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GHP 262

Emerging Issues in Humanitarian Response and Human Rights

The course will provide an introduction to the foundational concepts and emerging issues essential for understanding and engaging in humanitarian and human rights research and action. The course will prepare students to understand and engage in humanitarian response and human rights protection, while examining emerging critical challenges that have multi-dimensional global impacts
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Oct 28, 2024
BETH 751

Health and Human Rights

This course will examine health and health care in the context of human rights.
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
EH 213

Climate Change, Health, and Environmental Justice-Focusing on Solutions

Human health and the health of our planet are inextricably linked and they can be mutually beneficial. However, our planet’s health and our health are at risk
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
EH 213

Climate Change, Health, and Environmental Justice-Focusing on Policy and Solutions

In this class, we will focus on the ways in which climate change impacts human health and discuss approaches to quantify and mitigate these impacts at the local, state, national, and global levels. You will have the opportunity to monitor, measure, and analyze climate change associated data relevant to human health such as air pollution and temperature with devices we provide. You will also meet policy makers, community leaders, and community members who are addressing climate change impacts on human health. The overarching goal of the course is to critically discuss the health outcomes of energy production and climate change impacts on food, water, air, soil, food systems, and e-waste through the lens of social justice and health equity.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
EH 206

Foundations of Environmental Health

:This course is designed to lay a foundation in environmental health, integrating key disciplines such as risk assessment, exposure assessment, epidemiology, toxicology, data analytics, physical science, and science policy. We aim to enhance students' critical thinking and quantitative abilities through interactive workshops, case studies, assignments, and insightful readings. The curriculum is structured around a thread of quantitative and qualitative reasoning, addressing seven crucial topics in environmental health: air pollution, water pollution, global warming, environmental justice, occupational health, radiation, and persistent pollutants.
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
IGA 353M, GHP 543

Frontline Negotiation Lab: Strategic Planning for Complex Engagements

.This one-week intensive on-campus course is designed for those planning to work in high-intensity environments such as pandemics, climate crises, natural disasters, armed conflicts and other critical situations. This is a demanding course for highly motivated and committed students.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Law & Policy Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Jan 13, 2025
PWY 120

Essentials of the Profession

Essentials of the Profession brings together the social and population science relevant to the practice of medicine and dentistry.
Spring 2025 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
PWY 134

Integrated Human Pathophysiology III

Integrated Human Pathophysiology 3 (IHP3) focuses on key concepts in normal physiology and pathophysiology of the kidney, endocrine and reproductive endocrine systems.
Spring 2025 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
EH 525

Environmental Justice: Concepts and Practice

The purpose of this course is to introduce the topic of environmental justice as it relates to public health. It has been developed to be accessible to a broad audience including those with backgrounds in environmental health, epidemiology, basic sciences, social and behavioral sciences, and health policy. 
Spring 2025 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
HO 705

Climate Change, Justice, and Beneficence

In this seminar we discuss justice and beneficence near and far, as formulated in views of how benefits and burdens should be distributed within the borders of a just society, and as further brought to bear concerning sharing and stewardship to benefit and prevent harm to peoples and generations distant from us in space and time.
Spring 2025 Graduate Available Arts & Humanities Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
SBS 237

Grief, Loss, and Death: Population Mental Health Perspectives

Public health students have few academic opportunities to engage with the profound themes of grief, loss, and death, even in an era of pandemics, climate change, and widening health disparities.
Spring 2025 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Mar 24, 2025
EH 207

Climate Change and Global Health Equity

This course will focus on the impacts of climate change, air pollution, and ecological degradation on global health equity.
Spring 2025 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Mar 24, 2025