Evolutionary Medicine and Global Health

Catalog description

Fundamentally, the practice of medicine is applied biology to improve human health and well-being and is embedded within population and global scales. Integrates the life and social sciences to tackle the current and emerging global health challenges of the 21st century with an evolutionary biology lens with current medical knowledge enhancing our understanding of health. Uses topics such as human-pathogen coevolution; development and aging; human migration; diseases (infectious, metabolic and autoimmune); and physiological and behavioral mechanisms of immunity to explore the broad arena of human health within a deep time and global context.