Summer 2025 Class Schedule
- Summer 2025 Class Schedule
- Summer 2025 Course Descriptions
summer 2025 class Schedule
| Course | Title | Instructor | Day/Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| GBL_HLTH 390-0-1 | Special Topics in Global Health: Managing Global Health Challenges | Diamond |
Online 9-Week First Tu 6:00-8:50pm |
| GBL_HLTH 390-0-2 | Introduction to Quantitative Research in Global Health | McDevitt-Irwin |
In-person 9-Week First Tu, Th 1:00pm-3:00pm |
| GBL_HLTH 390-0-3 | Disease Outbreak Investigation | Wozniczka |
Hybrid 9-Week First Tu 6:10pm-9:00pm |
Summer 2025 Electives
| Course | Title | Instructor | Day/Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| BIOL_SCI 310 | Human Physiology | Tracy Hodgson |
In-person Six Week First TTH 9:00am-11:30am
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BIOL_SCI 312-CN |
The Evolutionary Biology of Human Anatomy, Health, and Disease | Jeremy S. Davis | Asynchronous |
| BIOL_SCI 313-DL | Human Anatomy | Roberto Lopez-Rosado | Asynchronous |
| BIOL_SCI 355-DL | Immunobiology | Steven Anderson | Asynchronous |
| CFS 392 | Field Studies in Public Health | Jessica Ibrahim Puri |
Nine Week First TIME TBD |
| CFS 397 | Field Studies in Civic Engagement | TBA |
Eight Week First T 1:00pm-4:00pm |
| COMM_ST 246 | Intro to Health Communication | Kimberly Pusateri |
Five Week First Asynchronous |
| PHIL 269 | Bioethics | Christiana Eltiste |
Online Five Week First TTH 12:00pm |
| PSYCH 341 | Positive Psychology: the Science of Well-Being | Wendi Gardner |
Online Five Week First MW 6:00pm-9:00pm |
Visit the Summer Session website for course descriptions and the exact dates of each term.
summer 2025 course descriptions
GBL_HLTH 390-0-1: Managing Global Health Challenges
Diseases like Bird Flu (H5N1), Marburg, COVID-19, Measles, Ebola and Diabetes know no borders. Both pathogens and lifestyles move around the world and the people of every country share the risks. The responsibility for ensuring the public health rests with governments at local, national and international levels. Public health interventions require cooperation and partnerships at each level and with civil society organizations, corporations, businesses and individuals. Advances in technology can significantly reduce the burden of disease and improve the quality of health and life. To effectively address global health challenges, technology must be integrated into health systems in ways that are both appropriate and sustainable. These interventions are affected by public policies, availability of resources and theories of public health and disease. Existing health organizations are increasingly challenged by the scope and magnitude of the current and future threats to public health such as the COVID-19 pandemic; the emergence of new and more virulent infectious diseases; the threats of bio-terrorism; growing resistance to antibiotics; lack of basic infrastructure of water, sanitation and inadequate access to drugs in developing countries; and overabundance of foods and complications from affluence, leading to health problems such as cardio-vascular disease and diabetes in higher income countries. This course will examine the global epidemiology of these diseases and threats to the populations of the world, and the current technological and organizational strategies that have been established to respond. A series of diseases and geographical regions will be analyzed to consider how the international community uses technology and organizes its response to current problems in global public health. Special attention will be given to examples of effective technologies and intervention strategies.
GBL_HLTH 390-0-2 Special Topics in Global Health: Introduction to Quantitative Research in Global Health
The goal of this course is to introduce students to quantitative research in global health. Using fertility as a case study, students will explore the "demographic transition," a defining feature of modern health marked by rapid fertility and mortality declines around the world.
Students will learn to find and access publicly available health data to explore these questions and develop a research proposal on a topic of their choice related to the demographic transition. The course will provide training in data analysis using R. In the first part of the course, students will make a research proposal. The second part of the course will be dedicated to independent research, with the instructor available for consultation.
GBL_HLTH 390-0-3 Special Topics in Global Health: Disease Outbreak Investigation
This course provides an exploration of the methods utilized in investigating disease outbreaks. Students will examine the principles and practices of outbreak investigation, including the epidemiological and statistical techniques employed to detect, investigate, and mitigate outbreaks. Topics include public health surveillance, contact tracing, environmental health assessments, forensic epidemiology, and noninfectious disease investigations. Students will also learn to use tools such as geographic information systems (GIS), public health laboratory resources, and the incident command system.
Students will engage with case studies and simulations to understand the sequential steps of outbreak investigation:
- Verifying diagnoses and confirming outbreaks.
- Developing case definitions and conducting case finding.
- Tabulating and analyzing descriptive data.
- Implementing immediate control measures.
- Formulating and testing hypotheses.
- Conducting additional studies.
- Evaluating control measures.
- Communicating findings effectively.
By the end of this course, students will have the skills to manage real-world outbreak investigations.