Advanced Commercial Determinants of Health

3 Credits

In this upper-level course, students will learn the roles that major soda, food, tobacco, entertainment, and pharmaceutical industries play in affecting population health. This course reveals how and why these industries influence consumption, mental health, and social interactions within communities; how government, civil society, and the international community is responding; and industry's strategic response. This course is reading and writing intensive and employs comparative qualitative case study methods and analysis. Prerequisites: CGH 105