Disease Elimination: Uniting Scientific Research, Governance, Business, and Medicine

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

An array of diseases plague our human population and the number is ever-expanding. It is critical that we understand how societal structures influence when and how we all get sick. When we understand problems more fully, then we can make real change. We will critically examine disease frameworks from the medical, basic research, structural, and governmental perspectives and consider the ways these perspectives respond to and control disease. This course will examine disease causation and control for a parasitic disease, a virus, and a cancer in a discussion and project-based environment. This is a space to think about what is causing poor health and to ponder current national and global structures that are in place to address it. There is no one right answer for how to control the diseases we will talk about, but we will learn more complete ways to understand them from a multidisciplinary approach.