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| Titel | Core Concepts in Global Health and Global Burden of Disease |
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| Kursnummer | 3185 |
| Program | Infektionsbiologi och global hälsa (BIGH) |
| Språk | Engelska |
| Antal högskolepoäng | 3.0 |
| Datum | 2021-09-13 -- 2021-12-10 | Kursansvarig institution | Institutionen för global folkhälsa |
| Särskild behörighet | |
| Kursens syfte | The purpose of the course is to provide students with a broad perspective on global health and the range of solutions to critical health issues; students will also develop their skills in critical analysis, and will develop confidence in building and presenting arguments in favour of or against various solutions to addressing health issues at a global level. |
| Kursens lärandemål | -Describe broad trends and inequality in the burden of disease in low, middle and high-income countries; and discuss globalisation and the drivers of these trends; -Understand how data on the global burden of disease is collected and analysed; -Describe key actors, institutions and legal regimes in global health; -Discuss challenges in implementing the health-related Sustainable Development Goals; -Discuss the role of health systems in addressing current global health challenges -Review individual projects and publications in view of the overall aims of the SDG |
| Kursens innehåll | -Trends in the global burden of disease, including infectious disease, non-communicable disease, mental health, accidents and violence; -Drivers of global inequalities in health; Challenges in measuring and analysing the global burden of disease; including a critical review of indicators and measurement platforms -Global health governance and financing; Service delivery, health systems and concepts of quality of care -The legal basis underpinning action in global health; -Development theories and the role of culture in global health -Historical review of key approaches and strategies, initiatives and international agendas in global health including maternal, reproductive and child health, HIV, malaria, rational drug use/drug resistance in health and beyond, humanitarian aid and other -Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals for health, particularly Goal 3; -Current challenges in global health, such as migration, climate change and Ebola. |
| Arbetsformer | The course is structured through a combination of lectures, group work and self-directed learning in order to provide students with the tools to be analytical and reflective about how their own PhD topics fit into the wider context of global health. The course will start with a one-week course with lectures and seminars, followed by bi-weekly seminars (with the option to follow remotely) to discuss recent publications or other key events/congresses. Peer-review of the work of fellow students and critical reading and commenting via the learning managment system is part of the course. The one-week on-site lectures will demand that students prepare selected a lecture. A reading list will be provided three weeks in advance. |
| Obligatoriska moment | The exam and the seminars are compulsory. If a participant cannot join in the seminars, he/she is expected to read the articles and to write a short essay to share with other students via the learning management platform. |
| Examination | Students will be asked to write a 2000 word essay on their PhD topic summarizing linkages to global context and their research addresses global health and development summarising the learning from this course and applying it to their PhD topic and to peer-review the essay of one colleague. The essay is take-home. The course is pass/fail. |
| Kurslitteratur och övriga läromedel | Disease Control Priorities series of the World Bank Group. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/21568 / WHO homepages Merson, M.H., Black, R.E. and A.J. Mills (2012) Global Health: Diseases, Programs, Systems and Policies. 3rd Edition. Jones & Bartlett. Markle, W.H., Fisher, M.A., Smego, R.A (2014) Understanding global health 2nd ed. McGraw-Hill/Lange. Davies, S., Kamradt-Scott, A., Rushton, S. (2015). Disease Diplomacy: International Norms and Global Health Security. Baltimore, USA: John Hopkins University Press. https://www.coursera.org/learn/global-health/lecture/LACqY/who-are-the-key-actors-in-global-health-part-1 |
| Antal studenter | 8 - 15 |
| Urval av studenter | Selection will be based on 1) the relevance of the course syllabus for the applicant's doctoral project (according to written motivation), 2) start date of doctoral studies (priority given to earlier start date) |
| Övrig information | The first week (13th-17th September 2021) there will be lectures and seminars about 6 hours per day. These activities will be a combination of onsite and online teaching. The next activities will be online seminars conducted once or twice a month (from 15:00 to 16:30) over Zoom online platform on the following dates: September 27, October 11, October 25, November 8, November 22 and December 6. The final assignment must be submitted by 10 December 2021. |
| Ytterligare kursledare | |
| Senaste kursvärdering | Kursvärderingsrapport |
| Kursansvarig |
Claudia Hanson Institutionen för global folkhälsa claudia.hanson@ki.se |
| Kontaktpersoner | - |
