180.629.81
Infectious Disease and Fragile Settings
Location
Internet
Term
3rd Term
Department
Environmental Health and Engineering
Credit(s)
2
Academic Year
2024 - 2025
Instruction Method
Asynchronous Online with Some Synchronous Online
Auditors Allowed
No
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Contact Name
Erin Sorrell
Contact Email
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Resources
Prerequisite
This course will be offered as an elective across various program disciplines and graduate programs, and therefore will not require specific prerequisites. However, we will work with selected graduate and certificate program directors to list recommended prior coursework. We recognize that course requirements will vary among programs. Therefore, we will design the curriculum to support a multidisciplinary learning environment.
Are you interested in the intersection of comparative politics, factors and drivers of conflict, regional and national health systems and emerging disease?
Focuses on the relationship amongst political instability, conflict, fragile settings and infectious disease, as well as the corresponding impacts on local and global populations. Reviews how a country’s national and foreign policy positions impact health systems and assesses the risk of infectious disease threats when nations become unstable due to factors such as internal state actors, man-made sources of instability, terrorism, and/or natural disaster and climate change. Focuses on discussions on why particular infectious diseases are prone to emergence or re-emergence during conflict and instability, and the impacts of those diseases on national systems and broader global health security. Gains a general understanding of recent global political conflicts and environmental threats, and how pathogens that were previously considered controllable now take their toll on a population, health system and/or governance structure.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Explain risk factors for infectious disease (re-)emergence during conflict and crises in fragile settings and impacts on national and regional health systems.
- Explore how the (re-)emergence of infectious disease during crises interacts with other population health outcomes.
- Describe drivers for displacement and impacts on population health outcomes.
- Discuss the implications and impact of social determinants of health on migration and forced displacement.
- Identify and illustrate risk factors in governance that can lead to fragility and conflict.
- Outline various actors that play a role in resolution, response and/or recovery.
Methods of Assessment
This course is evaluated as follows:
- 20% Discussion Board
- 25% Group Work
- 55% Paper(s)
Enrollment Restriction
Enrollment restricted to graduate students
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