Spring 2027

Outbreak!: Epidemics, Migration, and the Changing Contours of Global Health

Explores infectious disease epidemics, migration, and global health projects through historical, social, and biomedical lenses, examining links between race, disease, and public health policy.

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Summary

What you’ll be able to do

  • Analyze evidence coming from a broad range of disciplines to discuss issues of public health as they relate to epidemics and immigrant populations.

  • Describe clinical relevance of knowledge coming from disciplines such as history, anthropology, economics, sociology, and geography.

  • Describe the cultural, social, and structural circumstances shaping the lives of mobile populations, and how such circumstances should inform clinical encounters with migrant communities.

  • Describe circumstances that have shaped the health of immigrant populations, and governmental responses to epidemic diseases.

  • Engage in policy discussions related to these issues.

  • Demonstrate understanding of the historical links between ideas about race, epidemics, immigration, and public health policy in the United States.

  • Critically engage with “Global Health” projects and how to identify the long history of colonial international medical humanitarianism shapes these initiatives.

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MED SC-M 810, 811, 812, and 813

MEDHIST 750

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Student experience

the class

Explore national and international health projects aimed to address infectious disease epidemics in the context of changing ideas about human difference, the shifting economic and socio-political dimensions of international health, and the history of migration. Using a range of sources from historical documents, social science, films, and biomedical research, explore circumstances linking ideas about "alien" people (a term historically used to talk about enslaved people, Native Americans, minorities, and immigrants), and "plagues." Examine the relationship between ideas about disease and migration, risk factors and disease patterns related to migration, migrant populations' access to health-care resources, perceived threats of infectious diseases related to migrant populations and the ways such threats have shaped medical theories, and the institutional landscape of global health.

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Topics

  • Human difference, economic and socio-political dimensions of international health, and migration history.
  • Historical concepts of 'alien' people including enslaved individuals, Native Americans, minorities, and immigrants in relation to plagues.
  • Migrant access to healthcare, perceived disease threats, medical theories, and the global health institutional landscape.
  • Historical links between race, epidemics, immigration, and US public health policy.

Skills

  • Analyze interdisciplinary evidence regarding public health, epidemics, and immigrant populations.
  • Describe the clinical relevance of historical, anthropological, economic, sociological, and geographical knowledge.
  • Engage in policy discussions related to global health, migration, and epidemics.
  • Critically evaluate Global Health projects and their connection to colonial international medical humanitarianism.

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MEDHIST 750 · Spring 2027

Outbreak!: Epidemics, Migration, and the Changing Contours of Global Health

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Recorded 2026-10-14

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