GLOBAL HEALTH: INFECTIOUS DISEASES, ONE HEALTH, AND PREVENTION STRATEGIES

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing, or declared in the Capstone Certificate in Global Health Online Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Examine how the epidemiology of HIV/TB/malaria and challenges in the management of these diseases impact the effectiveness of control strategies. Audience: Graduate 2. Analyze how the unique features of vector borne diseases and parameters of climate change impact control strategies. Audience: Graduate 3. Evaluate the historical and current impacts of immunizations on the epidemiology of vaccine preventable diseases. Audience: Graduate 4. Analyze the historical factors and current drivers of vaccine hesitancy and evaluate potential strategies to manage this public health challenge. Audience: Graduate 5. Debate the concept that disparities in resources are the primary driver of the epidemiology of Neglected Tropical Diseases. Audience: Graduate 6. Differentiate the roles of animals in the primary patterns of “zoonotic diseases” transmission between humans and animals. Audience: Graduate 7. Compare and contrast the different communicable disease surveillance methodologies. Audience: Graduate 8. Explain the characteristics of pathogens that are needed to make them bioterrorism weapons. Audience: Graduate 9. Evaluate the factors that have led to the rise of antimicrobial resistance and the role of antimicrobial stewardship and infection control techniques for prevention. Audience: Graduate 10. Explain how the following communicable disease transmission patterns differ from one another: “endemic,” “epidemic,” “pandemic,” and “outbreak.” Audience: Graduate 11. Defend the role of one of the following in the origins of emerging and novel pathogens: pathogen evolution; human behavior; inadequate public health infrastructure; or, ecological factors. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Examine how the epidemiology of HIV/TB/malaria and challenges in the management of these diseases impact the effectiveness of control strategies. Audience: Graduate 2. Analyze how the unique features of vector borne diseases and parameters of climate change impact control strategies. Audience: Graduate 3. Evaluate the historical and current impacts of immunizations on the epidemiology of vaccine preventable diseases. Audience: Graduate 4. Analyze the historical factors and current drivers of vaccine hesitancy and evaluate potential strategies to manage this public health challenge. Audience: Graduate 5. Debate the concept that disparities in resources are the primary driver of the epidemiology of Neglected Tropical Diseases. Audience: Graduate 6. Differentiate the roles of animals in the primary patterns of “zoonotic diseases” transmission between humans and animals. Audience: Graduate 7. Compare and contrast the different communicable disease surveillance methodologies. Audience: Graduate 8. Explain the characteristics of pathogens that are needed to make them bioterrorism weapons. Audience: Graduate 9. Evaluate the factors that have led to the rise of antimicrobial resistance and the role of antimicrobial stewardship and infection control techniques for prevention. Audience: Graduate 10. Explain how the following communicable disease transmission patterns differ from one another: “endemic,” “epidemic,” “pandemic,” and “outbreak.” Audience: Graduate 11. Defend the role of one of the following in the origins of emerging and novel pathogens: pathogen evolution; human behavior; inadequate public health infrastructure; or, ecological factors. Audience: Graduate