MHS 605 PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL HEALTH
This course is an overview of the field of global health. The focus is on analyzing and responding to major global health challenges and international policies. Analysis covers national and transnational health trends, including major communicable and noncommunicable disease burdens. The World Health Organization - and other international health interventions that address the determinants of health and disease and current and emerging global health priorities, such as disaster relief and infectious diseases - are assessed. Topics include key legal issues, ethics, and models of reform to global health programming and their applications. Skills are developed in analysis, leadership, teamwork, and communication in a global context. It is the first of two core courses towards the global health certificate, and lays the global health framework for MHS 610?s global health applications and challenge at the local or community level.