Global Health

Global Health

Address health issues that transcend national boundaries, including infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, maternal and child health, health systems strengthening, and health disparities. Global health also involves understanding the social, economic, and environmental determinants of health. Career paths in global health include roles such as epidemiologist, global health advisor, program manager for international health organizations, public health researcher, and policy analyst.


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AFAS 2160 - Free the Land: Black Lives and Environmental (In)justice

AFAS 3304 - Race and Global Health Inequities: Social determinants and Intersectionality

ANTHRO 3201 - Gender, Culture and Madness

ANTHRO 3280 - Anthropology of Infectious Diseases

ANTHRO 3310 - Health, Healing and Ethics: Intro to Medical Anthropology

ANTHRO 3612 - Population and Society

ANTHRO 3621 - Anthropology of Human Birth

ANTHRO 3880 - Multispecies Worlds: Animals, Global Health, and Environment

ANTHRO 3885 - Global Mental Health: Medical Pluralism Cross-Cultural Care

ANTHRO 4005 - The Evolutionary and Health Impacts of Human Parasite Infection

ANTHRO 4100 - Humanitarian Interventions

ANTHRO 4104 - Topics in Anthropology: Tech and Health: Minds, Bodies, Societies

ANTHRO 4110 - Pushing Daisies: The Anthropology of Death and Dying

ANTHRO 4134 - The AIDS Epidemic: Inequalities, Ethnography, and Ethics

ANTHRO 4250 - Aging in Cross-Cultural Perspective

ANTHRO 4312 - Environmental Interactions and Human Health

ANTHRO 4323 - Life at the Extremes

ENST 2220 - One Health: Linking the Health of Humans, Animals, and the Environment

ENST 3060 - Community Based Conservation: Madagascar Sustainability Initiative

FRENCH 2140 - Medical French

FRENCH 3220 - Topics II: Contagions

FRENCH 3600 - Thinking-It-Through: Well-Being

FRENCH 3750 - In Depth: Medical Narratives, Narrative Medicine

FRENCH 3760 - Cinema and Society: (Screening Health)

FRENCH 4680 - Topics in French Literature: Disability Studies, Before "Disability"*

GLOBAL 3006 - Global Health and Language

HISTORY 1151 - Health and Disease in World History

HISTORY 4057 - Advanced Seminar: Medicine, Disease and Empire

ITAL 4100 - Mamma Mia! Motherhood, Maternity, & the Female Reproductive Body in the Italian Cultural Context

LATAM 3160 - Cultures of Health in Latin America

PHCC 6002 - Global Health

PHTPS 6001 - Global Mental Health

PHTPS 6005 - Eliminating Health Disparities

PHTPS 6006 - TPS: Global Nutrition and the Environment

PHTPS 6008 - TPS: Climate Change & Public Health

PHTPS 6011 - TPS: Gender, Poverty & Global Health

PHTPS 6012 - TPS: Global Reproductive Health

PHTPS 6014 - TPS: Climate Crisis: Understanding Complexity & Advocacy for Global Health Professionals

PUBHLTHSOC 1011 - Environmental Justice as Public Health

PUBHLTHSOC 2000 - Introduction to Global Health (formerly Introduction to Public and Global Health)

PUBHLTHSOC 3000 - Public Health Theories, Models, and Frameworks

PUBHLTHSOC 3010 - Topics in PH&S: Climate for All: A Solutions-Based Investigation of the Climate Crisis and PH Impact

PUBHLTHSOC 3280 - Infectious Disease and Society

PUBHLTHSOC 4010 - Topics in Public Health & Society (Epidemics, Pandemics, and Society)

PUBHLTHSOC 4011 - Water and Health in the Colonial and Postcolonial World

PUBHLTHSOC 4012 - Global Hunger, Malnutrition and Obesity

PUBHLTHSOC 4030 - Topics in Public Health & Society (Health, Human Rights, and International Justice)

SOC 2050 - Inequality By Design: Understanding Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities

SPAN 3530 - Medical Spanish

WGSS 3500 - Trans Studies

WGSS 4115 - Gender, Religion, Medicine and Science