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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.

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Course Type

Course Name
Professor
Quarters Offered
Student Type
Course Type
HUMBIO 29: Introduction to Global Health
Tiffany Chao, MD & Victoria Ward, MD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
EPI 237: Practical Approaches to Global Health (INTLPOL 290, MED 226)
Stephen Luby, MD
Fall
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
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
HRP 224: Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab (SE Lab) - Human & Planetary Health (MED 224, PUBLPOL 224)
Gordon Bloom, MBA, MFA
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
ANTHRO 82: Medical Anthropology (ANTHRO 282, HUMBIO 176A)
Angela Garcia, PhD
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
CHPR 242: The Science of Well-being: A Global Perspective
Ann Hsing, PhD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
BIOE 271: Frugal Science
Manu Prakash, PhD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
EMED 134: The Impact of Climate Change on Human Health (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
MED 285: Global Leaders and Innovators in Human and Planetary Health (HRP 285, SUSTAIN 345)
Gordon Bloom, MBA, MFA & Sara Singer, PhD
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
CEE 374W: Advanced Topics in Water, Health and Development
Jenna Davis, PhD
Spring Summer Fall Winter
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
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 Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
MED 159: Oaxacan Health on Both Sides of the Border*
Catherine Heaney, PhD
Spring
Undergraduates
Global Health
HUMBIO 123E: Health Economics & Policy: exploring health disparities, child health & health care spending
Maya Rossin-Slater, PhD
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
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
EARTHSYS 196A: Environmental Justice and Human Rights Lab (HUMRTS 196)
Jessie Brunner, MA; Sibyl Diver, PhD; Emily Polk, PhD & Penelope Van Tuyl, JD
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
MED 294: Global Health: Through an Equity Lens (MED 194)
Michele Barry, MD & Geoff Tabin, MD
Spring
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
CEE 371C: SARS-CoV-2 in the Environment
Alexandria Boehm, PhD
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary 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
Fall
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
PEDS 220: Past, Present, and Future: Lessons from COVID-19
Rishi Mediratta, MD
Spring Fall Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
BIOE 375: Biodesign and Entrepreneurship for Societal Health (Med 236)
Narges Baniasadi, PhD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
PSYC 244: Islamic Psychology (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
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
Global Health
HUMBIO 128U: Upstreaming Health (DESIGN 261, SUSTAIN 128)
Sara Singer, MBA, PhD; Joanne Cheung & Stephen Johannes Downs
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary 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
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
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 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 124: Global Child Health (HUMBIO 124C, PEDS 124)
Yvonne Maldonado, MD & Clea Sarnquist, DrPH, MPH
Fall
Undergraduates 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
SURG 234: Service Through Surgery: Surgeons with an Impact
Micaela Esquivel, MD
Winter
Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
CEE 277F: Advanced Field Methods in Water, Health and Development
Jenna Davis, PhD, MSPH
Spring Summer Fall Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
OSPGEN 259: Community Health in Oaxaca
Patricia Rodriguez Espinosa, PhD, MPH; Catherine Heaney, PhD
Summer
Undergraduates
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
EPI 231: Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
Julie Parsonnet, MD; Yvonne Maldonado, MD & Jason Andrews, MD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
SUST 210: Pursuing Sustainability: Managing Complex Social Environmental Systems (ESS 230)
Garry Sotnik, MA & Pam Matson, PhD, MS
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
HUMBIO 3B: Environmental and Health Policy Analysis
Laurence Baker, PhD & Joe Nation, PhD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health Planetary Health
ME 375: Wildfire Science
Matthias Ihme, PhD, MSc
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health 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
SUSTAIN 329: Policy Practicum: Smoke (LAW 808D)
Michael Wara, JD, PhD & Deborah Sivas, JD, MS
Fall
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
CEE 270: Movement and Fate of Organic Contaminants in Waters
Richard Luthy, PhD, MS
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Planetary Health
CEE 278A: Air Pollution Fundamentals
Royal Kopperud, PhD
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Planetary Health
HUMBIO 154D: Models for Understanding and Controlling Global Infectious Diseases (HRP 204)
Jason Andrews, MD & Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert, PhD
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
CEE 64: Air Pollution and Global Warming: History, Science, and Solutions (CEE 263D)
Mark Jacobson, PhD, MS
Winter
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
Spring
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
HRP 201C: Health Policy Graduate Student Tutorial III
Grant Miller, PhD
Spring
Graduate Students
Global Health
NATIVEAM 240: Psychology and American Indian/Alaska Native Mental Health (EDUC 340, PSYCH 272)
Teresa LaFramboise, 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
COLLEGE 108: Where Does it Hurt?: Medicine and Suffering in Global Context
Ruth Averbach, PhD; Esiteli Hafoka, PhD, MA; Lidia Schapira, MD; Karl Lorenz, MD, MSHS; Nicole Martinez-Martin JD, PhD; Tagart Cain Sobotka, PhD; Samuel Maull, PhD & Ameer Hasan Loggins, 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
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Planetary 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
BIO 71: Planet Ocean (ESS 71)
Rob Dunbar, PhD; Fiorenza Micheli, PhD; & Stephen Palumbi, PhD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Planetary Health
BIOS 230: Successful Fieldwork in Global Health Research
Signe Svallfors, PhD
Fall
Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
BIODS 228: Statistical genomics for planetary health: oceans, plants, microbes and humans
Julia Salzman, PhD
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Planetary Health
EARTHSYS 162: Data for Sustainable Development (CS 325B, EARTHSYS 262)
Marshall Burke, PhD, MS; Stefano Ermon, PhD; David Lobell, PhD
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students
Global 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
LAW 2515: Environmental Justice
Michelle Anderson, JD, MS
Fall
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Planetary Health
MED 235: Designing Research-Based Interventions to Solve Global Health Problems (AFRICAST 135, AFRICAST 235, EDUC 135, EDUC 335, EPI 235, HUMBIO 26)
Piya Sorcar, PhD, MA
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
COMPMED 84Q: Globally Emerging Zoonotic Diseases
Stephen Felt, DVM, MPH
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
MED 131: Exploring Israel's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem for Sustaining Human & Planetary Health*
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
BIO 313: Ethics in the Anthropocene (BIO 197, SUSTAIN 331)
Elizabeth A. Hadly, PhD, MS; Deborah Sivas, JD
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Planetary Health
HUMRTS 122: Global Human Rights and Local Practices (INTLPOL 282, INTNLREL 125, SOC 115, SOC 215)
Kiyoteru Tsutsui, PhD, MA
Spring
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global 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
SURG 236: Seminar in Global Surgery and Anesthesia
Tiffany Chao, MD; Lisa Marie Knowlton, MD, MPH, FACS, FRCSC
Winter
Medical Students
Global Health
ANTHRO 248: Health, Politics, and Culture of Modern China (ANTHRO 148, CHINA 155A, CHINA 255A)
Matthew Kohrman, PhD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
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
BIO 189: Emergent and Re-Emergent Viruses as a Global Threat to Human Health (BIO 289)
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
HUMRTS 117: International Human Rights (INTLPOL 355, LAW 5010)
E. Tendayi Achiume, JD
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
SUST 297: Introduction to Systems Transformation
Banny Bannerjee, Annette Zou
Spring Fall
Graduate Students
BIOE 273 - Biodesign for Digital Health (MED 273)
Oliver Aalami, MD; Michelle de Haaff; Kate Rosenbluth
Fall
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
OSPOXFRD 67: Pandemics in Cultural Context*
Summer
Undergraduates
Planetary Health
SUSTAIN 121: Blue Foods for Indonesia: A Human & Planetary Health Action Lab (SUSTAIN 221, LAW 809K)
Jim Leape; Janet Martinez
Winter
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
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 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: Ethical and Effective Philanthropy for Sustainable Development (ETHICSOC 232T, POLISCI 236, POLISCI 236S)
Patricia Bromley, PhD, MSc; Vera Michalchik, PhD, EdM
Spring
Undergraduates
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
MED 242: Human Rights and Health
Ami Laws, MD; Erika Schillinger, MD
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
Undergraduates Graduate Students Medical Students
Global Health
HUMRTS 108: Advanced Spanish Service-Learning: Migration, Asylum, and Human Rights at the Border
Vivian Brates, MA
Spring Fall
Global Health
OSPCPTWN 49: Foundations of Public Health and Social Justice*
Lars Osterberg, MD, MPH
Summer
Undergraduates
Global Health
OSPCPTWN 10: Climate Change and Political Violence*
Summer
Undergraduates
Planetary Health
CEE 41Q: Clean Water Now! Urban Water Conflicts
Royal Kopperud, PhD
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;Baraka Floyd, MD
Winter
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
OSPCPTWN 77: The Anthropocene in Africa: From Colonialism to Climate Crisis*
Summer
Undergraduates
Planetary Health