Published: 01/26/2022
We design and offer classroom-based courses in global health for Stanford undergraduates and graduate students. Explore the links below to learn more.
Courses
MED 232: Global Health: Scaling Health Technology Innovations in Low Resource Settings
Recent advances in health technologies – incorporating innovations like robotics, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and smart sensors – have raised expectations of a dramatic impact on health outcomes across the world. This course explores critical questions regarding the implementation and impact of technological innovations in low-resource settings.
MED 233: Global Health: Beyond Diseases and International Organizations
This two-week mini-course provides multidisciplinary trainees insight into over-arching themes of global health. Topics include systemic issues affecting healthcare progress globally, ethical and thoughtful approaches to solving these issues, as well as economics, water sanitation, public health, organizations in global health, human rights, involvement in NGOs, ethics of overseas work, and other non-medical aspects of this subject.
Global Health Research Methods Retreat
Steve Luby, MD. Director of Research, Center for Innovation in Global Health, teaches this two-day course for fellows, residents and medical students in Stanford’s School of Medicine interested in developing research skills applicable to global health.
MED 194/294: Critical Issues in Global Health
In this course, current topics of global health will be discussed while focusing on an equity lens. Topics include decolonizing global health, climate and vulnerable populations, the poverty trap, inequities in reproductive rights, inequities for child health as well as global gender and racial disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ethical Challenges in Short-Term Global Health Training
This web-based course, developed through funding by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF), introduces some of the ethical issues that trainees in biomedical research and practice may face in resource-limited settings. Using ten cases adapted from real-world experiences, the modules will help users identify and develop strategies for navigating ethical issues they may experience.
SUSTAIN 103: Human and Planetary Health
Two of the biggest challenges humanity faces – promoting human health and halting environmental degradation – are strongly linked. Human and planetary health promotes creative, interdisciplinary solutions to these interconnected challenges. Through lectures and discussions, students will develop an in-depth understanding of planetary health.
Sustain 140: Environmental Humanities: Finding Our Place on a Changing Planet
This course in the Doerr School of Sustainability, SUSTAIN 140, attempts to make sense of a rapidly-changing reality and inform possible solutions through questioning the fundamental paradigms that underpin humanity’s narratives of progress and relationship with nature. [Note: As of Autumn 2023, this course is on hold while a larger Environmental Humanities program is designed. For more information, please email Erika Veidis at eveidis@stanford.edu].