Spring 2027

Global Public Health and Healthcare Systems: Organizations, Governance, Financing, and Workforce

Graduate-level study of global health systems, organizations, governance, financing, security, emergency medical services, and health in complex emergencies involving refugees and displaced persons.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.91 GPA, 94.1% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Analyze successful and unsuccessful global public health systems using at least five key components

  • Discuss the overlapping roles and governance structures of global health development and oversight organizations (e.g. World Health Organization, World Bank), NGOs (e.g. MSF: Médicins San Frontières) and governments (e.g. Ministries of Health, USAID: United States Agency for International Development )

  • Evaluate the ten action packages established by the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) for their potential abilities to enhance health and well-being around the world

  • Prioritize the ten action core principles of the Global Health Security Agenda 2024 framework for their role in addressing one global health issue of your choosing

  • Compare and contrast the abilities of different Global Emergency Medical Services and Emergency Health Systems to decrease the burden of disease of injury worldwide

  • Defend the concept that conflict, terrorism and natural disasters have a greater impact on the health of immigrant and displaced people than on more stable populations

  • Explain the challenges to the successful implementation of disaster management planning and response

  • Recommend and defend at least three ways that “brain drain” in global health workforce could be reduced

  • Explain how interprofessional collaboration impacts global workforce development

Source: UW Guide

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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 711

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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=12 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.91 GPA, 94.1% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Global health systems, organizations, governance, and financing
  • Global health security
  • Emergency medical services and injury epidemiology
  • Health in complex emergencies and among refugee, immigrant, and internally-displaced persons

Skills

  • Analyze global public health systems using key components
  • Evaluate Global Health Security Agenda action packages
  • Compare emergency medical services and health systems
  • Explain interprofessional collaboration in global workforce development

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PUBLHLTH 711 · Spring 2027

Global Public Health and Healthcare Systems: Organizations, Governance, Financing, and Workforce

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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