Yale Center for Teaching and Learning

Essentials of Global Health

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Essentials of Global Health

To Sign Up Email Us - yaleonlineed@gmail.com 

Experience will include:

Live Online Discussions – Exclusively for Alumni. Talk with classmates and ask Prof. Skolnik questions via Zoom. video conferencing software. Hour long sessions will be held once a week!

 

Private Discussion Forums – Exclusively for Alumni. Prof. Skolnik will personally respond to questions raised to him by individual course participants. 

11 Hours of Recorded Content - The course will include 50+ video “lectures” hosted on Coursera. All of the lectures were filmed in a model classroom setting with six of Prof. Skolnik’s students, who engage with Prof. Skolnik in the videos. Learners will be asked to watch 5 – 10 videos per week and complement these videos with one to two seminal readings per week. All course materials will be available upon enrollment and can be completed on your own schedule . The course workload will be 3-4 hours per week.

 

Access to Seminal Papers in the Field of Global Health - Discussions among course participants on global perspectives on critical topics such as: the burden of disease; the quest for universal health coverage; maternal newborn, and young child health; the major infectious and noncommunicable diseases and mental health; and what we have learned can be done to address key global health issues in fair, doable, sustainable and least cost ways.

 

 

Yale Alumni Cohort Syllabus

*Live Zoom Discussions will be held every Tuesday @7:00 PM Eastern. Discussions will begin March 27th.*

Week 1 March 26 - April 1
Contains: 100 minutes of video and two readings

  • Watch Course Introduction – 13 minutes
  • Watch Key Perspectives on Global Health and the Determinants of Health – 15 minutes
  • Watch Social Determinants of Health – 11 minutes
  • Watch The Global Health Context and Who Plays – 19 minutes
  • Read Jamison, DT et al, Global Health 2035, A World Converging within a Generation
  • Watch The State of the World’s Health – 18 minutes
  • Watch Demography and Health, Part 1 – 14 minutes
  • Watch Demography and Health, Part 2 – 10 minutes Review PRB, World Population Data Sheet, 2017, available at: http://www.prb.org/pdf17/2017_World_Population.pdf

Week 2 April 2 - 8
Contains: 146 minutes of video, one exploration, and one reading.

  • Watch The DALY - 17 minutes
  • Watch What Do People Get Sick, Disabled, and Die From? Part 1 - 8 minutes
  • Watch What Do People Get Sick, Disabled, and Die From?, Part 2 - 13 minutes
  • Watch What Do People Get Sick, Disabled, and Die From? Part 3 - 8 minutes
  • Watch Key Risk Factors - 15 minutes
  • Explore Interactive website of the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation on the burden of disease, available at https://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-compare/ 1) Become familiar with the Heatmap 2) Arrow Diagrams, and compare 3) Become comfortable with data, by age group, sex 4) For World Bank regions and high-income countries research: the leading causes of deaths; the leading causes of DALYs (except for under 5s, where they won’t meant much); and the leading risk factors
  • Watch Value for Money in Global Health – 14 minutes
  • Watch The Organization and Aims of Health Systems, Part 1 – 7 minutes
  • Watch The Organization and Aims of Health Systems, Part 2 – 10 minutes
  • Watch Ethical Priority Setting in Health – 18 minutes
  • Watch Health Expenditures, UHC and Pharmaceuticals, Part 1 – 8 minutes
  • Watch Health Expenditures, UHC and Pharmaceuticals, Part 2 – 14 minutes
  • Watch Health Expenditures, UHC and Pharmaceuticals, Part 3 – 14 minutes
  • Read D.T. Jamison et al, Universal Health Coverage and Intersectoral Action for Health: Key Messages from Disease Control Priorities, third edition. The Lancet, 24 November 2017. Available at: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)32906- 9/fulltext?dgcid=twitter_social_lancet

Week 3 April 9 - 15
Contains: 124 minutes of video and 3 readings.

  • Watch Health Disparities, Part 1 - 13 minutes
  • Watch Health Disparities, Part 2 - 12 minutes
  • Watch The Environment and Health and Climate Change and Health, Part 1 - 13 minutes
  • Watch The Environment and Health and Climate Change and Health, Part 2 - 12 minutes
  • Read N. Watts et al, The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change:
  • from 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health, The Lancet,
  • Nov, 23, 2017, available at: http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(17)32464-9.pdf
  • Watch Nutrition and Global Health, Part 1 – 11 minutes
  • Watch Nutrition and Global Health, Part 2 – 9 minutes
  • Watch Nutrition and Global Health, Part 3 – 7 minutes
  • Watch Nutrition and Global Health, Part 4 – 14 minutes
  • Read International Food Policy Research Institute, Global Nutrition Report 2015: Actions and accountability to advance nutrition and sustainable development
  • Watch Women’s Health, Part 1 – 17 minutes
  • Watch Women’s Health, Part 2 – 16 minutes
  • Read R. Smith et al, Family Planning Saves Lives

Week 4 April 16 - 22
Contains: 140 minutes of video and two readings

  • Watch Child Health – 25 minutes
  • Watch Childhood Immunization – 10 minutes
  • Watch Adolescent Health, Part 1 – 10 minutes
  • Watch Adolescent Health, Part 2 – 10 minutes
  • Read The overview chapter of: Black, R. E., R. Laxminarayan, M. Temmerman, and N. Walker. 2016. Disease Control Priorities, third edition, Volume 2. Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health. Washington, DC: World Bank. Available at: http://dcp-3.org/rmnch
  • Watch Complex Humanitarian Emergencies – 15 minutes 
  • Watch Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases and Anti-microbial resistance – 21 minutes
  • Watch HIV, Part 1 – 9 minutes
  • Watch HIV, Part 2 – 12 minutes
  • Watch Tuberculosis - 21 minutes
  • Watch Malaria – 15 minutes
  • Watch Neglected Tropical Diseases – 13 minutes
  • Read The overview chapter of: Holmes, K.K., S. Bertozzi, B.R. Bloom, and P. Jha, editors. 2017. Major Infectious Diseases. Disease Control Priorities, third edition, volume 6. Washington: DC: World Bank. Available at: http://dcp- 3.org/infectiousdiseases

Week 5 April 23 - 29

Contains: 95 minutes of video and three readings

  • Watch Noncommunicable Diseases, Cardiovascular Disease, and Diabetes – 21 minutes
  • Watch Cancer and Diabetes, Part 1 – 12 minutes
  • Watch Cancer and Diabetes, Part 2 – 10 minutes
  • Read as noted: H. Gelband et al, Costs, Affordability, and Feasibility of a Cancer Control Intervention
  • Read the overview chapter of: Prabhakaran, D., S. Anand, T. Gaziano, J-C. Mbanya, Y. Wu, and R. Nugent, editors. 2017. Cardiovascular, Respiratory, and Related Disorders. Disease Control Priorities, third edition, volume 5. Washington, DC: World Bank. Available at: http://dcp-3.org/cvd
  • Watch Tobacco and Alcohol, Part 1 – 10 minutes
  • Watch Tobacco and Alcohol, Part 2 – 10 minutes
  • Watch Mental Health, Part 1 – 13 minutes
  • Watch Mental Health, Part 2 – 9 minutes
  • Read The overview chapter of: Patel, V., D. Chisholm., T. Dua, R. Laxminarayan, and M. E. Medina-Mora, editors. 2015. Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders. Disease Control Priorities, third edition, volume 4. Washington, DC: World Bank. Available at: http://dcp-3.org/mentalhealth

Week 6 April 30 - May 6
Contains: 58 minutes of video and one reading

  • Watch Injuries – 17 minutes
  • Read The overview chapter of: Mock, C.N., R. Nugent, O. Kobusingye, and K.R. Smith, editors. 2017. Injury Prevention and Environmental Health. Volume7, Disease Control Priorities (third edition). Washington, DC: World Bank. Available at: http://dcp-3.org/injury-environment
  • Watch Science and Technology for Global Health – 24 minutes
  • Watch Key Challenges for the Future, Part 1 – 10 minutes
  • Watch Key Challenges for the Future, Part 2 – 9 minutes
  • Watch Office Hours – 15 minutes