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Global Health Interdisciplinary Concentration (GHIC) Curriculum

In collaboration with your advisor, select 12-credits (minimum) from the following list:

Required Courses

Course

Title

Credits

PubH 6131

Working in Global Health

2

PubH 6133

Global Health Seminar

1

Public Health Course Options
Other public health course options may exist.  To determine eligibility of an elective, please contact your academic advisor and/or GHIC Coordinator, Carol Francis, before enrolling in the course or adding it to your course listing form.

School of Public Health faculty are encouraged to offer courses under a topics number. This practice is also encouraged for new courses in general, both to give faculty an opportunity to teach a new course at almost any time during the year and to increase the level of documentation available for the formal review. Student interested in public health courses must pay particular attention to courses listed as "Topics" to ensure the title of the course is accurate and meets GHIC requirements.

Course

Title

Credits

PubH 6000 Topics: Community Health Education - HIV/AIDS Epidemiology & Public Health Interventions

2

PubH 6085

Prevention and Control of Tobacco and Alcohol Problems

3

PubH 6180

Ecology of Infectious Diseases

3

PubH 6132

Air, Water and Health

2

PubH 6281

Immigrant Health Issues

3

PubH 6385 Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases

2

PubH 6600-section 001 Topics: Maternal and Child Health Global Reproductive Health
2
PubH 6634 Advocacy & Children's Rights
2

PubH 6730

International Comparative Health Systems

2

PubH 6732

Topics & Methods in Global Health Assessment

2

PubH 6780

Topics: Public Health Administration and Policy - International Project Planning and Management

2

PubH 6780 Topics: Public Health Administration and Policy - International Health Systems: Development and Evaluation

2

PubH 6801 Health and Human Rights

2

PubH 6906

Global Nutrition

2

PubH 7200-001 Globalization & Health: Challenges & Perspectives
Study Abroad
1
PubH 7200-002 Geothermal Energy and Environmental Hotspots
1
PubH 7200-003 Informatics in Global Health
1
PubH 7200-106 World Food Problems
1
PubH 7200-121 Global Food Safety System Leadership
1
PubH 7200-134 Global Health Care Systems: Lessons from Asia and Perspectives for U.S. Health Care
1

PubH 7255

Application of EpiInfo Software in Epidemiology Investigation and Data Management

1

PubH 7230

Topics: Emerging Infectious Diseases - Avian Flu

1

PubH 7200, Section 129 Ecosystem Health

1

Subject to change.

Other Course Options

Course

Title

Credits

CSpH 5321

Public Health Priorities in the Developing World

3

ENT 5275 Medical Entomology
3
Geog 5411 Geography of Health and Health Care

3

LAW 6886

International Human Rights Law

3

Nurs 5040H

Seeking Solutions to Global Health Issues

3

Nurs 6800-104 War and Public Health

1

Nurs 6800-106 Public Health Nursing for Refugee Populations

1

Nurs 8241 Health Care Leadership for a Changing World
2

PA 5490

Child Labor

3

PolySci 5883

Global Governance

3

SW 8525 Global Perspectives of Social Welfare, Peace, and Justice

3




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