January 2024 Study Abroad
GPH-GU 9285 Global Women's Health Programs: Analyzing Evidence to Improve Women's Lives (3 credits)
Prerequisites: none
Location: Florence, Italy
Dates: January 4th – 15th
Instructor: Prof. Cheryl Healton
Eligibility: Open to MPH students in CHSP, ENV, GH, PHN, PHPM, SBS, and SDG; MA students in Bioethics; DrPH students
Program fee: $1600 (includes GNU accommodations)
Non-refundable deposit: Students accepted into the course will need to provide a non-refundable deposit of $300 in order to get a permission code to register for the course. The deposit will come out of the program fee of the course.
This course introduces the student to the major health issues facing women in low resource countries and how to analyze existing programs geared towards improving women’s health. Students will learn how biological, environmental, and societal issues affect women’s health, the outcomes of pregnancy, and child survival. Topics include reproductive and obstetric health, women’s rights, gender-based violence, access to health education, family planning, female genital cutting, and the public health interventions proven to positively impact these issues. Students will intensively evaluate and analyze the interventions created to improve the lives of women and identify key elements that constitute an effective global women’s health program. Students will learn the necessary skills to generate solutions to the complex circumstances affecting the health of women globally. This course will explore women's health from both an Italian and US perspective. When in Florence, students will visit an immigrant health center, a public maternity women's health center and/ or emergency room in an effort to compare and contrast US and Italian standards of health care.
GPH-GU 9224 Introduction to Urban Health and Equity (3)
Prerequisite: GPH-GU 2140 or 5140
Location: London, U.K.
Dates: January 4th - 15th
Instructor: Prof. Jo Ivey Boufford
Eligibility: Open to MPH students in CHSP, ENV, GH, PHN, PHPM, SBS, and SDG; DrPH students
Program fee: $1800 (includes hotel accommodations)
Non-refundable deposit: Students accepted into the course will need to provide a non-refundable deposit of $300 in order to get a permission code to register for the course. The deposit will come out of the program fee of the course.
This course will introduce students to urban health and its broad determinants. In order to achieve healthier urban communities worldwide we must improve the built, socioeconomic and physical environments in cities. The course will combine readings, classroom lecture and discussion to provide an overview of urban health and health equity. As an emerging interdisciplinary area of research, practice and policy, we will draw on the work of experts and experience from all regions of the world and explore why cities are proving to be such an effective level of government to achieve results for health and health equity. We will also examine the importance of advancing health and health equity in cities in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The course will also include active engagement with public health leaders addressing health issues in London communities and with local scholars tackling critical urban health issues in the UK and beyond.
GPH-GU 9325 Behavioral Communication Strategies for Global Epidemics (3 credits)
Location: Online and Nairobi, Kenya
Dates: Online January 3rd-10th; live on Nairobi January 12th – 19th
Instructor: Prof. Chris Dickey
Eligibility: Open to MPH students in CHSP, ENV, EPI, GH, PHN, PHPM, SBS, and SDG; MS students in EPI; DrPH students
Program fee: $1450 (includes hotel accommodations)
Non-refundable deposit: Students accepted into the course will need to provide a non-refundable deposit of $300 in order to get a permission code to register for the course. The deposit will come out of the program fee of the course.