Global Health**

Bachelor's degree

In Durham (USA)

higher than £ 9000

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  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Durham (USA)

No one ever said changing the world is easy. The global health major at Duke is intellectually rigorous and demanding, but it will prepare you to be a real-life problem-solver.

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Durham (USA)
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Durham, Carolina del Norte 27708, EE. UU., 27708

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  • On-Air
  • Medical training
  • Medical
  • Writing
  • Public
  • Global
  • Design
  • Biology
  • Ethics
  • Credit
  • Human Rights
  • Arabic
  • Public Health
  • Mental Health

Course programme

Fundamentals of Global Health

Introduction to global health issues and challenges. Develop an understanding of key concepts, tools, and frameworks essential for continued study in global health. Focus on global disease burden, health determinants and disparities, health policy and actors, and challenges of global health interventions. Explore the importance of understanding and addressing global health through multidisciplinary frameworks of the natural sciences, social-behavioral sciences, humanities, and policy. Consists of lecture and learning labs, intensive small group discussion, and global health case analyses. Intended for undergraduates.


AIDS and Other Emerging Diseases

Crosslisted as GLHLTH 154 ICS 103B

Explores the interaction of biology and culture in creating and defining diseases through an investigation of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and other emerging diseases: molecular biology; biology of transmission and infection; the role of people and culture in the evolution of infectious diseases; reasons for the geographic variations in disease. The inductive-deductive methodology of science is both used to develop and test hypotheses as well as examined itself as an analytical tool. Intended for nonmajors.


Anthropology and Global Health

Crosslisted as CULANTH 218S RIGHTS 220S

Investigates connections between anthropology and global health. Readings based on ethnographic research conducted globally. Topics include cross-cultural experiences of epidemics, ethical implications of globalizing clinical trials, moral and political dimensions of health and humanitarian interventions, connections between nationalism and population policy, overlaps between traditional healing systems and public health programs, how gender ideologies shape reproductive health, and questions of identity, power, and ethics amidst global rollout of HIV therapies.


Voices in Global Health: Arabic Tutorial

Crosslisted as AMES 270T-1

Through practical and theoretical discussions around case studies, personal narratives, documentaries and recorded interviews in the Arabic language, students examine how language and culture impact health beliefs and behaviors. Explore underlying reasons for different beliefs and behaviors with the goal of creating culturally appropriate interventions. Meet weekly for 75-minutes. Prerequisite: Arabic 305 or equivalent. Instructor consent required. Half credit.
Check out the flyer with information about Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum, which this course is part: (copy address to your browser)


Voices in Global Health: French Tutorial

Crosslisted as FRENCH 270T-3

Through practical and theoretical discussions around case studies, personal narratives, documentaries and recorded interviews in the French language, students will examine how language and culture impact health beliefs and behaviors. Explore underlying reasons for different beliefs and behaviors with the goal of creating culturally appropriate interventions. Tutorials meet weekly for 75-minutes. Prerequisite: French 204 or equivalent or concurrent enrollment in French 204. Instructor consent required. Half course.
Voices in Global Health: Mandarin Tutorial

Crosslisted as AMES 270T-5

Through practical and theoretical discussions around case studies, personal narratives, documentaries and recorded interviews in the Chinese language, students examine how language and culture impact health beliefs and behaviors. Explore underlying reasons for different beliefs and behaviors with the goal of creating culturally appropriate interventions. Meet weekly for 75-minutes. Prerequisite: Chinese 305 or equivalent. Instructor consent required. Half credit.
Global Health Policy

Crosslisted as PUBPOL 324

In-depth examination of how to close the gap between evidence and practical policy making as a way to improve global health. How global health policies are shaped; identifying key actors and their power; understanding/influencing the processes that drive large scale change in global health; exploring ways in which health issues reach the top of the agenda; analyzing how decisions are made by policy makers; implementing policies from the "top down" and "bottom up." The interplay between the different worlds of research and policy. Practical tools for becoming a policy broker, skilled in transforming evidence to action. Real world case studies. Case-based competition.


Global Health Service, Research and Ethics

Introduces ethical and human rights concepts in Global Health and current issues in health ethics. Explores how to understand and engage in ethical health service, intervention, research and education. Requires students analyze and critique ethical choices of individuals, policy-makers and health workers. Explores standards of care, access to care, best outcomes vs. distributed justice. Focuses on ethics related to infectious diseases; obesity, alcohol and tobacco; and environmental health.


Graduation with Distinction in Global Health Thesis Preparation

Accompanies the writing of a research-focused thesis in Global Health. Covers advanced research design, manuscript writing, interpretation of results, and oral presentation. Provides information on the thesis writing process and provides feedback on student projects. Students are expected to work closely with their faculty mentor on their project. Restricted to students enrolled concurrently in a research independent study and seeking Graduate with Distinction. May be open to Program II students whose thesis topic is directly related to global health and with permission of the instructor


Global Health Capstone

Capstone Course for students in Global Health Major. Group analysis of a current global health problem/issue. Project involves background research, data acquisition, analysis, writing, and presentation of a substantial research paper/report at an advanced level. Consent of program director required.

Course Notes Prereqs: Foundations, Ethics, Research Methods, ELA; Formerly GLHLTH 501


Population and Environmental Dynamics Influencing Health

Crosslisted as ENVIRON 637S

Course examines population, health and environment (PHE) dynamics with focus on interactions in developing or transition economies. Theoretical and empirical approaches governing PHE dynamics from multidisciplinary perspectives, including geography, public health /epidemiology, demography, and economics. Students will obtain experience in design and analysis of PHE studies, and epidemiology of vector-born, chronic and enteric infections.


Health and Healing in Africa

Crosslisted as GLHLTH 205

Examines how various communities in Africa have experienced, perceived, and treated maladies from the precolonial era to the present time. Places illness and therapy in specific historical contexts. Topics include hunger and famine; "old world" diseases such as small pox; disease and colonial conquest (c1880-1920); colonial regimes and health; and viruses that have emerged in Africa since c1975.


Medical Anthropology

Crosslisted as ICS 424 GLHLTH 321

Same as Cultural Anthropology 424-1 except taught in writing intensive manner.

Cross-cultural study of health and illness. Prerequisites: Completion of both Writing 101 and any First Year Seminar.


History of Global Health

Crosslisted as GLHLTH 203

The course begins with the development of ancient medicine in Europe & China, and continues into the rise of biomedicine (e.g. laboratory science & microbiology) in the 19th and 20th centuries. Particular diseases illustrate important themes, such as the role of warfare in medical developments, the creation of international policy to control disease, and how non-Western societies intersected biomedicine. We trace global circulations of people and commodities to show how international agencies, charities and governing bodies have spread both disease and the means to fight it. Medicine has always been a global undertaking, and its history prepares us to address emerging health crises.


Transnational Feminism

Crosslisted as RIGHTS 208S HISTORY 349S ICS 208S GLHLTH 208S

Explore feminist projects and approaches that cross a variety of borders. Under what conditions is solidarity across difference and inequality possible? This seminar examines this and other questions using relevant theories, film, and scholarship. Topics include activism, human rights, development, capitalism, war/militarization, racism, embodiment, and health. Assigned readings and films largely focus on the Global South but situate the Global North within circuits and relationships. The professor guides each student in preparing an original research paper on a relevant topic of interest to the student


Ethical Dimensions of Environmental Policy

Crosslisted as GLHLTH 248S

Uses case studies from different arenas of environmental policy (e.g., climate and clean air, water and waste, forests, oceans, energy) to surface normative assumptions often implicit in policy design and implementation. Links ethics to ethos (beliefs, aspirations, and spirit of a community or culture) to suggest that policies are not only pragmatic guidelines for decision-making and action, but also fundamental declarations concerning the character of human flourishing and the shape of the natural world, which is why environmental policies are often so contentious. Seeks to help students understand this aspect of environmental policy and to negotiate these deep-seated ethical conflicts.


Human Health in Evolutionary Perspective

Crosslisted as GLHLTH 304

Covers evolutionary approaches to understand human health at a global scale. Integration of evolutionary thinking and medical science provides new insights to a wide array of medical issues including obesity, cancer, allergies, and mental illness. Evolutionary perspectives reveal why some pathogens are more harmful than others, shed light on the origins and spread of infectious diseases in humans, and help in controlling antibiotic resistance. Evolutionary approaches provide insights as to why we age and provide solutions to alleviate human health problems that often differ from modern medical practice. Course will place these perspectives in the context of global health challenges.


Health, Culture and the Latino Community

Crosslisted as CULANTH 306 LSGS 306 GLHLTH 326

Exploration of health issues in the Spanish-speaking world shaped by social, cultural, political, ethnic, and economic determinants. Topics: cultural competency, community beliefs, medical practices and policies, preventive medicine, mental health. Projects include presentations, writing, research, and conversations with local and global contacts. Evaluation on knowledge of content, oral and written proficiency in Spanish. One 300-level Spanish course recommended prior to enrolling. Prerequisite: Spanish 204 or equivalent.


Social Determinants of U.S. Health Disparities

Crosslisted as RIGHTS 362 GLHLTH 340

The most commonly used indices to measure United States health disparities by race/ethnicity; origins and evolution of racial/ethnic categories in the United States Census; role of poverty, racial residential segregation, and inadequate health care in explaining racial/ethnic health disparities; and the promise and limitations of academic-community partnerships and public policy initiatives designed to reduce and ultimately eliminate those health disparities.


Fundamentals of Global Mental Health

Crosslisted as GLHLTH 363 CULANTH 323

Course examines global mental health from perspectives of culture, public health, epidemiology, human rights, policy, and intervention. Readings in the course focus on peer-reviewed research literature highlighting topics such as the prevalence of mental health disorders worldwide, the role of culture in mental health, and the interventions backed by strong evidence for prevention and treatment. Students will discuss and critique study methodologies and explore the needs for future research in this emerging field. Course is designed for students with prior research methods and psychology coursework.


Understanding Sickle Cell Disease: A Biopsychosocial Approach

Crosslisted as GLHLTH 569 AAAS 569 GLHLTH 569

This course provides students with an overview of sickle cell disease, including its genetics, epidemiology, pathophysiology, medical complications, psychosocial challenges, and health service utilization from a global perspective. Students will engage in an exploration of the role of discrimination and stigmatization as they affect people with sickle cell disease, as well as differences in how the disease is viewed and managed in various countries.


Global Environmental Health Problems: Principles and Case Studies

Crosslisted as GLHLTH 581

Many environmental problems occur both locally & globally. Having insights and experience from different parts of the world is important for students to gain problem-oriented training. This course will cover fundamental principles on physical & chemical processes related to major environmental problems. These principles will then be integrated to discussions of case studies addressing a specific set of problems. The case studies will involve the participation of invited guest instructors who are experts on specific topics/cases. Depending on preference of guest instructors, they can introduce a case study via online lecturing/chatting or providing a pre-made video. Online course. Instructor consent required.


Health in the African Diaspora

Crosslisted as CULANTH 660 GLHLTH 672

Exposes and explores the individual and joint contributions of biological and non-biological factors to health and wellbeing in peoples from various regions and countries of the African Diaspora. The course draws on a variety of disciplines, modes of inquiry, and health problems in comparative analyses of genetic, historical, political, and sociocultural dimensions of the African Diaspora. The content of the course is not limited to the transatlantic African Diaspora, includes other African Diaspora streams.


Performing Sexual Health

Crosslisted as GLHLTH 216S THEATRST 279S

Service-Learning course exploring the history, theories, and strategies behind activist sexual health education theatre as it has been used locally and globally. Intensive training on sex, sexuality, HIV/AIDS, and history of artists’ interventions to open urgent dialogues. Examination of humor, personal narrative, and non-judgmental, sex-positive approaches to open dialogue about sexual health by and for diverse communities. Students create and tour a live performance and workshop for high school students and also create short videos segments to be used by high school teachers in health classrooms. Instructor: Keval Khalsa


Food, Farming and Feminism

Crosslisted as GLHLTH 225 ENVIRON 209

Viewing "agriculture," "nature," and "consumption" as pressing feminist themes and exploration of various dimensions of the cultural and political ecology/economy of producing, processing, circulating, preparing, and consuming sustenance. Particular focus on the ethical impact of US policy on rural farm communities and developing nations.


Air Quality: Human Exposure and Health Effects

Crosslisted as GLHLTH 634

Looks at how individuals and populations are exposed to air pollution and what adverse health effects the exposure will cause. Covers exposure analysis methods, toxicological and epidemiological studies that examine health effects of air pollution exposure. Students will be prepared to understand concept and major methodologies of analysis for air pollution; how toxicology is used to determine adverse effects of air pollution exposure and underlying biological mechanisms; collect evidence on air pollution health effects in supporting health risk assessment. Prerequisites: general biology, statistics. Instructor: Zhang


Fundamentals of Global Health

Introduction to global health issues and challenges. Develop an understanding of key concepts, tools, and frameworks essential for continued study in global health. Focus on global disease burden, health determinants and disparities, health policy and actors, and challenges of global health interventions. Explore the importance of understanding and addressing global health through multidisciplinary frameworks of the natural sciences, social-behavioral sciences, humanities, and policy. Consists of lecture and learning labs, intensive small group discussion, and global health case analyses. Intended for undergraduates.


Case Studies in Global Sexual and Reproductive Health

Through the examination of weekly case studies, students will explore the complexity of working in the field of global sexual and reproductive health and the ways in which various health and social science disciplines can be integrated in the development of effective health programs. Session topics will include family planning, maternity care, gender-based violence, abortion, and HIV/AIDS. Using examples from the US and low-and middle-income countries, students will identify key focus areas in sexual and reproductive health, technical and programmatic challenges and successful interventions. Global Health 212 is recommended, but not required. Instructor: Huchko


Narratives of Living with HIV/AIDS

Crosslisted as ICS 295

How do we learn about the global experience of people living with HIV/AIDS? Read biographies, narratives, poetry, and blogs written by HIV persons, their families, friends, doctors, and caregivers. Listen to stories told in film documentaries and on the internet. Study interdisciplinary theories of identity and sexuality, illness narratives, narrative medicine, and doctor-patient communication. Reflect on the different meanings of the AIDS experience for men and women, young and old, in Brazil, Botswana, China, Haiti, Russia, South Africa, and rural and urban USA. Apply this new framework to investigate and analyze HIV/AIDS programs. Prior global health coursework recommended.


History of Chinese Medicine

Crosslisted as GLHLTH 142 AMES 142

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This course introduces students to the history of medicine through the study of medical practices and beliefs in China urally appropriate interventions. Meet weekly for 75-minutes. Prerequisite: Arabic 305 or equivalent. Instructor consent required. Half credit.
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