GBH 550

GBH 550 Global Public Health adopts an enhanced social sciences perspective on global public
health. This course seeks to highlight the significance of social sciences with public health (and
vice versa) and the social science contribution by situating and establishing global public health
within the context of society, structural realities, and human lived experience. Through this
course, students explore the shift towards the central roles of the social and behavioral sciences
in global public health, advancing understanding of how social influence can mold individual
and population health involving global stakeholders, such as international organizations,
governments, policymakers, and practitioners worldwide. This shift is felt in, for example, health
inequalities and the protection of people from violence and forms of social injustice.