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"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

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Programs

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.

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Stanford Global Health Club

The Stanford Global Health Club hosts a monthly seminar series, where members of the Stanford community can come together to learn, share, and collaborate on approaches to improve global health. Organized by Stanford PhD students and postdocs, the seminars are open to attendees of all levels of experience and disciplines, including medicine, anthropology, biology, economics, law, ethics, and engineering. 

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Master of Science Degree in Epidemiology and Clinical Research: Global Health Concentration

The Master of Science Degree in Epidemiology and Clinical Research program offers a Global Health Concentration. Learn more about the requirements here.

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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.

 

Graduate Courses in Global Health Studies

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
BIO 179: The Science & Practice of Valuing Nature for a Better World (BIO 279, EARTHSYS 179, EARTHSYS 279)
Gretchen Daily, PHD & Jesse Goldstein, MS
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Planetary Health
PEDS 225: Humanitarian Aid and Politics
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 & Erika Veidis, MBA
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
ANTHRO 82: Medical Anthropology (ANTHRO 282, HUMBIO 176A)
Matthew Kohrman; Reem Badr, MA & Chen Shen
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
SUST 210: Pursuing Sustainability: Managing Complex Social Environmental Systems
Nicole Ardoin, PhD, Pam Matson, PhD, MS, Julia Novy, M. Phil
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Planetary Health
EARTHSYS 194A: Environmental Justice Colloquium (HUMRTS 194A, URBANST 155A)
Sibyl Diver, PhD
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Planetary Health
STS 177: The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating: Technology, History, and Justice
Kyoko Sato, PhD
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Planetary Health
BIODS 228: RNA Genomics: From Classical to Modern Deep Learning (BIO 206)
Julia Salzman, PhD
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Planetary Health
ESS 14N: Sustainable Adaptation
Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, PhD, MA
Fall
Undergraduates
Planetary Health
SINY 65: Climate Justice in the Megacity*
Walter Rodriguez Meyer
Fall
Undergraduates
Planetary Health
CEE 371C: SARS-CoV-2 in the Environment
Alexandria Boehm, PhD
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
BIOE 273 - Biodesign for Digital Health (MED 273)
Oliver Aalami, MD; Lyn Denend, MBA; Michelle de Haaff, MS
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
HUMBIO 116: Climate Perspectives: Climate Science, Impacts, Policy, Negotiations, and Advocacy (EARTHSYS 116A, PUBLPOL 116)
Joe Nation, PhD
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Planetary Health
EPI 247: Epidemic Intelligence: How to Identify, Investigate and Interrupt Outbreaks of Disease (HUMBIO 57)
Julie Parsonnet, MD; Catherine Ley, PhD
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
CHPR 237: Hunger & Food Insecurity: Challenges and Solution
Christopher Gardner, PhD, MS
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
PEDS 289: Policy Practicum: Climate and Rural Health (LAW 809U, EBS 291)
Lisa Patel, MD & Deborah Sivas, JD, MS
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
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
HUMRTS 110: Advanced Spanish Service-Learning: Campus Workers' Health and Empowerment Outreach
Vivian Brates, MA
Spring Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
SPANLANG 110SL: Advanced Spanish Service-Learning: Campus Workers' Health and Empowerment Outreach
Vivian Brates, MA
Spring Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
SPANLANG 108SL: Advanced Spanish Service-Learning: Migration, Asylum & Human Rights at the Border
Vivian Brates, MA
Spring Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
CEE 278A: Air Pollution Fundamentals
Royal Kopperud, PhD
Fall Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Planetary Health
SUST 297: Introduction to Systems Transformation
Banny Bannerjee & Annette Zou, MS
Spring Fall Winter
Graduate Students
Planetary Health
CEE 374W: Advanced Topics in Water, Health and Development
Jenna Davis, PhD
Spring Fall Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
CEE 277F: Advanced Field Methods in Water, Health and Development
Jenna Davis, PhD, MSPH
Spring Fall Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
HRP 224: Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab (SE Lab) - Human & Planetary Health (MED 224, PUBLPOL 224)
Gordon Bloom, MBA, MFA
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
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
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, OBGYN 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
EARTHSYS 109: Rethinking Meat: An Introduction to Alternative Proteins (EARTHSYS 209, ESS 103, ESS 203, ETHICSOC 107)
David Lobell, PhD
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Planetary Health
COLLEGE 106: Environmental Sustainability: Global Predicaments and Possible Solutions
William Barnett, PhD; Chris Field, PhD; Mejgan Massoumi, PhD, MCP; Belinda Ramírez, PhD; Randall Holmes, MS
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Planetary Health
NATIVEAM 240: Psychology and American Indian/Alaska Native Mental Health (EDUC 340, PSYCH 272)
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
MED 131: Sustainable Societies Lab: Exploring Israel's Innovation Ecosystem in Human & Planetary Health (SUSTAIN 132)*
Gordon Bloom, MBA, MFA & Sara Singer, PhD
Spring
Undergraduates
Global Health
CEE 173: Urban Water
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
OSPSANTG 25: Health and Disease in an Aging Society: Chile in Transition*
Michelle Odden; PhD, MS
Spring
Undergraduates
Global Health
MED 233: Global Health: Beyond Diseases and International Organizations
Cybele Renault MD, DTM&H & Ashley Styczynski, MD, MPH
Spring
Graduate Students Medical Students
Global 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
Grant Miller, PhD, MPP
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
HUMRTS 117: International Human Rights (INTLPOL 355, LAW 5010)
Brittan Heller
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 Graduate Students Medical Students
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
BIO 123: Catalyzing Solutions for a Sustainable Ocean: Learning with Local Communities (OCEANS 123H, OCEANS 223H)
Giulio De Leo, PhD; Fiorenza Micheli, PhD
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Planetary 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)
Patricia Bromley, PhD, MSc; Vera Michalchik, PhD, EdM
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
OSPCPTWN 77: The Anthropocene in Africa: From Colonialism to Climate Crisis*
Tammy Wilks
Spring
Undergraduates
Planetary Health
CHPR 232: Social and Structural Determinants of Health: Achieving Health Equity
Shawna Follis, PhD, MS
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
EARTHSYS 160: Sustainable Cities (URBANST 164)
Richard Murray Kos
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Planetary Health
ESS 234: Climate Displacement, Migration, and Mobility (HUMRTS 224)
Chris Field, PhD; Rwaida Gharib, MS; Janet Martinez, PhD, JD, MPA
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Planetary Health
ESS 166: Will Technology Save the World?: Environmental Ethics and Techno-Optimism (ESS 266)
Rob Jackson PhD, MS; Ann Thresher, PhD
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Planetary Health
HRP 252: Outcomes Analysis (BIOMEDIN 251, MED 252)
Eran Bendavid, MD, MS
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
BIOS 234: 21st Century Approaches to Neglected Tropical Diseases
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
MED 261: Leadership in Health Equity and Community Engagement: Creating New Educational Opportunities
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
HUMRTS 122: Global Human Rights and Local Practices (INTLPOL 282, INTNLREL 125, SOC 115, SOC 215)
Kiyoteru Tsutsui, PhD, MA
Winter
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
MED 235: Designing Research-Based Interventions to Solve Global Health Problems (EDUC 135, EDUC 335, EPI 235)
Piya Sorcar, PhD, MA
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
HUMBIO 29: Introduction to Global Health
Tiffany Chao, MD & Victoria Ward, MD
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
Julie Parsonnet, MD; Yvonne Maldonado, MD & Jason Andrews, MD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
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
Planetary Health
BIO 71: Planet Ocean (ESS 71, OCEANS 71)
Rob Dunbar, PhD; Fiorenza Micheli, PhD; & Stephen Palumbi, PhD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Planetary Health
MED 232: Global Health: Scaling Health Technology Innovations in Low Resource Settings
Anurag Mairal, PhD & Michele Barry, MD; Krista Donaldson. PhD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
ETHICSOC 136R: Introduction to Global Justice (INTNLREL 136R, PHIL 76, POLISCI 136R, POLISCI 336)
Ting-An Lin, PhD, MA
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
SOMGEN 207: Theories of Change in Global Health (INTLPOL 291, PUBLPOL 291)
Stephen Luby, MD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary 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
BIO 117: Biology and Global Change (EARTHSYS 111, EARTHSYS 217, ESS 111)
Kabir Peay, PhD, MESc
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Planetary Health
CEE 260C: Contaminant Hydrogeology and Reactive Transport (ESS 221)
Steven Gorelick, PhD, MS, Katharine Maher, PhD, MS
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Planetary Health
BIO 6N: Ocean Conservation: Pathways to Solutions
Larry Crowder, PhD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
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
MI 255C: Life in the Coronascene
Robert Siegel, MD, PhD, MA
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
CHPR 113: Healthy/Sustainable Food Systems: Maximum Sustainability across Health, Economics, and Environment (HUMBIO 113S)
Christopher Gardner, PhD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
CEE 272: Coastal Contaminants
Alexandria Boehm, PhD, MS
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health 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 226: Famine in the Modern World (HISTORY 226E, HISTORY 326E)
Bertrand M. Patenaude, PhD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
ESS 306: From Freshwater to Oceans to Land Systems: An Earth System Perspective to Global Challenges
Elliott White, PhD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Planetary 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: Biodesign and Entrepreneurship for Societal Health (Med 236)
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
CEE 41Q: Clean Water Now! Urban Water Conflicts
Alexandria Boehm, PhD, MS
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
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
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
HUMBIO 122H: Social and Environmental Determinants of Health (PEDS 150, PEDS 250)
Janine Bruce, DrPH, MPH & Jorge De Luna, MPH
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
SUSTAIN 232: Influencing Policy
Michael Wara, JD, PhD & Deborah Sivas, JD, MS
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Planetary Health
ESS 328: Environmental Change and Human Resiliency
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Planetary Health
HUMBIO 122E: Reducing Health Disparities and Closing the Achievement Gap through Health Integration in Schools (EDUC 429, PEDS 229)
Ryan Padrez, MD; Eunice Rodriguez, MPH, DrPH & Piya Sorcar, PhD, MA
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
HRP 237: Health Law: Improving Public Health (LAW 3009)
Michelle Mello, JD, PhD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
FEMGEN 5C: Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives (CSRE 5C, HISTORY 5C, INTNLREL 5C)
Katherine Jolluck, PhD, MA
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
PWR 2TD: Writing and Rhetoric 2: The Rhetoric of Global Health
Tara Diener, MA, PhD
Spring Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
SGSI 2024: Research with Impact: Developing Skills as a Community-Engaged Scholar
Clayton A. Hurd, PhD & Joanne Tien, PhD
Summer
Graduate Students
Planetary Health