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Graduate Students

Graduate Courses in Global Health Studies
Programs
Opportunities Across the University

"The challenges in global health are not contained by international borders or academic disciplines. To tackle these challenges, we need physicians working with engineers, economists, data scientists and experts from all disciplines."

Michele Barry

Senior Associate Dean for Global Health and Director, Center for Innovation in Global Health

Graduate Courses in Global Health Studies

HUMBIO 29: Introduction to Global Health

Tiffany Chao, MD & Victoria Ward, MD

Winter

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

EPI 237: Practical Approaches to Global Health (INTLPOL 290, MED 226)

Stephen Luby, MD

Fall

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

SOMGEN 206: Global Medical Issues Affecting Women (FEMGEN 206)

Clea Sarnquist, DrPH, MPH

Winter

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

ETHICSOC 136R: Introduction to Global Justice

Valerie Soon, PhD

Winter

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

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

HRP 224: Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab (SE Lab) - Human & Planetary Health (MED 224, PUBLPOL 224)

Gordon Bloom, MBA, MFA

Spring Fall Winter

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

AFRICAST 195: Shifting Frames

Laura Hubbard, PhD

Spring Winter

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

CEE 265D: Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries

Jenna Davis, PhD, MSPH

Spring

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

ANTHRO 82: Medical Anthropology (ANTHRO 282, HUMBIO 176A)

Angela Garcia, PhD

Fall

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

BIOE 394: Innovate for Planet Health: Entrepreneurial Opportunities for Planet and Societal Health Challenges

Narges Baniasadi, PhD

Spring

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

CHPR 242: The Science of Well-being: A Global Perspective

Ann Hsing, PhD

Winter

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

BIOE 271: Frugal Science

Manu Prakash, PhD

Winter

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

EMED 134: The Impact of Climate Change on Human Health (EMED 234)

Phillip Harter, PhD

Winter

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

SURG 234: Service Through Surgery: Surgeons with an Impact

Micaela Esquivel, MD

Winter

Graduate Students Medical Students

MED 285: Global Leaders and Innovators in Human and Planetary Health (HRP 285)

Gordon Bloom, MBA, MFA & Sara Singer, PhD

Spring

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

CEE 374W: Advanced Topics in Water, Health and Development

Jenna Davis, PhD

Spring Summer Fall Winter

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

HUMBIO 114: Global Change and Emerging Infectious Disease (EARTHSYS 114, EARTHSYS 214, ESS 213)

James Jones, PhD & John Openshaw, MD

Spring

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

MED 157: Foundations for Community Health Engagement

Gabriel Garcia, MD & Catherine Heaney, PhD

Spring

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

PEDS 223: Human Rights and Global Health

Bertrand Patenaude, PhD

Spring

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

MED 54Q: Decolonizing Global Health

Takudzwa Shumba, MD, MPH

Spring

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

MED 159: Oaxacan Health on Both Sides of the Border

Catherine Heaney, PhD

Spring

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

HUMBIO 123E: Health Economics & Policy: exploring health disparities, child health & health care spending

Maya Rossin-Slater, PhD

Spring

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

HUMBIO 125: Current Topics and Controversies in Women's Health (FEMGEN 256, OBGYN 256)

Marcia Stefanick, PhD

Spring

Undergraduates Graduate Students

EARTHSYS 196A: Environmental Justice and Human Rights Lab

Jessie Brunner, MA; Sibyl Diver, PhD; Emily Polk, PhD & Penelope Van Tuyl, JD

Spring Fall Winter

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

MED 294: Global Health: Through an Equity Lens (MED 194)

Michele Barry, MD & Geoff Tabin, MD

Spring

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

HUMBIO 124C: Global Child Health (MED 124, PEDS 124)

Yvonne Maldonado, MD & Clea Sarnquist, MD

Fall

Undergraduates

BIO 103: Human and Planetary Health (BIO 203, SOC 103)

Katherine Burke, MBA, MSc; Giulio De Leo, PhD & Stephen Luby, MD

Fall

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

MED 228: Physicians and Social Responsibility

Ami Laws, MD & Erika Schillinger, MD

Fall

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

CEE 371C: SARS-CoV-2 in the Environment

Alexandria Boehm, PhD

Fall Winter

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

CHPR 237: Hunger & Food Insecurity: Challenges and Solution

Christopher Gardner, PhD

Fall

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

CSRE 5C/105C: Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives (FEMGEN 5C/105C, HISTORY 5C/105C, INTNLREL 5C/105C)

Katherine Jolluck, PhD

Fall

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

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

BIO 179: Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (BIO 279, EARTHSYS 179, EARTHSYS 279)

Gretchen Daily, PHD

Fall

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

MED 232: Global Health: Scaling Health Technology Innovations in Low Resource Settings

Anurag Mairal, PhD & Michele Barry, MD

Winter

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

PEDS 220: Covid-19 Elective

Rishi Mediratta, MD

Spring Fall Winter

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

BIOE 375: Biodesign and Entrepreneurship for Societal Health

Narges Baniasadi, PhD

Spring

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

PSYC 144/244: Islamic Psychology

Rania Awaad, MD

Spring

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

STRAMGT 345: Impact: Taking Social Innovation to Scale

Steve Davis, JD, MA

Spring

Graduate Students Medical Students

MED 268: Tackling Cross-Cultural Health Challenges: Emphasis on the Asian Community (ASNAMST 268)

Latha Palaniappan, MD, MS & Bryant Lin, MD, MEng

Spring

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

DESINST 258U: Upstreaming Health (HUMBIO 128U)

Sara Singer, MBA, PhD; Joanne Cheung & Stephen Johannes Downs

Spring

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

ECON 127: Economics of Health Improvement in Developing Countries

Winter

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

SOMGEN 207: Theories of Change in Global Health (INTLPOL 291, PUBLPOL 291)

Stephen Luby, MD

Winter

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

HUMBIO 122M: Challenges of Human Migration: Health and Health Care of Migrants and Autochthonous Populations (PEDS 212)

Eunice Rodriguez, MPH

Spring

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

EARTHSYS 125: Shades of Green: Exploring and Expanding Environmental Justice in Practice (CSRE 125E, EARTHSYS 225, URBANST 125)

Sibyl Diver, PhD

Spring

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

MED 233: Global Health: Beyond Diseases and International Organizations

Cybele Renault MD, DTM&H & Ashley Styczynski, MD, MPH

Spring

Graduate Students Medical Students

OBGYN 256: Current Topics and Controversies in Women's Health (HUMBIO 125, FEMGEN 256)

Marcia Stefanick, PhD

Spring

Medical Students

SUSTAIN 140: Environmental Humanities: Finding Our Place on a Changing Planet (BIO 184)

Erika Veidis, MBA; Giulio De Leo, PhD; Kathy Burke, MS, MBA; Sara Michas-Martin, MFA; Kelly McManus Chauvin, PhD & Tad Fukami, PhD, MS

Fall

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

MED 124: Global Child Health (HUMBIO 124C, PEDS 124)

Yvonne Maldonado, MD & Clea Sarnquist, DrPH, MPH

Fall

Graduate Students Medical Students

BIOS 234: 21st Century Approaches to Neglected Tropical Diseases

Spring

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

CEE 173: Urban Water

Spring

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

CHPR 239: Contemplative Competence for Sustainability of Public and Planetary Health and Well-being

Tia Rich, PhD

Winter

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

PSYC 86Q: Psychology of Xenophobia

Rania Awad, MD

Winter

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

SURG 234: Service Through Surgery: Surgeons with an Impact

Micaela Esquivel, MD

Winter

Graduate Students Medical Students

SUSTAIN 2: Climate and Society

Marshall Burke, PhD, MS; Noah Diffenbaugh, PhD & David Lobell, PhD

Winter

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

CEE 277F: Advanced Field Methods in Water, Health and Development

Jenna Davis, PhD, MSPH

Spring Summer Fall Winter

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

OSPGEN 259: Community Health in Oaxaca

Gabriel Garcia, MD

Summer

Undergraduates

BIO 2N: Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease in a Changing World

Erin Mordecai, PhD

Spring

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

EPI 231: Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases

Julie Parsonnet, MD; Yvonne Maldonado, MD & Jason Andrews, MD

Winter

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

HUMBIO 116: Climate Perspectives: Climate Science, Impacts, Policy, Negotiations, and Advocacy (PUBLPOL 116)

Joe Nation, PhD

Fall

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

SUST 210: Pursuing Sustainability: Managing Complex Social Environmental Systems (ESS 230)

Garry Sotnik, MA & Pam Matson, PhD, MS

Fall

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

HUMBIO 166: Food and Society: Exploring Eating Behaviors in Social, Environmental, and Policy Context (CHPR 166)

Christopher Gardner, PhD, MS

Winter

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

EARTHSYS 109: Rethinking Meat: An Introduction to Alternative Proteins (EARTHSYS 209, ESS 103, ESS 203, ETHICSOC 107)

Spring

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

EARTHSYS 194A: Environmental Justice Colloquium (HUMRTS 194A, URBANST 155A)

MarCarrera Zamanillo, PhD, MS

Fall

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

ESS 328: Environmental Change and Human Resiliency

Winter

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

HUMBIO 3B: Environmental and Health Policy Analysis

Laurence Baker, PhD & Joe Nation, PhD

Winter

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

ME 375: Wildfire Science

Matthias Ihme, PhD, MSc

Spring

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

STS 177: The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating: Technology, History, and Justice

Kyoko Sato, PhD

Fall

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

SUSTAIN 329: Policy Practicum: Smoke (LAW 808D)

Michael Wara, JD, PhD & Deborah Sivas, JD, MS

Fall

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

ESS 268: Empirical Methods in Sustainable Development (INTLPOL 272)

Marshall Burke, PhD, MS

Winter

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

BIO 117: Biology and Global Change (EARTHSYS 111, EARTHSYS 217, ESS 111)

Karen Casciotti, PhD, MS & Peter Vitousek, PhD

Winter

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

CEE 260C: Contaminant Hydrogeology and Reactive Transport (ESS 221)

Steven Gorelick, PhD, MS, Katharine Maher, PhD, MS

Winter

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

CEE 270: Movement and Fate of Organic Contaminants in Waters

Richard Luthy, PhD, MS

Fall

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

CEE 278A: Air Pollution Fundamentals

Royal Kopperud, PhD

Fall

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

HUMBIO 154D: Models for Understanding and Controlling Global Infectious Diseases (HRP 204)

Spring

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

HUMBIO 179B: Music and Healing (MUSIC 39B)

Denise Gill, PhD, MA

Fall

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

OSPOXFRD 67: Pandemics in Cultural Context

Summer

Undergraduates

MED 246: Confronting Emotions in the Climate Sciences (SUSTAIN 223)

David Palumbo-Liu, PhD; Peter Pellitier, PhD; Britt Wray, PhD

Winter

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

CEE 64: Air Pollution and Global Warming: History, Science, and Solutions (CEE 263D)

Mark Jacobson, PhD, MS

Winter

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

COLLEGE 106: Environmental Sustainability: Global Predicaments and Possible Solutions

William Barnett, PhD; Chris Field, PhD; Mejgan Massoumi, PhD, MCP & Belinda Ramírez, PhD

Spring

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

PEDS 225: Humanitarian Aid and Politics

Bertrand M Patenaude, PhD

Fall

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

ENGLISH 102: Pathogens and Populations: Representing Infectious Disease

Alex Sherman & Mallory Harris

Fall

Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students

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Global Health Student Council

The Global Health Student Council, working in partnership with the Center for Innovation in Global Health, is composed of undergraduate and graduate students with diverse backgrounds committed to strengthening the global health community on campus.

Connection Across the University

As an interdisciplinary institution, Stanford University fosters global health collaborations across all seven schools of the university. We welcome engagement from any student passionate about global health and reducing healthcare disparities, regardless of their major or discipline of study. Historically, we have worked with graduate students / coterminal students in the following programs.