Global Environmental Health

Catalog description

This course is designed to give students a broad overview of global environmental health as a public health discipline. The purpose of this course is to learn about key areas of environmental health and their role in global health. This course will consider the health dimensions of environmental problems that manifest on a global scale, such as climate change and biodiversity loss. This multidisciplinary framework examines the complex relationships between economic development, environmental degradation, and global health. Students will be introduced to The World Health Organization’s broad view of the environment. This course also refers to the theory and practice of assessing, correcting, controlling, and preventing those factors in the environment that can potentially affect adversely the health of present and future generations. We will explore solutions to these problems and the challenges inherent in realizing those solutions.