NS 2600 - Introduction to Global Health

Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

Evening prelim. Limited enrollment.

R. Stoltzfus and J. Moseley.

Explore contemporary issues, problems, and controversies in global health through an interdisciplinary perspective. Introduces the global burden of disease and then examines complex social, economic, political, environmental, and biological factors that structure the origins, consequences, and possible treatments of global health problems. A limited number of problems are explored in depth (e.g., HIV, maternal mortality, malaria).