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

(1 Credit Hour) · 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. In this course, we will examine the framework for disease causation. We will then examine various ways to respond to or control disease and consider how these responses could be improved from a basic research, medical, structural, and governance perspective. 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 there are more complete ways to understand them. This course will be mostly discussion and group-project-based because multidisciplinary approaches require multidisciplinary teams.