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| GLHLTH 390S | CULANTH 290 | Global Health Special Topics-Ethics Global Health and Human Rights | UG Only | Summer 2012 | Cross,Jason | GHC:Elective GHC:Ethics |
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Course Description: Topics vary depending on semester and section. Topics may include: global health ethics, field methods, health technologies, rapid needs assessment, and global health policies. This course examines philosophies, institutions, practices and professional cultures of global health and human rights, with an emphasis on instances where the two overlap. It considers claims that health is a human right and relationships between health and other human rights. Students study social movement organizing that has expanded access to healthcare worldwide and turned claims that health is a human right into policy. Topics include the following: philosophy of health and human rights; health social movements; community and social movement organizing strategy; NGOs; global health and war; refugees; humanitarian organizations such as Doctors Without Borders and the Red Cross/Red Crescent; comparative political economy of healthcare policy; health disparities; culture and health; gender and health; health and democracy; alternative ethical and policy frameworks to human rights; and relationships between health and other environmental and social justice movements.nnStudents will meet global health and human rights professionals via guest speakers and videoconferences. Grading will be based on class participation, several small group exercises and a final project. Instructor(s): Cross,Jason Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 390S | CULANTH 290S | Global Health Special Topics Global Health, Law, and Technology | UG Only | Summer 2012 | Cross,Jason | GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: This course considers how law and technology together affect the types of health services available to people in different parts of the world. It examines the role of international organizations and treaties, national legal systems, global business, and NGOs in the global governance of healthcare. Students study the development and use of medicines and other healthcare technology. Classes discuss how law regulates the innovation of healthcare technology and access to its benefits and risks. The course also investigates how culture affects attitudes toward law and technology in healthcare. Topics include the following: international health diplomacy; NGO business models; public and private medical R&D; intellectual property and innovation; how international trade and investment affects access to medicines and environmental health; new uses of information and communication technologies for global health; crisis response healthcare; different ways health systems implement constitutional rights to healthcare; and how technology and law together affect the emphasis of different health systems (e.g. high-tech specialist care, primary care, traditional medicine, and/or preventive public health).nnStudents will meet diverse actors in global health law and technology via guest speakers and videoconferences with professionals in the field. Grading will be based on class participation, several small group exercises and a final project. Instructor(s): Cross,Jason Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 173 | Global Health Issues in South Africa | UG Only | Summer 2012 | Staff | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Integrates classroom & field instruction, introduce students to the fundamental principles of public health in South Africa. Focus on three major themes: primary health care in South Africa, the impact of HIV/AIDS & the role of traditional healers. An emerging third world economy, South Africa is characterized by a blend of first & third world societies, & is an ideal location to study the dynamics of the three major themes in deep rural, peri-urban & urban communities. Lectures & field trips; Ethical debates on controversy surrounding management & treatment of AIDS in RSA & role of traditional healers in mainstream medicine; Independent research. Part of the OTS program in South Africa. Instructor(s): Course Notes: Number as of Aug 2012 will be 382A | ||||||
| CULANTH 190FS | PUBPOL 190FS | International Law and Global Health | UG Only | FALL 2012 | Admay,Catherine | GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Introductory and basic topics in public policy. Topics vary each semester. Does not count for public policy studies major. Open only to students in the Focus Program. Instructor(s): Admay,Catherine Course Notes: Focus Course. Course was approved for the ethics requirement if taken before Fall 2009. | ||||||
| BIOLOGY 212L | General Microbiology | UG Only | FALL 2012 | Staff | GHC:Elective GHC:Methods |
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Course Description: The course consists of a lecture and laboratory, each of which meets twice a week. Lectures include an overview of the history of microbiology, and cover both classical and modern bacteriological principles. Topics discussed include prokaryotic and eukaryotic structure, criteria used in classification, physiology (including reproduction, growth and metabolism), genetics (classical and molecular), infection and immunity, and environmental and industrial aspects involving microorganisms. Instructor(s): Course Notes: NO LONGER COUNTS AS GHC METHODS. Counts as Methods only if taken prior to Fall 2009. | ||||||
| BME 462L | Design for the Developing World | UG Only | FALL 2012 | Malkin,Robert | GHC:Methods GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Design of custom devices to help the specific and unique needs of developing world hospitals. Formal engineering design principles will be emphasized; overview of developing world conditions, patent issues, engineering ethics.Oral and written reports will be required. Students may elect to personally deliver their projects to a developing world hospital, if selected, in the summer following the course. Prerequisite: Biomedical Engineering 154L and Statistics 113. Consent of instructor required. Instructor(s): Malkin,Robert Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| CULANTH 302 | Fieldwork Methods: Cultural Analysis And Interpretation | UG Only | FALL 2012 | Staff | ||
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Course Description: Anthropology as a discipline (a field of study) and the site where anthropologists work: the field. Combines theories of anthropological fieldwork methods with practice, including participation, observation, and interviews. Students undertake original research in a local fieldsite of their choice and produce their own mini-ethnography. Instructor(s): Course Notes: NO LONGER COUNTS AS GHC METHODS OR ELECTIVE. Counts as METHODS OR Elective only if taken prior to Fall 2009. | ||||||
| ECON 390S | GLHLTH 390S ECON 690 | Special Topics Economics of Global Health | UG Only | FALL 2012 | Staff | GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Course in applied economics examining health issues in developing countries from the standpoint of applied microeconomic research. Specific topics: identifying effect of health on growth/development and reciprocal relationships between income, poverty & health. Discuss structural problems in delivery/provider quality, challenges of healthcare financing, and tension between adopting "high-tech" care while delivering basic care to others. Attention on issues of poverty alleviation & promise of foreign-aid, at heart of debates about healthcare in developing countries. Examine empirical evidence in support of interventions affecting health including success and failure of interventions that target infant mortality; diarrhea, worms; AIDS; and malaria. Where there is a paucity of evidence in a developing country context, will uses lessons from American experience. Pre-reqs: Econ 201 or PPS 303 and Econ 208 or PPS 604, or instructor consent. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| PUBPOL 166 | GLHLTH 161 | Introduction to Global Health | UG Only | FALL 2012 | Whetten,Kathryn | GHC:Intro |
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Course Description: Introduction to multidisciplinary theories and techniques for assessing and addressing global, infectious, chronic, and behavioral health problems. Global health issues addressed from perspectives such as: epidemiology, biology, engineering, environment, business, human rights, nursing, psychology, law, public policy, and economics. Instructor(s): Whetten,Kathryn Course Notes: Course titled as "Multidisciplinary Approaches to Global Health" prior to fall 2012. | ||||||
| GLHLTH 371 | PSY 309 | Research Methods in Global Health | UG Only | FALL 2012 | Ariely,Sumedha | GHC:Methods GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Introduction to methodological techniques used in global health research, including qualitative field work, quantitative surveys, experimental designs, intervention trials, and program evaluation. Teaches strengths and weaknesses of each method, and how to determine the most appropriate method for specific research questions. Takes a problem-based approach, emphasizing the interdisciplinary nature of global health research. Focuses on how to evaluate published & unpublished research and how to design a global health research project. Skills include: identification of global health problems, conceptualization of a research question, designing a research study, and interpretation of results.
Instructor(s): Ariely,Sumedha Course Notes: For students who matriculated at Duke in Fall 2009 or later, this is the only Methods course approved for the GHC. Students who matriculated at Duke prior to Fall 2009 will have had other options to fulfill the GHC Methods requirement. | ||||||
| GLHLTH 383A | Tropical Medicine - Costa Rica | UG Only | FALL 2012 | Benavides Rawson,Jorge | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Part of a 15-week semester abroad program in Costa Rica (through OTS). Integrates classroom and field instruction to introduce fundamental principles of tropical medicine and public health including the tropical environment and its related health issues Instructor(s): Benavides Rawson,Jorge Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 380A | Research Practicum- Costa Rica | UG Only | FALL 2012 | Benavides Rawson,Jorge | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Introduces students to research design, field methods, and basic data analysis in a tropical context. Skills include hypothesis testing and statistical analysis, orientation to basic software packages, write and present scientific papers, and design and conduct epidemiologic research.
Instructor(s): Benavides Rawson,Jorge Course Notes: Course taught as part of the Costa Rica-Global Health study abroad program offered through OTS. | ||||||
| GLHLTH 170FS | PSY 190FS | Special Topics Hacking For Health | UG Only | FALL 2012 | Staff | GHC:Elective |
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| ENVIRON 212 | PUBPOL 275 | US Environmental Policy | UG Only | FALL 2012 | Staff | GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: This course focuses on environmental policy issues
in the United States. We will consider the full range of the social sciences in our analysis, including the
political, economic, ethical, legal, and institutional issues involved in environmental decision-making. The
course will cover: the preservation and conservation movements, environmental priorities, the political
process, the formation of the EPA, the Clean Air Act, RCRA and superfund legislation, the Clean Water Act,
FIFRA, the Endangered Species Act, public lands policy, and institutional issues. The course is designed to
give students an understanding of the important conceptual issues in environmental policy-making, as well as an overview of current environmental legislation. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| ENVIRON 262 | Natural Catastrophes: Rebuilding The Ruins | UG Only | FALL 2012 | Staff | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Research Service Learning Gateway course where students will conduct a life cycle analysis of natural disasters. Invited experts will discuss meteorologic, hydrologic and geologic factors that cause disasters; explore how societies plan and/or respond to the immediate and long-term physical, social, emotional and spiritual issues associated with survival; and present case studies of response, recovery and reconstruction efforts. Students will attend the lecture component of the course and complete on-line quizzes to demonstrate understanding of the material presented. For the service learning experience, students will carry out response activities over Spring Break in an area ravaged by a natural disaster. They will keep a journal (audio and written) of their activities, write a brief synopsis (4-5 pages), and make a group oral presentation of their findings following their return. They will also submit a hypothetical research proposal for a project which might stem from the course and their experiences. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| ENVIRON 501 | Environmental Toxicology | UG/GRAD | FALL 2012 | Meyer,Joel | MSC:Global Environmental Health | |
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Course Description: Study of environmental contaminants from a broad perspective encompassing biochemical, ecological, and toxicological principles and methodologies. Discussion of sources, environmental transport and transformation phenomena, accumulation in biota and ecosystems. Impacts at various levels of organization, particularly biochemical and physiological effects. Prerequisites: organic chemistry and vertebrate physiology or consent of instructor. Instructor: Di Giulio. 3 units. Instructor(s): Meyer,Joel Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| ENVIRON 535 | Air Quality Management | UG/GRAD | FALL 2012 | Staff | MSC:Global Environmental Health | |
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Course Description: Types, sources, effects of air pollutants. Regulatory framework emphasizing the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 and federal, state, local agency implementation. Application of risk assessment, technology, market incentives to air management. Scientific, policy aspects of acid deposition, global climate change, indoor air, mobile sources control. Dispersion modeling, exposure assessment. Instructor: Vandenberg. 3 units. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| ENVIRON 538 | PUBPOL 582 GLHLTH 538 | Global Environmental Health: Economics and Policy | UG/GRAD | FALL 2012 | Pattanayak,Subhrendu | MSC:Global Environmental Health |
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Course Description: Social science perspective on global environmental health. Students will learn to identify primary environmental causes of high burden diseases such as malaria, diarrhea, and respiratory infections; describe how to measure socio-economic impacts of global environmental health diseases; discuss key policies to control global environmental health problems based on private prevention and therapeutic behaviors; and propose frameworks to empirically monitor and evaluate global environmental health policies. A sub-module will focus on climate change and water-borne diseases. Prerequisites: Intro course in statistics. Instructor(s): Pattanayak,Subhrendu Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 701 | Global Health Challenges | GRAD Only | FALL 2012 | Woods,Chris | MSC:Core | |
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Course Description: Course introduces major global health problems and social, behavioral, economic, biomedical and environmental determinants of health in resource limited settings. Topics include communicable diseases i.e. HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and common childhood diseases; chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and mental health; and determinants of health associated with these diseases, such as poverty, gender imbalance, culture, poor environmental sanitation, malnutrition, tobacco use, and climate change. Other topics may include health promotion, reproductive health, maternal and child health, and disaster preparedness. Instructor(s): Woods,Chris Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 701 | Global Health Challenges | GRAD Only | FALL 2012 | Woods,Chris | MSC:Core | |
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Course Description: Course introduces major global health problems and social, behavioral, economic, biomedical and environmental determinants of health in resource limited settings. Topics include communicable diseases i.e. HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and common childhood diseases; chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and mental health; and determinants of health associated with these diseases, such as poverty, gender imbalance, culture, poor environmental sanitation, malnutrition, tobacco use, and climate change. Other topics may include health promotion, reproductive health, maternal and child health, and disaster preparedness. Instructor(s): Woods,Chris Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 705 | Global Health Research: Introduction to Epidemiologic Methods | GRAD Only | FALL 2012 | Pence,Brian | MSC:Core | |
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Course Description: Course introduces principles of epidemiology, including disease frequency measures; measures of association; observational, experimental, and quasi-experimental study designs; validity -- confounding, selection bias, measurement error; reliability. Course interweaves introductory biostatistics for continuous and categorical variables. Course has a data analysis lab section in which students walk through a guided data analysis on a provided data set, such as Demographic and Health Surveys. Instructor(s): Pence,Brian Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 702 | Global Health Research: Design and Practice | GRAD Only | FALL 2012 | Read,Jen'nan Prudhomme - O'Meara,Wendy | MSC:Core | |
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Course Description: Course introduces range of methods appropriate for GH research and covers advantages/disadvantages of each. Refine skills in study design & regression analysis. Gain understanding of qualitative research methods. Skills include ability to review & understand procedures for validating linear/logistic regression models & survival models. Modules include review of statistics for psychosocial research incl. structural models, outcomes & cost effectiveness, econometric methods & concepts, and demography (incl. intro to GIS). Presents qualitative survey design, semi-structured interviews, ethnography & role of culture in conducting GH research, incl. concepts of disease, health, wellness & illness. Instructor(s): Read,Jen'nan Prudhomme - O'Meara,Wendy Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| SOCIOL 211 | Wealth, Power and Inequality | UG Only | FALL 2012 | Staff | GHC:Elective | |
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| SOCIOL 345 | Nation, Region and Global Economy | UG Only | FALL 2012 | Hovsepian,Mary | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: The changing configuration of global capitalism, with emphasis on comparing global regions of North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. The internal dynamics of these regions, including the development strategies of selected nations, interregional comparisons (for example, regional divisions of labor, state-society relationships, the nature of their business systems, quality of life issues). Research paper required. Instructor(s): Hovsepian,Mary Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| BIOLOGY 180FS | Global Diseases-Focus Only | UG Only | FALL 2012 | Broverman,Sherryl | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Biological, social, and cultural factors impacting global disease spread and/or reduction; current challenges in vaccination and disease control programs; Open only to students in the Focus Program.
Students will evaluate the factors - biological, social, and cultural – that impact how diseases spread through populations, and that makes them easier or harder to control. How can we use what we’ve learned from past attempts at disease elimination to improve current programs? Students will learn the biology of major global diseases caused by a range of pathogens, including TB, malaria, and smallpox. These diseases will be used as case studies to address the evolution and ecology of disease; antibiotic resistance; vaccine development and immunization programs; and tropical diseases versus diseases of poverty. Other potential topics include polio, influenza, SARS and HIV. Biological, social, and cultural factors impacting global disease spread and/or reduction; current challenges in vaccination and disease control programs; Open only to students in the Focus Program.
Students will evaluate the factors - biological, social, and cultural – that impact how diseases spread through populations, and that makes them easier or harder to control. How can we use what we’ve learned from past attempts at disease elimination to improve current programs? Students will learn the biology of major global diseases caused by a range of pathogens, including TB, malaria, and smallpox. These diseases will be used as case studies to address the evolution and ecology of disease; antibiotic resistance; vaccine development and immunization programs; and tropical diseases versus diseases of poverty. Other potential topics include polio, influenza, SARS and HIV.
Instructor(s): Broverman,Sherryl Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| BME 460L | Devices For People With Disabilities | UG Only | FALL 2012 | Staff | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Design of custom devices to aid disabled individuals. Students will be paired with health care professionals at local hospitals who will supervise the development of projects for specific clients. Formal engineering design principles will be emphasized; overview of assistive technologies, patent issues, engineering ethics. Oral and written reports will be required. Selected projects may be continued as independent study. Prerequisite: Biomedical Engineering 154L and Statistics 113. Consent of instructor required. Design of custom devices to aid disabled individuals. Students will be paired with health care professionals at local hospitals who will supervise the development of projects for specific clients. Formal engineering design principles will be emphasized; overview of assistive technologies, patent issues, engineering ethics. Oral and written reports will be required. Selected projects may be continued as independent study. Prerequisite: Biomedical Engineering 354L and Statistical Science 130. Service Learning Course. Instructor(s): Course Notes: NO LONGER COUNTS AS GHC ELECTIVE. Counts as Elective only if taken prior to Fall 2009. | ||||||
| PUBPOL 820 | Globalization and Governance | GRAD Only | FALL 2012 | Staff | MSC:GH Policy and Management | |
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Course Description: Seminar explores economic, political, and social aspects of globalization and their implications for public policy making in the twenty-first century. Focus on issues of governance, particularly international cooperation, the design of international organizations, and the role of international NGOs. Policy areas include international trade and finance, environment, security, human rights, media and communications, and international development. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| BIOLOGY 554 | Genomic Perspectives on Human Evolution | UG/GRAD | FALL 2012 | Staff | MSC:Disease Causation and Prevention | |
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Course Description: Human evolutionary history as studied from the perspective of the genome. Nature of contemporary genomic data and how they are interpreted in the context of the fossil record, comparative anatomy, psychology, and cultural studies. Examination of both the origin of modern humans as a distinct species and subsequent migration across the world. Emphasis on language, behavior, and disease susceptibility as traits of particular evolutionary interest. Prerequisite: Biology 118 or equivalent course. Instructor: Wray Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 171FS | Vulnerable Populations and Global Health | UG Only | FALL 2012 | Boyd,David | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Vulnerable Populations and Global Health explores the complex social, economic, institutional, and political factors contributing to the health disparities of vulnerable populations. Through a variety of compelling texts, this intensive seminar will explore the following questions: What constitutes a vulnerable population? How does the biopsychosocial model help to elucidate vulnerability as a determinant of health? How does the complex interaction of agency and constraint contribute to the global health disparities of vulnerable populations? What special considerations do interventions with vulnerable population require? What can vulnerable populations teach us about improving global health outcomes? And what role should social justice and human rights play in global health? Course format will primarily be discussion.
Instructor(s): Boyd,David Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 530S | Introductory Demographic Measures and Concepts | UG/GRAD | FALL 2012 | Merli,Maria-Giovanna | MSC:Population Sciences | |
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Course Description: This is an introductory course in demographic concepts, measures and techniques. The primary objective is to learn how demographers measure population change, mortality, morbidity, fertility, marriage, divorce, and migration. The course also illustrates the broader application of demographic measurement and techniques to other aspects of society and population health, such as educational attainment, labor force participation, linkages between mortality, morbidity and disability, and health and mortality differentials. The understanding of the materials is aided by a series of problem sets which are designed to help students learn to apply demographic methods. Instructor(s): Merli,Maria-Giovanna Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| SPANISH 306 | Health, Culture and the Latino Community | UG Only | FALL 2012 | Staff | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Issues associated with access to the health care industry for growing Latino/a population in the US. Topics: cultural competency issues, medical practices, lexical knowledge related to the field. Develop research proposal informed by required 20 hours of service work with local community partners. Assessment on knowledge of content, oral and written Spanish, and participation in service. Recommended students take 100-level Spanish course prior to enrolling. Pre-requisite: Spanish 76 or equivalent. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| PUBPOL 580S | Water, Cooperation, and Conflict | UG/GRAD | FALL 2012 | Pattanayak,Subhrendu | GHC:Elective MSC:Global Environmental Health MSC:GH Policy and Management |
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Course Description: Focuses on potential for transboundary water resources-related conflict and cooperation. Discusses water scarcity concepts, natural resource conflict theory, hydro politics, hydro hegemony, water security, water markets and institutions, game theory, and international water law. Other topics include the economics of water and health. Case studies complement the broader course outlook. Instructor(s): Pattanayak,Subhrendu Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| PUBPOL 580S | GLHLTH 533s ENVIRON 543S | Water, Cooperation, and Conflict | UG/GRAD | FALL 2012 | Jeuland,Marc | GHC:Elective MSC:Global Environmental Health MSC:GH Policy and Management |
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Course Description: Focuses on potential for transboundary water resources-related conflict and cooperation. Discusses water scarcity concepts, natural resource conflict theory, hydro politics, hydro hegemony, water security, water markets and institutions, game theory, and international water law. Other topics include the economics of water and health. Case studies complement the broader course outlook. Instructor(s): Jeuland,Marc Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 570 | Global Health Policy and Policy Making | UG/GRAD | FALL 2012 | Miller,Michael | GHC:Elective MSC:GH Policy and Management |
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Course Description: Introduction to essential global health policy concepts, understanding of global health policy-making, how policies affect ¿reality on the ground¿ in global health and development. Build critical analytical skills and the ability to translate coursework into broader understanding of policies and policy-making. Includes lectures, analysis, discussion, readings, case studies. Open to juniors, seniors, and Master's students pursuing GH certificate or public policy, MSc in GH, SOM third year. Department consent required. Instructor(s): Miller,Michael Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GENOME 258S | Race, Genomics, and Society | UG Only | FALL 2012 | Staff | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Integrated analysis of historical and contemporary aspects of `race and genetics/genomics'. Focus on relevant applications in science, medicine, and society; develop skills required for scientific, sociopolitical, cultural, psychosocial, and ethical evaluation of issues. Topics include: introduction to population genetics/genetic variation; concepts and definitions of race; overview of bioethics; social and political history of race; genomics and health disparities; race, ancestry, and medical practice; genealogy, genetic ancestry, and identity; public perceptions of race and genetics/genomics. Instructor: Royal Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 173FS | Technology for Health: Revolutions in Low Resource Settings | UG Only | FALL 2012 | Staff | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Examines innovations in global health informatics and how technology use in low resource settings is rapidly changing health care. Explores the use of technology for data collection, health interventions, and analysis, and how this is revolutionizing health systems, services, and outcomes. The course will include hands-on sessions using technology to map health information. Instructor(s): Course Notes: This course is for Focus students only | ||||||
| GLHLTH 212 | SOCIOL 212 | Gender, Poverty, and Health | UG Only | SPRING 2012 | Messer,Lynne | GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: This course will examine the interconnections among gender, poverty, and health. It will adopt a global perspective on these issues, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries as well as the United States. We will learn that health has more to do with social location than with biology; it is something that is enjoyed by the privileged and struggled for by the socially marginalized. Further, among the most important social determinants of health are gender, race and class, and it is very challenging to disentangle their respective effects. They help shape vulnerability to disease and poor health outcomes. They help explain access to care as well as the consequences of illness and disease. They help account for what we consider to be health problems in the first place. And, they must be addressed if efforts to promote health are to be successful in the long term. Instructor(s): Messer,Lynne Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| BME 462L | Design for the Developing World | UG Only | SPRING 2012 | Malkin,Robert | GHC:Methods GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Design of custom devices to help the specific and unique needs of developing world hospitals. Formal engineering design principles will be emphasized; overview of developing world conditions, patent issues, engineering ethics.Oral and written reports will be required. Students may elect to personally deliver their projects to a developing world hospital, if selected, in the summer following the course. Prerequisite: Biomedical Engineering 154L and Statistics 113. Consent of instructor required. Instructor(s): Malkin,Robert Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| CE 469 | Integrated Environmental Design | UG Only | SPRING 2012 | Schaad,David | GHC:Methods GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Student design teams complete a preliminary design of an actual environmental engineering project and present the design to a panel of civil engineering faculty and practitioners. A written technical report is required. Topics to be addressed include: the design process; cost estimation; legal, ethical, and social aspects of professional engineering practice; short-term and long-term design serviceability considerations. Open only to civil engineering students during their final two semesters. Prerequisites: Civil Engineering 120L, 123L, 124L. Instructor(s): Schaad,David Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| CULANTH 302 | Fieldwork Methods: Cultural Analysis And Interpretation | UG Only | SPRING 2012 | Staff | ||
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Course Description: Anthropology as a discipline (a field of study) and the site where anthropologists work: the field. Combines theories of anthropological fieldwork methods with practice, including participation, observation, and interviews. Students undertake original research in a local fieldsite of their choice and produce their own mini-ethnography. Instructor(s): Course Notes: NO LONGER COUNTS AS GHC METHODS OR ELECTIVE. Counts as METHODS OR Elective only if taken prior to Fall 2009. | ||||||
| ENVIRON 539 | Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessment. | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2012 | Staff | GHC:Methods MSC:Global Environmental Health GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Topics central to both health and ecological risk assessment are explored. Basic concepts of hazard identification, dose response relationships, exposure assessment, and risk characterization and
communication are discussed in the context of both human health and environmental assessment. The basis and rationale for using specific, as well as extrapolated, scientific information and expert judgment, and the strengths and weaknesses of alternative approaches, are evaluated. Applications emphasizing real cases are used to illustrate the interdisciplinary process and products of risk assessment, as well as the regulatory use of the information. Group projects emphasized. Instructors: Mihaich and McMasters. 3 units
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| PSY 306 | Research Methods in Health/Clinical Psychology | UG Only | SPRING 2012 | Staff | GHC:Methods GHC:Elective |
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| GLHLTH 362 | Introduction to Epidemiology: Focus on Global Health | UG Only | SPRING 2012 | Maselko,Joanna | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Introduces students to the main concepts and methods used in population-based epidemiology research. Topics covered include measures of disease frequency, study design, measures of association, and problems of bias, especially as they pertain to global health research. Students will learn to understand and evaluate epidemiological studies. A prior quantitative course is highly recommended. Instructor(s): Maselko,Joanna Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 371 | PSY 309 | Research Methods in Global Health | UG Only | SPRING 2012 | Meade,Christina | GHC:Methods GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Introduction to methodological techniques used in global health research, including qualitative field work, quantitative surveys, experimental designs, intervention trials, and program evaluation. Teaches strengths and weaknesses of each method, and how to determine the most appropriate method for specific research questions. Takes a problem-based approach, emphasizing the interdisciplinary nature of global health research. Focuses on how to evaluate published & unpublished research and how to design a global health research project. Skills include: identification of global health problems, conceptualization of a research question, designing a research study, and interpretation of results.
Instructor(s): Meade,Christina Course Notes: For students who matriculated at Duke in Fall 2009 or later, this is the only Methods course approved for the GHC. Students who matriculated at Duke prior to Fall 2009 will have had other options to fulfill the GHC Methods requirement. | ||||||
| GLHLTH 383A | Tropical Medicine - Costa Rica | UG Only | SPRING 2012 | Staff | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Part of a 15-week semester abroad program in Costa Rica (through OTS). Integrates classroom and field instruction to introduce fundamental principles of tropical medicine and public health including the tropical environment and its related health issues Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 380A | Research Practicum- Costa Rica | UG Only | SPRING 2012 | Staff | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Introduces students to research design, field methods, and basic data analysis in a tropical context. Skills include hypothesis testing and statistical analysis, orientation to basic software packages, write and present scientific papers, and design and conduct epidemiologic research.
Instructor(s): Course Notes: Course taught as part of the Costa Rica-Global Health study abroad program offered through OTS. | ||||||
| GLHLTH 390 | Special Topics Global Health, Law, and Ethics | UG Only | SPRING 2012 | Cross,Jason | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: This course examines the law and ethics of global health work with diverse populations, and strategies for organizing stakeholders to address global health challenges. Students look at the ways in which law regulates collaboration in global health. The class addresses the role of international organizations and treaties, national legal systems, global business, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the global and local governance of health. Students also consider the law, politics and ethics of policy-making, clinical work, research and community organizing, as well as the impacts on individuals, families and communities. Course topics include the following: global health governance; NGOs; national health systems and legal rights to health; community health research; access to medicines and pharmaceutical development; clinical trials; genetic information protection; health information systems; health disparities; health social movements; best outcomes vs. distributive justice; health and human rights; and human subjects protection. Instructor(s): Cross,Jason Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 501 | Global Health Capstone | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2012 | Boyd,David Clements,Dennis | GHC:Capstone | |
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Course Description: Capstone Course for students in Global Health Certificate. Group analysis of a current global health problem/issue. Project involves background research, data acquisition, analysis, writing, and
presentation of a substantial research paper/report at an advanced level. Consent of instructor required. Instructor(s): Boyd,David Clements,Dennis Course Notes: Course number was GLHLTH 255S prior to spring 2010. Course is no longer offered as a seminar. | ||||||
| BIOLOGY 154 | Aids and Other Emerging Diseases | UG Only | SPRING 2012 | Broverman,Sherryl | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Explores the interaction of biology and culture in creating and defining diseases through an investigation of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and other emerging diseases: molecular biology; biology of transmission and infection; the role of people and culture in the evolution of infectious diseases; reasons for the geographic variations in disease. The inductive-deductive methodology of science is both used to develop and test hypotheses as well as examined itself as an analytical tool. Intended for nonmajors. Instructor(s): Broverman,Sherryl Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| ENVIRON 212 | PUBPOL 275 | US Environmental Policy | UG Only | SPRING 2012 | Staff | GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: This course focuses on environmental policy issues
in the United States. We will consider the full range of the social sciences in our analysis, including the
political, economic, ethical, legal, and institutional issues involved in environmental decision-making. The
course will cover: the preservation and conservation movements, environmental priorities, the political
process, the formation of the EPA, the Clean Air Act, RCRA and superfund legislation, the Clean Water Act,
FIFRA, the Endangered Species Act, public lands policy, and institutional issues. The course is designed to
give students an understanding of the important conceptual issues in environmental policy-making, as well as an overview of current environmental legislation. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| ENVIRON 360 | Environmental Chemisty and Toxicology | UG Only | SPRING 2012 | Stapleton,Heather | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: An overview of the fate, transport
and biological effects of chemicals in the environment. Four types of chemicals that archetypical of environmental
pollutants will be discussed, including polar and non-polar organic compounds; such as insecticides and
pesticides; oxidants; and metals. Topics include characterization of pollutants, the chemistry of natural
waters, soils and atmosphere; chemical transport between compartments; chemical and biological transformation;
and the ecological, toxicological, and molecular biological responses associated with chemical exposure. Case studies will be incorporated that focus on the impact of chemical pollutants on large-scale ecosystems and human health. Instructor(s): Stapleton,Heather Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| ENVIRON 577 | PUBPOL 577 | Resource Environmental Policy/environmental Politics | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2012 | Staff | GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Environmental policy
formation and implementation in comparative perspective. Topics include interest groups, environmental movements
and parties, public opinion, political systems and institutions. Case students selected from the United States and other advanced industrialized countries and the developing world. Spring. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| HISTORY 369 | History of Public Health in America | UG Only | SPRING 2012 | Staff | GHC:Elective | |
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| HISTORY 370 | 20th Century American Medicine | UG Only | SPRING 2012 | English,Peter | GHC:Elective | |
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| MGM 552 | Virology and Viral Oncology | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2012 | Staff | GHC:Elective | |
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| MGM 582 | Microbial Pathogenesis | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2012 | McCusker,John | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Modern molecular genetic approaches to understanding the pathogenic bacteria and fungi. Underlying mechanisms of pathogenesis and host-parasite relationships that contribute to the infectious disease process. Instructor(s): McCusker,John Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| PUBPOL 276 | EGR 260 ENVIRON 260 | Science and Politics of Natural Catastophes | UG Only | SPRING 2012 | Schaad,David | GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: In this interdisciplinary course students will conduct a life cycle analysis of a natural disaster. Invited experts will discuss meteorologic, hydrologic and geologic factors that cause disasters; explore how societies plan for and/or respond to the immediate and long-term physical, social, emotional and spiritual issues associated with survival; and present case studies of response, recovery and reconstruction efforts. Students will attend the lecture component of the course and complete on-line quizzes to demonstrate understanding of the material presented. Additionally, they will prepare on individual paper (~ 10 pages) on a relevant topic and one group paper, the results of which will be presented to the class. Instructor(s): Schaad,David Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| PUBPOL 328 | US Health Disparities | UG Only | SPRING 2012 | Staff | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: The most commonly used indices to measure United States health disparities by race/ethnicity; origins and evolution of racial/ethnic categories in the United States Census; role of poverty, racial residential segregation, and inadequate health care in explaining racial/ethnic health disparities; and the promise and limitations of academic-community partnerships and public policy initiatives designed to reduce and ultimately eliminate those health disparities. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| SOCIOL 345 | Nation, Region and Global Economy | UG Only | SPRING 2012 | Staff | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: The changing configuration of global capitalism, with emphasis on comparing global regions of North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. The internal dynamics of these regions, including the development strategies of selected nations, interregional comparisons (for example, regional divisions of labor, state-society relationships, the nature of their business systems, quality of life issues). Research paper required. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| BIOLOGY 490S | Special Topics | UG Only | SPRING 2012 | Staff | GHC:Elective | |
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| GLHLTH 750 | Health Systems in Developing Countries | GRAD Only | SPRING 2012 | Mohanan,Manoj | MSC:Core | |
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Course Description: This course introduces students to key challenges faced in strengthening of health systems in low and middle income countries. The course will cover a diverse set of topics including an overview of organization of health systems, models of purchasing and providing health care, innovations in financing health care, and issues in service delivery such as quality of care and human resource challenges. Students will learn frameworks and methods employed in the evaluation of health systems. The course will also draw attention to resource allocation problems and various frameworks used to address them. The course will primarily rely on readings from a variety of health policy, economics and other social science journals. Instructor(s): Mohanan,Manoj Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 740 | Bioethics | GRAD Only | SPRING 2012 | McKinney,Ross Hawkins,Jennifer Sreenivasan,Gopal | MSC:Core | |
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Course Description: This course will present an overview of practical and theoretical approaches to bioethics from a range of perspectives, including the humanities, law, philosophy, medicine and science. Students will apply various resources, terminology and frameworks to case studies which will prepare them for their own research. The course will include IRB and responsible conduct of research. (2 credits) Instructor(s): McKinney,Ross Hawkins,Jennifer Sreenivasan,Gopal Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 670S | Global Nutrition: Over and Under Nutrition in Developing Countries | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2012 | Benjamin Neelon,Sara | MSC:Disease Causation and Prevention GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Discusses the nutrition problems of developing countries. Reviews epidemiological, biological, and behavioral consequences of both overnutrition (e.g., obesity) and undernutrition (e.g., malnutrition). Emphasizes infectious disease (HIV, TB, malaria, diarrhea) of children and perinatal outcomes (e.g., fetal loss, low birth weight, HIV transmission, pre-eclampsia) of women and children. Strong focus on ethical and political issues relevant to the formulation of nutrition policy and programs in developing countries. Course is designed for graduate students or advanced undergraduates. Instructor(s): Benjamin Neelon,Sara Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| SOCIOL 361 | GLHLTH 340 | Social Determinants of U.S. Health Disparities | UG Only | SPRING 2012 | Read,Jen'nan | GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Introduction to how social factors influence health and well-being, with a particular focus on contemporary U.S. society. Topics include obesity, aging, socioeconomic disadvantage, access to health insurance, public health systems, the role of the media, and racial/ethnic and gender inequalities. The course will provide descriptive assessments of health inequalities and analytic examinations of the mechanisms through which social factors affect health. Instructor(s): Read,Jen'nan Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| PUBPOL 642S | Designing Innovation for Global Health | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2012 | So,Anthony | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: In this age of globalization, the expectations of life-saving technologies cross borders readily, but the introduction and adaptation of these technologies in resource-limited settings often lag behind. While we often think of technologies such as AIDS drugs, there are many appropriate technologies that are potentially transformative for improving local health--making water potable, cookstoves more efficient and less polluting, and diagnostics more available in local clinics. Behind each of these technologies, there are innovators, sometimes publicly funded researchers, other times private companies, often social entrepreneurs. In this course, students will critically examine the policy and philanthropic landscape behind these areas of appropriate technology. Beyond the engineering of these technologies, what is the social engineering of policies that minimize inequity? For example, is potable water best tackled with an innovation that serves the needs of an individual (e.g., Life Straw), a group (e.g., solar disinfectant system), or an entire community (e.g., chlorination of a local reservoir). Through the lens of these technologies, students will consider what factors help enable local innovation, from intellectual and financial capital to end-user input and systems for sharing and owning knowledge. What forms of philanthropy—from microcredit and giving circles to donor aid—work best to foster local innovation and to build local capacity? What are the ethical issues involved in introducing technologies, from double standards in quality to donor-recipient relationships? This course seeks to prepare those engaged in such work to consider the policy ramifications of designing innovation for global health. Instructor(s): So,Anthony Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| BIOLOGY 557L | Microbial Ecology and Evolution | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2012 | Staff | MSC:Disease Causation and Prevention | |
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Course Description: Survey of new advances in the field of environmental and evolutionary microbiology, based on current literature, discussion, and laboratory exercises. Topics to include bacterial phylogeny, molecular ecology, emerging infectious diseases, bacterial symbiosis, experimental evolution, evolution of drug resistance, and microbial genomics. Prerequisite: Biology 25L, 103L, 118, or consent of instructor. Instructor: Vilgalys. 4 units. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| NURSING 502 | Health Promotion and Disease Prevention | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2012 | Staff | MSC:Disease Causation and Prevention | |
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Course Description: Provides the student the opportunity to incorporate health promotion and disease prevention assessment and intervention into the health of clients across the life span. Applying the principles of health education, the course prepares students to use the tools and skills necessary to provide health promotion and disease
prevention services to individuals, families, groups, and communities. The definition of health and the factors that impact an individual's or group's health framework is the basis for understanding health maintenance interventions. 3 credits.
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| PUBPOL 634 | Responsible Genomics | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2012 | Cook-Deegan,Robert | MSC:Disease Causation and Prevention | |
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Course Description: Survey of ethical, social, economic, and legal issues in genomics. Introduction to ethical reasoning and examination of selected issues calling for such analysis, including: special procedures for research involving human participants, (2) respect for privacy and confidentiality of genetic information; (3) historical and political background of health research funding, and (4) public-private research interactions such as intellectual property and conflict of interest. Instructor: Cook-Deegan. 3 units. (Also counts as a policy elective.) Instructor(s): Cook-Deegan,Robert Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| PUBPOL 634 | Responsible Genomics | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2012 | Cook-Deegan,Robert | MSC:Disease Causation and Prevention | |
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Course Description: Survey of ethical, social, economic, and legal issues in genomics. Introduction to ethical reasoning and examination of selected issues calling for such analysis, including: special procedures for research involving human participants, (2) respect for privacy and confidentiality of genetic information; (3) historical and political background of health research funding, and (4) public-private research interactions such as intellectual property and conflict of interest. Instructor: Cook-Deegan. 3 units. (Also counts as a policy elective.) Instructor(s): Cook-Deegan,Robert Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| PUBPOL 726 | Innovative Policies (#9068) | GRAD Only | SPRING 2012 | Staff | ||
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Course Description: This course will analyze a sampling of innovative policies and programs that were initiated to solve major problems in developed and developing countries. Some of the approaches worked; some did not. All of them, however, challenged conventional thinking, hence the title of the course ‘innovative policies’. During the semester we will discuss the following issues: crisis, innovation and policy space, leadership, transformation and transitions, innovation from within and from without, sectoral opportunity, unintended consequences, and the dynamics of decision making for innovative policies. Among the examples we will discuss are the Marshall Plan in Europe, the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, Thailand’s approach to Family Planning, and the start of major civic volunteerism in the United States. The course will use the case approach. Each week, we will discuss a policy or set of policies. Students enrolled in the course will be asked to join a group (2-3) to discuss, analyze and present the cases. They are expected to develop a case and present it. We will also have films that highlight some aspect of a case. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| PUBPOL 726 | Innovative Policies (#9068) | GRAD Only | SPRING 2012 | Staff | ||
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Course Description: This course will analyze a sampling of innovative policies and programs that were initiated to solve major problems in developed and developing countries. Some of the approaches worked; some did not. All of them, however, challenged conventional thinking, hence the title of the course ‘innovative policies’. During the semester we will discuss the following issues: crisis, innovation and policy space, leadership, transformation and transitions, innovation from within and from without, sectoral opportunity, unintended consequences, and the dynamics of decision making for innovative policies. Among the examples we will discuss are the Marshall Plan in Europe, the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, Thailand’s approach to Family Planning, and the start of major civic volunteerism in the United States. The course will use the case approach. Each week, we will discuss a policy or set of policies. Students enrolled in the course will be asked to join a group (2-3) to discuss, analyze and present the cases. They are expected to develop a case and present it. We will also have films that highlight some aspect of a case. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| PUBPOL 790 | Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights & Development (#9092) | GRAD Only | SPRING 2012 | Staff | ||
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Course Description: This seminar focuses on indigenous peoples, their basic rights, and their roles in national and international development processes. Through class discussions, case studies and role-playing, students will examine the impact of national policies and global trends on indigenous populations and vice versa, and the dynamics of conflict generation and resolution. Among the issues to be discussed are notions of sovereignty and governance, land and other property rights, community management of natural resources, indigenous social movements, international networks and assistance, culture, access and survival. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| PUBPOL 790 | Culture, Policy & Action (#9093) | GRAD Only | SPRING 2012 | Staff | ||
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Course Description: Starting with the premise that ‘culture matters’, the course covers the impacts of values and attitudes, historical differences, religion, ethnicity, language, and regional identities to shape public policy, action and debate. It draws insights from various disciplines such as history, anthropology, sociology, economics, natural sciences, politics and religion. During the semester, we discuss approaches to value cultural diversity, culture relevant dilemmas in development, policy making by various actors in divided societies, and the cost of culture related difficulties.
Students enrolled in the course are expected to participate actively through class discussions/debates and presentations. There will be group presentations (2-3 persons to a group) made on selected themes during the course. A major paper on the topic presented is also required.
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| ECON 542S | Social Change, Markets, and Economy in China | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2012 | Staff | ||
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Course Description: Introduction to recent economic, social, and institutional changes in China, with focus on recent (post 1980) periods. Up-to-date descriptive reviews, empirical data, and discussions on historical background, current status, and future perspectives. Instructor: Yi Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| ECON 568S | Current Issues in International and Development Economics | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2012 | Staff | ||
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Course Description: Issues of income distribution within and between countries, vehicles for growth, regional development, the role of politics in economic policy, multinational institutions. Cross-country and cross-time comparisons. Emphasis on individual research projects. Prerequisite: Economics 105D; and Economics 110D. Instructor: Tower Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 781 | Ungraded Research in Globla Health | GRAD Only | SPRING 2012 | Woods,Chris | MSC:Thesis | |
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Course Description: Individual research in a field of special interest, the central goal of which is a substantive paper containing significant analysis and interpretation of a previously approved topic. Consent required. Instructor(s): Woods,Chris Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 560S | Global Mental Health | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2012 | Maselko,Joanna | MSC:Disease Causation and Prevention | |
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| GLHLTH 706 | Global Health Research: Epidemiologic Methods II | GRAD Only | SPRING 2012 | Westreich,Daniel | MSC:Disease Causation and Prevention MSC:Population Sciences |
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Course Description: Course builds on Epidemiologic Methods I to present advanced topics in epidemiology. Topics include review of study designs including meta-analysis; intensive study of bias, including confounding, selection bias, and misclassification; missing data; sensitivity analysis; topics in regression analysis; and an introduction to the analysis of time to event data, including lifetable methods, survival curves, and Cox proportional hazards regression. Discussions of causal inference and how to read, review, and write scientific literature. Course has a weekly data analysis lab section to develop programming and statistical analysis skills. Prerequisite: Epidemiologic Methods I or equivalent. Course builds on Epidemiologic Methods I to present advanced topics in epidemiology. Topics include review of study designs including meta-analysis; intensive study of bias, including confounding, selection bias, and misclassification; missing data; sensitivity analysis; topics in regression analysis; and an introduction to the analysis of time to event data, including lifetable methods, survival curves, and Cox proportional hazards regression. Discussions of causal inference and how to read, review, and write scientific literature. Course has a weekly data analysis lab section to develop programming and statistical analysis skills. Prerequisite: Epidemiologic Methods I or equivalent. Instructor(s): Westreich,Daniel Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 391 | Independent Study in Global Health | UG Only | SPRING 2012 | Staff | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Individual non-research directed study in a field of special interest on a previously approved topic, under the supervision of a faculty member, resulting in a significant academic product. Open only to qualified juniors and seniors by consent of instructor and director of Global Health Certificate program. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 393 | Research Independent Study in Global Health | UG Only | SPRING 2012 | Broverman,Sherryl | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Individual research-oriented directed study in a field of special interest on a previously approved topic, under the supervision of a faculty member, resulting in a significant academic product. Open only to qualified juniors and seniors by consent of instructor and director of Global Health Certificate program. Instructor(s): Broverman,Sherryl Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 390S | Global Health Special Topics-Ethics Global Health Service, Research, & Ethics | UG Only | SPRING 2012 | Ariely,Sumedha | GHC:Elective GHC:Ethics |
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Course Description: Topics vary depending on semester and section. Topics may include: global health ethics, field methods, health technologies, rapid needs assessment, and global health policies. Students will be exposed to ethical and human rights concepts as they relate to global health and explore how to understand and engage in ethical health service, intervention, research and education. Introduces current issues encountered in health ethics and requires students to analyze and critique the ethical choices individuals, policy-makers and health workers make. Students think creatively about the relationship between ethics and health, explore solutions to different ethical situations and analyze the application of solutions to the world context. By engaging in service activities during the course, students will be better able to understand how an intellectual/rational approach to ethics can be both enhanced as well as counteracted by the emotional impact that engaging in service often offers. The course will explore differential standards of care, access to care, best outcomes vs. distributed justice and will focus on ethical issues related to at least 3 distinct GH topics: Infectious Diseases; Obesity, Alcohol and Tobacco; and Environmental Health. Course involves service engagements with community partners from each of these three topics. Students will use the experiences they gain from service and related case studies, to reflect on how to approach ethical dilemmas and appropriate rationales for options to resolve them. NOTE: This is a Service Learning course Instructor(s): Ariely,Sumedha Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 351 | Global Health and International Development in the Nonprofit Sector | UG Only | SPRING 2012 | Walmer,Katherine | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Explore issues of global health and international development work in the non-profit sector. Topics include, delivery of culturally appropriate global health assistance to low resource countries, challenges in working in developing countries, different approaches to development work, management principles of non-governmental organizations (NGO's), and monitoring and evaluation of global health program outcomes. Topics will be explored through lecture, discussion and small group work. Final class presentation and paper will focus on developing a case study centered on a select global health problem and the non-profit organization(s) approach to delivering health care solutions. Instructor(s): Walmer,Katherine Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| ENVIRON 563 | PUBPOL 607 GLHLTH 531 | Applying Economic Analysis for Environmental and Public Health Project Evaluation | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2012 | Jeuland,Marc | GHC:Elective |
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| ENVIRON 590 | Special Topics Environmental Health | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2012 | Meyer,Joel | GHC:Elective MSC:Global Environmental Health |
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Course Description: Topics Vary: Special Topics in Environmentn Environmental effects on human health with a particular focus on the chronic effects of exposure to pollution and other stressors, and the interaction of anthropogenic environmental changes with infectious diseases. Open to both undergraduate and graduate students. Prerequisites: Introductory biology and chemistry, or consent of instructor. Instructor(s): Meyer,Joel Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 383AS | Environment, Health and Development in China | UG Only | SPRING 2012 | Litzinger,Ralph | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Critical overview and investigation of the culture, politics, and political economy of environment, health, and development issues in contemporary China, with special attention to case studies exploring a range of issues from public health panics, HIV and AIDS, sex work, migrant workers, the Beijing Olympics, water politics, earthquake relief, and environmental protest. Includes readings across disciplines, and engagement with the work of government, academic, multilateral and non-governmental groups. Instructor consent required. Course taught in China as part of the Global Study Abroad Program. Instructor(s): Litzinger,Ralph Course Notes: Course is a part of the Global Semester Abroad program. | ||||||
| GLHLTH 637S | Population and Environmental Dynamics and Human Health | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2012 | Pan,William | MSC:Global Environmental Health MSC:Population Sciences |
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Course Description: Course examines population, health and environment (PHE) dynamics with focus on interactions in developing or transition economies. Theoretical and empirical approaches governing PHE dynamics from multidisciplinary perspectives, including geography, public health/epidemiology, demography, and economics. Students will obtain experience in design and analysis of PHE studies, and epidemiology of vector-born, chronic and enteric infections. Instructor(s): Pan,William Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 751 | Implementation Research and Health | GRAD Only | SPRING 2012 | Staff | MSC:Disease Causation and Prevention GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Implementation Research/Operational Research (IR/OR) studies how to improve uptake, implementation, and translation of research findings into routine and common practices ('know-do' or 'evidence to program' gap); moves results from effectiveness studies and efficacy trials to real-world settings, obtaining information to guide scale-up; helps implementers apply lessons from a program in one context to developing a similar program in a similar environment. Course covers: framework of IR/OR; methods of identifying program implementation problems; how to organize and develop an IR/OR proposal; main study design, research methods, data collection and analysis used in IR/OR; approaches to capacity building for IR/OR in developing countries. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 751 | Implementation Research and Health | GRAD Only | SPRING 2012 | Tang,Shenglan | MSC:Disease Causation and Prevention GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Implementation Research/Operational Research (IR/OR) studies how to improve uptake, implementation, and translation of research findings into routine and common practices ('know-do' or 'evidence to program' gap); moves results from effectiveness studies and efficacy trials to real-world settings, obtaining information to guide scale-up; helps implementers apply lessons from a program in one context to developing a similar program in a similar environment. Course covers: framework of IR/OR; methods of identifying program implementation problems; how to organize and develop an IR/OR proposal; main study design, research methods, data collection and analysis used in IR/OR; approaches to capacity building for IR/OR in developing countries. Instructor(s): Tang,Shenglan Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| PUBPOL 724 | Politics of International Aid in Low-Income Countries | GRAD Only | SPRING 2012 | Staff | MSC:GH Policy and Management | |
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Course Description: The effectiveness of aid in low-income countries has been the subject of intense debate.The course will examine the context and objectives of international aid, the record and lessons, and recent efforts and proposals for change within the international community. There is a special (but not exclusive) focus on Africa, since more robust growth and poverty reduction on that continent are at the center of the aidneffectiveness debate. In this exploration of the politics of aid, attention will be focused on the principal stakeholders, their motivations, and the quality of interaction among the various players (Governments, NGOs, bilateral donors, and multilateral institutions), along with the bottom line whether aid is resulting in poverty reduction in low income countries. By the end of the course, students will be familiar with recent literature on the topic, key debates surrounding aid effectiveness, the policies and actions of different donors, and recent proposals and measures aimed at improving development assistance. The course is primarily a group discussion, with occasional mini-lectures, student presentations, debates, case studies, two papers, and a final simulation. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| SOCIOL 726S | Advanced Demographic Methods | GRAD Only | SPRING 2012 | Staff | MSC:Population Sciences GHC:Methods |
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Course Description: Mathematical methods and computer software for the analysis of population dynamics. Life table and stationary population theory; methods of life table estimation; multiple-decrement and multistate life tables; stationary population theory and its extensions; model life tables and stationary populations; two-sex models and interacting populations; hazard regression models, grade-of-membership analysis, and cohort studies. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 120S | CULANTH 218S | Anthropology and Global Health | UG Only | SPRING 2012 | Solomon,Harris | GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Investigates connections between anthropology and global health. Readings based on ethnographic research conducted globally. Topics include cross-cultural experiences of epidemics, ethical implications of globalizing clinical trials, moral and political dimensions of health and humanitarian interventions, connections between nationalism and population policy, overlaps between traditional healing systems and public health programs, how gender ideologies shape reproductive health, and questions of identity, power, and ethics amidst global rollout of HIV therapies. Instructor(s): Solomon,Harris Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| PUBPOL 290 | Population Aging, Family, and Policy in the East and West | UG Only | SPRING 2012 | Staff | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: This course covers policy issues of modern aging societies, with special emphases on families and comparisons between Western countries and Asian countries. To tackle the complex issues, we discuss both relevant theories and empirical evidence from various disciplines including sociology, economics, public health, and human biology. The first module introduces demography, investigating the underlying causes of population aging and presenting trends in population age distributions around the globe. In the second module, we review public old-age support programs in the East and West and discuss their challenges. The module also describes policy options to mitigate the consequences of population aging, and assesses the effectiveness of the policies from the comparative perspective. The third module examines why families provide elder support, how the support differs across societies and cultures, and how public and private old-age provisions are interrelated. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 670S | Global Nutrition: Over and Under Nutrition in Developing Countries | UG/GRAD | Summer 2011 | Staff | MSC:Disease Causation and Prevention GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Discusses the nutrition problems of developing countries. Reviews epidemiological, biological, and behavioral consequences of both overnutrition (e.g., obesity) and undernutrition (e.g., malnutrition). Emphasizes infectious disease (HIV, TB, malaria, diarrhea) of children and perinatal outcomes (e.g., fetal loss, low birth weight, HIV transmission, pre-eclampsia) of women and children. Strong focus on ethical and political issues relevant to the formulation of nutrition policy and programs in developing countries. Course is designed for graduate students or advanced undergraduates. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 390S | Global Health Special Topics-Ethics GH and Human Rights | UG Only | Summer 2011 | Cross,Jason | GHC:Elective GHC:Ethics |
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Course Description: Topics vary depending on semester and section. Topics may include: global health ethics, field methods, health technologies, rapid needs assessment, and global health policies. This course considers how law and technology together affect the types of health services available to people in different parts of the world. It examines the role of international organizations and treaties, national legal systems, global business, and NGOs in the global governance of healthcare. Students study the development and use of medicines and other healthcare technology. Classes discuss how law regulates the innovation of healthcare technology and access to its benefits and risks. The course also investigates how culture affects attitudes toward law and technology in healthcare. Topics include the following: international health diplomacy; NGO business models; public and private medical R&D; intellectual property and innovation; how international trade and investment affects access to medicines and environmental health; new uses of information and communication technologies for global health; crisis response healthcare; different ways health systems implement constitutional rights to healthcare; and how technology and law together affect the emphasis of different health systems (e.g. high-tech specialist care, primary care, traditional medicine, and/or preventive public health). Instructor(s): Cross,Jason Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| CULANTH 190FS | International Law and Global Health | UG Only | FALL 2011 | Admay,Catherine | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Introductory and basic topics in public policy. Topics vary each semester. Does not count for public policy studies major. Open only to students in the Focus Program. Instructor(s): Admay,Catherine Course Notes: Focus Course. Course was approved for the ethics requirement if taken before Fall 2009. | ||||||
| CULANTH 290S | Special Topics Health and Community Development in West Africa | UG Only | FALL 2011 | Piot,Charles | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Designed for students returning from fieldwork in Togo, West Africa. Instructor(s): Piot,Charles Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| CULANTH 424T | GLHLTH 330 | Medical Anthropology | UG Only | FALL 2011 | Solomon,Harris | GHC:Ethics GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Cross cultural experiences and understanding of health and illness, the body and non-biological aspects of medicine. Culture-specific sickness (like envidia, running amok, attention deficit disorder). Class, race, and gender inflected experiences of health. Various societies' organization of health care specialists, including biomedical doctors, voudon priestesses, and shamans. Instructor(s): Solomon,Harris Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| BIOLOGY 212L | General Microbiology | UG Only | FALL 2011 | Staff | GHC:Elective GHC:Methods |
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Course Description: The course consists of a lecture and laboratory, each of which meets twice a week. Lectures include an overview of the history of microbiology, and cover both classical and modern bacteriological principles. Topics discussed include prokaryotic and eukaryotic structure, criteria used in classification, physiology (including reproduction, growth and metabolism), genetics (classical and molecular), infection and immunity, and environmental and industrial aspects involving microorganisms. Instructor(s): Course Notes: NO LONGER COUNTS AS GHC METHODS. Counts as Methods only if taken prior to Fall 2009. | ||||||
| BME 462L | Design for the Developing World | UG Only | FALL 2011 | Malkin,Robert | GHC:Methods GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Design of custom devices to help the specific and unique needs of developing world hospitals. Formal engineering design principles will be emphasized; overview of developing world conditions, patent issues, engineering ethics.Oral and written reports will be required. Students may elect to personally deliver their projects to a developing world hospital, if selected, in the summer following the course. Prerequisite: Biomedical Engineering 154L and Statistics 113. Consent of instructor required. Instructor(s): Malkin,Robert Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| CULANTH 302 | Fieldwork Methods: Cultural Analysis And Interpretation | UG Only | FALL 2011 | Staff | ||
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Course Description: Anthropology as a discipline (a field of study) and the site where anthropologists work: the field. Combines theories of anthropological fieldwork methods with practice, including participation, observation, and interviews. Students undertake original research in a local fieldsite of their choice and produce their own mini-ethnography. Instructor(s): Course Notes: NO LONGER COUNTS AS GHC METHODS OR ELECTIVE. Counts as METHODS OR Elective only if taken prior to Fall 2009. | ||||||
| PUBPOL 166 | GLHLTH 161 | Introduction to Global Health | UG Only | FALL 2011 | Whetten,Kathryn | GHC:Intro |
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Course Description: Introduction to multidisciplinary theories and techniques for assessing and addressing global, infectious, chronic, and behavioral health problems. Global health issues addressed from perspectives such as: epidemiology, biology, engineering, environment, business, human rights, nursing, psychology, law, public policy, and economics. Instructor(s): Whetten,Kathryn Course Notes: Course titled as "Multidisciplinary Approaches to Global Health" prior to fall 2012. | ||||||
| GLHLTH 380A | Research Practicum- Costa Rica | UG Only | FALL 2011 | Benavides Rawson,Jorge | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Introduces students to research design, field methods, and basic data analysis in a tropical context. Skills include hypothesis testing and statistical analysis, orientation to basic software packages, write and present scientific papers, and design and conduct epidemiologic research.
Instructor(s): Benavides Rawson,Jorge Course Notes: Course taught as part of the Costa Rica-Global Health study abroad program offered through OTS. | ||||||
| GLHLTH 170FS | PSY 190FS | Special Topics Social Epidemiology of Obesity | UG Only | FALL 2011 | Bennett,Gary | GHC:Elective |
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| ECON 286 | PUBPOL 286 | Economic Growth and Development Policy Economic Growth And Development Policy | UG Only | FALL 2011 | Fernholz,Fernando | GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Basic principles and policy issues in the study of economic growth and development. The roles of physical, natural and human capital, technological innovation, productivity improvements and institutions in explaining patterns and causes of variations in growth and development performance of countries. Effects on growth and development of many current policy issues including HIV-AIDs, financial crises, foreign aid and investment, debt burdens and forgiveness, corruption and governance. Prerequisites: Public Policy 110 or Economics 149. Instructor(s): Fernholz,Fernando Course Notes: NO LONGER COUNTS AS GHC METHODS. Counts as Methods only if taken prior to Fall 2009. | ||||||
| ENVIRON 501 | Environmental Toxicology | UG/GRAD | FALL 2011 | Meyer,Joel | MSC:Global Environmental Health | |
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Course Description: Study of environmental contaminants from a broad perspective encompassing biochemical, ecological, and toxicological principles and methodologies. Discussion of sources, environmental transport and transformation phenomena, accumulation in biota and ecosystems. Impacts at various levels of organization, particularly biochemical and physiological effects. Prerequisites: organic chemistry and vertebrate physiology or consent of instructor. Instructor: Di Giulio. 3 units. Instructor(s): Meyer,Joel Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| ENVIRON 535 | Air Quality Management | UG/GRAD | FALL 2011 | Staff | MSC:Global Environmental Health | |
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Course Description: Types, sources, effects of air pollutants. Regulatory framework emphasizing the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 and federal, state, local agency implementation. Application of risk assessment, technology, market incentives to air management. Scientific, policy aspects of acid deposition, global climate change, indoor air, mobile sources control. Dispersion modeling, exposure assessment. Instructor: Vandenberg. 3 units. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| ENVIRON 538 | GLHLTH 538 PUBPOL 582 | Global Environmental Health: Economics and Policy | UG/GRAD | FALL 2011 | Pattanayak,Subhrendu | MSC:Global Environmental Health |
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Course Description: Social science perspective on global environmental health. Students will learn to identify primary environmental causes of high burden diseases such as malaria, diarrhea, and respiratory infections; describe how to measure socio-economic impacts of global environmental health diseases; discuss key policies to control global environmental health problems based on private prevention and therapeutic behaviors; and propose frameworks to empirically monitor and evaluate global environmental health policies. A sub-module will focus on climate change and water-borne diseases. Prerequisites: Intro course in statistics. Instructor(s): Pattanayak,Subhrendu Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 701 | Global Health Challenges | GRAD Only | FALL 2011 | Woods,Chris | MSC:Core | |
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Course Description: Course introduces major global health problems and social, behavioral, economic, biomedical and environmental determinants of health in resource limited settings. Topics include communicable diseases i.e. HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and common childhood diseases; chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and mental health; and determinants of health associated with these diseases, such as poverty, gender imbalance, culture, poor environmental sanitation, malnutrition, tobacco use, and climate change. Other topics may include health promotion, reproductive health, maternal and child health, and disaster preparedness. Instructor(s): Woods,Chris Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 702 | Global Health Research: Design and Practice | GRAD Only | FALL 2011 | Read,Jen'nan | MSC:Core | |
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Course Description: Course introduces range of methods appropriate for GH research and covers advantages/disadvantages of each. Refine skills in study design & regression analysis. Gain understanding of qualitative research methods. Skills include ability to review & understand procedures for validating linear/logistic regression models & survival models. Modules include review of statistics for psychosocial research incl. structural models, outcomes & cost effectiveness, econometric methods & concepts, and demography (incl. intro to GIS). Presents qualitative survey design, semi-structured interviews, ethnography & role of culture in conducting GH research, incl. concepts of disease, health, wellness & illness. Instructor(s): Read,Jen'nan Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| HISTORY 370 | 20th Century American Medicine | UG Only | FALL 2011 | English,Peter | GHC:Elective | |
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| HISTORY 372 | Abortion in American Culture | UG Only | FALL 2011 | English,Peter | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: No course Description Available Instructor(s): English,Peter Course Notes: NO LONGER COUNTS AS GHC ELECTIVE. Counts as Elective only if taken prior to Fall 2009. | ||||||
| PUBPOL 644S | AAAS 548S | Poverty, Inequality, and Health | UG/GRAD | FALL 2011 | James,Sherman | GHC:Elective MSC:Population Sciences |
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Course Description: Impact of poverty and socioeconomic inequality on the health of individuals and populations. Attention given to both United States and non United States populations. Topics include the conceptualization and measurement of poverty and socioeconomic inequality; socioeconomic gradients in health; globalization and health; socioeconomic deprivation across the life-course and health in adulthood; and public policy responses in the United States and elsewhere to growing health inequities in the age of globalization. Prerequisite: An introductory course in statistics. Seniors and graduate students only. Instructor(s): James,Sherman Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| BIOLOGY 180FS | Global Diseases-Focus Only | UG Only | FALL 2011 | Broverman,Sherryl | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Biological, social, and cultural factors impacting global disease spread and/or reduction; current challenges in vaccination and disease control programs; Open only to students in the Focus Program.
Students will evaluate the factors - biological, social, and cultural – that impact how diseases spread through populations, and that makes them easier or harder to control. How can we use what we’ve learned from past attempts at disease elimination to improve current programs? Students will learn the biology of major global diseases caused by a range of pathogens, including TB, malaria, and smallpox. These diseases will be used as case studies to address the evolution and ecology of disease; antibiotic resistance; vaccine development and immunization programs; and tropical diseases versus diseases of poverty. Other potential topics include polio, influenza, SARS and HIV. Biological, social, and cultural factors impacting global disease spread and/or reduction; current challenges in vaccination and disease control programs; Open only to students in the Focus Program.
Students will evaluate the factors - biological, social, and cultural – that impact how diseases spread through populations, and that makes them easier or harder to control. How can we use what we’ve learned from past attempts at disease elimination to improve current programs? Students will learn the biology of major global diseases caused by a range of pathogens, including TB, malaria, and smallpox. These diseases will be used as case studies to address the evolution and ecology of disease; antibiotic resistance; vaccine development and immunization programs; and tropical diseases versus diseases of poverty. Other potential topics include polio, influenza, SARS and HIV.
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| BME 460L | Devices For People With Disabilities | UG Only | FALL 2011 | Bohs,Laurence | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Design of custom devices to aid disabled individuals. Students will be paired with health care professionals at local hospitals who will supervise the development of projects for specific clients. Formal engineering design principles will be emphasized; overview of assistive technologies, patent issues, engineering ethics. Oral and written reports will be required. Selected projects may be continued as independent study. Prerequisite: Biomedical Engineering 154L and Statistics 113. Consent of instructor required. Instructor(s): Bohs,Laurence Course Notes: NO LONGER COUNTS AS GHC ELECTIVE. Counts as Elective only if taken prior to Fall 2009. | ||||||
| PUBPOL 580S | Water, Cooperation, and Conflict | UG/GRAD | FALL 2011 | Jeuland,Marc | GHC:Elective MSC:Global Environmental Health MSC:GH Policy and Management |
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Course Description: Focuses on potential for transboundary water resources-related conflict and cooperation. Discusses water scarcity concepts, natural resource conflict theory, hydro politics, hydro hegemony, water security, water markets and institutions, game theory, and international water law. Other topics include the economics of water and health. Case studies complement the broader course outlook. Instructor(s): Jeuland,Marc Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 570 | Global Health Policy and Policy Making | UG/GRAD | FALL 2011 | Staff | GHC:Elective MSC:GH Policy and Management |
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Course Description: Introduction to essential global health policy concepts, understanding of global health policy-making, how policies affect ¿reality on the ground¿ in global health and development. Build critical analytical skills and the ability to translate coursework into broader understanding of policies and policy-making. Includes lectures, analysis, discussion, readings, case studies. Open to juniors, seniors, and Master's students pursuing GH certificate or public policy, MSc in GH, SOM third year. Department consent required. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GENOME 258S | AAAS 261S | Race, Genomics, and Society | UG Only | FALL 2011 | Staff | GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Integrated analysis of historical and contemporary aspects of `race and genetics/genomics'. Focus on relevant applications in science, medicine, and society; develop skills required for scientific, sociopolitical, cultural, psychosocial, and ethical evaluation of issues. Topics include: introduction to population genetics/genetic variation; concepts and definitions of race; overview of bioethics; social and political history of race; genomics and health disparities; race, ancestry, and medical practice; genealogy, genetic ancestry, and identity; public perceptions of race and genetics/genomics. Instructor: Royal Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| PUBPOL 633 | Population, Health, and Policy | UG/GRAD | FALL 2011 | Merli,Maria-Giovanna | MSC:Population Sciences MSC:GH Policy and Management GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Substantive findings and policies/policy debates around selected topics in the field of population and health in industrialized and developing societies. Demographic models used to examine selected current population and health topics through framing, defining and evaluating key concepts. Topics include: end of population growth; relations between population, development and environment; health of populations; population aging; potentials for mortality increases; HIV/AIDS epidemic and resurgence of infectious diseases. Readings from disciplines of demography, sociology and public health. Instructor(s): Merli,Maria-Giovanna Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 390S | ICS 490S GLHLTH 590S CULANTH 290S PUBPOL 330 | Global Health Special Topics-Ethics Global Health and Human Rights | UG Only | FALL 2011 | Cross,Jason | GHC:Elective GHC:Ethics |
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Course Description: Topics vary depending on semester and section. Topics may include: global health ethics, field methods, health technologies, rapid needs assessment, and global health policies. This course considers how law and technology together affect the types of health services available to people in different parts of the world. It examines the role of international organizations and treaties, national legal systems, global business, and NGOs in the global governance of healthcare. Students study the development and use of medicines and other healthcare technology. Classes discuss how law regulates the innovation of healthcare technology and access to its benefits and risks. The course also investigates how culture affects attitudes toward law and technology in healthcare. Topics include the following: international health diplomacy; NGO business models; public and private medical R&D; intellectual property and innovation; how international trade and investment affects access to medicines and environmental health; new uses of information and communication technologies for global health; crisis response healthcare; different ways health systems implement constitutional rights to healthcare; and how technology and law together affect the emphasis of different health systems (e.g. high-tech specialist care, primary care, traditional medicine, and/or preventive public health). Instructor(s): Cross,Jason Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 210 | PUBPOL 638 PUBPOL 330 GLHLTH 540 | Global Health Ethics | UG Only | SPRING 2011 | Cross,Jason | GHC:Ethics GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Ethical issues of conducting research on or working with marginalized/stigmatized populations,
using theoretical frameworks and case studies. Investigations of ethical choices made by
multinational, national and local policymakers, clinicians, and researchers and their impact on
individuals, families and communities. Emphasis on working with community partners in developing needs
assessment programs. Topics include: differential standards of care; protection of human subjects;
access to essential medicines; genetic information and confidentiality; pharmaceutical development;
health information technology; placebo controlled trials; best outcomes vs. distributive justice. Instructor(s): Cross,Jason Course Notes: Permission required. GLHLTH 150 or equivalent GH knowledge required. Priority given to Global Health Certificate students. | ||||||
| BIOLOGY 212L | General Microbiology | UG Only | SPRING 2011 | Staff | GHC:Elective GHC:Methods |
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Course Description: The course consists of a lecture and laboratory, each of which meets twice a week. Lectures include an overview of the history of microbiology, and cover both classical and modern bacteriological principles. Topics discussed include prokaryotic and eukaryotic structure, criteria used in classification, physiology (including reproduction, growth and metabolism), genetics (classical and molecular), infection and immunity, and environmental and industrial aspects involving microorganisms. Instructor(s): Course Notes: NO LONGER COUNTS AS GHC METHODS. Counts as Methods only if taken prior to Fall 2009. | ||||||
| BME 462L | Design for the Developing World | UG Only | SPRING 2011 | Malkin,Robert | GHC:Methods GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Design of custom devices to help the specific and unique needs of developing world hospitals. Formal engineering design principles will be emphasized; overview of developing world conditions, patent issues, engineering ethics.Oral and written reports will be required. Students may elect to personally deliver their projects to a developing world hospital, if selected, in the summer following the course. Prerequisite: Biomedical Engineering 154L and Statistics 113. Consent of instructor required. Instructor(s): Malkin,Robert Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| CE 469 | Integrated Environmental Design | UG Only | SPRING 2011 | Schaad,David | GHC:Methods GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Student design teams complete a preliminary design of an actual environmental engineering project and present the design to a panel of civil engineering faculty and practitioners. A written technical report is required. Topics to be addressed include: the design process; cost estimation; legal, ethical, and social aspects of professional engineering practice; short-term and long-term design serviceability considerations. Open only to civil engineering students during their final two semesters. Prerequisites: Civil Engineering 120L, 123L, 124L. Instructor(s): Schaad,David Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 362 | Introduction to Epidemiology: Focus on Global Health | UG Only | SPRING 2011 | Maselko,Joanna | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Introduces students to the main concepts and methods used in population-based epidemiology research. Topics covered include measures of disease frequency, study design, measures of association, and problems of bias, especially as they pertain to global health research. Students will learn to understand and evaluate epidemiological studies. A prior quantitative course is highly recommended. Instructor(s): Maselko,Joanna Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 371 | Research Methods in Global Health | UG Only | SPRING 2011 | Ariely,Sumedha | GHC:Methods GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Introduction to methodological techniques used in global health research, including qualitative field work, quantitative surveys, experimental designs, intervention trials, and program evaluation. Teaches strengths and weaknesses of each method, and how to determine the most appropriate method for specific research questions. Takes a problem-based approach, emphasizing the interdisciplinary nature of global health research. Focuses on how to evaluate published & unpublished research and how to design a global health research project. Skills include: identification of global health problems, conceptualization of a research question, designing a research study, and interpretation of results.
Instructor(s): Ariely,Sumedha Course Notes: For students who matriculated at Duke in Fall 2009 or later, this is the only Methods course approved for the GHC. Students who matriculated at Duke prior to Fall 2009 will have had other options to fulfill the GHC Methods requirement. | ||||||
| GLHLTH 383A | Tropical Medicine - Costa Rica | UG Only | SPRING 2011 | Benavides Rawson,Jorge | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Part of a 15-week semester abroad program in Costa Rica (through OTS). Integrates classroom and field instruction to introduce fundamental principles of tropical medicine and public health including the tropical environment and its related health issues Instructor(s): Benavides Rawson,Jorge Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 380A | Research Practicum- Costa Rica | UG Only | SPRING 2011 | Benavides Rawson,Jorge | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Introduces students to research design, field methods, and basic data analysis in a tropical context. Skills include hypothesis testing and statistical analysis, orientation to basic software packages, write and present scientific papers, and design and conduct epidemiologic research.
Instructor(s): Benavides Rawson,Jorge Course Notes: Course taught as part of the Costa Rica-Global Health study abroad program offered through OTS. | ||||||
| GLHLTH 390 | PHIL 290 | Special Topics Global BioEthics | UG Only | SPRING 2011 | Sreenivasan,Gopal | GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Course examines various problems of international ethics, discussing first in context of general ethical theory, then revisiting them in specific context of various controversies concerning conduction of clinical trials in developing countries. Problems include moral universalism and relativism; poverty relief and international aid; international health disparities; human rights; exploitation. Instructor(s): Sreenivasan,Gopal Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 393S | Issues of healing and caring for underserved populations: A global perspective with an emphasis on Haiti | UG Only | SPRING 2011 | Walmer,David | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: GLHLTH 211 is a course taught through the partnership of a local nonprofit organization, Family Health Ministries and the Duke Global Health Institute. The course examines issues related to health and healing in underserved populations through an integrated lens of medicine, public health, poverty, clinical research, culture, environment and theology. This lens provides students with an opportunity to examine health from the perspective of both individuals and communities and to explore societal factors that contribute to the process of healing. As an interdisciplinary course, medical, nursing, divinity, undergraduate students, and others also work together to ‘critically examine’ the process of providing culturally relevant assistance to underserved communities. Instructor(s): Walmer,David Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 501 | Global Health Capstone | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2011 | Clements,Dennis | GHC:Capstone | |
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Course Description: Capstone Course for students in Global Health Certificate. Group analysis of a current global health problem/issue. Project involves background research, data acquisition, analysis, writing, and
presentation of a substantial research paper/report at an advanced level. Consent of instructor required. Instructor(s): Clements,Dennis Course Notes: Course number was GLHLTH 255S prior to spring 2010. Course is no longer offered as a seminar. | ||||||
| GLHLTH 501 | Global Health Capstone | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2011 | Boyd,David | GHC:Capstone | |
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Course Description: Capstone Course for students in Global Health Certificate. Group analysis of a current global health problem/issue. Project involves background research, data acquisition, analysis, writing, and
presentation of a substantial research paper/report at an advanced level. Consent of instructor required. Instructor(s): Boyd,David Course Notes: Course number was GLHLTH 255S prior to spring 2010. Course is no longer offered as a seminar. | ||||||
| BIOLOGY 154 | Aids and Other Emerging Diseases | UG Only | SPRING 2011 | Broverman,Sherryl | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Explores the interaction of biology and culture in creating and defining diseases through an investigation of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and other emerging diseases: molecular biology; biology of transmission and infection; the role of people and culture in the evolution of infectious diseases; reasons for the geographic variations in disease. The inductive-deductive methodology of science is both used to develop and test hypotheses as well as examined itself as an analytical tool. Intended for nonmajors. Instructor(s): Broverman,Sherryl Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| CE 315 | Engineering Sustainable Design and Construction | UG Only | SPRING 2011 | Schaad,David | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Design and testing of solutions to complex interdisciplinary design products in a service learning context. Technical design principles; sustainable and engineering best practices; prototype formation, testing and evaluation; and establishment of research and analysis methodologies in a community based research experience. Working in partnership with a community agency (local, national, or international) and participation in an experimental learning process by engineering a design solution for an identified community need. Evaluation focused on design deliverables, fabricated prototypes and a critical reflection of the experimental learning process. One credit. Prerequisites: EGR 75 or ECE 27 or consent of instructor. Instructor(s): Schaad,David Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| SOCIOL 212 | GLHLTH 212 | Gender, Poverty, and Health | UG Only | SPRING 2011 | Staff | GHC:Elective |
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| BIOLOGY 365 | Infectious Disease | UG Only | SPRING 2011 | Johnsen,Sonke Koelle,Katharina | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Covers the physiology and the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of a suite of infectious diseases. Case studies will include measles, influenza, dengue, cholera, Lyme disease, herpes, tuberculosis, and rabies, among others, with an emphasis on pathogens infecting humans. Topics include: basic immunology, the physiology of different disease processes and transmission, the role of population size on disease transmission, the effects of climate and behavioral changes on disease dynamics, networks of disease spread, spatial spread of disease, evolution of virulence, antigenic evolution, emerging infectious diseases. Koelle and Johnsen. Instructor(s): Johnsen,Sonke Koelle,Katharina Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 750 | Health Systems in Developing Countries | GRAD Only | SPRING 2011 | Mohanan,Manoj | MSC:Core | |
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Course Description: This course introduces students to key challenges faced in strengthening of health systems in low and middle income countries. The course will cover a diverse set of topics including an overview of organization of health systems, models of purchasing and providing health care, innovations in financing health care, and issues in service delivery such as quality of care and human resource challenges. Students will learn frameworks and methods employed in the evaluation of health systems. The course will also draw attention to resource allocation problems and various frameworks used to address them. The course will primarily rely on readings from a variety of health policy, economics and other social science journals. Instructor(s): Mohanan,Manoj Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 740 | Bioethics | GRAD Only | SPRING 2011 | Sreenivasan,Gopal Hawkins,Jennifer McKinney,Ross | MSC:Core | |
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Course Description: This course will present an overview of practical and theoretical approaches to bioethics from a range of perspectives, including the humanities, law, philosophy, medicine and science. Students will apply various resources, terminology and frameworks to case studies which will prepare them for their own research. The course will include IRB and responsible conduct of research. (2 credits) Instructor(s): Sreenivasan,Gopal Hawkins,Jennifer McKinney,Ross Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 301 | GLHLTH 721 CULANTH 247 | Indigenous Medicine and Global Health | UG Only | SPRING 2011 | Boyd,David | GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Explores indigenous medicine’s role in global health and focuses on four interrelated topics: basic medical paradigms and practices, access and utilization in different regions, cross-cultural health delivery, and the complexities of medical pluralism. Course themes will be explored through lecture, discussion, small group case analyses, comparative analytical exercises, and workshops. Instructor(s): Boyd,David Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 670S | Global Nutrition: Over and Under Nutrition in Developing Countries | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2011 | Benjamin Neelon,Sara | MSC:Disease Causation and Prevention GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Discusses the nutrition problems of developing countries. Reviews epidemiological, biological, and behavioral consequences of both overnutrition (e.g., obesity) and undernutrition (e.g., malnutrition). Emphasizes infectious disease (HIV, TB, malaria, diarrhea) of children and perinatal outcomes (e.g., fetal loss, low birth weight, HIV transmission, pre-eclampsia) of women and children. Strong focus on ethical and political issues relevant to the formulation of nutrition policy and programs in developing countries. Course is designed for graduate students or advanced undergraduates. Instructor(s): Benjamin Neelon,Sara Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 560S | Global Mental Health | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2011 | Maselko,Joanna | MSC:Disease Causation and Prevention | |
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| GLHLTH 706 | Global Health Research: Epidemiologic Methods II | GRAD Only | SPRING 2011 | Westreich,Daniel | MSC:Disease Causation and Prevention MSC:Population Sciences |
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Course Description: Course builds on Epidemiologic Methods I to present advanced topics in epidemiology. Topics include review of study designs including meta-analysis; intensive study of bias, including confounding, selection bias, and misclassification; missing data; sensitivity analysis; topics in regression analysis; and an introduction to the analysis of time to event data, including lifetable methods, survival curves, and Cox proportional hazards regression. Discussions of causal inference and how to read, review, and write scientific literature. Course has a weekly data analysis lab section to develop programming and statistical analysis skills. Prerequisite: Epidemiologic Methods I or equivalent. Course builds on Epidemiologic Methods I to present advanced topics in epidemiology. Topics include review of study designs including meta-analysis; intensive study of bias, including confounding, selection bias, and misclassification; missing data; sensitivity analysis; topics in regression analysis; and an introduction to the analysis of time to event data, including lifetable methods, survival curves, and Cox proportional hazards regression. Discussions of causal inference and how to read, review, and write scientific literature. Course has a weekly data analysis lab section to develop programming and statistical analysis skills. Prerequisite: Epidemiologic Methods I or equivalent. Instructor(s): Westreich,Daniel Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 351 | Global Health and International Development in the Nonprofit Sector | UG Only | SPRING 2011 | Walmer,Katherine | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Explore issues of global health and international development work in the non-profit sector. Topics include, delivery of culturally appropriate global health assistance to low resource countries, challenges in working in developing countries, different approaches to development work, management principles of non-governmental organizations (NGO's), and monitoring and evaluation of global health program outcomes. Topics will be explored through lecture, discussion and small group work. Final class presentation and paper will focus on developing a case study centered on a select global health problem and the non-profit organization(s) approach to delivering health care solutions. Instructor(s): Walmer,Katherine Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 531 | PUBPOL 607 ENVIRON 563 | Applying Economic Analysis for Environmental and Public Health Project Evaluation | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2011 | Jeuland,Marc | GHC:Elective MSC:Global Environmental Health MSC:GH Policy and Management |
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Course Description: Course considers the importance of economic analysis, or cost-benefit analysis (CBA), for public policy assessments. Specific focus is on health and environmental policy, and the steps in identification / cataloguing, quantification, and monetization of impacts of potential policies and projects. Covers: Economic rationale for CBA; Basic principles for assessing the economic effects of projects; Techniques for valuing health and environmental impacts; Intergenerational/philosophical concerns related to CBA; Social discounting; Risk and uncertainty; Comparisons of CBA with other approaches (i.e. cost effectiveness analysis, multi-objective analysis). Instructor(s): Jeuland,Marc Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 771 | One Health: From Philosophy to Practice | GRAD Only | SPRING 2011 | Woods,Chris | ||
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Course Description: Interdisciplinary course introducing construct of One Health as increasingly important to a holistic understanding of prevention of disease and maintenance of health. Includes discussion of bidirectional impact of animal health on human health, impact of earth’s changing ecology on health. Learning objectives include 1) to describe how different disciplines contribute to the practice of One Health, 2) to creatively design interdisciplinary interventions to improve Global Health using a One Health model. Course will include weekly 2-hour multi-campus seminar off-site at NC Biotechnology Center with on-campus discussion section using case studies to supplement the seminar.
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| ENVIRON 590 | Special Topics Environmental Health | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2011 | Meyer,Joel | GHC:Elective MSC:Global Environmental Health |
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Course Description: Topics Vary: Special Topics in Environmentn Environmental effects on human health with a particular focus on the chronic effects of exposure to pollution and other stressors, and the interaction of anthropogenic environmental changes with infectious diseases. Open to both undergraduate and graduate students. Prerequisites: Introductory biology and chemistry, or consent of instructor. Instructor(s): Meyer,Joel Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| EGR 350S | Ethics in Professions: Scientific, Personal and Organizational Frameworks | UG Only | FALL 2010 | Staff | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Ethics studied through the analysis and interpretation of case studies from the scientific and engineering professions. Topics include: moral development; concepts of truth and fairness; responsible conduct of research; the person and virtues; confidentiality; risk and safety; social responsibility; etiology and consequences of fraud and malpractice; legal aspects of professionalism, and allocation of resources. The capstone course for students completing the certificate in the Program in Science, Technology, and Human Values. Instructor(s): Course Notes: NO LONGER COUNTS AS GHC ETHICS. Counts as Ethics only if taken prior to Fall 2009. | ||||||
| GLHLTH 210 | PUBPOL 330 | Global Health Ethics | UG Only | FALL 2010 | Whetten,Kathryn | GHC:Ethics GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Ethical issues of conducting research on or working with marginalized/stigmatized populations,
using theoretical frameworks and case studies. Investigations of ethical choices made by
multinational, national and local policymakers, clinicians, and researchers and their impact on
individuals, families and communities. Emphasis on working with community partners in developing needs
assessment programs. Topics include: differential standards of care; protection of human subjects;
access to essential medicines; genetic information and confidentiality; pharmaceutical development;
health information technology; placebo controlled trials; best outcomes vs. distributive justice. Instructor(s): Whetten,Kathryn Course Notes: Permission required. GLHLTH 150 or equivalent GH knowledge required. Priority given to Global Health Certificate students. | ||||||
| GLHLTH 540 | PUBPOL 638 | Global Health Ethics | UG/GRAD | FALL 2010 | Whetten,Kathryn | GHC:Ethics GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Same as Global Health 151 but requires an additional paper; not open to students who have taken
Global Health 151. Instructor consent required. Instructor(s): Whetten,Kathryn Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| CULANTH 290S | GLHLTH 390S | Special Topics Research Design | UG Only | FALL 2010 | Staff | GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: This interdisciplinary course is designed to help students transform their summer engagement experience into meaningful research questions that will frame a future senior thesis. Both reflective and proactive, students will work collectively to build upon summer engagement experiences (international or domestic, DukeEngage or Study Abroad). Each student will identify an academic literature to interrogate, critically assess and interpret one’s own experiences, and develop a research design for a thesis. This course will present students with a twofold opportunity: to analyze and compare their immersion in foreign cultures immediately on their return, and prepare for a future senior thesis grounded on data and experience. The primary target group is Rising Juniors returning from either study abroad, Duke Engage or other scholarship-affiliated, research- or service-related summer experiences. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| CULANTH 424T | GLHLTH 330 | Medical Anthropology | UG Only | FALL 2010 | Staff | GHC:Ethics GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Cross cultural experiences and understanding of health and illness, the body and non-biological aspects of medicine. Culture-specific sickness (like envidia, running amok, attention deficit disorder). Class, race, and gender inflected experiences of health. Various societies' organization of health care specialists, including biomedical doctors, voudon priestesses, and shamans. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| PUBPOL 190FS | International Law and Global Health | UG Only | FALL 2010 | Admay,Catherine | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: This course will examine where and how international law intersects with global health inequalities. In what instances has international law been a positive force for addressing these inequalities and when has the law itself compounded and extended the problem? Through two or three case studies, students will be challenged to critically assess whether the law — and what particular bodies of law — would be the most appropriate. For example, if the families of working coffee farmers in the Sidamo region of Ethiopia are suffering from severe malnutrition while western coffee consumers pay top dollar for a bag of roasted Sidamo label beans, what legal regimes might apply? Having a basic grasp of a handful of leading rules systems (human rights, trade, intellectual property, among others), students will then be asked to consider the legal, political and ethical merits of pursuing better health outcomes through resort to the law. We will consider the law as lawyers must — attending to the technical elements and complexities — but we will also seek to understand the extent to which the law's power resides as much in its political punch or moral appeal. In short, the course will work to situate international law and global health in the stream of strategic choices available to those who call for better health by demanding greater justice. Instructor(s): Admay,Catherine Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| BIOLOGY 212L | General Microbiology | UG Only | FALL 2010 | Staff | GHC:Elective GHC:Methods |
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Course Description: The course consists of a lecture and laboratory, each of which meets twice a week. Lectures include an overview of the history of microbiology, and cover both classical and modern bacteriological principles. Topics discussed include prokaryotic and eukaryotic structure, criteria used in classification, physiology (including reproduction, growth and metabolism), genetics (classical and molecular), infection and immunity, and environmental and industrial aspects involving microorganisms. Instructor(s): Course Notes: NO LONGER COUNTS AS GHC METHODS. Counts as Methods only if taken prior to Fall 2009. | ||||||
| BME 462L | Design for the Developing World | UG Only | FALL 2010 | Malkin,Robert | GHC:Methods GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Design of custom devices to help the specific and unique needs of developing world hospitals. Formal engineering design principles will be emphasized; overview of developing world conditions, patent issues, engineering ethics.Oral and written reports will be required. Students may elect to personally deliver their projects to a developing world hospital, if selected, in the summer following the course. Prerequisite: Biomedical Engineering 154L and Statistics 113. Consent of instructor required. Instructor(s): Malkin,Robert Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| CE 469 | Integrated Environmental Design | UG Only | FALL 2010 | Schaad,David | GHC:Methods GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Student design teams complete a preliminary design of an actual environmental engineering project and present the design to a panel of civil engineering faculty and practitioners. A written technical report is required. Topics to be addressed include: the design process; cost estimation; legal, ethical, and social aspects of professional engineering practice; short-term and long-term design serviceability considerations. Open only to civil engineering students during their final two semesters. Prerequisites: Civil Engineering 120L, 123L, 124L. Instructor(s): Schaad,David Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| PUBPOL 812 | Special Topics Statistics For Policy Makers | GRAD Only | FALL 2010 | Frankenberg,Elizabeth | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: The purpose of this course is to ensure that students are both critical consumers and effective producers of statistical evidence presented in support of policy arguments. Upon completing this course, students will have the capacity to analyze and evaluate arguments based on simple descriptive statistics, correlation, or multiple regression analysis. Students will also receive hand-on training in the creation of convincing statistical reports, from manipulating large datasets to conduction sensitivity analysis and presenting results. Instructor(s): Frankenberg,Elizabeth Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| PUBPOL 166 | INTERDIS 110B GLHLTH 161 | Introduction to Global Health | UG Only | FALL 2010 | Whetten,Kathryn | GHC:Intro |
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Course Description: Introduction to multidisciplinary theories and techniques for assessing and addressing global, infectious, chronic, and behavioral health problems. Global health issues addressed from perspectives such as: epidemiology, biology, engineering, environment, business, human rights, nursing, psychology, law, public policy, and economics. Instructor(s): Whetten,Kathryn Course Notes: Course titled as "Multidisciplinary Approaches to Global Health" prior to fall 2012. | ||||||
| GLHLTH 371 | Research Methods in Global Health | UG Only | FALL 2010 | Meade,Christina | GHC:Methods GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Introduction to methodological techniques used in global health research, including qualitative field work, quantitative surveys, experimental designs, intervention trials, and program evaluation. Teaches strengths and weaknesses of each method, and how to determine the most appropriate method for specific research questions. Takes a problem-based approach, emphasizing the interdisciplinary nature of global health research. Focuses on how to evaluate published & unpublished research and how to design a global health research project. Skills include: identification of global health problems, conceptualization of a research question, designing a research study, and interpretation of results.
Instructor(s): Meade,Christina Course Notes: For students who matriculated at Duke in Fall 2009 or later, this is the only Methods course approved for the GHC. Students who matriculated at Duke prior to Fall 2009 will have had other options to fulfill the GHC Methods requirement. | ||||||
| GLHLTH 383A | Tropical Medicine - Costa Rica | UG Only | FALL 2010 | Benavides Rawson,Jorge | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Part of a 15-week semester abroad program in Costa Rica (through OTS). Integrates classroom and field instruction to introduce fundamental principles of tropical medicine and public health including the tropical environment and its related health issues Instructor(s): Benavides Rawson,Jorge Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 380A | Research Practicum- Costa Rica | UG Only | FALL 2010 | Benavides Rawson,Jorge | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Introduces students to research design, field methods, and basic data analysis in a tropical context. Skills include hypothesis testing and statistical analysis, orientation to basic software packages, write and present scientific papers, and design and conduct epidemiologic research.
Instructor(s): Benavides Rawson,Jorge Course Notes: Course taught as part of the Costa Rica-Global Health study abroad program offered through OTS. | ||||||
| GLHLTH 170FS | Special Topics The Social Epidemiology of Obesity | UG Only | FALL 2010 | Bennett,Gary | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: This Focus course is designed to broadly examine the causes and consequences of obesity, both domestically and abroad, using a social epidemiological perspective. Accordingly, heavy emphasis will be placed on understanding the influence of social determinants on obesity, common obesity-related comorbidities, and sociodemographic disparities in obesity. Students will become familiar with common social epidemiologic methods, so that they can interpret and critically analyze findings in the obesity research literature. Special emphasis will be placed on behavioral and policy-oriented obesity intervention solutions, as well as the handling of the obesity epidemic in popular culture.
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| AAAS 548S | PUBPOL 644S | Poverty Inequality and Health | UG/GRAD | FALL 2010 | James,Sherman | GHC:Elective MSC:Population Sciences |
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| BIOLOGY 154 | Aids and Other Emerging Diseases | UG Only | FALL 2010 | Broverman,Sherryl | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Explores the interaction of biology and culture in creating and defining diseases through an investigation of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and other emerging diseases: molecular biology; biology of transmission and infection; the role of people and culture in the evolution of infectious diseases; reasons for the geographic variations in disease. The inductive-deductive methodology of science is both used to develop and test hypotheses as well as examined itself as an analytical tool. Intended for nonmajors. Instructor(s): Broverman,Sherryl Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| BIOLOGY 116 | Ecology and Evolution | UG Only | FALL 2010 | Staff | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Fundamental principles of ecology and evolutionary
biology. Interaction between biotic and abiotic forces in shaping the dynamics of ecological systems, and how
those dynamics are influenced by human activities. Mechanisms of evolutionary change as an interplay between
ecology and genetics. Evidence for, and consequences of, evolutionary change on both human and geological time scales. Prerequisite: Biology 25L. Not open to students who have taken Biology 110L or 120. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| CE 315 | Engineering Sustainable Design and Construction | UG Only | FALL 2010 | Schaad,David | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Design and testing of solutions to complex interdisciplinary design products in a service learning context. Technical design principles; sustainable and engineering best practices; prototype formation, testing and evaluation; and establishment of research and analysis methodologies in a community based research experience. Working in partnership with a community agency (local, national, or international) and participation in an experimental learning process by engineering a design solution for an identified community need. Evaluation focused on design deliverables, fabricated prototypes and a critical reflection of the experimental learning process. One credit. Prerequisites: EGR 75 or ECE 27 or consent of instructor. Instructor(s): Schaad,David Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| EGR 261 | Natural Catastrophes: Rebuilding The Ruins | UG Only | FALL 2010 | Schaad,David | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Research Service Learning Gateway course where students will conduct a life cycle analysis of natural disasters. Invited experts will discuss meteorologic, hydrologic and geologic factors that cause disasters; explore how societies plan and/or respond to the immediate and long-term physical, social, emotional and spiritual issues associated with survival; and present case studies of response, recovery and reconstruction efforts. Students will attend the lecture component of the course and complete on-line quizzes to demonstrate understanding of the material presented. For the service learning experience, students will carry out response activities over Spring Break in an area ravaged by a natural disaster. They will keep a journal (audio and written) of their activities, write a brief synopsis (4-5 pages), and make a group oral presentation of their findings following their return. They will also submit a hypothetical research proposal for a project which might stem from the course and their experiences. Research Service Learning Gateway course where students will conduct a life cycle analysis of natural disasters. Invited experts will discuss meteorologic, hydrologic and geologic factors that cause disasters; explore how societies plan and/or respond to the immediate and long-term physical, social, emotional and spiritual issues associated with survival; and present case studies of response, recovery and reconstruction efforts. Students will attend the lecture component of the course and complete on-line quizzes to demonstrate understanding of the material presented. For the service learning experience, students will carry out response activities over Spring Break in an area ravaged by a natural disaster. They will keep a journal (audio and written) of their activities, write a brief synopsis (4-5 pages), and make a group oral presentation of their findings following their return. They will also submit a hypothetical research proposal for a project which might stem from the course and their experiences. Instructor(s): Schaad,David Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| ENVIRON 212 | PUBPOL 275 | US Environmental Policy | UG Only | FALL 2010 | Sossa,Genene | GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: This course focuses on environmental policy issues
in the United States. We will consider the full range of the social sciences in our analysis, including the
political, economic, ethical, legal, and institutional issues involved in environmental decision-making. The
course will cover: the preservation and conservation movements, environmental priorities, the political
process, the formation of the EPA, the Clean Air Act, RCRA and superfund legislation, the Clean Water Act,
FIFRA, the Endangered Species Act, public lands policy, and institutional issues. The course is designed to
give students an understanding of the important conceptual issues in environmental policy-making, as well as an overview of current environmental legislation. Instructor(s): Sossa,Genene Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| ENVIRON 501 | Environmental Toxicology | UG/GRAD | FALL 2010 | Meyer,Joel | MSC:Global Environmental Health | |
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Course Description: Study of environmental contaminants from a broad perspective encompassing biochemical, ecological, and toxicological principles and methodologies. Discussion of sources, environmental transport and transformation phenomena, accumulation in biota and ecosystems. Impacts at various levels of organization, particularly biochemical and physiological effects. Prerequisites: organic chemistry and vertebrate physiology or consent of instructor. Instructor: Di Giulio. 3 units. Instructor(s): Meyer,Joel Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| ENVIRON 535 | Air Quality Management | UG/GRAD | FALL 2010 | Staff | MSC:Global Environmental Health | |
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Course Description: Types, sources, effects of air pollutants. Regulatory framework emphasizing the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 and federal, state, local agency implementation. Application of risk assessment, technology, market incentives to air management. Scientific, policy aspects of acid deposition, global climate change, indoor air, mobile sources control. Dispersion modeling, exposure assessment. Instructor: Vandenberg. 3 units. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| ENVIRON 538 | GLHLTH 538 PUBPOL 582 | Global Environmental Health: Economics and Policy | UG/GRAD | FALL 2010 | Pattanayak,Subhrendu | MSC:Global Environmental Health |
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Course Description: Social science perspective on global environmental health. Students will learn to identify primary environmental causes of high burden diseases such as malaria, diarrhea, and respiratory infections; describe how to measure socio-economic impacts of global environmental health diseases; discuss key policies to control global environmental health problems based on private prevention and therapeutic behaviors; and propose frameworks to empirically monitor and evaluate global environmental health policies. A sub-module will focus on climate change and water-borne diseases. Prerequisites: Intro course in statistics. Instructor(s): Pattanayak,Subhrendu Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 701 | Global Health Challenges | GRAD Only | FALL 2010 | Chapman-Page,Kimberly Woods,Chris | MSC:Core | |
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Course Description: Course introduces major global health problems and social, behavioral, economic, biomedical and environmental determinants of health in resource limited settings. Topics include communicable diseases i.e. HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and common childhood diseases; chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and mental health; and determinants of health associated with these diseases, such as poverty, gender imbalance, culture, poor environmental sanitation, malnutrition, tobacco use, and climate change. Other topics may include health promotion, reproductive health, maternal and child health, and disaster preparedness. Instructor(s): Chapman-Page,Kimberly Woods,Chris Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 705 | Global Health Research: Introduction to Epidemiologic Methods | GRAD Only | FALL 2010 | Pence,Brian | MSC:Core | |
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Course Description: Course introduces principles of epidemiology, including disease frequency measures; measures of association; observational, experimental, and quasi-experimental study designs; validity -- confounding, selection bias, measurement error; reliability. Course interweaves introductory biostatistics for continuous and categorical variables. Course has a data analysis lab section in which students walk through a guided data analysis on a provided data set, such as Demographic and Health Surveys. Instructor(s): Pence,Brian Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 702 | Global Health Research: Design and Practice | GRAD Only | FALL 2010 | Read,Jen'nan | MSC:Core | |
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Course Description: Course introduces range of methods appropriate for GH research and covers advantages/disadvantages of each. Refine skills in study design & regression analysis. Gain understanding of qualitative research methods. Skills include ability to review & understand procedures for validating linear/logistic regression models & survival models. Modules include review of statistics for psychosocial research incl. structural models, outcomes & cost effectiveness, econometric methods & concepts, and demography (incl. intro to GIS). Presents qualitative survey design, semi-structured interviews, ethnography & role of culture in conducting GH research, incl. concepts of disease, health, wellness & illness. Instructor(s): Read,Jen'nan Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| HISTORY 369 | History of Public Health in America | UG Only | FALL 2010 | Staff | GHC:Elective | |
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| PUBPOL 286 | ECON 286 | Economic Growth and Development Policy Economic Growth And Development Policy | UG Only | FALL 2010 | Fernholz,Fernando | GHC:Elective MSC:GH Policy and Management MSC:Population Sciences |
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Course Description: Basic principles and policy issues in the study of economic growth and development. The roles of physical, natural and human capital, technological innovation, productivity improvements and institutions in explaining patterns and causes of variations in growth and development performance of countries. Effects on growth and development of many current policy issues including HIV-AIDs, financial crises, foreign aid and investment, debt burdens and forgiveness, corruption and governance. Prerequisites: Public Policy 110 or Economics 149. Instructor: Fernholz, Glenday, or Shukla. 3 units. C-L: Economics 286 Basic principles and policy issues in the study of economic growth and development. The roles of physical, natural and human capital, technological innovation, productivity improvements and institutions in explaining patterns and causes of variations in growth and development performance of countries. Effects on growth and development of many current policy issues including HIV-AIDs, financial crises, foreign aid and investment, debt burdens and forgiveness, corruption and governance. Prerequisites: Public Policy 110 or Economics 149. Instructor(s): Fernholz,Fernando Course Notes: NO LONGER COUNTS AS GHC ELECTIVE. Counts as GHC Elective only if taken prior to Fall 2009. This course does count as an elective in the MSc-GH program. | ||||||
| BIOLOGY 180FS | Global Diseases-Focus Only | UG Only | FALL 2010 | Broverman,Sherryl | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Biological, social, and cultural factors impacting global disease spread and/or reduction; current challenges in vaccination and disease control programs; Open only to students in the Focus Program.
Students will evaluate the factors - biological, social, and cultural – that impact how diseases spread through populations, and that makes them easier or harder to control. How can we use what we’ve learned from past attempts at disease elimination to improve current programs? Students will learn the biology of major global diseases caused by a range of pathogens, including TB, malaria, and smallpox. These diseases will be used as case studies to address the evolution and ecology of disease; antibiotic resistance; vaccine development and immunization programs; and tropical diseases versus diseases of poverty. Other potential topics include polio, influenza, SARS and HIV. Biological, social, and cultural factors impacting global disease spread and/or reduction; current challenges in vaccination and disease control programs; Open only to students in the Focus Program.
Students will evaluate the factors - biological, social, and cultural – that impact how diseases spread through populations, and that makes them easier or harder to control. How can we use what we’ve learned from past attempts at disease elimination to improve current programs? Students will learn the biology of major global diseases caused by a range of pathogens, including TB, malaria, and smallpox. These diseases will be used as case studies to address the evolution and ecology of disease; antibiotic resistance; vaccine development and immunization programs; and tropical diseases versus diseases of poverty. Other potential topics include polio, influenza, SARS and HIV.
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| BME 460L | Devices For People With Disabilities | UG Only | FALL 2010 | Bohs,Laurence Caves,Kevin | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Design of custom devices to aid disabled individuals. Students will be paired with health care professionals at local hospitals who will supervise the development of projects for specific clients. Formal engineering design principles will be emphasized; overview of assistive technologies, patent issues, engineering ethics. Oral and written reports will be required. Selected projects may be continued as independent study. Prerequisite: Biomedical Engineering 154L and Statistics 113. Consent of instructor required. Instructor(s): Bohs,Laurence Caves,Kevin Course Notes: NO LONGER COUNTS AS GHC ELECTIVE. Counts as Elective only if taken prior to Fall 2009. | ||||||
| BIOLOGY 365 | Infectious Disease | UG Only | FALL 2010 | Koelle,Katharina Johnsen,Sonke | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Covers the physiology and the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of a suite of infectious diseases. Case studies will include measles, influenza, dengue, cholera, Lyme disease, herpes, tuberculosis, and rabies, among others, with an emphasis on pathogens infecting humans. Topics include: basic immunology, the physiology of different disease processes and transmission, the role of population size on disease transmission, the effects of climate and behavioral changes on disease dynamics, networks of disease spread, spatial spread of disease, evolution of virulence, antigenic evolution, emerging infectious diseases. Koelle and Johnsen. Instructor(s): Koelle,Katharina Johnsen,Sonke Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| ECON 246 | GLHLTH 332 ECON 284 | Global Health Supply, Organization and Financing | UG Only | FALL 2010 | Sloan,Frank | GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Overview of choices countries make structuring health care delivery, financing systems, cost effectiveness and cost benefit analysis. Hospitals, physicians and pharmaceuticals in low/middle income countries. Instructor(s): Sloan,Frank Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| CULANTH 290S | Infected: Bodies, Culture, and Politics | UG Only | FALL 2010 | Barnett,Fiona | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Exposure, outbreak, contamination, infection, transmission, cleanliness, pollution. Why is the narrative of contagion and infection so useful as both a description of events and fear of the unknown? Who is infected, by whom, with what? This class will underscore that language matters: contagion is not just a neutral description of how something spreads. On the contrary, it requires an understanding of borders and boundaries, and how they might get crossed or punctured. Contagion produces both clean subjects and dirty subjects, and it highlights how one infects the other. Understanding how an object, body, language, idea or culture travels – through time, place, language and other social connections – requires careful consideration of both how we understand (and write about) the past and how we anticipate (and produce) the future. Contagion is not a contemporary invention; it has both a long history and the ability to regenerate itself depending on the historical moment. Contagion currently functions as a narrative or justification in a massive array of fields, with debates found in examples such as the political and legal field (immigration policies, the anthrax scare, exporting democracy as an ideological practice, justifications for criminal law reform), science (the drive to determine genetic relationships, infectious diseases, global health), financial markets (the global trade of consumer goods, system crashes), culture and religion (changes in family structures, urban population shifts, viral marketing techniques, educational system overhaul and discussions around gender and sexuality). These debates are reimagined and rearticulated within cultural texts, and in turn, these texts provide the scaffolding for further cultural and political practices. This course will be organized around a number of interdisciplinary questions and texts. What is the scientific or medicalized understanding of contagion, and what does this historical narrative require of certain bodies and places? Does the idea of infection require an understanding of consent? What kinds of bodies are assumed to be infected, and alternatively, what kinds of bodies are assumed to be at risk? Can infected bodies ever become clean again? Is infection inherently a gendered concept, and what might that mean for both infection and gender? Is gender contagious, or simply a contagious concept, and what might that difference entail? Dirty bodies cross the boundary between clean citizens and contaminated others; this rupture calls attention to the ecology of the public, the permeability of boundaries, the violent requirements of capital, and the gendered notion of the citizen-subject. Does contagion – bodies infecting each other – provide a method of going beyond reproductive narratives of what happens when bodies come into contact? Does contagion rely on certain notions of permeable subjects and bodies, and are sexed bodies a requirement of this? Can contagion exist if we rearticulate bodies to be inherently porous, impure, and what might be the result of this kind of understanding? The dominant mode of contagion one that privileges the moment of transmission and the power/fear of one body enacting power on another. This class will ask what might happen if we rearticulate bodily contact as one of possible reformation, rearticulation, reconstituted beings; what if the moment of contact was not one of possible challenge but one of co-constitutive production of possibility? Since contagion seems to rely on secure formations of identity, does an alternate account for bodily contact produce an alternative being or community? Instructor(s): Barnett,Fiona Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| MGM 532 | Human Genetics | UG/GRAD | FALL 2010 | Staff | MSC:Disease Causation and Prevention | |
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Course Description: Topics include segregation, genetic linkage, population genetics, multifactorial inheritance, biochemical genetics, cytogenetics, somatic cell genetics, neurogenetics, cancer genetics, clinical genetics, positional cloning, complex disease. Lectures plus weekly discussion of assigned papers from the research literature. Prerequisites: University Program in Genetics 278 or equivalent, and graduate status or consent of instructor. Instructors: Marchuk, Pericak-Vance, and Speer. 3 units. C-L: University Program in Genetics 232 Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| PUBPOL 820 | Globalization and Governance | GRAD Only | FALL 2010 | Staff | MSC:GH Policy and Management | |
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Course Description: Seminar explores economic, political, and social aspects of globalization and their implications for public policy making in the twenty-first century. Focus on issues of governance, particularly international cooperation, the design of international organizations, and the role of international NGOs. Policy areas include international trade and finance, environment, security, human rights, media and communications, and international development. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| BIOLOGY 557L | Microbial Ecology and Evolution | UG/GRAD | FALL 2010 | Staff | MSC:Disease Causation and Prevention | |
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Course Description: Survey of new advances in the field of environmental and evolutionary microbiology, based on current literature, discussion, and laboratory exercises. Topics to include bacterial phylogeny, molecular ecology, emerging infectious diseases, bacterial symbiosis, experimental evolution, evolution of drug resistance, and microbial genomics. Prerequisite: Biology 25L, 103L, 118, or consent of instructor. Instructor: Vilgalys. 4 units. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| NURSING 502 | Health Promotion and Disease Prevention | UG/GRAD | FALL 2010 | Staff | MSC:Disease Causation and Prevention | |
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Course Description: Provides the student the opportunity to incorporate health promotion and disease prevention assessment and intervention into the health of clients across the life span. Applying the principles of health education, the course prepares students to use the tools and skills necessary to provide health promotion and disease
prevention services to individuals, families, groups, and communities. The definition of health and the factors that impact an individual's or group's health framework is the basis for understanding health maintenance interventions. 3 credits.
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| BIOLOGY 554 | Genomic Perspectives on Human Evolution | UG/GRAD | FALL 2010 | Staff | MSC:Disease Causation and Prevention | |
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Course Description: Human evolutionary history as studied from the perspective of the genome. Nature of contemporary genomic data and how they are interpreted in the context of the fossil record, comparative anatomy, psychology, and cultural studies. Examination of both the origin of modern humans as a distinct species and subsequent migration across the world. Emphasis on language, behavior, and disease susceptibility as traits of particular evolutionary interest. Prerequisite: Biology 118 or equivalent course. Instructor: Wray Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| ECON 542S | Social Change, Markets, and Economy in China | UG/GRAD | FALL 2010 | Staff | ||
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Course Description: Introduction to recent economic, social, and institutional changes in China, with focus on recent (post 1980) periods. Up-to-date descriptive reviews, empirical data, and discussions on historical background, current status, and future perspectives. Instructor: Yi Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| ECON 568S | Current Issues in International and Development Economics | UG/GRAD | FALL 2010 | Staff | ||
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Course Description: Issues of income distribution within and between countries, vehicles for growth, regional development, the role of politics in economic policy, multinational institutions. Cross-country and cross-time comparisons. Emphasis on individual research projects. Prerequisite: Economics 105D; and Economics 110D. Instructor: Tower Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 171FS | Vulnerable Populations and Global Health | UG Only | FALL 2010 | Boyd,David | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Vulnerable Populations and Global Health explores the complex social, economic, institutional, and political factors contributing to the health disparities of vulnerable populations. Through a variety of compelling texts, this intensive seminar will explore the following questions: What constitutes a vulnerable population? How does the biopsychosocial model help to elucidate vulnerability as a determinant of health? How does the complex interaction of agency and constraint contribute to the global health disparities of vulnerable populations? What special considerations do interventions with vulnerable population require? What can vulnerable populations teach us about improving global health outcomes? And what role should social justice and human rights play in global health? Course format will primarily be discussion.
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| GLHLTH 530S | Introductory Demographic Measures and Concepts | UG/GRAD | FALL 2010 | Merli,Maria-Giovanna | MSC:Population Sciences | |
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Course Description: This is an introductory course in demographic concepts, measures and techniques. The primary objective is to learn how demographers measure population change, mortality, morbidity, fertility, marriage, divorce, and migration. The course also illustrates the broader application of demographic measurement and techniques to other aspects of society and population health, such as educational attainment, labor force participation, linkages between mortality, morbidity and disability, and health and mortality differentials. The understanding of the materials is aided by a series of problem sets which are designed to help students learn to apply demographic methods. Instructor(s): Merli,Maria-Giovanna Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| SPANISH 306 | Health, Culture and the Latino Community | UG Only | FALL 2010 | Paredes,Liliana | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Issues associated with access to the health care industry for growing Latino/a population in the US. Topics: cultural competency issues, medical practices, lexical knowledge related to the field. Develop research proposal informed by required 20 hours of service work with local community partners. Assessment on knowledge of content, oral and written Spanish, and participation in service. Recommended students take 100-level Spanish course prior to enrolling. Pre-requisite: Spanish 76 or equivalent. Instructor(s): Paredes,Liliana Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| PUBPOL 580S | Water, Cooperation, and Conflict | UG/GRAD | FALL 2010 | Staff | GHC:Elective MSC:Global Environmental Health MSC:GH Policy and Management |
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Course Description: Focuses on potential for transboundary water resources-related conflict and cooperation. Discusses water scarcity concepts, natural resource conflict theory, hydro politics, hydro hegemony, water security, water markets and institutions, game theory, and international water law. Other topics include the economics of water and health. Case studies complement the broader course outlook. Taught by Marc Jeuland, cross-listed in ENVIRON. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 781 | Ungraded Research in Globla Health | GRAD Only | FALL 2010 | Staff | MSC:Thesis | |
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Course Description: Individual research in a field of special interest, the central goal of which is a substantive paper containing significant analysis and interpretation of a previously approved topic. Consent required. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 791 | Independent Study in Global Health | GRAD Only | FALL 2010 | Staff | MSC:Thesis | |
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Course Description: Individual non-research directed study in a field of special interest on a previously approved topic, under the supervision of a faculty member, resulting in a significant academic product. By consent of instructor and DGS. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 570 | Global Health Policy and Policy Making | UG/GRAD | FALL 2010 | Staff | GHC:Elective MSC:GH Policy and Management |
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Course Description: Introduction to essential global health policy concepts, understanding of global health policy-making, how policies affect ¿reality on the ground¿ in global health and development. Build critical analytical skills and the ability to translate coursework into broader understanding of policies and policy-making. Includes lectures, analysis, discussion, readings, case studies. Open to juniors, seniors, and Master's students pursuing GH certificate or public policy, MSc in GH, SOM third year. Department consent required. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GENOME 258S | AAAS 261S | Race, Genomics, and Society | UG Only | FALL 2010 | Staff | GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Integrated analysis of historical and contemporary aspects of `race and genetics/genomics'. Focus on relevant applications in science, medicine, and society; develop skills required for scientific, sociopolitical, cultural, psychosocial, and ethical evaluation of issues. Topics include: introduction to population genetics/genetic variation; concepts and definitions of race; overview of bioethics; social and political history of race; genomics and health disparities; race, ancestry, and medical practice; genealogy, genetic ancestry, and identity; public perceptions of race and genetics/genomics. Instructor: Royal Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| PUBPOL 633 | GLHLTH 590 | Population, Health, and Policy | UG/GRAD | FALL 2010 | Merli,Maria-Giovanna | MSC:Population Sciences MSC:GH Policy and Management GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Substantive findings and policies/policy debates around selected topics in the field of population and health in industrialized and developing societies. Demographic models used to examine selected current population and health topics through framing, defining and evaluating key concepts. Topics include: end of population growth; relations between population, development and environment; health of populations; population aging; potentials for mortality increases; HIV/AIDS epidemic and resurgence of infectious diseases. Readings from disciplines of demography, sociology and public health. Instructor(s): Merli,Maria-Giovanna Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 210 | Global Health Ethics | UG Only | SPRING 2010 | Cross,Jason | GHC:Ethics GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Ethical issues of conducting research on or working with marginalized/stigmatized populations,
using theoretical frameworks and case studies. Investigations of ethical choices made by
multinational, national and local policymakers, clinicians, and researchers and their impact on
individuals, families and communities. Emphasis on working with community partners in developing needs
assessment programs. Topics include: differential standards of care; protection of human subjects;
access to essential medicines; genetic information and confidentiality; pharmaceutical development;
health information technology; placebo controlled trials; best outcomes vs. distributive justice. Instructor(s): Cross,Jason Course Notes: Permission required. GLHLTH 150 or equivalent GH knowledge required. Priority given to Global Health Certificate students. | ||||||
| GLHLTH 540 | Global Health Ethics | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2010 | Cross,Jason | GHC:Ethics GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Same as Global Health 151 but requires an additional paper; not open to students who have taken
Global Health 151. Instructor consent required. Instructor(s): Cross,Jason Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| PUBPOL 330 | Global Health Ethics | UG Only | SPRING 2010 | Cross,Jason | GHC:Ethics GHC:Elective |
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| PUBPOL 638 | Global Health Ethics | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2010 | Cross,Jason | GHC:Ethics GHC:Elective |
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| BIOLOGY 212L | General Microbiology | UG Only | SPRING 2010 | Staff | GHC:Elective GHC:Methods |
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Course Description: The course consists of a lecture and laboratory, each of which meets twice a week. Lectures include an overview of the history of microbiology, and cover both classical and modern bacteriological principles. Topics discussed include prokaryotic and eukaryotic structure, criteria used in classification, physiology (including reproduction, growth and metabolism), genetics (classical and molecular), infection and immunity, and environmental and industrial aspects involving microorganisms. Instructor(s): Course Notes: NO LONGER COUNTS AS GHC METHODS. Counts as Methods only if taken prior to Fall 2009. | ||||||
| BME 462L | Design for the Developing World | UG Only | SPRING 2010 | Malkin,Robert | GHC:Methods GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Design of custom devices to help the specific and unique needs of developing world hospitals. Formal engineering design principles will be emphasized; overview of developing world conditions, patent issues, engineering ethics.Oral and written reports will be required. Students may elect to personally deliver their projects to a developing world hospital, if selected, in the summer following the course. Prerequisite: Biomedical Engineering 154L and Statistics 113. Consent of instructor required. Instructor(s): Malkin,Robert Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| EPH 600 | Introduction to Epidemiology (Graduate Course) | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2010 | Maselko,Joanna | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: (Currently offered at UNC-CH) Instructor(s): Maselko,Joanna Course Notes: NO LONGER COUNTS AS GHC METHODS. Counts as Methods only if taken prior to Fall 2009. | ||||||
| GLHLTH 362 | Introduction to Epidemiology: Focus on Global Health | UG Only | SPRING 2010 | Maselko,Joanna | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Introduces students to the main concepts and methods used in population-based epidemiology research. Topics covered include measures of disease frequency, study design, measures of association, and problems of bias, especially as they pertain to global health research. Students will learn to understand and evaluate epidemiological studies. A prior quantitative course is highly recommended. Instructor(s): Maselko,Joanna Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 371 | Research Methods in Global Health | UG Only | SPRING 2010 | Ariely,Sumedha | GHC:Methods GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Introduction to methodological techniques used in global health research, including qualitative field work, quantitative surveys, experimental designs, intervention trials, and program evaluation. Teaches strengths and weaknesses of each method, and how to determine the most appropriate method for specific research questions. Takes a problem-based approach, emphasizing the interdisciplinary nature of global health research. Focuses on how to evaluate published & unpublished research and how to design a global health research project. Skills include: identification of global health problems, conceptualization of a research question, designing a research study, and interpretation of results.
Instructor(s): Ariely,Sumedha Course Notes: For students who matriculated at Duke in Fall 2009 or later, this is the only Methods course approved for the GHC. Students who matriculated at Duke prior to Fall 2009 will have had other options to fulfill the GHC Methods requirement. | ||||||
| GLHLTH 383A | Tropical Medicine - Costa Rica | UG Only | SPRING 2010 | Benavides Rawson,Jorge | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Part of a 15-week semester abroad program in Costa Rica (through OTS). Integrates classroom and field instruction to introduce fundamental principles of tropical medicine and public health including the tropical environment and its related health issues Instructor(s): Benavides Rawson,Jorge Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 380A | Research Practicum- Costa Rica | UG Only | SPRING 2010 | Benavides Rawson,Jorge | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Introduces students to research design, field methods, and basic data analysis in a tropical context. Skills include hypothesis testing and statistical analysis, orientation to basic software packages, write and present scientific papers, and design and conduct epidemiologic research.
Instructor(s): Benavides Rawson,Jorge Course Notes: Course taught as part of the Costa Rica-Global Health study abroad program offered through OTS. | ||||||
| GLHLTH 393S | Issues of healing and caring for underserved populations: A global perspective with an emphasis on Haiti | UG Only | SPRING 2010 | Walmer,David | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: GLHLTH 211 is a course taught through the partnership of a local nonprofit organization, Family Health Ministries and the Duke Global Health Institute. The course examines issues related to health and healing in underserved populations through an integrated lens of medicine, public health, poverty, clinical research, culture, environment and theology. This lens provides students with an opportunity to examine health from the perspective of both individuals and communities and to explore societal factors that contribute to the process of healing. As an interdisciplinary course, medical, nursing, divinity, undergraduate students, and others also work together to ‘critically examine’ the process of providing culturally relevant assistance to underserved communities. Instructor(s): Walmer,David Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 501 | Global Health Capstone | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2010 | Boyd,David | GHC:Capstone | |
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Course Description: Capstone Course for students in Global Health Certificate. Group analysis of a current global health problem/issue. Project involves background research, data acquisition, analysis, writing, and
presentation of a substantial research paper/report at an advanced level. Consent of instructor required. Instructor(s): Boyd,David Course Notes: Course number was GLHLTH 255S prior to spring 2010. Course is no longer offered as a seminar. | ||||||
| GLHLTH 501 | Global Health Capstone | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2010 | Clements,Dennis | GHC:Capstone | |
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Course Description: Capstone Course for students in Global Health Certificate. Group analysis of a current global health problem/issue. Project involves background research, data acquisition, analysis, writing, and
presentation of a substantial research paper/report at an advanced level. Consent of instructor required. Instructor(s): Clements,Dennis Course Notes: Course number was GLHLTH 255S prior to spring 2010. Course is no longer offered as a seminar. | ||||||
| BIOLOGY 154 | Aids and Other Emerging Diseases | UG Only | SPRING 2010 | Broverman,Sherryl | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Explores the interaction of biology and culture in creating and defining diseases through an investigation of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and other emerging diseases: molecular biology; biology of transmission and infection; the role of people and culture in the evolution of infectious diseases; reasons for the geographic variations in disease. The inductive-deductive methodology of science is both used to develop and test hypotheses as well as examined itself as an analytical tool. Intended for nonmajors. Instructor(s): Broverman,Sherryl Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| CE 315 | Engineering Sustainable Design and Construction | UG Only | SPRING 2010 | Schaad,David | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Design and testing of solutions to complex interdisciplinary design products in a service learning context. Technical design principles; sustainable and engineering best practices; prototype formation, testing and evaluation; and establishment of research and analysis methodologies in a community based research experience. Working in partnership with a community agency (local, national, or international) and participation in an experimental learning process by engineering a design solution for an identified community need. Evaluation focused on design deliverables, fabricated prototypes and a critical reflection of the experimental learning process. One credit. Prerequisites: EGR 75 or ECE 27 or consent of instructor. Instructor(s): Schaad,David Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| EGR 261 | Natural Catastrophes: Rebuilding The Ruins | UG Only | SPRING 2010 | Schaad,David | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Research Service Learning Gateway course where students will conduct a life cycle analysis of natural disasters. Invited experts will discuss meteorologic, hydrologic and geologic factors that cause disasters; explore how societies plan and/or respond to the immediate and long-term physical, social, emotional and spiritual issues associated with survival; and present case studies of response, recovery and reconstruction efforts. Students will attend the lecture component of the course and complete on-line quizzes to demonstrate understanding of the material presented. For the service learning experience, students will carry out response activities over Spring Break in an area ravaged by a natural disaster. They will keep a journal (audio and written) of their activities, write a brief synopsis (4-5 pages), and make a group oral presentation of their findings following their return. They will also submit a hypothetical research proposal for a project which might stem from the course and their experiences. Research Service Learning Gateway course where students will conduct a life cycle analysis of natural disasters. Invited experts will discuss meteorologic, hydrologic and geologic factors that cause disasters; explore how societies plan and/or respond to the immediate and long-term physical, social, emotional and spiritual issues associated with survival; and present case studies of response, recovery and reconstruction efforts. Students will attend the lecture component of the course and complete on-line quizzes to demonstrate understanding of the material presented. For the service learning experience, students will carry out response activities over Spring Break in an area ravaged by a natural disaster. They will keep a journal (audio and written) of their activities, write a brief synopsis (4-5 pages), and make a group oral presentation of their findings following their return. They will also submit a hypothetical research proposal for a project which might stem from the course and their experiences. Instructor(s): Schaad,David Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| ENVIRON 212 | PUBPOL 275 | US Environmental Policy | UG Only | SPRING 2010 | Sossa,Genene | GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: This course focuses on environmental policy issues
in the United States. We will consider the full range of the social sciences in our analysis, including the
political, economic, ethical, legal, and institutional issues involved in environmental decision-making. The
course will cover: the preservation and conservation movements, environmental priorities, the political
process, the formation of the EPA, the Clean Air Act, RCRA and superfund legislation, the Clean Water Act,
FIFRA, the Endangered Species Act, public lands policy, and institutional issues. The course is designed to
give students an understanding of the important conceptual issues in environmental policy-making, as well as an overview of current environmental legislation. Instructor(s): Sossa,Genene Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| ENVIRON 360 | Environmental Chemisty and Toxicology | UG Only | SPRING 2010 | Stapleton,Heather | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: An overview of the fate, transport
and biological effects of chemicals in the environment. Four types of chemicals that archetypical of environmental
pollutants will be discussed, including polar and non-polar organic compounds; such as insecticides and
pesticides; oxidants; and metals. Topics include characterization of pollutants, the chemistry of natural
waters, soils and atmosphere; chemical transport between compartments; chemical and biological transformation;
and the ecological, toxicological, and molecular biological responses associated with chemical exposure. Case studies will be incorporated that focus on the impact of chemical pollutants on large-scale ecosystems and human health. Instructor(s): Stapleton,Heather Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| ENVIRON 262 | PUBPOL 277 | Natural Catastrophes: Rebuilding The Ruins | UG Only | SPRING 2010 | Schaad,David | GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Research Service Learning Gateway course where students will conduct a life cycle analysis of natural disasters. Invited experts will discuss meteorologic, hydrologic and geologic factors that cause disasters; explore how societies plan and/or respond to the immediate and long-term physical, social, emotional and spiritual issues associated with survival; and present case studies of response, recovery and reconstruction efforts. Students will attend the lecture component of the course and complete on-line quizzes to demonstrate understanding of the material presented. For the service learning experience, students will carry out response activities over Spring Break in an area ravaged by a natural disaster. They will keep a journal (audio and written) of their activities, write a brief synopsis (4-5 pages), and make a group oral presentation of their findings following their return. They will also submit a hypothetical research proposal for a project which might stem from the course and their experiences. Instructor(s): Schaad,David Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| ENVIRON 547 | Survey of Environmental Health and Safety | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2010 | Thomann,Wayne | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Environmental risks from the perspective of global ecology, biology, chemistry, and radiation. The nature and scope of environmental hazards, environmental impacts and health effects, and risk assessment and management strategies. Open to undergraduates by consent. Instructor: Thomann. 3 units. Instructor(s): Thomann,Wayne Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| ENVIRON 577 | PUBPOL 577 | Resource Environmental Policy/environmental Politics | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2010 | Weinthal,Erika | GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Environmental policy
formation and implementation in comparative perspective. Topics include interest groups, environmental movements
and parties, public opinion, political systems and institutions. Case students selected from the United States and other advanced industrialized countries and the developing world. Spring. Instructor(s): Weinthal,Erika Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| HISTORY 371 | Chubby History: Obesity and Public Health | UG Only | SPRING 2010 | English,Peter | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: The obesity epidemic among children and adults in the United States, with focus on changes in food supply and consumption, agricultural policy, body image, exercise, federal food programs such as school lunch, food stamps, and food technology. Gender, racial, and socio-economic patterns of the epidemic. Not open to students who have taken this course as History 103 or 104. Instructor(s): English,Peter Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| MGM 552 | Virology and Viral Oncology | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2010 | Staff | GHC:Elective | |
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| MGM 582 | Microbial Pathogenesis | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2010 | McCusker,John | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Modern molecular genetic approaches to understanding the pathogenic bacteria and fungi. Underlying mechanisms of pathogenesis and host-parasite relationships that contribute to the infectious disease process. Instructor(s): McCusker,John Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| POLSCI 355 | SOCIOL 371 POLSCI 355 PUBPOL 335 | Comparative Health Care Systems | UG Only | SPRING 2010 | Taylor,Donald | GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: The interaction of historical, political, economic, cultural, legal/ethical, and sociological factors in the organization and operation of health care systems. Emphasis on how cultural values penetrate the social institutions (politics, economics) that determine health care policies and their reception by societal members. Effects of social and technological change on health care systems, comparing their effects across societies with differing histories, cultural values, and economic systems. Major focus on United States, England, Sweden, and other Western societies. Instructor(s): Taylor,Donald Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| PUBPOL 328 | US Health Disparities | UG Only | SPRING 2010 | Staff | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: The most commonly used indices to measure United States health disparities by race/ethnicity; origins and evolution of racial/ethnic categories in the United States Census; role of poverty, racial residential segregation, and inadequate health care in explaining racial/ethnic health disparities; and the promise and limitations of academic-community partnerships and public policy initiatives designed to reduce and ultimately eliminate those health disparities. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| SOCIOL 345 | Nation, Region and Global Economy | UG Only | SPRING 2010 | Christian,Michelle | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: The changing configuration of global capitalism, with emphasis on comparing global regions of North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. The internal dynamics of these regions, including the development strategies of selected nations, interregional comparisons (for example, regional divisions of labor, state-society relationships, the nature of their business systems, quality of life issues). Research paper required. Instructor(s): Christian,Michelle Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| BIOLOGY 365 | Infectious Disease | UG Only | SPRING 2010 | Koelle,Katharina Johnsen,Sonke | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Covers the physiology and the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of a suite of infectious diseases. Case studies will include measles, influenza, dengue, cholera, Lyme disease, herpes, tuberculosis, and rabies, among others, with an emphasis on pathogens infecting humans. Topics include: basic immunology, the physiology of different disease processes and transmission, the role of population size on disease transmission, the effects of climate and behavioral changes on disease dynamics, networks of disease spread, spatial spread of disease, evolution of virulence, antigenic evolution, emerging infectious diseases. Koelle and Johnsen. Instructor(s): Koelle,Katharina Johnsen,Sonke Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| ECON 246 | Global Health Supply, Organization and Financing | UG Only | SPRING 2010 | Sloan,Frank | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Overview of choices countries make structuring health care delivery, financing systems, cost effectiveness and cost benefit analysis. Hospitals, physicians and pharmaceuticals in low/middle income countries. Instructor(s): Sloan,Frank Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 750 | Health Systems in Developing Countries | GRAD Only | SPRING 2010 | Mohanan,Manoj | MSC:Core | |
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Course Description: This course introduces students to key challenges faced in strengthening of health systems in low and middle income countries. The course will cover a diverse set of topics including an overview of organization of health systems, models of purchasing and providing health care, innovations in financing health care, and issues in service delivery such as quality of care and human resource challenges. Students will learn frameworks and methods employed in the evaluation of health systems. The course will also draw attention to resource allocation problems and various frameworks used to address them. The course will primarily rely on readings from a variety of health policy, economics and other social science journals. Instructor(s): Mohanan,Manoj Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 750 | Health Systems in Developing Countries | GRAD Only | SPRING 2010 | Mohanan,Manoj | MSC:Core | |
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Course Description: This course introduces students to key challenges faced in strengthening of health systems in low and middle income countries. The course will cover a diverse set of topics including an overview of organization of health systems, models of purchasing and providing health care, innovations in financing health care, and issues in service delivery such as quality of care and human resource challenges. Students will learn frameworks and methods employed in the evaluation of health systems. The course will also draw attention to resource allocation problems and various frameworks used to address them. The course will primarily rely on readings from a variety of health policy, economics and other social science journals. Instructor(s): Mohanan,Manoj Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 740 | Bioethics | GRAD Only | SPRING 2010 | Sreenivasan,Gopal McKinney,Ross | MSC:Core | |
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Course Description: This course will present an overview of practical and theoretical approaches to bioethics from a range of perspectives, including the humanities, law, philosophy, medicine and science. Students will apply various resources, terminology and frameworks to case studies which will prepare them for their own research. The course will include IRB and responsible conduct of research. (2 credits) Instructor(s): Sreenivasan,Gopal McKinney,Ross Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 740 | Bioethics | GRAD Only | SPRING 2010 | McKinney,Ross | MSC:Core | |
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Course Description: This course will present an overview of practical and theoretical approaches to bioethics from a range of perspectives, including the humanities, law, philosophy, medicine and science. Students will apply various resources, terminology and frameworks to case studies which will prepare them for their own research. The course will include IRB and responsible conduct of research. (2 credits) Instructor(s): McKinney,Ross Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 301 | GLHLTH 721 CULANTH 247 | Indigenous Medicine and Global Health | UG Only | SPRING 2010 | Boyd,David | GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Explores indigenous medicine’s role in global health and focuses on four interrelated topics: basic medical paradigms and practices, access and utilization in different regions, cross-cultural health delivery, and the complexities of medical pluralism. Course themes will be explored through lecture, discussion, small group case analyses, comparative analytical exercises, and workshops. Instructor(s): Boyd,David Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 301 | GLHLTH 721 CULANTH 247 | Indigenous Medicine and Global Health | UG Only | SPRING 2010 | Boyd,David | GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Explores indigenous medicine’s role in global health and focuses on four interrelated topics: basic medical paradigms and practices, access and utilization in different regions, cross-cultural health delivery, and the complexities of medical pluralism. Course themes will be explored through lecture, discussion, small group case analyses, comparative analytical exercises, and workshops. Instructor(s): Boyd,David Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 670S | Global Nutrition: Over and Under Nutrition in Developing Countries | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2010 | Benjamin Neelon,Sara | MSC:Disease Causation and Prevention GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Discusses the nutrition problems of developing countries. Reviews epidemiological, biological, and behavioral consequences of both overnutrition (e.g., obesity) and undernutrition (e.g., malnutrition). Emphasizes infectious disease (HIV, TB, malaria, diarrhea) of children and perinatal outcomes (e.g., fetal loss, low birth weight, HIV transmission, pre-eclampsia) of women and children. Strong focus on ethical and political issues relevant to the formulation of nutrition policy and programs in developing countries. Course is designed for graduate students or advanced undergraduates. Instructor(s): Benjamin Neelon,Sara Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 670S | Global Nutrition: Over and Under Nutrition in Developing Countries | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2010 | Benjamin Neelon,Sara | MSC:Disease Causation and Prevention GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Discusses the nutrition problems of developing countries. Reviews epidemiological, biological, and behavioral consequences of both overnutrition (e.g., obesity) and undernutrition (e.g., malnutrition). Emphasizes infectious disease (HIV, TB, malaria, diarrhea) of children and perinatal outcomes (e.g., fetal loss, low birth weight, HIV transmission, pre-eclampsia) of women and children. Strong focus on ethical and political issues relevant to the formulation of nutrition policy and programs in developing countries. Course is designed for graduate students or advanced undergraduates. Instructor(s): Benjamin Neelon,Sara Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| SOCIOL 361 | Social Determinants of U.S. Health Disparities | UG Only | SPRING 2010 | Read,Jen'nan | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Introduction to how social factors influence health and well-being, with a particular focus on contemporary U.S. society. Topics include obesity, aging, socioeconomic disadvantage, access to health insurance, public health systems, the role of the media, and racial/ethnic and gender inequalities. The course will provide descriptive assessments of health inequalities and analytic examinations of the mechanisms through which social factors affect health. Instructor(s): Read,Jen'nan Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| CULANTH 290S | Infected: Bodies, Culture, and Politics | UG Only | SPRING 2010 | Barnett,Fiona | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Exposure, outbreak, contamination, infection, transmission, cleanliness, pollution. Why is the narrative of contagion and infection so useful as both a description of events and fear of the unknown? Who is infected, by whom, with what? This class will underscore that language matters: contagion is not just a neutral description of how something spreads. On the contrary, it requires an understanding of borders and boundaries, and how they might get crossed or punctured. Contagion produces both clean subjects and dirty subjects, and it highlights how one infects the other. Understanding how an object, body, language, idea or culture travels – through time, place, language and other social connections – requires careful consideration of both how we understand (and write about) the past and how we anticipate (and produce) the future. Contagion is not a contemporary invention; it has both a long history and the ability to regenerate itself depending on the historical moment. Contagion currently functions as a narrative or justification in a massive array of fields, with debates found in examples such as the political and legal field (immigration policies, the anthrax scare, exporting democracy as an ideological practice, justifications for criminal law reform), science (the drive to determine genetic relationships, infectious diseases, global health), financial markets (the global trade of consumer goods, system crashes), culture and religion (changes in family structures, urban population shifts, viral marketing techniques, educational system overhaul and discussions around gender and sexuality). These debates are reimagined and rearticulated within cultural texts, and in turn, these texts provide the scaffolding for further cultural and political practices. This course will be organized around a number of interdisciplinary questions and texts. What is the scientific or medicalized understanding of contagion, and what does this historical narrative require of certain bodies and places? Does the idea of infection require an understanding of consent? What kinds of bodies are assumed to be infected, and alternatively, what kinds of bodies are assumed to be at risk? Can infected bodies ever become clean again? Is infection inherently a gendered concept, and what might that mean for both infection and gender? Is gender contagious, or simply a contagious concept, and what might that difference entail? Dirty bodies cross the boundary between clean citizens and contaminated others; this rupture calls attention to the ecology of the public, the permeability of boundaries, the violent requirements of capital, and the gendered notion of the citizen-subject. Does contagion – bodies infecting each other – provide a method of going beyond reproductive narratives of what happens when bodies come into contact? Does contagion rely on certain notions of permeable subjects and bodies, and are sexed bodies a requirement of this? Can contagion exist if we rearticulate bodies to be inherently porous, impure, and what might be the result of this kind of understanding? The dominant mode of contagion one that privileges the moment of transmission and the power/fear of one body enacting power on another. This class will ask what might happen if we rearticulate bodily contact as one of possible reformation, rearticulation, reconstituted beings; what if the moment of contact was not one of possible challenge but one of co-constitutive production of possibility? Since contagion seems to rely on secure formations of identity, does an alternate account for bodily contact produce an alternative being or community? Instructor(s): Barnett,Fiona Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| PUBPOL 590S | Special Topics- Seminar Design Innovation and Global Health | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2010 | So,Anthony | MSC:GH Policy and Management | |
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Course Description: In this age of globalization, the expectations of life-saving technologies cross borders readily, but the introduction and adaptation of these technologies in resource-limited settings often lag behind. While we often think of technologies such as AIDS drugs, there are many appropriate technologies that are potentially transformative for improving local health – making water potable, cookstoves more efficient and less polluting, and diagnostics more available in local clinics. Behind each of these technologies, there are innovators, sometimes publicly funded researchers, other times private companies, often social entrepreneurs.
In this course, students will critically examine the policy and philanthropic landscape behind these areas of appropriate technology. Beyond the engineering of these technologies, what is the social engineering of policies that minimize inequity? For example, is potable water best tackled with an innovation that serves the needs of an individual (e.g., Life Straw), a group (e.g., solar disinfectant system), or an entire community (e.g., chlorination of a local reservoir). Through the lens of these technologies, students will consider what factors help enable local innovation, from intellectual and financial capital to end-user input and systems for sharing and owning knowledge. What forms of philanthropy – from microcredit and giving circles to donor aid – work best to foster local innovation and to build local capacity? What are the ethical issues involved in introducing technologies, from double standards in quality to donor-recipient relationships? This course seeks to prepare those engaged in such work to consider the policy ramifications of designing innovation for global health.
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| CULANTH 80S | Global Health, Culture, and Ethics | UG Only | SPRING 2010 | Cross,Jason | GHC:Elective GHC:Ethics |
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Course Description: Special topics writing course, similar in content to GLHLTH 151/PUBPOL 155- Global Health Ethics. Instructor(s): Cross,Jason Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 210 | Global Health Ethics | UG Only | FALL 2009 | Whetten,Kathryn | GHC:Ethics GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Ethical issues of conducting research on or working with marginalized/stigmatized populations,
using theoretical frameworks and case studies. Investigations of ethical choices made by
multinational, national and local policymakers, clinicians, and researchers and their impact on
individuals, families and communities. Emphasis on working with community partners in developing needs
assessment programs. Topics include: differential standards of care; protection of human subjects;
access to essential medicines; genetic information and confidentiality; pharmaceutical development;
health information technology; placebo controlled trials; best outcomes vs. distributive justice. Instructor(s): Whetten,Kathryn Course Notes: Permission required. GLHLTH 150 or equivalent GH knowledge required. Priority given to Global Health Certificate students. | ||||||
| CULANTH 424T | GLHLTH 330 | Medical Anthropology | UG Only | FALL 2009 | Staff | GHC:Ethics GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Cross cultural experiences and understanding of health and illness, the body and non-biological aspects of medicine. Culture-specific sickness (like envidia, running amok, attention deficit disorder). Class, race, and gender inflected experiences of health. Various societies' organization of health care specialists, including biomedical doctors, voudon priestesses, and shamans. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| BIOLOGY 212L | General Microbiology | UG Only | FALL 2009 | Staff | GHC:Elective GHC:Methods |
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Course Description: The course consists of a lecture and laboratory, each of which meets twice a week. Lectures include an overview of the history of microbiology, and cover both classical and modern bacteriological principles. Topics discussed include prokaryotic and eukaryotic structure, criteria used in classification, physiology (including reproduction, growth and metabolism), genetics (classical and molecular), infection and immunity, and environmental and industrial aspects involving microorganisms. Instructor(s): Course Notes: NO LONGER COUNTS AS GHC METHODS. Counts as Methods only if taken prior to Fall 2009. | ||||||
| BME 462L | Design for the Developing World | UG Only | FALL 2009 | Malkin,Robert | GHC:Methods GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Design of custom devices to help the specific and unique needs of developing world hospitals. Formal engineering design principles will be emphasized; overview of developing world conditions, patent issues, engineering ethics.Oral and written reports will be required. Students may elect to personally deliver their projects to a developing world hospital, if selected, in the summer following the course. Prerequisite: Biomedical Engineering 154L and Statistics 113. Consent of instructor required. Instructor(s): Malkin,Robert Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| PUBPOL 812 | Special Topics Statistics For Policy Makers | GRAD Only | FALL 2009 | Frankenberg,Elizabeth | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: The purpose of this course is to ensure that students are both critical consumers and effective producers of statistical evidence presented in support of policy arguments. Upon completing this course, students will have the capacity to analyze and evaluate arguments based on simple descriptive statistics, correlation, or multiple regression analysis. Students will also receive hand-on training in the creation of convincing statistical reports, from manipulating large datasets to conduction sensitivity analysis and presenting results. Instructor(s): Frankenberg,Elizabeth Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| PUBPOL 166 | INTERDIS 110B GLHLTH 161 | Introduction to Global Health | UG Only | FALL 2009 | Whetten,Kathryn | GHC:Intro |
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Course Description: Introduction to multidisciplinary theories and techniques for assessing and addressing global, infectious, chronic, and behavioral health problems. Global health issues addressed from perspectives such as: epidemiology, biology, engineering, environment, business, human rights, nursing, psychology, law, public policy, and economics. Instructor(s): Whetten,Kathryn Course Notes: Course titled as "Multidisciplinary Approaches to Global Health" prior to fall 2012. | ||||||
| GLHLTH 371 | Research Methods in Global Health | UG Only | FALL 2009 | Ariely,Sumedha Meade,Christina | GHC:Methods GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Introduction to methodological techniques used in global health research, including qualitative field work, quantitative surveys, experimental designs, intervention trials, and program evaluation. Teaches strengths and weaknesses of each method, and how to determine the most appropriate method for specific research questions. Takes a problem-based approach, emphasizing the interdisciplinary nature of global health research. Focuses on how to evaluate published & unpublished research and how to design a global health research project. Skills include: identification of global health problems, conceptualization of a research question, designing a research study, and interpretation of results.
Instructor(s): Ariely,Sumedha Meade,Christina Course Notes: For students who matriculated at Duke in Fall 2009 or later, this is the only Methods course approved for the GHC. Students who matriculated at Duke prior to Fall 2009 will have had other options to fulfill the GHC Methods requirement. | ||||||
| GLHLTH 383A | Tropical Medicine - Costa Rica | UG Only | FALL 2009 | Benavides Rawson,Jorge | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Part of a 15-week semester abroad program in Costa Rica (through OTS). Integrates classroom and field instruction to introduce fundamental principles of tropical medicine and public health including the tropical environment and its related health issues Instructor(s): Benavides Rawson,Jorge Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 380A | Research Practicum- Costa Rica | UG Only | FALL 2009 | Benavides Rawson,Jorge | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Introduces students to research design, field methods, and basic data analysis in a tropical context. Skills include hypothesis testing and statistical analysis, orientation to basic software packages, write and present scientific papers, and design and conduct epidemiologic research.
Instructor(s): Benavides Rawson,Jorge Course Notes: Course taught as part of the Costa Rica-Global Health study abroad program offered through OTS. | ||||||
| GLHLTH 170FS | Special Topics The Social Epidemiology of Obesity | UG Only | FALL 2009 | Bennett,Gary | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: This Focus course is designed to broadly examine the causes and consequences of obesity, both domestically and abroad, using a social epidemiological perspective. Accordingly, heavy emphasis will be placed on understanding the influence of social determinants on obesity, common obesity-related comorbidities, and sociodemographic disparities in obesity. Students will become familiar with common social epidemiologic methods, so that they can interpret and critically analyze findings in the obesity research literature. Special emphasis will be placed on behavioral and policy-oriented obesity intervention solutions, as well as the handling of the obesity epidemic in popular culture.
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| AAAS 548S | PUBPOL 644S | Poverty Inequality and Health | UG/GRAD | FALL 2009 | James,Sherman | GHC:Elective MSC:Population Sciences |
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| CE 315 | Engineering Sustainable Design and Construction | UG Only | FALL 2009 | Schaad,David | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Design and testing of solutions to complex interdisciplinary design products in a service learning context. Technical design principles; sustainable and engineering best practices; prototype formation, testing and evaluation; and establishment of research and analysis methodologies in a community based research experience. Working in partnership with a community agency (local, national, or international) and participation in an experimental learning process by engineering a design solution for an identified community need. Evaluation focused on design deliverables, fabricated prototypes and a critical reflection of the experimental learning process. One credit. Prerequisites: EGR 75 or ECE 27 or consent of instructor. Instructor(s): Schaad,David Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| ECON 446 | GLHLTH 331 | Special Topics Economics Of Global Health | UG Only | FALL 2009 | Thomas,Duncan | GHC:Elective |
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| ENVIRON 501 | Environmental Toxicology | UG/GRAD | FALL 2009 | Meyer,Joel | MSC:Global Environmental Health | |
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Course Description: Study of environmental contaminants from a broad perspective encompassing biochemical, ecological, and toxicological principles and methodologies. Discussion of sources, environmental transport and transformation phenomena, accumulation in biota and ecosystems. Impacts at various levels of organization, particularly biochemical and physiological effects. Prerequisites: organic chemistry and vertebrate physiology or consent of instructor. Instructor: Di Giulio. 3 units. Instructor(s): Meyer,Joel Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| ENVIRON 535 | Air Quality Management | UG/GRAD | FALL 2009 | Staff | MSC:Global Environmental Health | |
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Course Description: Types, sources, effects of air pollutants. Regulatory framework emphasizing the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 and federal, state, local agency implementation. Application of risk assessment, technology, market incentives to air management. Scientific, policy aspects of acid deposition, global climate change, indoor air, mobile sources control. Dispersion modeling, exposure assessment. Instructor: Vandenberg. 3 units. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| ENVIRON 538 | PUBPOL 582 GLHLTH 538 | Global Environmental Health: Economics and Policy | UG/GRAD | FALL 2009 | Pattanayak,Subhrendu | MSC:Global Environmental Health |
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Course Description: Social science perspective on global environmental health. Students will learn to identify primary environmental causes of high burden diseases such as malaria, diarrhea, and respiratory infections; describe how to measure socio-economic impacts of global environmental health diseases; discuss key policies to control global environmental health problems based on private prevention and therapeutic behaviors; and propose frameworks to empirically monitor and evaluate global environmental health policies. A sub-module will focus on climate change and water-borne diseases. Prerequisites: Intro course in statistics. Instructor(s): Pattanayak,Subhrendu Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 701 | Global Health Challenges | GRAD Only | FALL 2009 | Woods,Chris Chapman-Page,Kimberly | MSC:Core | |
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Course Description: Course introduces major global health problems and social, behavioral, economic, biomedical and environmental determinants of health in resource limited settings. Topics include communicable diseases i.e. HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and common childhood diseases; chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and mental health; and determinants of health associated with these diseases, such as poverty, gender imbalance, culture, poor environmental sanitation, malnutrition, tobacco use, and climate change. Other topics may include health promotion, reproductive health, maternal and child health, and disaster preparedness. Instructor(s): Woods,Chris Chapman-Page,Kimberly Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 705 | Global Health Research: Introduction to Epidemiologic Methods | GRAD Only | FALL 2009 | Pence,Brian | MSC:Core | |
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Course Description: Course introduces principles of epidemiology, including disease frequency measures; measures of association; observational, experimental, and quasi-experimental study designs; validity -- confounding, selection bias, measurement error; reliability. Course interweaves introductory biostatistics for continuous and categorical variables. Course has a data analysis lab section in which students walk through a guided data analysis on a provided data set, such as Demographic and Health Surveys. Instructor(s): Pence,Brian Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 702 | Global Health Research: Design and Practice | GRAD Only | FALL 2009 | Read,Jen'nan | MSC:Core | |
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Course Description: Course introduces range of methods appropriate for GH research and covers advantages/disadvantages of each. Refine skills in study design & regression analysis. Gain understanding of qualitative research methods. Skills include ability to review & understand procedures for validating linear/logistic regression models & survival models. Modules include review of statistics for psychosocial research incl. structural models, outcomes & cost effectiveness, econometric methods & concepts, and demography (incl. intro to GIS). Presents qualitative survey design, semi-structured interviews, ethnography & role of culture in conducting GH research, incl. concepts of disease, health, wellness & illness. Instructor(s): Read,Jen'nan Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| HISTORY 370 | 20th Century American Medicine | UG Only | FALL 2009 | English,Peter | GHC:Elective | |
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| HISTORY 372 | Abortion in American Culture | UG Only | FALL 2009 | English,Peter | GHC:Elective | |
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| PUBPOL 286 | ECON 286 | Economic Growth and Development Policy Economic Growth And Development Policy | UG Only | FALL 2009 | Fernholz,Fernando | GHC:Elective MSC:GH Policy and Management MSC:Population Sciences |
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Course Description: Basic principles and policy issues in the study of economic growth and development. The roles of physical, natural and human capital, technological innovation, productivity improvements and institutions in explaining patterns and causes of variations in growth and development performance of countries. Effects on growth and development of many current policy issues including HIV-AIDs, financial crises, foreign aid and investment, debt burdens and forgiveness, corruption and governance. Prerequisites: Public Policy 110 or Economics 149. Instructor: Fernholz, Glenday, or Shukla. 3 units. C-L: Economics 286 Basic principles and policy issues in the study of economic growth and development. The roles of physical, natural and human capital, technological innovation, productivity improvements and institutions in explaining patterns and causes of variations in growth and development performance of countries. Effects on growth and development of many current policy issues including HIV-AIDs, financial crises, foreign aid and investment, debt burdens and forgiveness, corruption and governance. Prerequisites: Public Policy 110 or Economics 149. Instructor(s): Fernholz,Fernando Course Notes: NO LONGER COUNTS AS GHC ELECTIVE. Counts as GHC Elective only if taken prior to Fall 2009. This course does count as an elective in the MSc-GH program. | ||||||
| ECON 446 | Economics of Global Health Economics Of Global Health | UG Only | FALL 2009 | Thomas,Duncan | MSC:Population Sciences | |
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Course Description: Application of economic methods to examine key emerging issues in global health, with focus on health disparities. Emphasis on using economic models to better understand global health challenges and using econometric methods to empirically test hypotheses that seek to explain global health disparities. Discuss measurement of health and data quality. Explores individual, family and society-level determinants of health; impant of health on economic and social prosperity; demand and supply of health care. Discuss policy implications in each case. Prerequisites: Economics 105D and 139D; or Public Policy 128D and Statistics 103 or 114; or consent of the instructor. Instructor(s): Thomas,Duncan Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| BIOLOGY 180FS | Global Diseases-Focus Only | UG Only | FALL 2009 | Broverman,Sherryl | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Biological, social, and cultural factors impacting global disease spread and/or reduction; current challenges in vaccination and disease control programs; Open only to students in the Focus Program.
Students will evaluate the factors - biological, social, and cultural – that impact how diseases spread through populations, and that makes them easier or harder to control. How can we use what we’ve learned from past attempts at disease elimination to improve current programs? Students will learn the biology of major global diseases caused by a range of pathogens, including TB, malaria, and smallpox. These diseases will be used as case studies to address the evolution and ecology of disease; antibiotic resistance; vaccine development and immunization programs; and tropical diseases versus diseases of poverty. Other potential topics include polio, influenza, SARS and HIV. Instructor(s): Broverman,Sherryl Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| BME 460L | Devices For People With Disabilities | UG Only | FALL 2009 | Bohs,Laurence Caves,Kevin | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Design of custom devices to aid disabled individuals. Students will be paired with health care professionals at local hospitals who will supervise the development of projects for specific clients. Formal engineering design principles will be emphasized; overview of assistive technologies, patent issues, engineering ethics. Oral and written reports will be required. Selected projects may be continued as independent study. Prerequisite: Biomedical Engineering 154L and Statistics 113. Consent of instructor required. Instructor(s): Bohs,Laurence Caves,Kevin Course Notes: NO LONGER COUNTS AS GHC ELECTIVE. Counts as Elective only if taken prior to Fall 2009. | ||||||
| PUBPOL 166 | LAW 364 NURSING 455 | Introduction to Global Health | UG Only | FALL 2009 | Whetten,Kathryn | GHC:Intro |
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Course Description: Introduction to multidisciplinary theories and techniques for assessing and addressing global, infectious, chronic, and behavioral health problems. Global health issues addressed from perspectives such as: epidemiology, biology, engineering, environment, business, human rights, nursing, psychology, law, public policy, and economics. Instructor(s): Whetten,Kathryn Course Notes: Course titled as "Multidisciplinary Approaches to Global Health" prior to fall 2012. | ||||||
| ETHICS 279S | GLHLTH 279S | Special Topics: Refugees: Global Health and Ethics Refugees: Global Health And Ethics | UG Only | FALL 2009 | Terry,Fiona Louise | |
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Course Description: This seminar examines the ethical and global health challenges posed by refugees and internally displaced persons in the contemporary era. This seminar examines the ethical and global health challenges posed by refugees and internally displaced persons in the contemporary era. Instructor(s): Terry,Fiona Louise Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| SOCIOL 790 | GLHLTH 590 PUBPOL 590 | Special Topics: Introduction to Population, Health, and Policy Population Health and Policy | GRAD Only | FALL 2009 | Merli,Maria-Giovanna | |
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Course Description: This course covers the substantive findings and policies/policy debates around selected topics in the field of population health in industrialized and developing societies. Demographic models are used to examine topics through framing, defining, and evaluating key concepts. The first part of the course provides a treatment of alternative demographic models whereas the second utilizes these models to evaluate the nature of selected current population and health topics: the end of population growth; the relations between population, development and the environment; the health of the populations; population aging; potentials for mortality increases; the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the resurgence of infectious diseases. Readings are drawn from the scientific literature and case studies from both the developing and industrialized countries and span the disciplines of demography, sociology and public health. This course covers the substantive findings and policies/policy debates around selected topics in the fields of population and health in industrialized and developing societies. Demographic models are used to examine selected topics through framing, defining and evaluating key concepts. The first part of the course provides a treatment of alternative demographic models whereas the second utilizes these models to evaluate the nature of selected current population and health topics: the end of population growth; the relations between population, development and the environment; the health of populations; population aging; potentials for mortality increases; the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the resurgence of infectious diseases. Readings are drawn from the scientific literature and case studies from both developing and industrialized countries and span the disciplines of demography, sociology and public health. Instructor(s): Merli,Maria-Giovanna Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| AMES 409S | Discourses of Disease and Infection | UG Only | FALL 2009 | Rojas,Carlos | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: This course explores how we think about medicine and disease. In particular, we will look at the impact of socio-cultural sensibilities on ostensibly empirical medical paradigms, together with how those same paradigms inflect our perception of culture and society, and even of thought itself. Topics to be considered include: the metaphorical dimension of medical models of immune response, and the social metaphors that have developed out of that model; contagion as model for social relations and for the invisible movement of capital; the socio-cultural connotations of AIDS, and AIDS as itself a model for (post-modern) society and culture; and the figure of the virus as a paradigmatic parasite, and models of biology and culture that emphasize the conceptual centrality of the figure of the virus itself. Instructor: Rojas Instructor(s): Rojas,Carlos Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| SPANISH 306 | Health, Culture and the Latino Community | UG Only | FALL 2009 | Paredes,Liliana | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Issues associated with access to the health care industry for growing Latino/a population in the US. Topics: cultural competency issues, medical practices, lexical knowledge related to the field. Develop research proposal informed by required 20 hours of service work with local community partners. Assessment on knowledge of content, oral and written Spanish, and participation in service. Recommended students take 100-level Spanish course prior to enrolling. Pre-requisite: Spanish 76 or equivalent. Instructor(s): Paredes,Liliana Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| EGR 350S | Ethics in Professions: Scientific, Personal and Organizational Frameworks | UG Only | SPRING 2009 | Staff | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Ethics studied through the analysis and interpretation of case studies from the scientific and engineering professions. Topics include: moral development; concepts of truth and fairness; responsible conduct of research; the person and virtues; confidentiality; risk and safety; social responsibility; etiology and consequences of fraud and malpractice; legal aspects of professionalism, and allocation of resources. The capstone course for students completing the certificate in the Program in Science, Technology, and Human Values. Instructor(s): Course Notes: NO LONGER COUNTS AS GHC ETHICS. Counts as Ethics only if taken prior to Fall 2009. | ||||||
| GLHLTH 210 | Global Health Ethics | UG Only | SPRING 2009 | Whetten,Kathryn | GHC:Ethics GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Ethical issues of conducting research on or working with marginalized/stigmatized populations,
using theoretical frameworks and case studies. Investigations of ethical choices made by
multinational, national and local policymakers, clinicians, and researchers and their impact on
individuals, families and communities. Emphasis on working with community partners in developing needs
assessment programs. Topics include: differential standards of care; protection of human subjects;
access to essential medicines; genetic information and confidentiality; pharmaceutical development;
health information technology; placebo controlled trials; best outcomes vs. distributive justice. Instructor(s): Whetten,Kathryn Course Notes: Permission required. GLHLTH 150 or equivalent GH knowledge required. Priority given to Global Health Certificate students. | ||||||
| GLHLTH 540 | Global Health Ethics | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2009 | Whetten,Kathryn | GHC:Ethics GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Same as Global Health 151 but requires an additional paper; not open to students who have taken
Global Health 151. Instructor consent required. Instructor(s): Whetten,Kathryn Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| PUBPOL 330 | Global Health Ethics | UG Only | SPRING 2009 | Whetten,Kathryn | GHC:Ethics GHC:Elective |
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| CULANTH 190FS | International Law and Global Health | UG Only | SPRING 2009 | Staff | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Introductory and basic topics in public policy. Topics vary each semester. Does not count for public policy studies major. Open only to students in the Focus Program. Instructor(s): Course Notes: Focus Course. Course was approved for the ethics requirement if taken before Fall 2009. | ||||||
| CULANTH 290S | Special Topics Global Health, Human Rights & the Ethics of Engagement | UG Only | SPRING 2009 | Staff | GHC:Elective | |
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| CULANTH 424T | Medical Anthropology | UG Only | SPRING 2009 | Staff | GHC:Ethics GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Cross cultural experiences and understanding of health and illness, the body and non-biological aspects of medicine. Culture-specific sickness (like envidia, running amok, attention deficit disorder). Class, race, and gender inflected experiences of health. Various societies' organization of health care specialists, including biomedical doctors, voudon priestesses, and shamans. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| PHIL 290 | Special Topics Global Health Ethics | UG Only | SPRING 2009 | Staff | GHC:Ethics GHC:Elective |
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| PUBPOL 190FS | International Law and Global Health | UG Only | SPRING 2009 | Admay,Catherine | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: This course will examine where and how international law intersects with global health inequalities. In what instances has international law been a positive force for addressing these inequalities and when has the law itself compounded and extended the problem? Through two or three case studies, students will be challenged to critically assess whether the law — and what particular bodies of law — would be the most appropriate. For example, if the families of working coffee farmers in the Sidamo region of Ethiopia are suffering from severe malnutrition while western coffee consumers pay top dollar for a bag of roasted Sidamo label beans, what legal regimes might apply? Having a basic grasp of a handful of leading rules systems (human rights, trade, intellectual property, among others), students will then be asked to consider the legal, political and ethical merits of pursuing better health outcomes through resort to the law. We will consider the law as lawyers must — attending to the technical elements and complexities — but we will also seek to understand the extent to which the law's power resides as much in its political punch or moral appeal. In short, the course will work to situate international law and global health in the stream of strategic choices available to those who call for better health by demanding greater justice. Instructor(s): Admay,Catherine Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| WRITING 101 | Public Health Ethics | UG Only | SPRING 2009 | Staff | GHC:Ethics GHC:Elective |
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| BIOLOGY 212L | General Microbiology | UG Only | SPRING 2009 | Staff | GHC:Elective GHC:Methods |
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Course Description: The course consists of a lecture and laboratory, each of which meets twice a week. Lectures include an overview of the history of microbiology, and cover both classical and modern bacteriological principles. Topics discussed include prokaryotic and eukaryotic structure, criteria used in classification, physiology (including reproduction, growth and metabolism), genetics (classical and molecular), infection and immunity, and environmental and industrial aspects involving microorganisms. Instructor(s): Course Notes: NO LONGER COUNTS AS GHC METHODS. Counts as Methods only if taken prior to Fall 2009. | ||||||
| BME 461L | Electronic Design for the Developing World | UG Only | SPRING 2009 | Staff | GHC:Methods GHC:Elective |
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| BME 462L | Design for the Developing World | UG Only | SPRING 2009 | Staff | GHC:Methods GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Design of custom devices to help the specific and unique needs of developing world hospitals. Formal engineering design principles will be emphasized; overview of developing world conditions, patent issues, engineering ethics.Oral and written reports will be required. Students may elect to personally deliver their projects to a developing world hospital, if selected, in the summer following the course. Prerequisite: Biomedical Engineering 154L and Statistics 113. Consent of instructor required. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| CE 469 | Integrated Environmental Design | UG Only | SPRING 2009 | Staff | GHC:Methods GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Student design teams complete a preliminary design of an actual environmental engineering project and present the design to a panel of civil engineering faculty and practitioners. A written technical report is required. Topics to be addressed include: the design process; cost estimation; legal, ethical, and social aspects of professional engineering practice; short-term and long-term design serviceability considerations. Open only to civil engineering students during their final two semesters. Prerequisites: Civil Engineering 120L, 123L, 124L. Instructor(s): Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| CULANTH 302 | Fieldwork Methods: Cultural Analysis And Interpretation | UG Only | SPRING 2009 | Staff | ||
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Course Description: Anthropology as a discipline (a field of study) and the site where anthropologists work: the field. Combines theories of anthropological fieldwork methods with practice, including participation, observation, and interviews. Students undertake original research in a local fieldsite of their choice and produce their own mini-ethnography. Instructor(s): Course Notes: NO LONGER COUNTS AS GHC METHODS OR ELECTIVE. Counts as METHODS OR Elective only if taken prior to Fall 2009. | ||||||
| ECON 390S | Special Topics Applied Methods in Health Care | UG Only | SPRING 2009 | Staff | GHC:Elective | |
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| EPH 600 | Introduction to Epidemiology (Graduate Course) | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2009 | Staff | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: (Currently offered at UNC-CH) Instructor(s): Course Notes: NO LONGER COUNTS AS GHC METHODS. Counts as Methods only if taken prior to Fall 2009. | ||||||
| ENVIRON 539 | Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessment. | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2009 | Staff | GHC:Methods MSC:Global Environmental Health GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Topics central to both health and ecological risk assessment are explored. Basic concepts of hazard identification, dose response relationships, exposure assessment, and risk characterization and
communication are discussed in the context of both human health and environmental assessment. The basis and rationale for using specific, as well as extrapolated, scientific information and expert judgment, and the strengths and weaknesses of alternative approaches, are evaluated. Applications emphasizing real cases are used to illustrate the interdisciplinary process and products of risk assessment, as well as the regulatory use of the information. Group projects emphasized. Instructors: Mihaich and McMasters. 3 units
Instructor(s): Course Notes: Counts as Methods for students matriculating in or before fall 2009. | ||||||
| ENVIRON 590 | Natural Catastrophes: Rebuilding From Ruins | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2009 | Staff | MSC:Global Environmental Health | |
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| PSY 183A | Research Methods in Developmental Psychology | UG Only | SPRING 2009 | Staff | GHC:Methods GHC:Elective |
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| PSY 306 | Research Methods in Health/Clinical Psychology | UG Only | SPRING 2009 | Staff | GHC:Methods GHC:Elective |
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| PSY 185DS | Research Methods in Psychopathology and Psychotherapy (P) | UG Only | SPRING 2009 | Staff | GHC:Methods GHC:Elective |
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| PSY 270QS | Community Prevention and Intervention Research | UG Only | SPRING 2009 | Staff | GHC:Methods GHC:Elective |
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| PUBPOL 639S | Public Health Research Methods and Issues Research Methods | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2009 | Staff | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Focus on prevention of diseases and health problems; funding, policy, and management decision making. Overview of public health interventions and outcomes in United States, Europe, and less industrialized nations. Emphasis on understanding the social construction of race and ethnicity and the impact of socioeconomic variables such as race, ethnicity, gender, income and education on health. Public health perspective applied to such topics as: HIV/AIDS; teen pregnancy; cocaine use during pregnancy; infant mortality and low birth weight; violence; major causes of mortality in less industrialized countries; and role of public health in state and national health reform. Instructor: Whetten. 3 units. Instructor(s): Course Notes: Counts as Methods if taken prior to Fall 2009 | ||||||
| PUBPOL 812 | Special Topics Statistics For Policy Makers | GRAD Only | SPRING 2009 | Frankenberg,Elizabeth | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: The purpose of this course is to ensure that students are both critical consumers and effective producers of statistical evidence presented in support of policy arguments. Upon completing this course, students will have the capacity to analyze and evaluate arguments based on simple descriptive statistics, correlation, or multiple regression analysis. Students will also receive hand-on training in the creation of convincing statistical reports, from manipulating large datasets to conduction sensitivity analysis and presenting results. Instructor(s): Frankenberg,Elizabeth Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| PUBPOL 166 | Introduction to Global Health | UG Only | SPRING 2009 | Staff | GHC:Intro | |
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Course Description: Introduction to multidisciplinary theories and techniques for assessing and addressing global, infectious, chronic, and behavioral health problems. Global health issues addressed from perspectives such as: epidemiology, biology, engineering, environment, business, human rights, nursing, psychology, law, public policy, and economics. Instructor(s): Course Notes: Course titled as "Multidisciplinary Approaches to Global Health" prior to fall 2012. | ||||||
| ECON 99S | Economics and Policy of International Health Introduction to Game Theory | UG Only | SPRING 2009 | Staff | GHC:Elective | |
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| PSY 390S | PUBPOL 190FS | Selected Problems | UG Only | SPRING 2009 | Staff | GHC:Ethics GHC:Elective |
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| GLHLTH 362 | Introduction to Epidemiology: Focus on Global Health | UG Only | SPRING 2009 | Fuemmeler,Bernard | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Introduces students to the main concepts and methods used in population-based epidemiology research. Topics covered include measures of disease frequency, study design, measures of association, and problems of bias, especially as they pertain to global health research. Students will learn to understand and evaluate epidemiological studies. A prior quantitative course is highly recommended. Instructor(s): Fuemmeler,Bernard Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 371 | Research Methods in Global Health | UG Only | SPRING 2009 | Read,Jen'nan | GHC:Methods GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: Introduction to methodological techniques used in global health research, including qualitative field work, quantitative surveys, experimental designs, intervention trials, and program evaluation. Teaches strengths and weaknesses of each method, and how to determine the most appropriate method for specific research questions. Takes a problem-based approach, emphasizing the interdisciplinary nature of global health research. Focuses on how to evaluate published & unpublished research and how to design a global health research project. Skills include: identification of global health problems, conceptualization of a research question, designing a research study, and interpretation of results.
Instructor(s): Read,Jen'nan Course Notes: For students who matriculated at Duke in Fall 2009 or later, this is the only Methods course approved for the GHC. Students who matriculated at Duke prior to Fall 2009 will have had other options to fulfill the GHC Methods requirement. | ||||||
| GLHLTH 383A | Tropical Medicine - Costa Rica | UG Only | SPRING 2009 | Benavides Rawson,Jorge | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Part of a 15-week semester abroad program in Costa Rica (through OTS). Integrates classroom and field instruction to introduce fundamental principles of tropical medicine and public health including the tropical environment and its related health issues Instructor(s): Benavides Rawson,Jorge Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 380A | Research Practicum- Costa Rica | UG Only | SPRING 2009 | Benavides Rawson,Jorge | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: Introduces students to research design, field methods, and basic data analysis in a tropical context. Skills include hypothesis testing and statistical analysis, orientation to basic software packages, write and present scientific papers, and design and conduct epidemiologic research.
Instructor(s): Benavides Rawson,Jorge Course Notes: Course taught as part of the Costa Rica-Global Health study abroad program offered through OTS. | ||||||
| GLHLTH 390 | Special Topics | UG Only | SPRING 2009 | Sreenivasan,Gopal | GHC:Elective | |
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| GLHLTH 393S | Issues of healing and caring for underserved populations: A global perspective with an emphasis on Haiti | UG Only | SPRING 2009 | Meador,Keith | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: GLHLTH 211 is a course taught through the partnership of a local nonprofit organization, Family Health Ministries and the Duke Global Health Institute. The course examines issues related to health and healing in underserved populations through an integrated lens of medicine, public health, poverty, clinical research, culture, environment and theology. This lens provides students with an opportunity to examine health from the perspective of both individuals and communities and to explore societal factors that contribute to the process of healing. As an interdisciplinary course, medical, nursing, divinity, undergraduate students, and others also work together to ‘critically examine’ the process of providing culturally relevant assistance to underserved communities. Instructor(s): Meador,Keith Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| GLHLTH 501 | Global Health Capstone | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2009 | Clements,Dennis | GHC:Capstone | |
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Course Description: Capstone Course for students in Global Health Certificate. Group analysis of a current global health problem/issue. Project involves background research, data acquisition, analysis, writing, and
presentation of a substantial research paper/report at an advanced level. Consent of instructor required. Instructor(s): Clements,Dennis Course Notes: Course number was GLHLTH 255S prior to spring 2010. Course is no longer offered as a seminar. | ||||||
| GLHLTH 501 | Global Health Capstone | UG/GRAD | SPRING 2009 | Chapman-Page,Kimberly | GHC:Capstone | |
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Course Description: Capstone Course for students in Global Health Certificate. Group analysis of a current global health problem/issue. Project involves background research, data acquisition, analysis, writing, and
presentation of a substantial research paper/report at an advanced level. Consent of instructor required. Instructor(s): Chapman-Page,Kimberly Course Notes: Course number was GLHLTH 255S prior to spring 2010. Course is no longer offered as a seminar. | ||||||
| PUBPOL 290S | Social Dynamics Of Global Health ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE | UG Only | SPRING 2009 | Koelle,Katharina | GHC:Elective | |
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Course Description: This seminar will focus on the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of infectious diseases both in
wildlife and in humans hosts, with an emphasis on the latter. Theoretical approaches to studying
infectious diseases will be discussed along with applications to pathogens such as measles, influenza,
HIV, and cholera. Ecological topics will include the role of population size, climate, and behavior in
the regulation of disease outbreaks. Evolutionary topics will include antibiotic resistance, virulence
evolution, and immune escape of rapidly evolving viruses. Synthesis of ecological and evolutionary
approaches and topics will also be discussed. The format of the class will be a combination of
introductory lectures, student-led discussions, and computer labs. Instructor(s): Koelle,Katharina Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||
| SOCIOL 212 | GLHLTH 212 | Gender, Poverty, and Health | UG Only | SPRING 2009 | Blankenship,Kim | GHC:Elective |
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Course Description: See GLHLTH 212 Instructor(s): Blankenship,Kim Course Notes: No course notes | ||||||