Gender and Global Health in Critical Perspective
Examines the contemporary global health project in historical and cultural context using a feminist lens and gender as a key analytic category to explore how wealth and power impact health globally.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.64 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Critically analyze the intellectual history of the global health field, tracing its origins from colonial medicine through to the current day using a gendered lens
Appraise the ways that colonialism, scientific racism, misogyny, and other forms of structural exclusion shape the global health field and its objects/methods of study
Question the neutrality of quantitative global health metrics, and understand indicators as a contested form of knowledge production.
Describe several current global health issues related to gender in-depth, as well as their contexts
Synthesize information from multiple sources and present it both in oral and written formats.
Perform original global health research that integrates feminist theories with empirical public health approaches.
Conduct advanced analysis of global health policies and programs using a critical lens.
Source: UW Guide
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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.64 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).
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Topics
- Social, demographic, political, and economic determinants of global health and their intersection with biomedicine.
- Critical theories and intersectional frameworks applied to the study and practice of global health.
- Intellectual history of the global health field from colonial medicine to the present.
- Impact of colonialism, scientific racism, and structural exclusion on the global health field.
- Quantitative global health metrics as contested forms of knowledge production.
- Current global health issues related to gender and their specific contexts.
- Integration of feminist theories with empirical public health approaches in research.
- Critical analysis of global health policies and programs.
Skills
- Critical analysis of the intellectual history of global health using a gendered lens.
- Appraisal of how structural exclusion shapes the global health field and its methods.
- Interrogation of the neutrality of quantitative global health metrics.
- In-depth description of current gender-related global health issues and their contexts.
- Synthesis of multi-source information for oral and written presentation.
- Original research integrating feminist theories with empirical public health approaches.
- Advanced analysis of global health policies and programs using a critical lens.
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