NS 4631 - Global Health Practice & Policy Research in Zambia

(CA-HE) (CU-CEL, CU-ITL)

Summer. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

Prerequisite: NS 2600, NS 4620. Permission of instructor required. Offered in Zambia.

J. Moseley, Staff.

An eight-week summer course in Zambia, this course is an intensive health policy research experience. Students work collaboratively with a Cornell peer to complete and present a research project on various topics. The course also includes: a family homestay, clinical shadowing and observation, facilitated critical reflection, and Peace Corp visit.

Outcome 1: Describe a public health issue through engagement in practice, policy, or research.

Outcome 2: Examine and explain the key characteristics and interests of their host organization, hospital, institution, or research project, and how they relate to public health issue they have described and analyzed.

Outcome 3: Analyze a public health issue integrating academic knowledge and experiential learning.

Outcome 4: Document and explain how the applied experience advanced academic, professional, and personal learning goals.

Outcome 5: Demonstrate the capacity to critically reflect on their own values, ethics, assumptions and actions in the context of cultures, collaborations and institutions.

Outcome 6: Demonstrate the capacity to collaborate across differences (e.g. cultural, social, personal, economic, values, religious).

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