223.680.01
Global Disease Control Programs and Policies
Location
East Baltimore
Term
4th Term
Department
International Health
Credit(s)
4
Academic Year
2012 - 2013
Instruction Method
TBD
M, W, 1:30 - 3:20pm
Auditors Allowed
No
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Course Instructor(s)
George Alleyne
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Resources
Prerequisite
340.601 or 340.751 or 550.694.81 and 550.695.81
Presents the history, development, organization, technical content and basis, social and political context, evaluation, and funding of current, major, global initiatives for disease control. Emphasis is on programs focused on health problems of the developing world and includes, initiatives for vaccines and immunization, the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness, safe motherhood and reproductive health, neonatal health, malaria, onchocerciasis, STDs, tobacco control, nutritional interventions and injury control. The course also examines the process of policy formulation and resource allocation to international health and disease control
Required: PhD, ScD, & MHS programs in the Disease Prevention & Control Trac