Please ensure Javascript is enabled for purposes of website accessibility

Sign up to learn more about news, events and opportunities with Stanford Global Health.

Learn and Get involved
Learn and Get involved

Courses in Global

Banner photo courtesy of imagesofempowerment.com

Global Health Courses

The following list of courses related to global and planetary health is updated each quarter to reflect new offering. Filter by quarter or student type to find classes relevant to you. Courses with an asterisk (*) are Bing Overseas Study Program opportunities. Courses with two asterisks (**) are not for credit.

Quarters Available

Student Type

Course Type

Course Name
Professor
Quarters Offered
Student Type
Course Type
EPI 237: Practical Approaches to Global Health (INTLPOL 290, MED 226)
Stephen Luby, MD
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
MED 124: Global Child Health (HUMBIO 124C)
Clea Sarnquist, DrPH, MPH
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
HISTORY 201C: The U.S., U.N. Peacekeeping, and Humanitarian War (INTNLREL 140C, INTNLREL 140X)
Bertrand M Patenaude, PhD
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
SUSTAIN 103: Human and Planetary Health (MED 103, PUBLPOL 183, SOC 103)
Katherine Burke, MBA, MSc; Giulio De Leo, PhD; Stephen Luby, MD & Sara Damore, MS
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
ANTHRO 82: Medical Anthropology (ANTHRO 282, HUMBIO 176A)
Matthew Kohrman, PhD; Kelsey Clough, MA; Awa Hanane Diagne, BA & Madeline Turner, BA
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
MED 44N: Polio and Ethics: Past, Present and Future
Holly Tabor, PhD
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
OPHT 201: Clinical Topics in Ophthalmology
Eubee Koo, MD
Fall
Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
CHPR 237: Hunger & Food Insecurity: Challenges and Solutions
Christopher Gardner, PhD, MS
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
CHPR 240: Prevention Research: the Science of Healthy Living
Marcia Stefanick, PhD
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
DESIGN 264: Design for Health Equity (PEDS 219)
Lee Sanders, MD, MPH
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
HISTORY 243G - Tobacco and Health in World History: How Big Nic created the template for global science denial (HISTORY 343G)
Robert Proctor, PhD, MS
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
MED 285: Global Leaders and Innovators in Human and Planetary Health: Sustainable Societies Lab (HRP 285, SUSTAIN 345)
Gordon Bloom, MBA, MFA & Sara Singer, PhD
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
BIO 176: Disease Ecology (BIO 276)
Erin Mordecai, PhD
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
HUMBIO 142: Adolescent Health and Development
Jonathan Klein, MD, MPH
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
SURG 236: Advanced Topics in Global Surgery
Tiffany Chao, MD & Malerie Pratt, MD
Fall
Medical Students
Global Health
ESS 61Q: Food and Security
Rosamond Naylor PhD, MSc & Stephen Stedman, BS
Fall
Undergraduates
Global Health Planetary Health
CS 106S: Coding for Social Good
Jerry Cain, Benjamin Yan
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
MED 319E: The Community Health of the Underserved Clerkship
Nancy Cuan, MD
Winter
Medical Students
Global Health
PEDS 238: Science Writing Advancing Global and Planetary Health (SWAP) (EBS 239)
Sara Damore, MS; Jamie Hansen, MA; Desiree LaBeaud, MD, MS
Spring Fall Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
SPANLANG 108SL: Advanced Spanish Service-Learning: Migration, Asylum & Human Rights at the Border
Vivian Brates, MA
Fall Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
HUMRTS 108: Advanced Spanish Service-Learning: Migration, Asylum, and Human Rights at the Border
Vivian Brates, MA
Fall Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
HUMRTS 195: Human Rights Special Project: Pro-Se Resource Project with Freedom for Immigrants
Vivian Brates, MA
Spring Fall
Graduate Students
Global Health
CEE 374W: Advanced Topics in Water, Health and Development
Jenna Davis, PhD, MSPH
Spring Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
PWR 2TD: Writing and Rhetoric 2: The Rhetoric of Global Health
Tara Diener, MA, PhD
Fall Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
ANTHRO 248: Health, Politics, and Culture of Modern China (ANTHRO 148, CHINA 155A, CHINA 255A)
Matthew Kohrman, PhD
Spring Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
MED 131: Sustainable Societies Lab: Models of Israeli-Arab Cooperation & Pathways to Peace (SUSTAIN 132, INTNLREL 132, POLISCI 119)
Gordon Bloom, MBA, MFA & Sara Singer, PhD
Winter
Undergraduates
Global Health
HUMBIO 29: Introduction to Global Health
Tiffany Chao, MD & Victoria Ward, MD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
EPI 247: Epidemic Intelligence: How to Identify, Investigate and Interrupt Outbreaks of Disease (HUMBIO 57)
Julie Parsonnet, MD; Catherine Ley, PhD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
SOMGEN 206: Global Medical Issues Affecting Women (FEMGEN 206)
Clea Sarnquist, DrPH, MPH
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
BIOE 122 : BioSecurity and Pandemic Resilience (EMED 122, EMED 222, PUBLPOL 122, PUBLPOL 222)
Milana Boukhman Trounce MD, MBA
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
CHPR 242: The Science of Well-being: A Global Perspective
Ann Hsing, PhD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
EPI 231: Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
Yvonne Maldonado, MD & Jason Andrews, MD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
MED 232: Global Health: Scaling Health Technology Innovations in Low Resource Settings
Anurag Mairal, PhD; Krista Donaldson. PhD & Michele Barry, MD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
EMED 134: Climate Change, Toxins, and Health: From Education to Action (EMED 234)
James Marvel, MD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
SURG 234: Service Through Surgery: Surgeons with an Impact
Micaela Esquivel, MD
Winter
Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
CHPR 239: Contemplative Competence for Sustainability of Public and Planetary Health and Well-being
Tia Rich, PhD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
HUMBIO 3B: Health Policy Analysis and Population Health
Laurence Baker, PhD & Maya Rossin-Slater, PhD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
HRP 201B: Health Policy Graduate Student Tutorial II
Adrienne Sabety, PhD, BA
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
EMED 227: Health Care Leadership (EMED 127, PUBLPOL 127, PUBLPOL 227)
Milana Boukhman Trounce MD, MBA
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
BIO 35: Sustainability and Civilization (HISTORY 35, POLISCI 35)
Rodolfo Dirzo, PhD, MSc; R. Lanier Anderson, PhD, MA; Bruce Cain, PhD; Gabriella Safran, PhD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Planetary Health
BIOE 375: Prevention Medicine and Entrepreneurship for Societal Health (CHPR 275, MED 236)
Judith Prochaska PhD, MPH, Narges Baniasadi, PhD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
GSBGEN 551: Innovation and Management in Health Care
Robert Chess, MBA
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
MED 269A: Health Equity and Social Justice - SC Core FoundationsCourse
Stephen Richmond, MD, MPH
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
MED 242: Human Rights and Health
Ami Laws, MD & Erika Schillinger, MD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
CHPR 272: Geography of Health
Judith Prochaska, PhD, MPH, MS
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
EASTASN 117: Health and Healthcare Systems in East Asia (EASTASN 217)
Karen Eggleston, PhD, MA
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
HUMBIO 122H: Advancing Health Equity: Exploring Social Determinants of Health and Multi-sector Solutions (PEDS 150, PEDS 250, MED 202)
Janine Bruce, DrPH, MPH
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
FEMGEN 44Q: Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment (HISTORY 44Q)
Londa Schiebinger, PhD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
HUMBIO 122E: Reducing Health Disparities and Closing the Achievement Gap through Health Integration in Schools (PEDS 229)
Ryan Padrez, MD; Eunice Rodriguez, MPH, DrPH & Piya Sorcar, PhD, MA
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
HUMBIO 123G: Health Care Systems around the World
Natalia Serna Borrero, PhD, MS
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
EPI 272: The Science of Community Engagement in Health Research (CHPR 227)
Lisa Rosas, PhD, MPH
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
BIOS 411: Surgical Innovation: From Concept to the Operating Room
Winter
Medical Students
Global Health
ANTHRO 153: Asylum: Knowledge, Politics, and Population (CHILATST 153C, CSRE 153C)
Angela Garcia, PhD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
BIOE 271: Frugal Science
Manu Prakash, PhD, MS
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students
Global Health Planetary Health
OIT 333: Design for Extreme Affordability
Stuart Coulson, MBA, EMBA
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
HUMRTS 110: Advanced Spanish Service-Learning: Campus Workers' Health and Empowerment Outreach
Vivian Brates, MA
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
SPANLANG 110SL: Advanced Spanish Service-Learning: Campus Workers' Health and Empowerment Outreach
Vivian Brates, MA
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
MED 224: Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab (SE Lab) - Human & Planetary Health (HRP 224 ,PUBLPOL 224)
Gordon Bloom, MBA, MFA & Sara Singer, PhD
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
HRP 201C: Health Policy Graduate Student Tutorial III
Grant Miller, PhD
Spring
Graduate Students
Global Health
PEDS 223: Human Rights and Global Health
Bertrand Patenaude, PhD
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
MED 54Q: Decolonizing Global Health
Takudzwa Shumba, MD, MPH
Spring
Undergraduates
Global Health
HUMBIO 125: Current Topics and Controversies in Women's Health (FEMGEN 256, CHRP 256)
Marcia Stefanick, PhD
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
PSYC 244: Islamic Psychology (CSRE 144A, PSYC 144)
Rania Awaad, MD
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
STRAMGT 345: Impact: Taking Social Innovation to Scale
Steve Davis, JD, MA
Spring
Graduate Students
Global Health
NATIVEAM 240: Psychology and American Indian/Alaska Native Mental Health (EDUC 340, PSYCH 272)
Teresa LaFromboise, PhD, MEd
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
OSPSANTG 57: Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights and Public Policy in Chile*
Claudia Dides
Spring
Undergraduates
Global Health
OSPMADRD 57: Health Care: A Contrastive Analysis between Spain and the U.S.*
Alicia Perez Blanco
Spring
Undergraduates
Global Health
COMPMED 84Q: Globally Emerging Zoonotic Diseases
Stephen Felt, DVM, MPH
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
CEE 173: Urban Water
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
MED 294: Critical Issues in Global Health (MED 194)
Michele Barry, MD & Geoff Tabin, MD
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
ECON 127: Economics of Health Improvement in Developing Countries (HRP 227, MED 262)
Grant Miller, PhD, MPP
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
EARTHSYS 125: Shades of Green: Exploring and Expanding Environmental Justice in Practice (CSRE 125E, EARTHSYS 225, URBANST 125)
Sibyl Diver, PhD
Spring
Undergraduates
Global Health Planetary Health
MED 268: Tackling Asian-American Health Challenges (ASNAMST 268)
Latha Palaniappan, MD, MS & Bryant Lin, MD, MEng
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
BIO 2N: Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease in a Changing World
Erin Mordecai, PhD
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
MED 269B: Health Equity and Social Justice - SC Core Skills Course
Stephen Richmond, MD, MPH
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
EARTHSYS 139A: Designing Regenerative Societies (STS 139)
Trond Arne Undheim, PhD
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
SUSTAIN 222: Philanthropy for Sustainable Development (ETHICSOC 232T, POLISCI 236, POLISCI 236S)
Vera Michalchik, PhD, EdM; Micah McElroy, PhD
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
BIOE 256: Technology Assessment and Regulation of Medical Devices (MS&E 256)
Jan Pietzsch, PhD, MSc
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
CHPR 232: Social and Structural Determinants of Health: Achieving Health Equity
Shawna Follis, PhD, MS; Judith Prochaska, PhD, MPH
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
HRP 252: Outcomes Analysis (BIOMEDIN 251, MED 252)
Eran Bendavid, MD, MS
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
MED 261: Leadership in Health Equity and Community Engagement: Creating New Educational Opportunities
Spring
Medical Students
Global Health
MED 159: Oaxacan Health on Both Sides of the Border*
Catherine Heaney, PhD
Spring
Undergraduates
Global Health
HUMRTS 122: Global Human Rights and Local Practices (INTLPOL 282, INTNLREL 125, SOC 215)
Kiyoteru Tsutsui, PhD, MA
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
GLOBAL 112: Oceans and the Global Imaginary (GLOBAL 212, OCEANS 112, OCEANS 212)
Krish Seetah, PhD, MS
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Planetary Health
CEE 265D: Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries
Jenna Davis, PhD, MSPH
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
PEDS 237: Equitable Global Partnerships in Health and Beyond (EBS 238)
Desiree LaBeaud, MD, MS
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
EARTHSYS 115: Science for Sustainable Solutions (EARTHSYS 215, SUST 215)
Steve Davis, JD, MA
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
FEMGEN 7W: Community-Engaged Learning Workshop on Human Trafficking - Part II (HISTORY 7W, HUMRTS 7W)
Katherine Jolluck, PhD, MA
Spring
Undergraduates
SINY 117: Storytelling and Human Health: An Introduction to Global Health Communication and Media Innovation
Maya Adam, MD
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
OSPBEIJ 55: A Hands-On Anthropological Introduction: Health, Politics, and Culture of Contemporary China
Matthew Kohrman, PhD
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
EARTHSYS 123: Tribal Food Sovereignty (NATIVEAM 123)
Vena A Briones, JD, LLm
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
HUMBIO 114: Global Change and Emerging Infectious Disease (EARTHSYS 114, EARTHSYS 214, ESS 213)
James Jones, PhD
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
HUMRTS 117: International Human Rights (INTLPOL 355, HUMRTS 117, LAW 5010)
Brittan Heller, JD, MA
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
BIOE 394: Innovate for Planet Health: Entrepreneurial Opportunities for Planet and Societal Health Challenges
Narges Baniasadi, PhD
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
OIT 334: Design for Extreme Affordability
Stuart Coulson, MBA, EMBA
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
HUMBIO 122M: Challenges of Human Migration: Health and Health Care of Migrants and Autochthonous Populations (PEDS 212)
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
ANTHRO 151: Medical Anthropology in a Global World (FEMGEN 151A)
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
COLLEGE 122: Pox, Plague, and Pestilence: A Germ's Eye View of Modernity
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
PSYC 208: How to Communicate Science: The Tools and Responsibilities of Public Engagement (PSYC 108)
David Eagleman, PhD & Alan Louie, MD
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
CEE 41Q: Clean Water Now! Urban Water Conflicts
Alexandria Boehm, PhD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
MED 139: Child and Family Resilience: Health Impacts and Interventions
David Chang, MD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
MED 288: Health Career Collaborative Experiential Learning
Crystal Unzueta, MD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
ESS 114: Regenerative Coffee: Biochar, Climate, and Health, A Human and Planetary Health Action Lab (ESS 314)
Emily Callaghan; Kate Maher. PhD, MS; Katie Vogelheim
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Planetary Health