Instructor(s): Carmen Cobb-Walch, Mylo Schaaf, Christopher Stewart

The Introduction to Global Health online course will cover major global health problems, the actions and approaches to addressing them. This is an entirely online version of GLOBL HLTH 101. Students will engage in a series of online modules including videos, assessments, and activities. There will be the opportunity to explore global health careers. This is an elective course, but is a prerequisite for those planning to do the global health clinical scholars course (GH 103)

Instructor(s): Michael Lipnick

This course will survey key topics, concepts and vocabulary of global health practice and focus on the development and background work necessary to complete a scholarly project for the global health pathway. Students will study major global health challenges, strategies for responding to them, and key global health institutions. They will develop skills in project management and leadership for their future global health careers.

Instructor(s): Carmen Cobb-Walch

An elective course that will have a special emphasis on developing global health projects that are equitable and sustainable. Interdisciplinary faculty will discuss their global health work and offer advice on how students can incorporate global health into their career.

Instructor(s): Starley Shade

This course introduces the principles of global health by examining different health systems and health metrics with particular emphasis on low and middle income countries. Content will cover demographics, population growth, maternal and child health, migrant health, health effects of climate and environment, poverty and health equity, health governance and key institutions, research, development and philanthropy.

Instructor(s): Tracy Lin, Jenny Liu

This course explores the role of economics in global health. It introduces key concepts, terms, and debates; describes health and disease metrics; explores the health-wealth link; examines the importance of poverty and inequality; examines the U.S. health system; reviews the contribution of economics to the global health agenda; and introduces behavioral economics and cost-effectiveness analysis. The perspective is global, illustrating the varied ways that economics can foster improved health.

Instructor(s): Wayne Steward, Carol Camlin

This course places a particularly strong emphasis on developing skills for conducting qualitative interviews, which are a frequently used technique for answering social and behavioral research questions. It addresses the following questions: What methods can health professionals use to understand the socio-political-cultural environments where they work? Which methods are most appropriate for which research questions? How are qualitative research methods implemented?

Instructor(s): Vivek Jain, Christina Yoon

This course covers global communicable diseases, including the biology, history, epidemiology, and economics of key infections. We will focus on HIV infection, malaria, tuberculosis, and other communicable diseases of international importance. Through lectures, seminars, and independent study, students will learn about the basic principles of infection and immunity, disease epidemiology and pathogenesis, and varied aspects of the treatment and control of leading infections.

Instructor(s): Sujatha Sankaran, Janet Wojcicki

This course covers chronic diseases of global health importance such as cardiovascular illnesses, the emergence of diabetes, cancer, and respiratory disease as well as their risk factors. In addition, the course will emphasize the effects of climate change and environmental exposures. Other topics will include injuries, surgical interventions, humanitarian emergencies, and mental health. Students will learn about policy options and interventions to prevent and manage chronic illnesses.

Instructor(s): Christopher Carpenter

This course describes cultural, social and economic issues, and the multiple methods of global health research to provide essential background for other core courses. Drawing on anthropology, sociology, public health, global health, and critical global health studies, the course examines factors (e.g. globalization, the impact of social, economic, and political systems, transnational organizations, culture, race, class, gender, sexuality, disability) that create and sustain disparities.

Instructor(s): Ali Mirzazadeh

This course will cover the following topics:\r\nuse of surveillance and programmatic data for estimating burden of disease and trends in disease; \r\nsampling and estimating size of hard-to-reach populations (e.g., respondent-driven sampling, time-location sampling, capture-recapture); \r\ndata synthesis and triangulation; \r\nmonitoring and evaluation.

Instructor(s): Alden Blair, Tracy Lin

This goal of this year-long course is to cultivate all of the skills necessary to develop and complete a capstone proposal. At the end of this course, students will be proficient in: 1) Scientific Writing, 2) Team-based Learning, 3) Presentation Skills, and 4) Ethics, and 5) Scientific Process. The skills built to complete a successful capstone project will be applicable to future global health career paths.

Instructor(s): Alden Blair, Tracy Lin

This goal of this year-­long course is to cultivate the skills necessary to develop and complete a capstone proposal. At the end of this course, students will be proficient in: 1) Scientific Writing, 2) Scientific Process, 3) Presentation Skills, and 4) Ethics. The project will require mastery of these four proficiencies. In each quarter, we will build on each of these proficiencies. The overall goal of this course is to establish skills that are applicable to future global health career paths.

Instructor(s): Alden Blair, Tracy Lin

This goal of this year-long course is to cultivate the skills necessary to develop and complete a capstone proposal. At the end of this course, students will be proficient in: 1) Scientific Writing, 2) Scientific Process, 3) Presentation Skills, and 4) Ethics. The project will require mastery of these four proficiencies. In each quarter, we will build on each of these proficiencies. The overall goal of this course is to establish skills that are applicable to future global health career paths.

Instructor(s): Alden Blair, Tracy Lin

This is part four of a year-long course intended to develop all the skills necessary to complete and develop a capstone proposal. The five main proficiencies are: 1) Scientific Writing, 2) Team-based Learning Skills, 3) Professional Development, 4) Presentation Skills, and 5) Scientific Process. The development and successful completion of the capstone project will require mastery of these proficiencies. This course will establish skills that are applicable to future global health career paths.

Instructor(s): Alden Blair, Tracy Lin

All students will enroll in this course while completing their independent capstone project. Students will be responsible for continually assessing their own progress and discussing with their mentors their progress and the application of their didactic learning to their particular setting. They will spend the entire two months on this project.

Instructor(s): Alden Blair, Tracy Lin

The Capstone project provides a rich opportunity to explore an interest area in considerable depth. You are required to develop a longitudinal project, starting in the fall quarter, culminating in a final written and oral presentation at the end of summer quarter. Students will work closely with the Practice Seminar (GHS 203) course faculty to develop an appropriate project based on interest, skills and an available field site where UCSF has an ongoing project.

Instructor(s): Laura Schmidt

This course will introduce policy and development in the context of global health. Students will examine the structure and function of evidence-based policy planning and implementation using selected case studies. Learning the skills of assessment, monitoring, and evaluation, students will examine global health development interventions ranging from disease control to eradication to health promotion. Use of guest lecturers will acquaint the students with field experiences and practical outcomes.

Instructor(s): Mohsen Malekinejad

To introduce basic principles of biomedical epidemiology research. Topics: goals and basic principles of epidemiology for public health research, descriptions of the basic study designs used in epi (case-control, cohort, cross-sectional, ecologic, descriptive and others), common errors seen in epi (confounding and bias) and how epi research is used to advance public health. Specific topics: study design, bias, confounding, data collection, ethics, causal inference, and meta-analysis.

Instructor(s): Ali Mirzazadeh

This course will provide an introduction to biostatistics. Topics from probability and descriptive statistics through to bivariate analyses and concluding with multivariable modeling theory. Parametric and nonparametric statistical methods will be taught. R statistical software will be used for analyses.

Instructor(s): Mara Decker

The course provides knowledge and skills from several disciplines on how to improve women's health globally. It aims to expand students’ understanding of the interconnected factors that influence women’s health and empowerment - including foundations of sexual and reproductive health, economic development, political frameworks and global reproductive rights, demographic and social changes, basic principles of empowerment theory, educational opportunities, and advances in gender equity.

Instructor(s): Christopher Carpenter

This course will examine the most important models for financing and delivering health care around the world. The course will provide a historical and cultural perspective on how countries organize their health systems, and discuss the implications of these policy choices on cost, access, and quality of care.

Instructor(s): Alden Blair

Conflict and human rights violations continue to be a major concern for millions of people around the globe, facing violence, discrimination and threats to their lives, livelihoods and well-being. Traditional human rights reporting focuses on documentation of egregious or individual cases based on a legal approach. This course explores the epidemiological frameworks and methodologies to better assess and document the impacts of conflict on human health.

Instructor(s): Elizabeth Fair, Ali Mirzazadeh

The global health doctoral seminar is designed to educate students about interdisciplinary approaches to global health challenges, provide professional development and career training/mentorship in global health research, and enable students to advance their academic and research skills, with the ultimate goal of facilitating the development of the doctoral student’s capacity to conduct research in global health.

Instructor(s): Staff

The purpose of the teaching residency is to allow students to increase their knowledge in an area of interest, to present and explain the material to others in an effective manner, and to build their base of teaching experience in preparation for future academic positions.

Instructor(s): Staff

The student will participate in ongoing faculty research. This experience will contribute to the students methodological or substantive expertise. Research Rotations provide extensive specialized experiential training with a specific deliverable (e.g. survey instrument, statistical plan, manuscript). During the Research Rotation the student is apprenticed under a specific member of the research team (the Rotation Director), who manages and is responsible for the experience.

Instructor(s): Staff

This course allows PhD students who are involved with Global Health research to obtain credit for their research.

Instructor(s): George Rutherford

This course serves as a foundation for doctoral level studies in global health. It assumes a basic familiarity with the fundamental principles and concepts in global health. Students will study the social and environmental factors affecting health, major global health challenges, and the role of national, multilateral and non-governmental actors. The course will also serve to introduce the students to the UCSF global health community, both within and beyond GHS.

Instructor(s): Dominic Montagu

This course examines the most important models for financing and delivering health care around the world. Students will be taught to map and analyze the health systems of countries at various income levels, and to assess the strengths and weaknesses of these systems in achieving health goals. Students will learn about current debates about health systems, health financing, and Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Innovative models of health services delivery and financing will be presented.

Instructor(s): Laura Schmidt

This course is an intensive exploration of theories of the global health policymaking process. It provides an advanced, high-level perspective on stages of the policy process, from agenda-setting, to policy development, to implementation. Course materials include foundational readings in policy literature and contemporary accounts. Discussions are tailored to address the substantive cases that will preoccupy students during their qualifying exams and dissertation research.

Instructor(s): Nadia Diamond-Smith, Patience Afulani

This pro-seminar will consist of 10 seminars based on discussions of research ethics and their application to the realities of conducting research in the field. We will bring in guests with expertise in ethics and research application, and engage in lively discussion and case studies. Students will be challenged to develop their own cultural framework and consider how they might engage in more ethically focused research and address potential ethical quandaries in their future research.

Instructor(s): Tracy Lin, Jenny Liu

This course examines the economics of health and health care as it applies to global health. Students will be introduced to an economic conceptual framework for thinking about the challenges of health improvement in poor countries. The course will survey a range of topics related to determinants of health and the organization, delivery, and financing of health care.

Instructor(s): Jaime Sepulveda

This doctoral seminar reviews the current health worldwide system—from UN agencies and governmental agencies to multilaterals, NGO’s and civil society. It also examines how health has been historically a powerful diplomatic tool. The course will be taught by global leaders of each topic through a combination of lecture, seminars and independent readings and study.

Instructor(s): Sophie Huddart

Epidemiology includes the study of the distribution and determinants of disease and causes of health-related states or events in populations; it is a foundational skill required for global health research. This course will provide the epidemiologic theory and technical skills, as well as international context and values of collaborative practice, that will allow students to apply epidemiologic methods and design studies in diverse global settings and populations.

Instructor(s): Staff

This independent study course will involve in-depth study in a chosen field of global health importance that will result in a grant submission, publication or research paper. The student will submit an outline of goals and objectives that must be approved by the Program Director and the Faculty Advisor.