Global Health: Challenges and Responses

Undergraduate

This class is a foundational course in global health. It examines the social, economic, political, and intellectual trends and transformations that have led to contemporary global health problems and introduces students to systemic responses and central approaches in global health. Course topics are thematically driven according to a focus on the roots of global health challenges and the primary social structures that global societies have erected to understand and manage illness and health, with examples ranging from neglected tropical diseases to systems of global health ethics. Particular attention is given to the health of the poor, equity and inequality, and comparative analysis of global health across regions and cultures. SO 0 Course cr MW 11:35am-12:50pm