B2863 - Challenges to Global Health

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, students will understand the challenges that the promotion of global health poses to states at the national level and in the context of their relations with other states, bilaterally, regionally and multilaterally. Students will also be able to evaluate the effectiveness of the strategies adopted at the national and international level in order promote global health, their strengths and limits, and their impact on the dynamics of conflict and cooperation between states.

Course contents

OUTLINE OF COURSE CONTENT

1. Introduction

2. What is Global Health?

3. History of Global Health

4. The Global burden of disease

5. Health promotion paradigm and Global Health

6. Contemporary challenges in Global Health

7. Political Economy of Global Health

8. Global Health Law

9. Global Health Governance

10. Social Determinants of Health

11. Nutrition and Global Health

12. Women’s health issues & reproductive health

13. Child health

14. Environmental health: clean water & clean air

15. Health and Human Rights: implications of Migration, Natural disasters, war, and complex humanitarian emergencies

16. Infectious diseases

17. Non-communicable diseases

18. Access to Medicine

19. Presentation

20. Final Exam

Readings/Bibliography

Required readings will be available on the course moodle webpage. Full list to be available on the first day of class.
Packard, R. 2016. A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other People. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 
Recommended:
Sethia, B and Kumar, P. 2019. Essentials of Global Health. Dordrecht: Elsevier.

Teaching methods

The methodology of the course will include lectures, discussion of readings, and exams.

Assessment methods

Country Case Study Final Report: 25%

Presentation: 10%

Final Exam: 65%

Office hours

See the website of Hanako Umezawa