Spring 2027

Introduction to Global Health: History, Current Issues, and Health Statistics

Graduate-level introduction to global health covering history, current issues, frameworks, policies, data evaluation, health equity, and communication.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Trisha Seys Ranola

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=18 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Compare and contrast the current definitions of “global health” from both historical perspectives and usefulness in addressing today’s major global health challenges.

  • Critique the concept that global-local-global continuum thinking can positively impact contemporary problems that affect populations both locally and abroad.

  • Evaluate commonly used global health frameworks (e.g., Alma Atta, MDGs/SDGs) for the likelihood that they will positively impact health in the next 20 years.

  • Debate whether ‘Health as a Human Right’ should be explicitly present in the Sustainable Development Goals.

  • Analyze the intersections of data and policy for their impacts on health outcomes.

  • Assess the importance and challenges of accurate surveillance data in designing policy interventions.

  • Explain social determinates of health and health equity obstacles within global health trends (e.g. urbanization, globalization) and outcomes (global health disparities).

  • Defend the opinion that the Social Ecological Model of well-being can be applied to the field of global health.

  • Evaluate the roles of at least three organizations in maximizing health security and effective health communications.

  • Analyze whether social marketing can not only communicate health information but also improve outcomes.

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Prerequisites

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Graduate/professional standing, or declared in the Capstone Certificate in Global Health Online

  • Graduate/professional standing, or declared in the Capstone Certificate in Global Health Online
PUBLHLTH 710

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  • Graduate/professional standing, or declared in the Capstone Certificate in Global Health Online

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Student experience

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=18 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Global health history and contemporary issues
  • Global health frameworks, policies, and data evaluation
  • Socioecological model, health equity, and disparities
  • Global health communication

Skills

  • Evaluating global health frameworks
  • Analyzing intersections of data and policy
  • Assessing surveillance data for policy interventions
  • Analyzing social marketing for health communication

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PUBLHLTH 710 · Spring 2027

Introduction to Global Health: History, Current Issues, and Health Statistics

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