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Course Title & Code Prof/School/Dept Description Keywords Negotiation and Conflict Management: From the Interpersonal to International | GHHP 60 Daniel Shapiro | FAS | General Education How can you best negotiate conflict in your own life? How should policymakers negotiate global conflict? Around the world, conflict imposes profound direct and indirect costs on global health and individual well-being, ranging from death and injury to trauma, loss of social networks, and destabilization of political systems. Rather than focusing on how to address the aftermath of conflict and violence, this course examines theory and practical methods to prevent destructive conflict. We explore conceptual frameworks from which to negotiate its substantive, emotional, and identity-based dimensions, and students apply these methods to real-life dilemmas, ranging from interpersonal disputes between friends to international conflict in the Middle East and elsewhere. This highly interactive course aims to improve students' understanding of conflict and their skill in resolving it, drawing on a variety of learning methodologies including interactive lectures, case simulations, analysis of real-life conflicts, and self-reflection exercises. Negotiation, Conflict Management Global Medicine, Global Health: Cultural Considerations and Clinical Realities | SOCIOL 1168 Mary Jo Good | FAS | Sociology This conference course on global medicine and global health examines cultural considerations and clinical realities in comparative environments of risk and trust, in the US and globally, and explores the transformative influence of the medical imagination on contemporary worlds of biomedicine, global health, mental health, and medical humanitarianism. The seminar is designed for students at all levels who wish to explore in depth cultural considerations of global medicine and global health, from a comparative perspective, The seminar will query assumptions, and concepts generated by current movements in global health. We will also explore the subjective experiences of clinicians and patients through clinical narratives, the biotechnical embrace, the medical imaginary, and the political economy of hope. Readings will include recently published ethnographies and case studies from around the globe, including the United States, as well as classic essays from sociology designed to enliven our discussions. Students will have the opportunity to draw on their own experiences and to design and pursue their own projects. Weekly response papers of 1-2 pages raising questions and comments based on the readings are required and designed to enhance our queries and discussions. Two essays (8-12 pages) and course attendance and presentation are required. Global Medicine Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Cares? Reimagining Global Health | GENED 1093 Arthur Kleinman, Paul Farmer, Anne Becker and Salmaan Keshavjee | FAS | General Education If you are sick or hurt, whether you live or die depends not only on biological factors, but social ones: who you are and where you are, what sort of healthcare system is available to help you survive, and what kind of care is available to help you recover, if society believes you deserve it. Most medical research narrowly focuses on the biological basis of disease, but this course takes a novel biosocial approach to reveal how governments, institutions, and histories shape health and well-being, how poverty and racism get into someone?s lymph nodes, how cost- saving measures manifest as tuberculosis in someone?s lungs. In doing so, the course challenges the conventional assumptions within the field of global health?examining how interventions influence what happens after a catastrophe in unexpected ways, how the persistence of health inequalities over centuries can be explained, how the structures of powerful institutions influence the policies they develop, how the poor deserve not only health care but high quality health care, and how caregiving and global health are urgent moral practices. Health Infrastructure, Social Determinants of Health, Health Systems, Quality of Care, Poverty, Race Life and Death by Design | SOCIOL 1046 Jason Beckfield | FAS | Sociology In this course, we will study health differences between social groups. We will begin by examining the extent to which health is unevenly distributed across groups defined by nationality, neighborhood, race, gender, and class. We will then seek to pinpoint the reasons for these disparities with a detailed analysis of the pathways through which these factors are linked to health status. Finally, we will discuss new research on the sociology of population health that shows how health disparities depend on meso- and macro-scale causes like neighborhoods, social policy arrangements, global organizations, and climate change. Social Determinants of Health, Environment and Health, Race, Gender, Climate Change, Health Disparities Global Oral Health: Healthy Teeth, Healthy Societies | GHHP30 Brittany Seymour | FAS | Global Health & Health Policy Did you know that one of the strongest indicators of a healthy society is the health of its teeth? Everyone has teeth, but most people in the world don’t have access to affordable dental care. This discussion-based course assesses current global health policies and approaches for addressing pressing health challenges despite resource constraints and severe political neglect. It aims for students to be competent in incorporating the global burden of oral diseases into foundational concepts of global health and world development. These include how oral diseases are associated with globalization, poverty, infectious and non-communicable diseases, maternal and child health, mental health, nutrition, tobacco, alcohol, urban and rural infrastructures, climate change, and the environment. This course demonstrates how complete health and an end to global poverty are not possible without including oral health in the global health and development agenda. Health Policy, Social Determinants of Health, Oral Health From Colonial to Global Health | HISTSCI 1460 Joelle Abi-Rached | FAS | History of Science “Global health” has become a new mantra of our time. Its deeper roots, though, lie in the history of colonialism. How does this fact matter? To find out, this course will focus on relations among colonialism, health care, and globalization in Africa, the Middle East, India, and Southeast Asia . Through a set of interdisciplinary and transnational readings, we will explore issues related to race, religion, modernity, subjectivity, and imperial ambitions, and we will do so through the lens of public health, epidemics, psychiatry, medical institutions, and disease history. Colonialism, Globalization Humanitarian Activism and Civil Society | SOCIOL 1106 Shai Dromi | FAS | Sociology When global crises strike, humanitarian nongovernmental organizations – NGOs – spring to action, offering emergency medical services, basic necessities, expertise, and innovation to affected communities around the world. Yet COVID-19 brings unprecedented challenges—and unprecedented opportunities—to humanitarian endeavors. Humanitarian workers are now working globally to distribute personal protection equipment in disadvantaged communities, trace the spread of coronavirus in countries with sparse public health resources, support countries with weakened hospital systems, and advocate for an equitable distribution of a future vaccine.This course provides a comprehensive view of humanitarian organizations and activism from a sociological perspective. We will examine the origins of organized humanitarian activism and the dilemmas and challenges that NGOs face. We will investigate the consequences, justifications, and limitations of humanitarian work. COVID-19 will be a central study case for us, and we will also look at case studies from the Kosovo War, the Nigerian Civil War, and the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. Students will be assigned specific regions to research over the course, and will create visual representations of the conditions and humanitarian activities in their assigned region. The course will include a virtual “hackathon” with the Bok Center's Learning Lab Studio where students will learn visual media skills for this purpose. Humanitarianism, Activism, Pandemic The Economics of Development and Global Health | ECON 1343 Matthew Basilico | FAS | Economics Why are some places poorer than others? Why do some places have better health than others? In this class, we will harness the core development and health economics literature to approach some of the most fundamental questions facing humanity today. We will review the historical determinants of our present-day puzzles, including critical relationships between economic development and health. We will consider challenges affecting health and development including political institutions, micro development, environmental change, and psychological wellbeing. Methodologically, the course will review canonical approaches in applied econometrics, and will cover theories in development, macro-growth, and health. It will also consider perspectives on our core questions from neighboring disciplines, including social theory, anthropology and psychology. Health Economics Global Health: Comparative Analysis of Healthcare Delivery Systems | FRSEMR 27I Sanjay Saini | FAS | Freshman Seminars This interactive seminar will allow students to obtain greater understanding of challenges faced by US healthcare system through critical comparative analysis of healthcare systems of selected countries from the developed, emerging and developing world. Weekly sessions will comprise of student-led discussion that revolves around an important healthcare issue. Domain expert guest speakers will be included allowing students to network with thought leaders. Student will explore in-depth a topic of their choice and prepare a manuscript potentially for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Healthcare Delivery Systems World Health: Challenges and Opportunities | GENED 1063 Sue Goldie | FAS | General Education Extraordinary changes in the world present both risks and opportunities to health—unprecedented interconnections across borders, rapidly shifting global demographics, and changing patterns of diseases and injuries. This course will challenge your assumptions about the world’s populations, as you discover surprising similarities and unexpected differences between and within countries. Approaching the concept of health as a fundamental prerequisite for building strong societies, we will explore its connection to human rights, international relations, and sustainable development. Using case examples of contemporary health challenges, we explore the influence of social, political, and environmental determinants on health, particularly transnational risks associated with globalization. We consider solutions from an array of perspectives, contributions from within and outside the health sector, and interventions at the local, national and global levels. By the end of the course, you will be equipped to thoughtfully analyze important health challenges and appreciate how evidence is contextualized and translated to policy and action. Human Rights, International Development, Social Determinants of Health Neoliberalism: Empire, Extraction, and the Making of the Global Social Order | ANTHRO 1716 Salmaan Keshavjee, Jason Silverstein, Lindsey Zeve | FAS | Anthropology This course is designed primarily for advanced undergraduates and graduate students who are interested in the relationship between neoliberalism, the global social order, and inequities in health and wellbeing. It examines neoliberalism as a political ideology that, paradoxically, both sustains and masks deeply extractive social relations of production whose harms and benefits are unevenly distributed across time, place, and communities. The course is designed to enable students to develop the skills and knowledge necessary to understand, theorize, and critique how neoliberal regimes of governance shape polities and sociopolitical subjectivities, structure and constrain life opportunities, and perpetuate enduring forms of social injustice. Neoliberalism, Social Justice, Social Determinants of Health The Global Heart Disease Epidemic: Stopping What We Started | GENED 1053 Richard Lee | FAS | General Education Heart diseases have killed occasional humans since ancient times, but only in the past century have heart diseases become epidemic throughout the world. In fact, the first description of a heart attack in a human was not until 1912. In the current century, heart diseases will be the leading global cause of death, and the majority of those heart disease deaths will actually occur in the developing world. The epidemic of heart disease has been driven by many social, economic and technological events. Some of these events have been dramatically detrimental to human health, such as the accidental invention of the American cigarette by a slave in North Carolina in the 19th Century—an invention that is projected to kill one billion people between 2000 and 2100. Other events, such as advances in public health and safety, have been beneficial by extending lifespan and preventing early death, but they have also allowed age-related heart diseases to explode. Technological advances have improved our economic productivity but also led to changes in our lifestyles that promote heart diseases. In this course, we will consider the complex relationship of health and society by examining the epidemic in common heart diseases. We will explore how major lifestyle factors such as tobacco, alcohol, exercise and diet affect health, and we will also consider how economics and politics powerfully influence health. We will also discuss the role of government and our obligations to each other, and to future generations. Heart Disease, Social Determinants of Health, Epidemics Human Rights and the Global South | FRSEMR 43C Caroline Elkins, Jacqueline Bhabha | FAS | General Education The disparate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the global impact of the Black Lives Matter protests following the murder of George Floyd have highlighted for all to see the dramatic inequities and entrenched human rights violations that continue to plague human societies. Extreme poverty, especially among communities of color, is sky rocketing, refugees and other forced migrants are blocked from seeking life-saving protection, domestic violence is soaring, evidence of structural racism and its enduring legacy is present on every continent. Despite over half a century of international law making and domestic enactment of human rights treaties, and despite a vibrant civil society that has embraced human rights principles world-wide, class privilege, post-colonial power structures, gender and caste differences, xenophobia and skewed trading and taxation policies persist. They militate against a level playing field when it comes to access to fundamental human rights such as the rights to non-discrimination, to life, to education and to health.Thus, though human rights have become a global lingua franca, invoked by leaders and movements across the political, religious and cultural spectrum, their efficacy is at best partial and flawed in most countries, including throughout what is commonly referred to as the Global South. Remedies for violations such as deprivation of an adequate standard of living and the extreme poverty that accompanies it, slavery and colonization and their enduring 21st century legacy, and racialized and gendered forms of structural violence have proven elusive. This seminar will focus on the Global South (a concept we will interrogate), including populations from the global South seeking protection elsewhere, to address key issues in contemporary human rights theory and practice, and historical analysis. Members of the seminar will first study the philosophical and political traditions that led to codification of human rights and their historical context. The seminar will then cover the legal and conceptual frameworks of contemporary international human rights law and examine their relevance to some of the most egregious human rights violations of the current period. Case studies of pivotal controversies, including the failure to address extreme poverty, the question of reparations for slavery or colonization, solutions to forced (including climate-induced) migration and gender-based violence will be explored and discussed.This seminar is intentionally conceptualized to optimize small and large-group discussions with the goal of both delivering a unique teaching and learning environment while also building class community. Human Rights, COVID-19, Civil Society Vaccines: History, Science, Policy | GENED 1175 Allan Brandt, Galit Alter, Ingrid Katz | FAS | General Education Vaccination is among the oldest and most effective of medical interventions, yet paradoxically, it is also one of the most controversial. In its modern form, it has been used for centuries to prevent some of the most virulent infectious scourges of our time. Today, immunization is one of the most successful and effective interventions available tomedicine and public health, reducing morbidity and mortality across the world. In this interdisciplinary course, you will examine the history of vaccination using a number of specific episodes in which it was utilized to prevent illness, disability and death, as well as the social and political controversies that vaccines have generated.You will also beintroduced to the modern science of immunology and virology, examining the research that has resulted in the development of effective vaccines. Additionally, you will explore current scientific theories and techniques for developing new vaccines and enhancing their durability. Finally, this course will investigate the complex ethical and policy issues that vaccines continue to generate. What is the nature of compulsory measures for vaccination, vaccine hesitancy and skepticism, and anti-vaccination movements? What are the moral and ethical principles for ensuring equitable access to vaccines in local communities,nations, and globally? The course will encourage a broad interdisciplinary exploration of vaccines to inform our current understanding of the Covid-19 pandemic, while also examining critical issues in science, life-saving technologies, questions of individualism and the good of the community, as well as fundamental issues of global health equity. Vaccination, Health Policy, Medical Ethics Global Response to Disasters and Refugee Crises | GHHP 70 Stephanie Kayden, Michael VanRooyen | FAS | Global Health and Health Policy Climate change, urbanization, and conflict mean that global disasters are on the rise. How should the world respond when disasters force people from their homes? How can we better help the world’s refugees? This course examines the past, present, and future of the international humanitarian response system. We will explore how Doctors Without Borders, the United Nations, the Red Cross, and other aid agencies came to be and how global response standards, international humanitarian law, and new technologies are shaping worldwide disaster relief. Through interactive discussions and case studies, students will learn how aid workers interact with governments, militaries, and civil society to provide refugee aid. At the end of the course, students can choose to live the refugee experience during a large-scale, weekend outdoor simulated humanitarian response training program together with other students and professional aid workers from around the world. Humanitarianism, Disaster Response, Human Rights The Quality of Health Care in America | GHHP 50 Anupam Jena | FAS | Global Health and Health Policy Offers information and experiences regarding the most important issues and challenges in health care quality. Overview of the dimensions of quality of care, including outcomes, overuse, underuse, variation in practice patterns, errors and threats to patient safety, service flaws, and forms of waste. Each session focuses on one specific issue, exploring patterns of performance, data sources, costs, causes, and remedies. Explores desirable properties of health care systems that perform at high levels in many dimensions of quality. Healthcare Quality, American Healthcare Delivery Why is There No Cure for Health? | GENED 1079 David Cutler | FAS | General Education Around the world, billions of dollars are spent on health care treatments, public health initiatives, and pharmaceutical research and development. So why are we still not able to prevent preventable diseases, provide affordable healthcare for millions of people, and deliver cures for curable diseases? And what are the best ways to address these issues? Because these questions are so large, we will focus our discussion around questions like: What steps should be taken to address epidemics? How should the United States reform its health care system? And how should prescription drugs be produced and sold? We will explore how social scientists address empirical questions, the types of data that are available, how those data are analyzed, and the confidence with which causal statements are made. By the end of the course, you will be able to dissect a large question—such as how to reform American healthcare—into its technological, social, economic, and moral components, and weigh potential solutions according to these guiding vectors. Health Economics, Healthcare Reform Research in Global Health and Health Policy | GHHP 99 David Cutler | FAS | Global Health and Health Policy Global health and health policy are interdisciplinary fields that apply the theories and methods of statistics, sociology, political science, economics, management, decision science, and philosophy to the study of population health and health care. Research from these fields influences policymaking in a variety of settings. For example, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) drew upon health policy research to develop programs for improving access and quality of care in the United States. Similarly, global health research guides international institutions, such as the World Health Organization, in determining health guidelines for all countries. Global health and health policy research can also inform practices inside hospitals, initiate programs for diseases like HIV, and regulate the food and drug industries. This course introduces the fundamentals of research design and methods in global health and health policy and assists students in developing research projects and crafting policy recommendations that can impact health care systems and public health. Research, Health Policy, Healthcare Systems Historical Perspectives on Global Health | HISTSCI 1461 Joelle Abi-Rached | FAS | History of Science This seminar is designed for motivated undergraduates wishing to better understand the current state of scholarship on the history of global health, while developing a supervised research project of their own. What are the most exciting new directions in the field? The most important unresolved controversies? The areas most urgently in need of more scholarly attention? The course is open to students from all concentrations, but advanced undergraduates who are considering writing a senior thesis that engages in some way with global health history are particularly encouraged to join. History, Research Supervised Reading and Research | GHHP 91 David Cutler | FAS | Global Health and Health Policy Supervised reading leading to a long term paper on a topic or topics not covered by regular courses of instruction. Research Course Title & Code Prof/School/Dept Description Keywords -
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Course Title Prof/School/Dept Description Keywords Built Environment, Nature, and Health | EH 249 HSPH | Environmental Health The built environment ? our homes, schools, businesses, streets and sidewalks, and transportation options ? and the natural environment ? features such as vegetation, water, parks, and open spaces ? directly and indirectly impact health and well-being. The places where we live, learn, work, and play can determine our exposure to pollution, influence our health behaviors, and ultimately drive disease risk. The built and natural environment can contribute to health outcomes that are the major contributors to morbidity and mortality in the US, and increasingly globally. Moreover, decisions on how we have designed our built and natural environments are long-lasting and can disproportionately impact the health of individuals of varied ages, abilities, races, ethnicities, and socioeconomic levels. Through this course, participants will learn how to study the influence of built and natural environments on an array of health outcomes, receive a basic introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) (no prior knowledge required), will learn to assess the evidence behind different associations observed in the literature, and will explore the policy and decision-making processes that facilitate built and natural environment changes. Environment and Health, Geographic Information Systems Food Law and Policy HLS This seminar will present an overview of topics in food law and policy, and will examine how these laws shape what we eat. In recent years, increasing attention has been paid to a range of issues impacting the food system from farm to fork to landfill. In the past few years, major news stories have covered the U.S. farm bill, labeling of genetically engineered food products, soda taxes, efforts to regulate school meals, and the misleading and unregulated terrain of expiration dates. In order to better understand these issues and some of their root causes, we will examine food policy via the diverse lenses of farmers, consumers, and corporations, as well as using diverse disciplinary perspectives. Each class will begin with ensuring a shared understanding of the relevant sources of law before delving into policy considerations and discussions of what the law could and should. We will concentrate on food law in the United States, but will also include comparative global perspectives when helpful. We begin the course by looking at the basic regulation of food, focusing on the history and current issues in rules regarding food safety. We then analyze federal agricultural policy and farm subsidies, and the environmental, health, and safety implications of our agricultural system. The course will cover issues in food labeling, including nutrition information, health claims, GMO labeling, and organic labeling. Students will also examine the role the government plays in determining what foods are consumed, through its Dietary Guidelines, food assistance programs, and other attempts to increase healthy food access or consumption. Finally, we will evaluate a range of existing and potential policy interventions at the federal, state, and local level. Health Infrastructure, Nutrition, Food Policy, Health Policy, Healthy Food Access, Foundations of Global Mental Health | GHP 204 Vikram Patel | HSPH | Global Health & Population The course is intended to cover the key role of mental health in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals, which have recognized mental health explicitly in two of the health goal targets and implicitly in several others (such as universal health coverage and conflict). The course curriculum is informed by the publication of the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health & Sustainable Development, which has proposed a theoretical reframing of mental health and series of innovative actions to achieve the aspirations of the SDGs in relation to mental health. Along with the ?Case Studies in Global Mental Health Delivery? course offered in Spring 2, this course will form the core of a proposed Global Mental Health Intensive Fellowship program at HSPH, in collaboration with HMS. This course is cross-listed at Harvard Medical School. Mental Health, Sustainable Development Goals, Concepts and Methods for Global Health and Population Studies | GHP 210 David Canning | HSPH | Global Health & Population This course is intended as a survey of the ideas, data and debates in the study of global health and population. It is organized around three themes. The first theme focuses on population health. It will cover the measurement of health, data sources, and long trends in global health. We will investigate different explanations for long term changes in health and the debate about the major forces driving changes in health. This will include social determinants of health, public health measures, and the role of health systems. The second theme will provide overviews of the main theories of change of population size and composition as well as important facts on levels, trends and differentials of fertility and mortality. This theme will cover theories and empirical findings on the effect of changes in population size and structure, as well as health, on human and economic development. The third theme will be on approaches to measure the effectiveness of interventions and issues around policy setting both internationally and at the national level. Students will be expected to read a number of key texts each week and take part in discussions in the weekly class. Students will also work individually and in groups on weekly homework, reporting on reading, writing essays, or analyzing data to check the relevance of the theoretical ideas covered in the course. Social Determinants of Health, Demography and Population Dynamics, Health Infrastructure, Fertility, Mortality. Health Policy, Measures of Health Political Economy of Health Sector Reform | GHP 212 Kevin Croke | HSPH | Global Health & Population This seminar examines how political economy influences the health outcomes and the performance of health systems, with a focus on developing countries. The course begins with a review of several key theories and concepts in political economy, focusing on the strategic interactions between politics and economics in health systems. We examine concepts such as "path dependency" to help understand why some policies and institutions are difficult to change; how political institutions like the type of regime (i.e. degree of democracy or authoritarianism) structure political participation and influence health reforms; and how variation in "state capacity" shapes the ability of countries to implement complex reforms. We show how these theories and concepts can be applied to explain past events and how by taking into account political and economic constraints, they can be used to design more successful programs and health reforms. We review different empirical methods, including quantitative/causal inference and comparative case study methods and use them to test and extend theory. Theories of policy reform are applied to cases such as health sector reform in Mexico and Ghana and other countries based on student interests. The course involves a critical review of theories and the empirical academic literature in order to develop a political economy analysis of a health reform in a country selected by each student. The course is open to doctoral and masters students with a basic understanding of the political economy literature on health systems and interest in applied and academic research. The course builds on materials taught in GHP 244, GHP 269, and GHP 270. Health Infrastructure, North America, Africa, Health Systems, Health Policy, Mexico, Ghana Global Noncommunicable Diseases | GHP 216 Lindsay Jaacks | HSPH | Global Health & Population The purpose of this course is to expose public health students and practitioners to the issue of global noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). The topics that will be covered include:? Shared risk factors for NCDs (unhealthy diets, physical inactivity, sedentary lifestyles, tobacco, environmental pollutants and occupational hazards)? Strategies for primary prevention of NCDs with special emphasis on interventions and policies from low- and middle-income countries? Global epidemiology of NCDs including obesity, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, cancer, and mental health? Implementation of health services for NCDs in low-resource settings?? NCDs in special populations: children and adolescents, pregnancy, the poorest billion, and in humanitarian crises Non-Communicable Diseases, Risk Factors for NCDs, LMICs, Obesity, Diabetes, Kidney Disease, Hypertension. Cardiovascular Diseases, Respiratory Diseases, Cancer, Mental Health, Humanitarian Crisis Health Sector Reform: A Worldwide Perspective | GHP 244 Thomas Bossert | HSPH | Global Health & Population This course is designed to give students an in depth understanding of health systems, and processes to reform them, using examples from middle and low-income countries. It presents two of the leading analytical frameworks for the analysis of health systems: the Harvard/World Bank ?Flagship Approach? and the WHO ?Building Blocks? approach. It first focuses on the broad objectives of health systems in these two approaches and presents some of the matrixes used to measure them. It also provides analytical tools for addressing ethical and political issues about health reform. It introduces the concepts of ?control knobs? and ?building blocks? for developing appropriate options to reform the systems in policy areas of financing (including tax and insurance based systems), payments to providers, organizational changes like decentralization and use of private sector, as well as human resources strategies and technological transitions. The course involves case studies, class discussion and lectures, and review of academic literature and international and governmental reports. Health Infrastrcture, LMICs, Health Systems, WHO, Health Policy, Financing, Public-Private Partnerships, Decentralization, HIV Interventions: Rationale, Design, and Evaluation | GHP 255 Christopher Sudfeld | HSPH | Global Health & Population This course introduces students to the underlying theories, mechanisms and rationales for the major biological, behavioral and structural HIV prevention interventions, such as male medical circumcision, vaccination, female microbicides, treatment as prevention, counseling, and combined approaches. In addition to HIV prevention, the course covers HIV treatment, care and impact mitigation. The focus of the course will be both on developing countries and on high-risk, vulnerable and underserved populations in developed countries. Students will learn to critically analyze studies evaluating HIV interventions and to assess global and national HIV strategies. Infectious Diseases, HIV Prevention, Vaccines, Microbicides Emerging Issues in Humanitarian Response and Human Rights | GHP 262 Patrick Vinck, Michael VanRooyen | HSPH | Global Health & Population The course will provide an introduction to the foundational frameworks and constructs for humanitarian and human rights research and action. The course will prepare students to understand and engage in humanitarian response and human rights protection, while examining emerging critical challenges that have multi-dimensional global impacts. These issues include armed conflict, social oppression, climate change, famine, migration, ethnic and other forms of discrimination, and gender-based violence. The major options for protection and support- including early warning, prevention, and mitigation strategies - will be analyzed through case studies and discussion of current research findings, and through the lenses of the norms, actors, and processes of international humanitarian and human rights law, operations, and policy. Health and Human Rights, Environment and Health, Humanitarian Crisis, Humanitarian Response, Climate Change, International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights Law, Armed Conflict, Famine Foundations of Global Health and Population | GHP 272 David Bloom, Joel Lamstein | HSPH | Global Health & Population This course is required for all incoming master of science students in GHP. It is intended as a broad survey of the main facts, issues, perspectives, methods, results, and conclusions in the areas of global population and health.The course is organized into three blocks. The first block deals with theory, methods, and evidence related to the state of global health and population and reviews salient population and health issues, both past and present. The focus is on patterns and trends in morbidity, mortality, fertility, and reproductive health, as well as the size, structure, and growth of population. Environmental concerns linked to health and population are also addressed.The second block deals with the economic, social, legal, political, and ecological context in which global health and population issues arise and must be addressed. This block introduces economic, political, and rights-based perspectives on the place of health in the process of international development.The third block covers approaches to the design and implementation of policies and programs to address health and population problems. Medical interventions, non-medical health interventions, and non-health interventions will all be considered. Demography and Population Dynamics, Environment and Health, Social Determinants of Health, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Fertility, Mortality, Introduction to Health and Human Rights | GHP 288 Stephen Marks | HSPH | Global Health & Population The aim of this course is to introduce students to the application of the human rights framework to a wide range of critical areas of public health. Through lectures, cases and guest speakers, students will become familiar with the human rights perspective as applied to selected public health policies, programs and interventions. The course clarifies how human rights approaches complement and differ from those of bioethics and public health ethics. Among the issues to be considered from a human rights perspective are the bioethics, torture prevention and treatment, infectious diseases, violence prevention and responses, genetic manipulation, access to affordable drugs, community-based health management and financing, child labor, aging, and tobacco control Health and Human Rights, Infectious Diseases, Health Infrastructure, Demography and Population Dynamics, Bioethics, Access to Affordable Drugs, Health Systems, Community Based Financing, Health Policy, Tobacco Control, Aging Individual and Social Responsibility for Health | GHP 293 Daniel I. Wikler | HSPH | Global Health & Population This course serves as an introduction to ethical issues in the practice of public health, with particular emphasis on those involving individual health-related choices.Our goals: Identify and articulate the ethical dimensions of decisions arising in the practice of public health. Contribute to the resolution of ethical dilemmas arising in the practice of public health through logically rigorous and evidence-based ethical reasoning. Examine the bases for ascription of responsibility for health to individuals, to society, and to others whose actions influence health. Health and Human Rights, Medical Ethics Control of Infectious Diseases in Low/Mid Income Countries: Social, Political & Economic Dimensions | GHP 539 Richard Cash | HSPH | Global Health & Population This course develops knowledge, skills and values to analyze the social, political and economic determinants and outcomes of selected infectious diseases of importance in low- and middle- income countries. Speakers include both practitioners and scholars in the field. Students work in small groups to research, prepare and present illustrative case studies, which highlight the importance of context in formulating effective and feasible interventions for prevention and control. Analytic frameworks are developed to provide future guidance in dealing with these and other infectious diseases in low-resource settings. The course assumes a basic understanding of disease-specific epidemiology and stimulates critical thinking. Infectious Diseases, LMICs Introduction to Nutrition in Public Health | NUT 201 Josiemer Mattei | HSPH | Nutrition This course will provide an overview of current topics in nutrition within the context of public health. We will explore concepts in dietary assessment and epidemiology, the role of nutrition on common physical and mental health conditions, global nutrition, public health and community nutrition, agriculture and food policy, nutrition communication, diet in special populations, and other topics. The course will consist of lectures and in-class discussion of case studies or articles guided by experts in the topcs, with active contribution from students. Nutrition, Non-Communicable Disease, Nutrition Communication, Food Policy, Agricultural Policy , Mental Health Societal Response to Disasters and War | ID 205 Jennifer Leaning | HSPH | Global Health & Population Designed for physicians, public health officers, or others who may be charged with responsibility for intervention during crisis situations. The focus will be on societal response to disasters and war as well as decision-making under stress. The course will examine U.S. and international case studies within the established research and policy frameworks for disaster response and humanitarian action. Health and Human Rights, Disaster Preparedness, Humanitarian Crisis Ethical Basis of the Practice of Public Health | ID 250 Daniel I. Wikler | HSPH | Global Health & Population This course serves as an introduction to ethical issues in the practice of public health. Students will identify a number of key ethical issues and dilemmas arising in efforts to improve and protect population health and will become familiar with the principal arguments and evidence supporting contesting views. The class aims to enhance the students' capacity for using ethical reasoning in resolving the ethical issues that will arise throughout their careers.Unlike courses in medical ethics, which mainly examine ethical dilemmas facing individual clinicians, the population-level focus of this course directs our attention to questions of ethics and justice that must be addressed at the societal level.These include:? What social response is required of a just society to the needs of its members for protecting and restoring health?? Is population health something other than the aggregate of the health concerns of the individuals who make up a society at a given time? And what are the ethical implications of the answers?? When are inequalities in health inequitable, and what priority should be assigned to reducing disparities in health when pursuing this goal might compromise the effort to maximize population health?? Which ethical choices, if any, are unavoidable in developing the methodologies for measurement of health and of the global burden of disease?? Which ethical choices if any are unavoidable in developing and using methods for priority-setting such as cost-effectiveness analysis and cost-benefit analysis? Are the ethical commitments of the profession of public health consistent with some methods and not others?? Should the institution of universal health coverage be guided by ethical precepts and if so, what are these values and how should they guide policy?? Can and should public health's dedication to improving population health conflict with the priorities of some individuals whose choices to not reflect such high priority for health? Should these individual preferences always be respected? Are there effective strategies that pursue population health in the face of such conflicts while preserving the individual's freedom to make unhealthy choices?? How should responsibility for poor health be assigned, and what are the ethical implications of this assignment for poor health due to health problems due to smoking, obesity, and other unhealthy behavior? To the extent that the socio-economic health gradient reflects differences in how well people take care of themselves are these disparities in health individual failings rather than social injustices? Health and Human Rights, Health Infrastructure, Medical Ethics, Universal Health Coverage, Health Policy Poverty, Human Rights, and Development Lucie White | HLS This course uses a multidisciplinary lens to explore the linkages between global poverty, human rights, and development from an historical, theoretical, institutional, and policy-making perspective. Its departure point is the emergence of a recent "human rights and development" trend, both in academia and policy, as a result of the combined failure of development economics and the human rights movement to effectively address the challenge of global poverty and inequality. The first part of the course draws on foundational readings from law, development economics, political science, moral philosophy, and social anthropology to introduce historically and normatively situated approaches to development and human rights. The second part explores key themes and current policy debates in the field as they play out at the levels of international financial institutions, national level development strategies, and the private sector. The third part focuses on how human rights to food, health, housing, and a decent livelihood, for instance, can be advanced in developing countries. In this final section of the course, student groups will design and teach workshops about bringing social rights, poverty alleviation, and equitable development together in grounded ways Health and Human Rights, Right to Health, Development Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice HSPH | Social and Behavioral Sciences This interdisciplinary course will explore the politics of reproductive health and health care delivery, both in the US and globally, with a particular focus on how reproduction and related clinical care are shaped by and in turn shape social inequality along axes of race, gender, and social class. The course will intertwine three threads: 1) major conceptual and theoretical issues foundational to understanding the politics and epidemiology of reproduction; 2) contemporary and historical perspectives on specific reproductive phenomena and events (preventing pregnancy, terminating pregnancy, sustaining pregnancy, and giving birth); 3) social movements organized around reproductive health (e.g. anti-abortion, reproductive justice movements). Sexual and Reproductive Health, Social Determinants of Health, Race, Gender, Social Class, Reproductive Rights, Abortion The Opioid Epidemic | ANTH E-1667 Jason Bryan Silverstein | Harvard Extension School | Anthropology and Archaeology More people die every year from opioid overdoses than gunshot wounds and car accidents, and the crisis appears to be worsening and rapidly changing. Making matters worse, understanding the crisis in real time is notoriously difficult, especially since most who overdose do not go to hospitals and death certificates are often unreliable. And while everyone agrees something must be done, what that something is leads us into heated debates over health care spending and harm reduction. While most medical research focuses on the biology of disease, this course takes a biosocial approach to unmask how social factors, economic insecurity, and the availability of massive amounts of pharmaceuticals have become an overdose crisis. We read social scientists, journalists, public health scholars, and first-hand accounts in order to understand the chronic emergencies (such as de-industrialization and despair) behind this acute crisis. By investigating the opioid epidemic in this way, students are encouraged to think boldly and creatively beyond the traditional boundaries of medicine: perhaps someone's best medicine is a housing voucher, or a testing strip to detect fentanyl. By the end of the course, students understand the social roots of the opioid epidemic and how solutions may be implemented. Health Infrastucture, Health Policy, Pharmaceutical Policy, Opioid Epidemic, Gender and Health: Introductory Perspectives | WGH 211 Brittany Charlton | HSPH | Epidemiology This course will introduce students to gender as a theoretical concept and a category of analysis in public health?specifically, the ways in which gender contributes to differentially structuring women and men's experiences of health. The course proposes to answer such questions as: How can understanding gender structures help us interpret public health research? How has gender influenced the construction of public health in diverse societies? How do our social frameworks and structures, such as gender, affect people's experiences and expectations of health? How is the success of behavioral change interventions and the validity of basic behavioral and evaluation research affected by gender? This course emphasizes the epidemiological aspects of gender analysis and the interactions among gender, class, race/ethnicity, and sexuality. The course will cover a broad range of health issues for which gender has been of special importance. Topics covered include: biology, chronic disease, mortality and morbidity, contraceptives, infertility, endometriosis, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, body image, masculinity, weight and shape control behaviors, abortion, and global reproductive health. Additionally, sessions will include global, U.S. domestic, and historical perspectives, with attention primarily paid to the epidemiologic investigation as well as the social and behavioral sciences and health policy dimensions. Social Determinants of Health, Sexual and Reproductive Health, North America, Gender, Endometriosis, Abortion, United States, Contraception, Sexual Orientation, Race, Social Class The Health Care Safety Net & Vulnerable Populations | HPM 211 Benjamin Sommers | HSPH | Health Policy & Management This course examines U.S. health policy for vulnerable populations. We will analyze several key components of the health care safety net for poor American: Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, community health centers, public hospitals, and unique state-based programs for low-income families. We will also explore issues related to the health care of special populations including Native Americans, immigrants, the homeless, and prisoners. We will draw on a variety of materials and learning approaches, such as research articles, case studies, newspaper editorials, and a classroom policy debate. Health Infrastructure, North America, Social Determinants of Health, Poverty, Medicaid, Affordable Care Act, Community Health Centers, Public Hospitals, Immigrant Health, Indigenous Health, Prison Health, United States, Social Services Public Health Law and Policy Amy Rosenberg and Robert Greenwald | HLS This seminar begins with an analysis of health systems in other countries. Next, we discuss the key policy decisions that have shaped the current patchwork of public and private insurance coverage options in this country. After providing this international and historical context, we analyze in detail the key elements of the current U.S. health and public health care systems through the lens of its impact on vulnerable populations. We look at the components of the federal approach to reform, including the national health care reform law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. We also consider several state initiatives that highlight how states are acting as laboratories of innovation to implement sweeping health and public health reforms. Finally, we discuss the current health law and policy climate in this country and explore both the opportunities and challenges for health policy solutions focused on increasing access to care and addressing public health concerns. Health Infrastructure, North America, United States, Health Policy, Access, United States Health Policy | HPM 210 John McDonough | HSPH | Health Policy & Management' This course will provide students with a basic and thorough understanding of the U.S. health system focusing on access, quality of care, and costs. Students will learn how the system and its most important sub-elements are structured, how care is organized, delivered, and financed, and how national health reform is influencing the future direction of the system. Health Infrastructure, Health Policy, Quality, Finanacing Women, Gender, and Health: Issues in Mental Health Perspectives | WGH210 Barbara Gottlieb | HSPH | Women, Gender, and Health This course explores issues relevant to mental illness, mental health from a gender perspective. Course themes include illness constructs, life cycle and transitions, collective and individual trauma, role and relationship and embodiment. Topics include eating disorders, pain, hormonally mediated mood disorders, and PTSD. Examples highlight US and international experience. Readings are multidisciplinary, including public health and medicine, social sciences, history and literature. Social Determinants of Health, Non-Communicable Diseeases, Gender, Mental Health, PTSD, Eating Disorders, Mood Disorders, Trauma Theory and Practice of Social Medicine | ANTHRO 2797 Salmaan Keshavjee, Mercedes Becerra, David Shumway Jones, Lindsey Zeve | FAS Anthropology Social medicine is a field of study and practice that uses insights from the social sciences to improve medical theory and the delivery of health care in communities and global health. This course will explore the historical foundations of social medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries in Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and North America. It will then examine case studies of social medicine in the contemporary world that confront the challenges of post-colonialism, neoliberalism, racism, and care-giving. Social Medicine, Healthcare Delivery Eradicating Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases | BPH 304QC Jeffrey Dvorin, Manoj Duraisingh, Dyann Wirth | FAS | Bio Sciences in Public Health This course is a survey to introduce core concepts and tools of disease eradication. We will discuss the current tools (or lack of tools), the evidence for their effective use, and their successes and failures, and we will discuss the policies and programs required to effectively use these tools for infectious disease control and eradication. In Session 1-6, we will focus on malaria as a context for introducing the many aspects of disease eradication. From Session 7-13, each session will focus on control and/or eradication of a new neglected tropical disease. Session 14-16 will then synthesize the course content and introduce new real-world challenges that will shape the implementation of disease control and eradication programs discussed in this course.The class will meet twice a week, and each session will be divided into a didactic/lecture part and a discussion part. During the discussion, we will actively evaluate the evidence behind current global public health practices, emphasizing “cross-cutting” concepts and tools that are relevant to several of the diseases discussed in this course.The tangible skills that will be obtained during this course include the ability to recognize, utilize, and critically evaluate strategies for disease eradication and the ability to effectively communicate a plan for systematic control and/or eradication of malaria and neglected tropical diseases. Disease Eradication, Tropical Disease Disability Law and Policy | DPI 515 Michael Stein | HKS | HKS Government According to World Bank estimates, persons with disabilities comprise 15% of the global population, or an estimated one billion individuals. Nevertheless, until the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the world's largest minority group was largely excluded from global human rights protection (e.g., UN human rights treaty work), global initiatives (notably the Millennium Development Goals ), and national level law and policy programming, with the majority of States having internally uncoordinated health or social welfare initiatives. The CRPD has now been ratified by 181 States, making it the fastest ratified human rights treaty, and nearly universal in scope. Meanwhile, the MDGs successor program, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by consensus at the UN in 2016 and require the inclusion of persons with disabilities in their social transformation mandate. In consequence of these global schemes, States are struggling to develop coordinated and efficient national level programming for their disabled populations, until-now their typically neglected yet largest minority group. This course examines how States develop national level programming to include persons with disabilities across a variety of sectors including health, education, employment, community inclusion, and social welfare and development. Throughout the course we will examine critically the tension between human rights and their aspiration of full human flourishing and the constraints placed upon States by resource, social, cultural, and other limitations. The instructor participated in the negotiation of the CRPD and has since been involved in disability law, policy, and development initiatives in some forty-four countries. He has also been consulted by UN agencies on disability law and policy programming, including the SDGs, and will draw on these experiences when analyzing how States respond to their legal and policy obligations. We will be joined by a variety of guests with international experience who will help us contextualize how disability-related policy work is implemented on the ground. Disability Rights, Human Rights, Policy The Pandemic and the People: Lessons for American Democracy | DPI 315 Matthew Baum | HKS | HKS Government This course will utilize the lens of the pandemic to explore major policy issues and problems in American politics. Using data from the COVID States Project as foundational material, and its implications for key challenges facing American democracy that have been placed in starker relief by the pandemic. Each session will explore a different theme. Some candidate themes include (but are not necessarily limited to): public trust, public health infrastructure, health communication, the media, partisan polarization, socio-economic inequality, racism, the urban-rural divide, executive leadership, misinformation, the role of federalism, fiscal policy during crises, foreign policy during a global crisis, and the mental health challenge. The senior researchers from the COVID States Project will serve as lecturers and facilitators, with each taking the lead at their home institutions, while sharing presenting across universities during sessions where a colleague from another university has primary expertise on the topic at hand. We will also invite additional senior members of the project team to participate in sessions related to their own areas of expertise (e.g., from Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health, Northwestern University, and Northeastern University). Finally, in addition to assigned reading materials, we will conduct interviews with decision-makers from state and federal government either live (schedule permitting), or pre-recorded (made available to students ahead of the pertinent sessions). Logistically, the course will, to the extent possible, be conducted live across the three participating universities, with the “host” university sometimes rotating if a faculty member from a different institution has the lead in a given session. Students from the other universities will join the live sessions via video web conference. Structurally, each session will begin with a brief lecture (about 45 minutes) regarding a conceptual issue (e.g., federalism, polarization, inequality, etc.), followed by a pandemic-related “mini” case study related to the problem. The case will be presented (about 30-45 min minutes), followed by a discussion, including small-group break-out sessions, regarding (a) the relationship between the conceptual lesson and the case, (b) the implications of the former for the latter, and (c) real-world lessons learned and potential policy solutions. We will then conduct an Oxford-style debate in which two 2-person student teams will debate a pre-determined policy question arising from the topic at hand. COVID-19, Policy International Intellectual Property, Public Health, and Access to Medicines | HLS 2463 Ruth Gana | HLS | Law School This course examines fundamental principles of international IP law with an emphasis on access to medicines. It covers comparative approaches to the scope of patent protection, limitations and exceptions, and dispute settlement, including implications for public health and economic development in the Global South. Students will study key provisions of leading major treaties, emphasizing the implementation and enforcement of the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and IP chapters in regional trade agreements, including new forms of legal protection available to the pharmaceutical industry. Qualitative Methods for Global Health | GH 701 Norma Ware, Hannah Gilbert | HMS | Global Health This course integrates formal presentations, readings, and practical learning experiences to provide students with an understanding of and basic competencies in qualitative methods for global health research. Students will attend weekly class sessions, complete required readings, and participate actively in discussions, class exercises, and/or supervised field experiences. These activities will recapitulate the research trajectory to provide students with necessary skills for carrying out or contributing to a qualitative research project. Examples of specific course topics include: (a) formulating a research question; (b) study design; (c) qualitative research interviewing; (d) research ethics; (e) data preparation and management; (f) analysis of qualitative data; and (g) writing up research results. Students will complete and present a final project. Research in low-income international settings will be emphasized. Global Health and Social Medicine | GH 711 Muhummed Nadeem Kasmani, Joia Mukherjee | HMS | Global Health This interdisciplinary course will frame global health's collection of problems and actions with a particular biosocial perspective. The course first develops a toolkit of analytical approaches and then uses them to examine historical and contemporary global health initiatives with careful attention to a critical sociology of knowledge. The course draws on experiences working in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, and the Americas, as well as an interdisciplinary body of literature, to investigate what the field of global health may include, how global health problems are defined and constructed, and how global health interventions play out in expected and unexpected ways. The course seeks to inspire and teach the following principles: Global awareness. This course aims to present a view of societies that enables students to recognize the role of distinctive traditions, governments, and histories in shaping health and well-being. The course uses ethnographies and case studies to situate global health problems in relation to the lives of individuals, families, and communities. Grounding in social and historical analysis. The course demonstrates the value of social theory and historical analysis in understanding health and illness at individual and societal levels, as well as in identifying problems and devising solutions. Ethical engagement. Throughout the course, students will be asked to critically evaluate the ethical frameworks that have underpinned historical and contemporary engagement in global health. Students will be pushed to consider the moral questions of inequality and suffering as well as to critically evaluate various ethical frameworks that motivate and structure attempts to redress these inequities. A sense of inspiration and possibility. Students learn that no matter how complex the field of global health and no matter how steep the challenges, it is possible to design, implement, and foster programs and policies that make enormous positive change in the lives of the world's poorest and suffering people. Quantitative Methods for Global Health Research | GH 703 Mary Kay Smith-Fawzi | HMS | Global Health The course will cover introductory level epidemiology and related biostatistical principles and methods, with a specific focus on problems related to global health. Instruction will also be offered in the use of Stata, a statistical software package, for calculating descriptive statistics, generating epidemiologic measures of association, and analyzing data for monitoring and evaluation of global health programs. A key difference in this course compared with other introductory level courses in epidemiology and biostatistics is that it offers examples from global health to illustrate epidemiologic methods and statistical approaches. Ethnographic Methods for Global Health Research | GH 708 Byron Good, Michael Fischer, Eric Jacobson | HMS | Global Health This course is intended as an introduction to ethnographic methods, for use in global health research. The course will provide guided experiences in ethnographic observation,participant observation, and writing of field notes, in anthropological interviewing, development of interview guides, the design of studies in global health research that include an ethnographic component, and analysis of ethnographic data and ethnographic writing. Special attention is given to interviewing as a tool of ethnographic research and theories of subjectivity that underlie our understandings of interviewing. The course will provide practical experiences in carrying out interviews, with class supervision and group reflection on interviewing experiences, along with readings aimed at providing students understanding of how data and theory are combined in ethnographic writing. But attention is also focused on ethnographic observation and the juxtaposition of interview and observational data. Students will be required to review ethnographic writing relevant to the topic and setting of their research. Because medical anthropology has been such a central component for many of the faculty in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, the course will provide an introduction to the meaning of ethnography and ethnographic research as used in diverse subfields of global health research. In particular, since global health research is conducted in settings in which local culture, forms of inequality, health care institutions, and ways of interpreting and experiencing illness are of critical importance to the development of health services, the course will focus on the use of ethnography to address these basic dimensions of local settings in which research is being conducted. Global Health Ethics | BETH 710 Sadath Sayeed | HMS | Bioethics This course will examine foundational normative problems and pragmatic ethical challenges facing those who work in some capacity to improve health outcomes for very poor populations living under conditions of severe resource scarcity. We will interrogate basic conceptual ideas such as “what do we mean by ‘global health equity’?” and the nature and root sources of “resource scarcity”, in addition to focusing on specific practical concerns such as 1) how to conduct ethical responsible research on and with socially and economically disadvantaged and vulnerable populations, 2) macro-economic and micro-bedside resource allocation dilemmas, and 3) health care worker “brain drain” from poor to rich locales. Health and Human Rights | BETH 751 Katherine Peeler | HMS | Bioethics This course will be taught in seminar format and center on each week's readings. The course will examine health and health care in the context of human rights. Questions and issues that will be addressed in the course include: If we have a right to health, does that include the right to health care or the right to receive medications? If so, what are some of the systematic obstacles to actually obtaining needed care? In addressing these issues we will examine some of the social determinants of health, including education, poverty, the social safety net, the oppression of minority groups, and the profit driven elements of much of our health care system. We will also explore health at the interface of global conflict, including such issues as torture. And, explore vulnerable populations including refugees, asylum seekers, and those with mental illness. Career Development in Global and Community Health | DHE 501 Brittany Seymour | HSDM | Oral Health Pol & Epi This is a seminar series course that examines the extensive career opportunities in global and community health through seminars provided by invited speakers currently working in the field. A variety of topics and areas of global health will be covered, and speakers may be added throughout the year as opportunities arise. By incorporating their current places of work and projects into presentations, discussions, and question and answer sessions, speakers will introduce students to a spectrum of global health career opportunities, both in the local community and abroad. Students will be required to attend a minimum of eight seminar sessions offered throughout the year. Students are evaluated on attendance and participation, as well as small group preparation through readings and discussion prior to scheduled lectures. By the end of this course, the student will be able to demonstrate understanding of the variety of career options in global health (possibly including program and policy development, private practice outreach, community health practice, research, and academics), as well as to demonstrate an understanding of the development of professional relationships in the field of global and community health. This course is an elective course for DMD students (for credit), AGE students (for audit), and cross-registrants from other Harvard schools. Human Health and Global Environmental Change | EH 278 Aaron Bernstein, Jonathan Buonocore | HSPH | Environmental Health Human activity is changing the atmosphere and altering terrestrial marine ecosystems on a global scale. Evidence is mounting that these changes may already be having serious effects on human health, and there is growing concern that in coming decades the effects could be catastrophic. This course was developed because the practice of public health in this century will require an understanding of the relationship between human health and the global environment. It will provide an overview of climate change and biodiversity loss, two key examples of global environmental change, their potential consequences for human health, and explore solutions to these problems and the challenges inherent in realizing those solutions. The course will be open to all students at Harvard University, but enrollment is limited and preference will be given to students from Harvard Medical School, the Harvard School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of government, and to undergraduate Environmental Science Public Policy majors.The course is jointly offered with Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Extension School. Students from these schools, and other schools, will also be part of the class. Special Topics in Environmental Health | EH 550 John Spengler, Ramon Sanchez Pina | HSPH | Environmental Health Sustainable Innovation Driven by Climate Change Preparedness and the UN Sustainable Development Goals Global crises like pandemics, climate change, and poverty eradication require immediate attention to reduce health, environmental and economic threats that hinder widespread and equitable development. For that reason, professionals in every field of knowledge should become agents of change that empower people worldwide by sharing knowledge and developing skills in sustainable practices and technologies, climate change preparedness, social entrepreneurship, and the process of creating positive startups to implement sustainable and social innovation to help in achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). This course will examine the relationship between Climate Change Preparedness, UN SDGs, community problems, and current sustainable and social solutions to serve as a starting point for developing new solutions that might serve as the business or social cases to conceive and fund startups in health, sustainability or social ventures. Students in this class will acquire knowledge and develop skills to create business plans and social value propositions to pitch to potential angel investors, venture capitalists, venture philanthropists, foundations, private banks, international financial institutions, etc. Some of the main topics for this course are the origins and adverse effects of climate change, assessment of community vulnerability and enhancement of regional resiliency (Climate Change Preparedness), principles for sustainable product design, intellectual property strategies, analysis of for-profit and social business models, assessment of carbon and environmental footprints, health impact assessment for energy and sustainable technologies and how to deliver an effective business pitch to potential investors Advanced Modeling for Health System Analysis & Priority Setting | GHP 201 Stephane Verguet | HSPH | Global Health & Population This course directly builds on GHP 501, and offers advanced methods for modeling for health system analysis and priority setting in global health. Students will apply a range of techniques to address central topics, including: health disparities; medical impoverishment and financial risk protection; economic evaluations for health policy assessment; health system modeling; health system performance and country performance on health.Through readings, basic programming using R software (www.r-project.org), and research projects, students will develop their research skills around three main areas of application, with an emphasis on low- and middle-income countries:I. Economic evaluation for health policy assessment II. Health system modeling III. Efficiency, equity, and performanceCourse Note: Instructor permission is required for enrollment. Students who wish to enroll must request instructor permission in my.Harvard. Please request permission by 5:00pm on January 21, 2022. The request should contain the following information: name, academic department and degree program, an explanation of how you will benefit from taking this course, and the relevance to individual career path and/or research plans.. Comparative Health Systems I | GHP 202 Winnie Yip | HSPH | Global Health & Population This course is the first in a two-course series on comparative health systems. The course will introduce students to theoretical health systems frameworks as well as essential concepts and methodological issues in comparative health systems research. In particular, the course uses theories of the market and the government as organizing principles throughout. The first part of the course will focus on (i) health systems frameworks and performance assessment, (ii) theories of market and market failures, (iii) theories of government and government failures, and (iv) approaches to comparative case studies and health system analysis. The second part of the course applies concepts and methods in the first part of the course to analyze different types of health systems and compares their performance. Comparative Health Systems II | GHP 203 Winnie Yip | HSPH | Global Health & Population GHP 203 is the second course in a two-course series on comparative health systems. The course will introduce students to theoretical health systems frameworks as well as essential concepts and methodological issues in comparative health systems research. In particular, the two-course series uses theories of the market and the government as organizing principles to compare and contrast different health systems. The first part of the series introduces health systems frameworks, theori13s of market and market failures, theories of government and government failures, and approaches to comparative case studies and health system analysis and demonstrates their applications in high-income settings. The second part will focus on the theory of financing, benefit package design, provider payment methods, organization of health service delivery systems and their applications in low- and middle-income country settings. Risk Factors and Population Health | GHP 207 Goodarz Danaei | HSPH | Global Health & Population This course covers the concepts and methods required to estimate the effect of risk factors or interventions on disease outcomes at the population level. The course will cover three major topics of estimating population exposure, determining effect sizes, and estimating the proportional and absolute effects of changes in risk factor distributions on the corresponding disease outcomes. Knowledge of intermediate epidemiology and biostatistics is required. Students will work in small groups on a project during the course and will implement the analysis using real data to estimate the impact of one or more risk factors on a selected disease outcome in a population. The course uses active learning teaching methods and students are required to do in-class activities. Global Mental Health Delivery: From Research to Practice | GHP 208 Shekhar Saxena, Giuseppe Raviola | HSPH | Global Health & Population Globally, the vast majority of people with mental health needs do not have access to mental health services at present. A major challenge has continued to be the translation of research evidence in the field of global mental health, both with regard to clinical care and prevention, to implementation and delivery- the research to practice gap. COVID-19 has highlighted the need for integrating lessons learned in global mental health delivery to meet complex needs across high-, middle- and low-income settings. Global Mental Health Delivery: From Research to Practice aims to present a diverse array of programs demonstrating how interventions for prevention, treatment and recovery across the life course are delivered in real-world settings in a range of cultural contexts. The overall goal of the course is to demonstrate how the core principles of access, equity, evidence and scalability are addressed in each case, to understand the barriers in the implementation of the intervention and the innovative strategies used to address them, and the learnings from the successes and failures of these efforts. The course presents a selection of context-specific case studies that illustrate these diverse principles and objectives, and facilitate learning how similar programs may be run in diverse contexts. The course is divided into three major thematic units: Systems of Care, Humanitarian Crisis and Response, and Task Sharing. Classes will be primarily discussion-based, and students will be expected to read the case studies in advance. Through the course students will integrate lessons learned from the case study presentations and will develop a project concept that will emerge as a product of a staggered learning process that closely reflects project development in real-life settings. The course serves as a next-level analysis of the field of global mental health, following GHP 204 Foundations of Global Mental Health, but students need not take GHP 204 before GHP 208 to benefit greatly. The course is cross-listed with Harvard Medical School. Global Cardiovascular Disease Prevention - Methods, Study Designs, and Case Studies | GHP 213 Goodarz Danaei | HSPH | Global Health & Population At the end of the course, attendees will be able to use analytical methods (complex survey analysis, regression models, and survival analysis) to examine the population-level exposure to risk factors and the causal impact of interventions on preventing cardiovascular diseases (CVD); they will also be able to critically appraise the literature on CVD prevention worldwide and to design and evaluate interventions to prevent CVD. They will also learn and discuss cases of success and failure in CVD prevention worldwide with a focus on developing countries. Introduction to Economics with Applications to Health and Development | GHP 230 Margaret McConnell | HSPH | Global Health & Population This course provides an overview of the microeconomic theories and concepts most relevant for understanding health and development. Each work of the course will cover basic concepts in economics with an application to health. It describes how the markets for health and health services are different from other goods, with a particular emphasis on the role of government and market failure. In addition it discusses the theoretical and empirical aspects of key health economics issues, including the demand for health and health services, supply side concerns, health insurance, the provision of public goods, and related topics. The course encourages students to fundamentally and rigorously examine the role of the market for the provision of health and health services and how public policy can influence these markets. At the completion of the course, you will: 1) Understand the basic intuition of microeconomics models of consumers, producers and welfare. 2) Understand market failures, their implications and solutions. 3) Be familiar with current issues in global health economics around the demand for health and health insurance. 4) Consume, discuss and write about economic studies of health and health care systems. Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Global Perspective | GHP 231 Ana Langer | HSPH | Global Health & Population This course is designed to provide an overview of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) from a global perspective with a focus on the most disadvantaged populations. The course will cover the most critical topics and dimensions in this field, i.e. historic, conceptual, research, methodological, policy, programmatic, rights, and advocacy. The themes will include the role of the global community in shaping the SRH agenda, sexual and reproductive rights, maternal health measurement and quality of care, unsafe abortion, contraception, adolescents’ SRH, women’s health along the life course and integration of reproductive healthcare. Gender, social inequalities and rights will be underpinning dimensions along the entire course. Students will be introduced to the core SRH literature and learn about the outstanding debates, acute knowledge gaps, effective evidence-based interventions, progress, current challenges and the most promising public health approaches to overcome them. This course will be fully participatory. Students are expected to reflect on readings, lead discussions, prepare group or individual case studies and prepare assigned homework. Behavioral Economics and Global Health | GHP 237 Margaret McConnell | HSPH | Global Health & Population This course provides an overview of behavioral economic theory and surveys the most recent evidence in behavioral economics applied to global health. The course will introduce students to the process of defining and diagnosing challenges in global health policy that are rooted in human behavior. They will also learn how to design solutions to these problems using principles from behavioral economics and rigorously test those solutions in applied settings. Grant Writing for Funding of Research and Health Care Projects | GHP 263 Karin Dumbaugh | HSPH | Global Health & Population Innovation in health sciences and management is critical to advancing health. In this course participants develop their own proposal for basic or applied research or for a business plan in health that improve knowledge, the delivery of care or other health related activities. The instructor and guests act as catalysts and knowledge resource. The proposed projects serve as case material for faculty and class participants to prepare innovative, relevant, productive, and fundable proposals that will advance the participants professional development and health, nationally or internationally.The objective of the course is to provide participants with two tools to advance in their profession:1) a grant proposal or business plan and other useful tools for professional growth within their work on their degree(s) and/or their search for academic or other positions; 2) an approach to identify problems or ideas for which they are most likely to find solutions because of their own experience, expertise, and passion.This course guides you with a) strategies and examples to prepare a realistic and fundable grant proposal for submission to a funding agency upon completion of the course; b) a framework that you can adapt for writing future proposals for basic or applied research, or for projects that deliver services or care, including business plans; c) approaches and assistance to obtain mentor support for your work; d) strategies to find the most relevant sources of information about organizations that fund such work, e) practice opportunities to use course products, such as the proposal, quad chart, timeline, budget, and presentation as tools for professional growth and presentations/interviews for academic and other positions. The Settler Colonial Determinants of Health | GHP 264 HSPH | Global Health & Population Health inequities within and between societies are garnering increased attention, but some historical and structural processes are insufficiently considered despite their significant contributions. This course introduces students to the concept of settler colonialism and its health equity implications for indigenous and settler populations. Utilizing case studies from the United States and Palestine/Israel, comparative analyses in this discussion- and lecture-based seminar will elucidate universal and particular elements of settler colonial societies while drawing causal chains to their perpetual outcomes: poorer health for indigenous and other non-settler (“arrivant”) communities.This course is open to graduate students across the University and is especially salient for those aspiring to engage in public or global health, public policy, legal scholarship, advocacy and activism, human rights, or for anyone eager to explore an alternative framework for understanding the enduring structures that generate racial health inequities in multiple global contexts. Ethics of Global Health Research | GHP 265 Richard Cash | HSPH | Global Health & Population This course is designed to expose students to the key ethical issues that may be encountered in the course of conducting global health research. Using case presentations and discussion-based class sessions, students will have the opportunity to begin developing their own tools for dealing with these important issues in an applied context. The Political Economy of Global Health | GHP 269 Jesse Bump | HSPH | Global Health & Population This course presents theoretical perspectives, empirical cases and research issues in policy analysis and political economy in global health. The focus is on analytical and methodological issues. The main purpose is to examine the political economy constraints on national and global health initiatives, the role of international agencies, the impact of non-governmental organizations, and the role of the state. Knowledge and Research Design in Global Health | GHP 270 Michael Reich | HSPH | Global Health & Population This course examines how knowledge and research are generated and used in the field of global health. The course begins by considering major issues in epistemology and the philosophy of science concerning what we can know about the world, including a discussion of discipline-based and interdisciplinary approaches. In subsequent weeks, the course explores basic principles of research theory, with attention to the advantages and disadvantages of research designs such as aggregate analysis, small n comparison, and case studies. In these areas, both quantitative and qualitative approaches are covered. Issues include: how to apply theories, how to select cases, how to improve measurement, and how to cope with problems of validity in causal inference.The course is intended to help students understand the strengths and weaknesses of different research methods to assist them in designing research studies and interpreting and using published research papers. The course emphasizes the development of a critical assessment of published papers in global health.The course includes a discussion of how to write an effective research proposal; the course is primarily intended to help doctoral and MS students in Global Health and Population with the design and writing of their thesis proposals as well as DrPH students with the design and writing of applied research proposals. Ana Langer | HSPH | Global Health & Population Ana Langer | HSPH | Global Health & Population Ana Langer | HSPH | Global Health & Population Ana Langer | HSPH | Global Health & Population Course Title Prof/School/Dept Description Keywords -
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