Essential Skills in Global Health

School of Medicine

This course introduces students to core research, field tools, assessment and implementation techniques, and evaluation methodologies commonly used in the field of global health. Students explore theories and practices used to analyze issues and intervene in global health and they examine determinants of global health and development from an interdisciplinary vantage point. Health and developmental issues across nations and cultures that require collective, partnership-based action are highlighted. The course is taught by an interdisciplinary team of faculty members using didactic, interactive and practical elements of instruction. This course is required for students in the Global Health track of the M.P.H. program and may be taken as credit toward the Global Health Certificate.