Subject: INTH
Term: Spring 2013
INTH 301: Fundamentals of Global Health (100/5519)
T 02:45-05:15 PM Jan 14-Apr 29
Blanton, R
This course seeks to integrate the multiple perspectives and objectives in global health by investigating how the disciplines of Biology, Medicine, Anthropology, Nursing, Mathematics, Engineering analyze and approach the same set of international health problems. Students will develop a shared vocabulary with which to understand these various perspectives from within their own discipline. The focus sites will emphasize issues related to the health consequences of development projects, emergency response to a health care crisis and diseases of development in presence of underdevelopment.
Offered as INTH 301 and INTH 401.
INTH 401: Fundamentals of Global Health (100/5520)
T 02:45-05:15 PM Jan 14-Apr 29
Blanton, R
This course seeks to integrate the multiple perspectives and objectives in global health by investigating how the disciplines of Biology, Medicine, Anthropology, Nursing, Mathematics, Engineering analyze and approach the same set of international health problems. Students will develop a shared vocabulary with which to understand these various perspectives from within their own discipline. The focus sites will emphasize issues related to the health consequences of development projects, emergency response to a health care crisis and diseases of development in presence of underdevelopment.
Offered as INTH 301 and INTH 401.
INTH 494: Infectious Disease Epidemiology (100/6170)
MW 01:30-02:45 PM Jan 14-Apr 29
Stein, C; Tisch, D
This course is a follow-up to EPBI 484: Geographic Medicine and Epidemiology, and focuses on tuberculosis (TB), HIV, and dengue epidemiology. This is an advanced course, focusing on methods and approaches in epidemiology. It will be taught in three 1-credit modules, and students may take each module separately or all 3 together. Each module will have a separate project and/or exam. Module I: Tuberculosis epidemiology. Module II: HIV epidemiology. Module III: Dengue epidemiology.
Offered as EPBI 494, INTH 494, and MPHP 494.