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Fundamentals in Global Health Practice
Location
Internet
Term
1st Term
Department
MAS Office
Credit(s)
4
Academic Year
2024 - 2025
Instruction Method
Asynchronous Online
Auditors Allowed
No
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Resources
Prerequisite
Global health requires practitioners to be well versed in understanding health systems, the controlling disease, and improving the health of mothers and children, and vulnerable populations.
Provides an introduction to these issues. Students have an opportunity to apply these skills by analyzing the health situation in select low and middle-income countries.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Characterize major domains of global public health, including the associated social determinants and burdens of disease, and the key interventions and approaches to improve outcomes within those domains
- Apply principles of social justice and human rights to assess global health policies and programs, and their impact on health equity
- Demonstrate interpersonal communication skills that demonstrate respect for other perspectives and cultures
- Use scientific evidence for health program planning, implementation, and evaluation in low and middle-income country settings
- Develop and articulate arguments for global health strategies using evidence from reliable sources
- Describe the roles and relationships of the entities influencing global health
- Identify different dimensions of capacity building in global health, and apply capacity building concepts to health policies and program interventions in low and middle income country settings
- Conduct a situation analysis across a range of cultural, economic, and health contexts, identifying the relationships among patterns of morbidity, mortality, and disability with demographic and other factors in shaping the circumstances of the population of a specified community, country, or region
Methods of Assessment
This course is evaluated as follows:
- 15% Quizzes
- 20% Discussion Board
- 65% Project(s)
Enrollment Restriction
MAS students only