Emerging Technologies for Public Health

3 credits · Undergraduate

In this course, students will learn how to leverage and harness technology for better and more equitable public health outcomes. This entails learning and understanding the business and policy models that can put technology into practice, overcome community-specific barriers to technology uptake, and create outcomes. The course has a case study format with each case covering an important technology advancing public health. The technologies span medical devices, environmental health infrastructure, lifestyle wellness devices, AI, and mental health. Students will become capable of advancing the health of the public by innovating with technology.