UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
Issues in Contemporary Global HealthIncluding HIV/AIDS
June 22 - July 31, 2009
This course is postponed until 2010.
The Issues in Contemporary Global Health course will provide students with an introduction to the epidemiology of infectious and chronic disabling conditions and their prevalence and incidence in various places in the developed and developing world. Attention will be placed on a multidisciplinary perspective, with an examination of how economic, political, cultural, and behavioral factors relate to and affect disease spread and management. Also covered is the diversity of health care systems and lessons learned from those systems, as well as health system needs in various parts of the world. Other issues addressed include health care person-power issues with emphasis on the economic and political issues causing brain drain from areas of greatest need for health care, the health implications of disasters and conflict areas, social justice and human rights in global health issues, and how health is redefined in the era of globalization. Lastly, this course will also address new innovations to bring resources to the health problems of developing countries such as PEPFAR, Project RED, The Global Fund for HIV, AIDS, and TB, as well as traditional programs generated by the World Bank and other members of the UN system.
This course is offered by the David Geffen School of Medicine's Program in Global Health (PGH) which partners with academic institutions in developing countries to advance prevention, policy, and clinical research for HIV/AIDS and other diseases in all regions of the world. PGH works with developing-country partners to integrate treatment and prevention of HIV, implement innovative prevention programs, stimulate the implementation of beneficial policies and laws, address gender inequity, and train the next generation.Register Online
UCLA students (begins Feb. 1) / Visiting students (begins March 1)