GCH 8121 Foundations of Global Health
This course is designed to equip students with an understanding of the foundational concepts, challenges, and opportunities in global health and how they relate to child health. It will provide a global population health perspective on child health, childhood cancers and other catastrophic illnesses in children worldwide and discuss how complex social, political, economic, and biomedical factors inform our understanding of child health. The imperative for the students is to understand these factors individually and synergistically and leverage this understanding to set priorities, form policies and design interventions. The students will be able to identify areas of interest and knowledge gaps within the field of global child health that they can focus on through the program.