Health Sciences: Global Public Health Practice (A)

About HSCI 2190 A

Designed for skill-building and to prepare students to work in the global public health field while negotiating cultural differences and responding to complex global public health situations that occur at the intersection of culture and disease. Prerequisite: Global Public Health minor.

Notes

Open to degree and PACE students Preqs HSCI 2100 OR instructor permission

Section Description

This skill-building class is designed to prepare students to work in the global public health field while negotiating cultural differences and responding to complex global public health situations that occur at the intersection of culture and disease. This course explores contemporary issues in global public health through an interdisciplinary perspective. We will examine the complex social, political, and environmental factors that impact global health through modules in Climate Change, Humanitarian Crises, Infectious Disease, Chronic Disease, and Global Mental Health. Through the lens of global health priority issues, ethical considerations, humanitarian crises, refugee camps, and much more, students will learn key global health practices and approaches to addressing large public health issues that impact global populations.

Section Expectation

A combination of lectures, group work, case studies, and presentations. Attendance and participation is mandatory.

Evaluation

Grades are based on attendance and participation, weekly assignments, a midterm project, and a final project.

Important Dates

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