Global Health

• SPH GH 887: Planning and Managing MCH Programs in Developing Countries
  Graduate Prerequisites: (SPHPH720) Students may not take both GH744 and GH887 for MPH degree credit. - This course provides a practical framework to enable students to design, manage, and evaluate services for children and women, with an emphasis on child health. The course covers the major health challenges with a focus on children and explores specific interventions to address these challenges. Topics covered include diarrheal disease, acute respiratory infection, immunization, malaria, micronutrient deficiencies, HIV/AIDS, safe motherhood and neonatal health. The final six weeks of the course will give students the opportunity to identify the technical, political, organizational, and environmental factors necessary for a successful program. Students will work in teams to respond to an RFP for improving the health of women, children, or newborns in a developing country. Teams will attend a bidder's conference and then prepare and present a written and oral proposal to an outside grants committee. Students cannot take both IH744 and IH887 for MPH degree credit.
• SPH GH 888: Seminar on Global Health Policy Issues
  Graduate Prerequisites: MPH integrated core courses or SPH doctoral students. - Understanding how health policy is shaped—and how it can be changed—is essential for every future public health leader. This course immerses students in the real-world politics behind policy design, agenda setting, and implementation across diverse country contexts. Why do some urgent health issues rise to the top while others are ignored? How do power, interests, and global institutions influence policy making? And what strategies can public health professionals use to push meaningful change? In this hands-on seminar, students learn practical tools from political science and policy analysis to diagnose policy problems, map key actors, assess competing policy options, and navigate the complex politics of implementation and evaluation. Through case studies, interactive discussions, guest speakers, and a multi-part policy analysis project, students develop the skills to design politically feasible solutions to pressing global health challenges, manage stakeholders, and develop effective implementation strategies. By the end of the course, students will be equipped not only to understand global health policy—but to influence it.
• SPH GH 941: Directed Studies in Global Health
  Directed Studies provide the opportunity for students to explore a special topic of interest under the direction of a full-time SPH faculty member. Students may register for a 1, 2, 3, or 4-credit directed study by submitting an add/drop form and a signed directed study proposal form. Students who are completing the culminating experience project must register for GH943. Directed studies with a non-SPH faculty member or an adjunct faculty member must be approved by and assigned to the department chair. Students are placed in a section by the Registrars Office according to the faculty member with whom they are working. Students may take no more than eight credits of directed study, directed research, or practica courses during their MPH education.
• SPH GH 942: Directed Research in Global Health
  This course provides the opportunity for advanced students to become involved in global health research of a public health nature or to undertake research independently. Arrangements are made with the appropriate full time GH faculty member. Students must submit an add/drop form and a directed research proposal form signed by the supervising faculty. Directed research is a graded, variable credit course (1, 2, 3, or 4 credits). Students may complete a maximum of 8 directed study, directed research or practicum credits during their MPH program.