Issues in Global Health

Catalog description

This introductory course in global health introduces students to critical global health issues and ways to address or solve them. Focusing on low- and lower-middle-income countries, this course covers the main principles of global health along with additional topics such as the determinants of health, the global burden of disease, ethical priority setting, the environment, nutrition, maternal and child health, and communicable and non-communicable diseases. The main focus will be to describe and analyze variation in health between and within countries.