Covers how health and illness are defined and explores biological, cultural, social, and political forces that influence global health. A multi-disciplinary approach to topics will include: comparative health systems, healthcare policy, social determinants of health, health services and quality, key stakeholders, and major global health initiatives.

Covers how health and illness are defined and explores biological, cultural, social, and political forces that influence global health. A multi-disciplinary approach to topics will include comparative health systems, healthcare policy, social determinants of health, health services and quality, key stakeholders, and major global health initiatives.

Analyzes cultural, social, political, and economic processes framing global health as a field of policy and practice. We examine value systems underpinning specific paradigms and apply scientific, historical, and autobiographical perspectives to gauge benefits and unintended consequences of interventions. Prepares students to collaborate, understand, and act in global health settings.

Explore complex relationships among food, culture, and disease through a food systems approach. Focus on taste and food preferences, nutritional perspectives, globalization of Western diet, along with obesity and chronic disease, and global food policy issues, such as food insecurity, food marketing and trade, and ethics of food waste.

Explore complex relationships among food, culture, and disease through a food systems approach. Focus on taste and food preferences, nutritional perspectives, globalization of Western diet, along with obesity and chronic disease, and global food policy issues, such as food insecurity, food marketing and trade, and ethics of food waste.

Explore complex relationships among food, culture, and disease through a food systems approach. Focus on taste and food preferences, nutritional perspectives, globalization of Western diet along with obesity and chronic disease, and global food policy issues such as food insecurity, food marketing and trade, and ethics of food waste.

Explores the sociocultural, political, economic, and policy implications of maternal and child health worldwide. A comparative approach will cultivate critical assessment of various global strategies and interventions designed to improve the health of women and children, including child survival, safe motherhood initiative, millennium development goals, and sustainable development goals.

An interdisciplinary public policy approach to understanding policies, programs, and interventions in global health. Students will examine the policymaking process, the institutions and norms of global health governance, examples of both successful and flawed policies and interventions, and evaluate the extent to which policies impact global health indicators.

Practical experience in global health through placement in appropriate international or domestic health related agencies.

Examines the HIV/AIDS pandemic using an interdisciplinary lens, with a focus on the African context. Through course readings, assignments, and service-learning projects students will evaluate the progress of the epidemic itself and assess global responses to HIV/AIDS from various perspectives, including epidemiology, social history, political economy, and culture.

Centers the lived experiences of different individuals and cultures during infectious disease epidemics in modern global history, particularly in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Based on the history of medicine, the course emphasizes both historical context and anthropological, epidemiological, sociological, and cultural issues surrounding infectious disease both past and present.

Study abroad course at introductory level learning about two or more health systems in the world. Comparisons of health systems will be made, identifying strengths and weaknesses; social, cultural, political, and economic determinants of health.