220.606.01
Doctoral Seminar in International Health II
Location
East Baltimore
Term
2nd Term
Department
International Health
Credit(s)
3
Academic Year
2013 - 2014
Instruction Method
TBD
Friday, 1:30 - 4:20pm
Auditors Allowed
No
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Resources
Explores topics of relevance to International Health, in a six-module format. Each module comprises a set of readings which are discussed in class by students working in groups. Each session is led by a group of students with facilitation by course faculty and guest faculty as appropriate to the topic. Modules include (1) Health and International Development (2)Transitions (demographic, epidemiologic, nutritional and migration), (3) Sanitation programs, (4) Disease Eradication Programs, past present and future , (5) Chronic Disease, a new challenge for programs, (6) Primary Health Care, history, evidence and future
Learning Objectives
This course will prepare you to be able to do the following:
- Think and write critically
- Work in multidisciplinary teams to analyze complex issues of importance in International Health
- Use evidence based perspectives to critically examine what interventions, programs and policies work, do not work, and why or why not
Enrollment Restriction
Only first year International Health doctoral students