and Democracy

28 ratings at Coursera

Most countries are getting more and more unequal. But the core of democracy is political equality: that everyone should have an equal say in how their country is run. Can we really expect these things to go together? Can people have equal political power…

• Coursera
• 21 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 3rd May, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Understanding child development: from synaps to society

In this course, we dive into the topic of child development. You will learn that child development is complex and is influenced by a surprisingly rich number of factors at many different levels of organization. You will see that development can be studie…

• Coursera
• 4-5 hours a week, 6 weeks long
• 3rd Jul, 2017
• Free Online Course (Audit)