Navigating the Landscape of Global Health: Understanding Challenges and Solutions

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This graduate seminar course aims to explore the complexities of global health, with three main objectives. Firstly, it is designed for doctoral students in Public Health, specializing in Global and Environmental Health (GEH), to provide a firm grounding in essential concepts, frameworks, theories, and ongoing debates in global health. Secondly, the course seeks to broaden students' perspectives by covering a range of contemporary and emerging topics in global health, including planetary health, climate change, infectious diseases, and non-communicable diseases. Lastly, the seminar will contextualize discussions on global health governance, decolonization, inequity, and the various challenges in global health, fostering a nuanced understanding of the complexities of the field