Global Health Concentration

This concentration is intended to prepare professionals and graduates to become agents of change prepared to mitigate health disparities in a global context. The Global Health concentration adapts and applies the skills and knowledge of population and public health to work in resource-challenged contexts.  This knowledge includes strategies for promoting health and preventing disease in socially and culturally diverse settings characterized by serious health inequities; identifying and challenging the power structures that produce poverty, inequality, and disease; analyzing issues of ethics and human rights as these apply to health disparities worldwide; and developing programs and formulating policy to change and enhance the performance of health systems. Putting such knowledge into action is a critical dimension of the program.  The program has been designed to provide students with skills, experiences, sensitivity, ethical principles, and insights to respond creatively to health challenges in an interconnected and globalized world.

Global Health Requirements

In addition to the core requirements, students must complete the following courses:

• HSCI 821-3 Introduction to Global Health
• HSCI 824-3 Comparative Health Care Systems
• HSCI 830-3 Health Promotion
• HSCI 870-3 Global Health and International Affairs

and a minimum of one methods or skills course chosen from

• HSCI 804-3 Biostatistics for Population Health Practice II
• HSCI 805-3 Intermediate Epidemiologic Methods
• HSCI 806-3 Principles of Demographic Analysis
• HSCI 825-3 Advocacy and Communication
• HSCI 826-3 Program Planning and Evaluation

or a course providing appropriate methods and skills, chosen from HSCI courses, or from another department or faculty, with the permission of the senior supervisor and the graduate program director

and three additional courses selected from

• HSCI 822-3 Globalization and Health
• HSCI 823-3 Health, Gender and Development
• HSCI 825-3 Advocacy and Communication
• HSCI 826-3 Program Planning and Evaluation
• HSCI 828-3 Health, Human Security, Social Justice
• HSCI 829-3 Health Policy-making in a Global Context
• HSCI 855-3 Disease Prevention and Control

or, with the approval of the senior supervisor, a student may substitute two courses from this list with electives drawn from the list of HSCI graduate courses, or from other departments and faculties.