Global Health: Disease Burden, Challenges and Changes
Study critical challenges within global health from a health sciences’ perspective. Learning from a network of leading professionals, you’ll examine the threat to public health from existing, new, and re-emerging diseases that spread through immigration, travel, and global trade.
Course Format
- Utilizing a combination of group work and expert lectures, from policy makers to activists working locally and globally students will learn from a network of professionals while engaging in student-centred learning.
- Through lectures from representatives in non-government organizations, policy-makers, and healthcare providers, students will take a health science perspective to global health.
- Some of the electives include laboratory work.
McMaster University
McMaster University is an institution with global impact. At McMaster, we collaborate across disciplines to solve some of the world’s toughest challenges, working together to improve people’s lives and contribute to our global knowledge base.
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Dr. Malhi Ranu
Dr. Amanda Sim
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