GLOBAL HEALTH AND COMMUNITIES: FROM RESEARCH TO PRAXIS

NURSING 437

Learn principles and practices of social justice related to nursing and health in local and global settings. Concepts include health determinants, diverse populations in complex care settings, health outcomes, and interventions for racial and other underrepresented minorities. Expand the understanding of global health by examining global health systems, health and illness concepts on a global level, partnerships enacted in global settings, and the scope of nursing practice in global health. Provides a facilitated forum to critically reflect on their socially constructed identities and the impact these identities have on health care systems. Designed to develop perspective related to global health and nurses as global health actors invested in improving health of the global population as a whole.

ENTOM/ENVIRST 205

An introduction to the multiple determinants of health, global disease burden and disparities, foundational global health principles, and the overlap between ecosystem stability, planetary boundaries, and human health. Explore the core fundamentals of global health scholarship, including but not limited to infectious disease, sanitation, and mental health, and also consider ecological perspectives on these issues through the lens of planetary boundaries. Attention is placed on how human-mediated global change (e.g. climate change, biodiversity loss, land-use patterns, geochemical cycling, agricultural practice) impacts human health and the ecosystem services we depend on. An overview of pertinent issues in sustainability science and planetary health discourse, including the 'Anthropocene' and resilience to understand and critically assess global trends.

GEN&WS 525

Examines the contemporary global health project in historical and cultural context, highlighting some of the greatest sources of tension and struggle. Using a feminist lens and focusing on gender as key analytic category, explores the ways that the distribution of global wealth and power impacts health and well-being around the world. Explores social, demographic, political and economic determinants of global health, and the ways that these factors interconnect with biomedicine to create and affect health outcomes, both within and across countries. Drawing on critical theories, situates the study and practice of global health in an intersectional framework.

CSCS 125

Examine contemporary issues with an emphasis on the role that individuals and communities play in achieving positive social change. Develop the mindsets and communication skills necessary to work in diverse community contexts. Specific themes may shift based on current events, but often include education reform, racial justice, health equity, alternative economies, food systems, and sustainability.

POPHLTH 644

Addresses a variety of global health topics through study of a specific country. Consider health data, health systems, historical and cultural information, and concepts of cultural competence and cultural humility.