Learn concepts and skills in public health to identify and assess global health trends, understand global health priorities, and gain a sense of what interventions have and have not worked from both health and social science perspectives.
About the Health & Development Emphasis
In our increasingly global world, health and development are inseparable, and poor health is the greatest challenge to achievement of developmental goals. Health risks know no borders: deterioration of health in the poorest regions has worldwide effects from pandemic diseases and air pollution to damaged international relations and reduced economic trade.
Emerging global health problems will require a new generation of innovative thinkers who can identify trends and critically assess intervention options. Adapted to real-world contingencies, this emphasis within the Global Studies major will prepare you to think in a multidisciplinary and critical manner. Social Science courses will provide you with an understanding of global health priorities as well as the history of health-related trends, priorities, and intervention measures.
Courses
You'll complete the core major requirements and also select 15 units of courses from areas such as anthropology, geography, public health and regional studies.
Course options include:
AIS 437: Health of Indigenous Populations (Crosslisted: CHS/SOC)
ANTH 395D: Special Topics in Biological Anthropology
ANTH 444: Introduction to Medical Anthropology
CHS 401: Health Disparities in Society (Crosslisted: SOC)
EPID 309: Introduction to Epidemiology
GWS/ANTH/HPS 438A Women's Health in Global Perspective
HIST 311: History of Epidemics
HIST 373: Politics of Health and Medicine in the Americas: From Historical Roots to Contemporary Developments (Crosslisted: LAS)
HIST 428: Food, Health & Environment in History
HPS 200: Introduction to Public Health
HPS 350: Principles of Health Education and Health Promotion
HPS 387: Health Disparities & Minority Health
HPS 433: Global Health
LAS 306: Latin American Health in the Time of Pandemics (Crosslisted: ANTH)
LAS 364: Development of Latin America (Crosslisted: POL)
LAS/ANTH 422/522: Health beyond Borders
NSC 478: Public Health Nutrition
PAH 350: Health Humanities: Intercultural Perspectives