Global Health IT and Innovations

Catalog description

This course provides students with an understanding of how information technologies (IT) and innovations shape, redefine, and expand health care system capacity and improve health outcomes, especially in low-resource countries, globally. Students will gain skill in critiquing and analyzing various management programs and technology systems currently available to the global health community. The capacity, sustainability and scalability of technologies and innovations, and their importance to improving population health outcomes, will be explored from a socially just and culturally competent perspective. Students will be introduced to the fascinating world of creative technology and innovation as a means to expand health resources. These innovations include such tools as e-Health and mHealth. Tutorials will offer didactic and experiential learning opportunities. They will serve as interactive discussion and training sessions to introduce the skills and software toolsets that will be used by the students to design an original field project, an original health care delivery system application, and a funding proposal.