An Introduction to Global Health and Global Health / An Interdisciplinary Overview

An Introduction to Global Health and Global Health / An Interdisciplinary Overview

Two Global Health courses on Coursera.org, the online platform that partners with the top universities and organizations in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free.

An Introduction to Global Health
Professors: Antoine Geissbuhler, Louis Loutan, Samantha Battams, Didier Wernli, Slim Slama and Rafael Ruiz De Castaneda

This course will provide you with an overview of the most important health challenges facing the world today. You will gain insight into how challenges have changed over time, we will discuss the likely determinants of such changes and examine future projections. Successful international strategies and programs promoting human health will be highlighted and global health governance structures will be mapped and the role of the key actors explored.

From september 02, 2013
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Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Overview
Professors: Antoine Flemming Konradsen, Siri Tellier, Dr Alessandro R Demaio, Jeffrey Victor Lazarus, Dan Wolf Meyrowitsch, Peter Furu and Ib C. Bygbjerg

This course proposes an overview of current global health challenges drawing on the insights of several academic disciplines including medicine, public health, law, economics, social sciences and humanities. This interdisciplinary approach will guide the student into seven critical topics in global health

From october 07, 2013
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