51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s Global Public and Environmental Health Program helps students to understand interdisciplinary perspectives on critical health issues and the skills needed to address them, both locally and on a global scale. Students in public health learn to think critically, speak, and write clearly and articulately about health issues from a variety of perspectives. The global public health curriculum combines interdisciplinary breadth with depth in a chosen field of study.
The Global Public and Environmental Health Program is an interdisciplinary program located within the Division of University Studies and staffed by faculty from the four academic divisions who apply their knowledge and expertise to teaching and research endeavors that cross disciplinary boundaries. The program administers a minor that includes a common introductory course to ensure a common interdisciplinary experience. Students achieve depth in analytical ability by taking a set of courses chosen in consultation with their adviser. To fulfill the global public and environmental health minor graduation requirements, students must possess a minimum overall GPA of at least 2.00 in all courses counted toward the minor, both the introductory course and those taken in other departments and programs.
Minor Requirements
The minor consists of six courses. Courses cannot be double counted within the minor. Only one of the five elective courses for the minor can be at the 100-level. See for course descriptions.
Required Course (New in Fall '21)
GPEH 100 - Introduction to Global Public and Environmental Health
The overall purpose of this course is to introduce students to critical global health issues and ways to address or solve them. Â The curriculum focuses on the following global health topics: infectious and chronic diseases, maternal/child health, immigrant and refugee health, the relationship between political and cultural processes and health, factors contributing to disparate health outcomes in population groups and how to measure those outcomes. The course is divided into two parts. The first emphasizes the distribution and determinants of disease causation in global contexts utilizing skills and methods in the discipline of global health. The second examines some of the most pressing contemporary global health concerns and contextualizes those concerns in cross-cultural and historical knowledge.
One course on Methodological Perspectives - choose from list
- ANTH 211 - Investigating Contemporary Culture
- BIOL 310 - EpidemiologyÂ
- BIOL 316 - BioinformaticsÂ
- BIOL 320 - BiostatisticsÂ
- CORE 143S - Introduction to Statistics
- ENST 250 - Environmental Policy AnalysisÂ
- GEOG 245 - Geographic Information SystemsÂ
- GEOG 250 - Research MethodsÂ
- PSYC 309 - Quantitative Methods in Behavioral ResearchÂ
- SOCI 250 - Sociological Research Design and Methods
One course from at least three of the four disciplinary groups (Scientific, Â Environmental, Social, Humanities)
Scientific PerspectivesÂ
- BIOL 101 - Global Climate Change and YouÂ
- BIOL 301 - Parasitology andÂ
- BIOL 313 - Microbiology and BIOL 313LÂ
- BIOL 318 - Vertebrate Physiology and BIOL 318LÂ
- BIOL 330 - Conservation BiologyÂ
- BIOL 336 - Advanced EcologyÂ
- BIOL 337 - Cancer BiologyÂ
- BIOL 359 - Ecosystem Ecology and BIOL 359LÂ
- BIOL 373 - Virology and BIOL 373LÂ
- BIOL 374 - ImmunologyÂ
- CORE 128S - Global Change and YouÂ
- CORE 172S - The Biology of Women: Sex, Gender, Reproduction, and DiseaseÂ
- CORE 177S - Critical Analysis of Health Issues
Environmental PerspectivesÂ
- BIOL 330 - Conservation Biology
- BIOL 336 - Advanced EcologyÂ
- BIOL 359 - Ecosystem Ecology and BIOL 359LÂ
- CORE 128S - Global Change and YouÂ
- ENST 233 - Global Environmental Health IssuesÂ
- ENST 390 - Community-based Study of Environmental IssuesÂ
- GEOG 316 - Environmental and Public Health GeographiesÂ
- GEOG 319 - Population and EnvironmentÂ
- GEOG 321 - Gender, Justice, and Environmental Change
- GEOL 101 - Environmental Geology
- GEOL 102 - Sustainable Earth
Social PerspectivesÂ
- ALST 351 - Medicine, Health and Healing in AfricaÂ
- ANTH 102 - Culture, Diversity and Inequality
- ANTH 222 - Medical Anthropology
- ANTH 226 Critical Global Health
- ANTH 244 - Who Owns Culture?Â
- ANTH/SOCI 245 - Nature, Culture, Politics
- ANTH 334 - Public Health in Africa
- ECON 348 - Health EconomicsÂ
- POSC 361 - Humanitarian InterventionsÂ
- PSYC 363 - Developmental PsychopathologyÂ
- PSYC 365 - Cross-Cultural Human DevelopmentÂ
- RELG 252 - Religion, Plagues, Pandemics
- SOCI 212 Power, Racism and Privilege
- SOCI 310 - Sociology of the Body
- SOCI 312 - Social InequalityÂ
- SOC 325 Mental IllnessÂ
Humanities PerspectivesÂ
- ARTS 260 - Social Practice ArtÂ
- HIST 210 - The History of Health, Disease and Empire (TR)Â
- LGBT 340 - Rural Sexualities and GendersÂ
- PHIL 214 - Medical EthicsÂ
- RELG 265 - Global Bioethics and Religion
Potential Minors
If you want to Minor in GPEH, please:
- Review the GPEH minor requirements and determine how your current and previous course work fits with those requirementsÂ
- Identify and contact a potential advisor from the Steering Committee
- Meet with your potential GPEH advisor and review the course requirements and fill out the minor declaration form
Forms: Course Petition, Minor Declaration
Affiliated Faculty
Professors: Cardelús, Frey, Holm, Ingram, Schwarzer, Shiner, Upton
Associate Professors: Taye (Director)Â
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Steering Committee: Abdul-Malak, Cardelús, Chanatry, Holm, Frey, Ingram, Schwarzer, Shiner, Taye, Upton
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