Undergraduate
Undergraduate Academic Opportunities
This is a six-course, interdisciplinary program that includes a fieldwork or internship experience, which promotes understanding of health disparities and the determinants of health. Undergraduate students also learn to formulate innovative solutions to reduce health disparities around the globe. Students are required to register for the Global Health Certificate by the end of September of their junior year. For more information, contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), DGHI Education Program Coordinator.
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This certificate program helps students understand contemporary health policy-making and the broad political dynamics which have conditioned U.S. health policy, past and present. The program also familiarizes students with modern conceptions of health and the ethical dilemmas facing health care providers, patients and policymakers. For more information, email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Read Health Policy vs. Global Health: Which Certificate Is Right For Me?
Focus Cluster on Global Health
This is a one-semester series of interdisciplinary seminars that focus on health disparities. This cluster trains first and second year students to identify factors that influence individual and population-level health in the U.S. and abroad. (Note: The cluster is only available for incoming freshman.)
Global Health Courses (GLHLTH)
Interdisciplinary courses are available to anyone who wishes to expand their knowledge of global health and health disparities, or simply explore the field more thoroughly. Classes include, but are not limited to, “Gender, Poverty and Health,” “Multidisciplinary Approaches to Global Health,” and “Economics of Global Health.”
Fieldwork Opportunities
DGHI encourages application of classroom knowledge through active participation in research and service. Students can gain valuable academic experience and help provide significant value to community partners by engaging with faculty and service organizations to conduct projects of meaning to communities around the globe.
Students can chose from a DGHI fieldwork project, or create a new one in partnership with DGHI or other offices. More than 50 undergraduate and graduate students participated in fieldwork projects across 11 countries during the summer of 2009. Learn more about requirements requirements, current and past projects, and fieldwork funding opportunities. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) if you have any questions.
Activities and Student Groups
This is a collaborative group that unites undergraduate students interested in global health, sparks activism, and funds student initiatives.
Global Health Journal Club
DGHI introduces its new journal club on global health this fall. Participants will meet monthly to discuss interesting global health articles and topics. Contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), DGHI Special Assistant to the Director.
Volunteers in this program help recover surplus medical supplies and distribute them via Duke-affiliated projects to areas of need overseas.
Find out more details about these and other activities.
DGHI brings the community together to engage in critical dialogue about global health. See our upcoming events, which are free and open to the public.
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