GLOBAL HEALTH AND COMMUNITIES: FROM RESEARCH TO PRAXIS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Junior standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Natural Science & Wellness + Lab Breadth - Social Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Define and analyze the concept of community, describe different types of communities, and effectively educate peers about communities where they have lived or called home. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Understand the evolving definition of global health, develop a holistic understanding of the interrelated determinants of health and wellbeing, and make connections between assets, challenges and strategies in local and global communities. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Become familiar with ways to describe and measure health status and be able to use tools and resources to describe disease burden and risk factors in national, state, city and neighborhood settings. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Compare and contrast strategies for community engagement from around the world. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Draw connections and implications for health and wellbeing across sectors using the Sustainable Development Goals, as well as other ways of knowing and conceptualizing community life. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Practice self-directed learning, perspective-taking, peer-to-peer learning and experiential learning related to the course topics. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Integrate knowledge and skills related to community-oriented global health engagement. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 8. Identify target publications and submission requirements relevant to individual work and submit final paper for publication. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Define and analyze the concept of community, describe different types of communities, and effectively educate peers about communities where they have lived or called home. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Understand the evolving definition of global health, develop a holistic understanding of the interrelated determinants of health and wellbeing, and make connections between assets, challenges and strategies in local and global communities. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Become familiar with ways to describe and measure health status and be able to use tools and resources to describe disease burden and risk factors in national, state, city and neighborhood settings. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Compare and contrast strategies for community engagement from around the world. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Draw connections and implications for health and wellbeing across sectors using the Sustainable Development Goals, as well as other ways of knowing and conceptualizing community life. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Practice self-directed learning, perspective-taking, peer-to-peer learning and experiential learning related to the course topics. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Integrate knowledge and skills related to community-oriented global health engagement. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 8. Identify target publications and submission requirements relevant to individual work and submit final paper for publication. Audience: Graduate