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GHS 201A
This course will describe the principles of global health practice and provide the essential background for the other core courses. The course will compare and contrast health systems internationally and assess the health workforce crisis in developing countries. Students will study both macro and disease-specific major global health challenges, strategies for responding to them, key institutions, and international legal frameworks. A recurring theme will be quantitative and qualitative methods for estimating disease burden, risk, and control. Throughout the course students will be made aware of the ethical issues that underlie global health activities.
Teaching format: Lectures, seminars, independent study, assigned papers
Course credit: 3 Units Credit over one quarter
- 1.5 hours of lecture per week
- 1.5 hours of seminar plus three hours of independent study per week
At the end of the course students will be able to:
- Describe the principles and scope of global health
- Identify the key players, institutions, political bodies, and non-governmental organizations that contribute to health promotion and policies
- List and explain the rationale for the Millennium Development Goals
- Compare and contrast different international health systems, policies and frameworks
- Recognize major global health threats and challenges and critically appraise strategies to respond to them
- Participate in complex global health work using a sound ethical approach
- Overview of global health: Course overview, emergence of global health: definitions, scope and principles; health and poverty, health as a component of development, health-related development strategies and targets, Millennium Development Goals (Dr. Rutherford)
- Globalization and migration: Global markets, communications and information technology, mobility and migration, urbanization, cross-cultural interactions (Dr. Levi); work force and brain drain (Dr. Debas)
- Climate and environment: Climate change and health consequences of environmental degradation; (Guest lecture TBA)
- Demography and population growth: Measuring health, demographic trends, population growth, burden of disease, epidemiological transition; control of population growth (Dr. Levi)
- Principles of global public health I: Primary care and organization of health systems; maternal and child health, reproductive health, women’s health, nutrition) (Dr. Levi)
- Principles of global public health II: Non-communicable diseases (chronic diseases, mental health, injuries); preparing for and dealing with major global public health threats; humanitarian emergencies; essential medicines list (Dr. Levi)
- Principles of global public health III: International disease prevention and control, communicable diseases, International Health Regulations, prevention strategies (Dr. Rutherford)
- Principles of global health IV: Nutrition; water, sanitation, land use, agricultural reform (Dr. Rutherford)
- Global health governance: Key institutions, their agendas, role and responsibilities; legal framework for global health and health-related international treaties and agreements; intellectual property, World Trade Agreement (Dr. Rutherford)
- Partnerships in global health: International collaboration: types and management of projects, principles and ethics, evaluation, sustainability and scale up, global public-private partnerships (Dr. Levi)
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