Global Health

Catalog description

This course is intended to meet the needs of students who are committed to becoming experts and practitioners in both the theory and practice of global health. Globalization trends, and their effect on population health, will be studied from a comparative perspective in both the developed and the developing world. To that end, this course aims at promoting awareness on the cultural, socioeconomic and political effects of the globalization process on population health. During the semester, students will examine the emerging field of global health from an interdisciplinary perspective, by addressing the main health issues experienced by vulnerable populations worldwide.