PUBHLTH 170. Introduction to Global Health. 4 Units. Provides a foundational interdisciplinary understanding of global health issues and their importance to various societal goals, including poverty reduction, economic productivity, and peace promotion. Covers major communicable and non-communicable diseases and demographic patterns of disease burden.
PUBHLTH 174. Global Health Ethics. 4 Units. Provides a foundation for understanding and application of key issues in global health ethics. Emphasizes competencies needed to practice global health during outbreaks, pandemics, emergencies and disasters, which raise several ethical issues for health professionals, first-responders, researchers, and government agencies.
PUBHLTH 177. Global Health Policy and Diplomacy. 4 Units. Fundamental principles and consequences of global health policy and diplomacy, including governance structure, functions, analysis, advocacy, and outcomes. Emphasizes practical application of multilateral policies for global health security and responses to transnational threats such as pandemics, climate, pollution, and migration.
PUBHLTH 91. Disparities in Health Care. 2 Units. Student participatory course practicing initiation, planning, and coordination of various speakers on the subject of Disparities in Health Care.
PUBHLTH 280. Global Burden of Disease. 4 Units. Introduces composite measures of disease burden, including Disability Adjusted Life Years and their use in prioritizing disease burden at local, regional, and global levels. Focuses on WHO’s landmark assessments and introduces DISMOD software for specific analyses.
PUBHLTH 293. Foundations of Clinical and Translational Science. 4 Units. Introduces rationale and imperative for clinical translational science and various approaches being developed to speed-up discoveries and their transformation into health care practices. Compares and contrasts current impediments to clinical research with the potential and transformative power of translational science.