Biotechnology and Global Health

STIA’s concentration in Biotechnology and Global Health explores how health is fundamentally a holistic and planetary issue, fusing all environmental, ecological, technical, and security concerns to define how humans can live with other species in various contexts in a biodiverse world. Courses span a broad range of topics from epidemiology to computational biology, health economics, biotechnology policy, medical bioethics, demography, and international health politics and policy.  

Concentration Chair: Emily Mendenhall

Concentration Courses:

Fall 

• STIA 3257 – Global Health Foundations
• STIA 3262 – Culture, Reproductive Science and Technology
• STIA 3294 – Global Health Security and Diplomacy
• STIA 3376 – Financial Tech: Global South
• STIA 4217 – Global Health Financing
• STIA 4220 – Biotechnologies for Development
• STIA 4303 – Haiti: Development Case Study
• STIA 4963 – Policy for Clean Air and Health
• ANTH 2250 – Introduction to Medical Anthropology
• GLOH 3360 – Global Health Systems and Policy
• GLOH 3370 – Pandemics & Politics
• PHIL 2001 – Bioethics

Spring

• STIA 4200 – The Biotechnology Revolution
• STIA 4243 – Medicine and Power in India
• STIA 4323 – Global Hunger
• STIA 4935 – Data and Democracies
• STIA 4960 – Cancer, Culture and Politics
• GLID 5500 – Engaging Communities for Health
• GLOH 4404 – Global Environmental Health and Climate Change
• HIST 4104 – Global History of the Plague
• WGST 2239 – Race, Gender and Medicine

*Exact course offerings may vary each semester. Please refer to the schedule of classes for the latest STIA course schedules and search by the concentration attribute (SFS/STIA Biotech/Global Health).