Modern Pandemics: HIV, Covid-19, and Beyond

Catalog description

This course offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the contemporary understanding of pandemics. Social and environmental drivers of pandemics and pandemic response are emphasized. Using HIV/AIDS and Covid-19 as key cases, etiology, immunology, epidemiology and public health responses are discussed. The course seeks to understand the complexity and multi-dimensionality of the relationship between disease, society and public policy.