Global Health Concentration

GLOBAL HEALTH

Global health weaves together the history and geopolitics of institutions, people, infections, ailments, and threats that mitigate healthy people and populations. The global health concentration considers the longevity of development discourse in part by thinking about how health interventions have been designed, implemented, and critiqued in the past and present. This includes a study of finance and governance structures that influence health systems as well as the policies around health security that govern global risk. Key issues of note involve health and social inequality, systems, governance, and security as frames and health financing and technologies as strategies for intervention.

Health touches on all aspects of our existence; whether you’re interested in biological risk, social and political dynamics that shape health and wellbeing, or the policies and systems that deliver good health for people around the world. Many students in the global health concentration may seek careers in medicine, public health, emerging technology, foreign policy, and development agencies. Innovating health security frameworks and navigating the evolving global landscape of politics is a central focus.

Faculty: Emily Mendenhall, Rebecca Katz, Adam Koon (affiliate), Cecilia Van Hollen (affiliate), Jennifer Bouey (affiliate)
Science Path: Biology, Chemistry
Methods: Epidemiology, ethnography, research methods, negotiations, demography, policy analysis

Exemplar Course Path

STIA 3005 Science & Tech in the Global Arena

Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science

PROPOSED:
Biology or Chemistry

Please note that your science fundamentals must consist of a full year in the same subject area (e.g., all Biology or all Chemistry); you may not mix and match science disciplines.

Any methods are accepted.

PROPOSED: 
STIA 2177 Epidemiologic App: Popltn Hlth
GLOH 3303 Research Methods in Global Health

Concentration Courses

You pick 4 classes from an area of concentration (at least two of these courses must have STIA prefixes)

STIA 3173: Environmental Policy
STIA. 3181: Water
STIA 3196: Environmental Writing for the Public
STIA 3221 Global Health Hist & Pol
STIA 3260 Resilience in a Turbulant World
STIA 4102: Clean Energy Innovation
STIA 4250 Medicine Politics
STIA 4270 Global Migrations and Heath
STIA 4360 Digital Tech in Emergencies
STIA 4556: Rethinking Water
ANTH 2250 Intro: Medical Anthropology
SOCI 3709 Sociology of Health/Illness
LASP 4807 Sustainable Devel in L.A.
MHUM 3320 Medicalization of the Mind
PHIL 2001 Bioethics
GLOH 3360 Comparative Health System& Pol
GLOH 3370 Pandemics & Politics
GLOH 4404 GlobEnvir Health&ClimateChange
GLOH 4440 Urbanization, Health, & Environment

You pick 4 classes from an area of concentration (at least two of these courses must have STIA prefixes)

STIA 3181: Water
STIA 3260 Resilience in a Turbulent World
STIA 3262 Culture, Reproductive Sci&Tech
STIA 4243 Medicine & Power in India
STIA 4250 Medicine Politics
STIA 4270 Global Migrations and Heath
STIA 4360 Digital Tech in Emergencies
ANTH 2250 Intro: Medical Anthropology
SOCI 3709 Sociology of Health/Illness
WGST 2239 Race, Gender, and Medicine
JCIV 4090 Psychedelics&SpiritualHealing
LASP 4807 Sustainable Devel in L.A.
MHUM 3320 Medicalization of the Mind
PHIL 2001 Bioethics
PHIL 4303 Bioethics and Mental Illness
GLOH 3360 Comparative Health System& Pol
GLOH 3370 Pandemics & Politics
GLOH 4404 GlobEnvir Health&ClimateChange
GLOH 4416 Health Law & Gov: Global & Local
GLOH 4440 Urbanization,Health, & Environment

You pick 4 classes from an area of concentration (at least two of these courses must have STIA prefixes)

STIA 3181 Water
STIA 3221 Global Health Hist & Pol
STIA 3260 Resilience in a Turbt World
STIA 3294 Global Health Diplomacy and Security
STIA 4210 STI Strat for Sustainable Dev
STIA 4235 GIS for Environmental Analysis
STIA 4250 Medicine Politics
STIA 4360 Digital Tech in Emergencies
STIA 4555 Global Medicine and Technology
STIA 4883 Cooperation & Competition: S&T
STIA 4935 Public Interest Tech: Senega
GLOH 3360 Comparative Health System& Pol
GLOH 3370 Pandemics & Politics
GLOH 4404 GlobEnvir Health&ClimateChange
GLOH 4416 Health Law & Gov: Global & Local
GLOH 4440 Urbanization, Health, & Environment
LASP 4807 Sustainable Devel in L.A.
PHIL 2001 Bioethics

Any senior seminar class is accepted.

PROPOSED:
STIA 4969 Mind Madness Meditation
STIA 4998 Honors Research Seminar