Course Profiles

GLBH 501: Foundations of Global Health I

To be effective, health care managers must have the financial literacy to make well-informed and thorough decisions.

GLBH 502: Foundations of Global Health II

Central competencies and system-level concepts required for effective global health practice

GLBH 503: Epidemiology and Biostatistics in Global Health

Fundamental principles and methods of epidemiology and biostatistics and their application to global health challenges

GLBH 504: Critical Evidence Appraisal in Global Health

Trends and variations in health; evidence appraisal in Global Health; Global Heath data sets, the role observational studies and clinical trials

GLBH 505: Global Health Ethics

Central ethical theories and issues in global health, effects of global socioeconomic inequities, recruitment from low to high-resource settings, cultural relativity versus universal human rights

GLBH 506: Colonialism and Global Health

Impacts of distinct types of colonialism on global health. Emphasis on case studies of colonialism and health of Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations both locally and internationally.

GLBH 507: Global Environmental Health

Major environmental factors that impact health on a global scale; climate change, air pollution, water quality; measures to address these challenges in local and global contexts

GLBH 508: Program Planning and Evaluation in Global Health

Theory, approaches and methods for conducting global health programs among populations in various low resource contexts.

GLBH 510: Global Health Practicum

Applied worked-integrated global health experiential learning in a professional setting

PPGA 569: Global Health Policy

Actors, processes and context shaping global health policy

SPPH 581H: Qualitative Research in Public Health Practice – Global Health

Overview of what constitutes qualitative research, and characteristics of good qualitative research in global health