MOOC Global Health Interdisciplinary Overview

Information

10 Distance teaching hours
19 heures pour terminer le MOOC

Language

English

Format

Distance learning

Registration

Continuous

Contribution to the SDGs

Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Programme

This course proposes an overview of current global health challenges drawing on the insights of several academic disciplines including medicine, public health, law, economics, social sciences and humanities. This interdisciplinary approach will guide the student into seven critical topics in global health.

Director(s)

Samantha BATTAMS, University of Geneva

MOOC on Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Overview

Description

Welcome to Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Overview! This course consists of the course guides, including discussion forum activities and assessments, along with presentations by a range of presenters, from the University of Geneva, The Graduate Institute, WHO, UNDP, WTO, IUCN, Medicines Patent Pool, among others. You will benefit from the insights and perspectives of multiple contributors involved in global health research, teaching, policy and practice across disciplines and sectors. Your enjoyment and benefits from the course will above all depend on your participation within this course, and we very much look forward to your participation through the discussion forums. Enjoy the course !

Planning

  • 7 videos (Total 15 min)
  • 2 readings

Description

This module will introduce the concept of global health. Global health is a relatively new field and there is currently some debate over its definition.

Planning

  • 4 videos (Total 56 min)
  • 3 readings
  • 1 quiz

Description

There are 7 parts to module 3. Lessons 3 & 4 are both introductory sections that describe key concepts necessary to understand infectious diseases and how we deal with them. Lesson 5 constitutes the core lesson of module 3. This lesson focuses on the current global situation and future challenges for the most prominent infectious diseases of the world. In lessons 6-9 we discuss neglected tropical diseases, re-emerging infectious diseases and epidemics/pandemics. Finally, lesson 10 and 10b summarize module 3 in a set of key conclusions.

Planning

  • 9 videos (Total 152 min)
  • 9 readings
  • 1 quiz

Description

In this module we consider the rise of non-communicable (NCDs) diseases across countries, along with mental disorders and disability.

Planning

  • 6 videos (Total 84 min)
  • 3 readings
  • 1 quiz

Description

This module is concerned with the global health system (which refers to responses to health conditions or the prevention of these) and the management of this system through global health governance.

 

Planning

  • 4 videos (Total 60 min)
  • 3 readings
  • 1 quiz

Description

Health policy has undergone profound changes during the last few decades. Although health has for a long time been an issue in international relations, it was for most of the 20th century perceived as a national and technical matter. This meant that solutions to health problems were seen to require primarily scientific and technological collaboration rather than political commitment. Along with the dramatic changes associated with globalisation, health is increasingly seen as a higher priority on international political agendas.

In Module 6, we discuss what triggered this political ‘revolution’ and its implications.

Planning

  • 3 videos (Total 45 min)
  • 3 readings
  • 1 quiz

Description

This module addresses the lack of attention to research and development for medicines and technologies for diseases that disproportionately affect developing countries and all the issues related to drug development and intellectual property rights.

Planning

  • 8 videos (Total 116 min)
  • 6 readings
  • 1 quiz

Planning

  • 6 videos (Total 67 min)
  • 4 readings
  • 1 quiz

Since 2013, the University has been producing "massive open online courses" (MOOCs). These are university-level online courses that are scripted and structured around content, learning activities, interactions and assessments. They are open to everybody, without access-restrictions based on age, profession or level of study.

This initiative aims to make courses from the best universities in the world available to everybody, with monitoring and assessment requirements as high as for regular students. Launched in 2011 by computer science professors at Stanford University, MOOCs now have several hundred million students worldwide. The universities involved in this process include some of the world's most prestigious institutions.

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Contribution to the SDGs

Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages