Global health emphasizes a broad, multidisciplinary approach to understanding emerging health challenges, considering social, cultural, economic and environmental factors that underlie health inequities. Global health is based on the fundamental concept that health is a human right, and justice and equity should be the basis for global health education. Those who study or practice global health work to eliminate health disparities in communities around the world through research, education and collaborative intervention. Many global health issues can only be approached with interdisciplinarity, equity, and solidarity, as they are often intriguingly interlinked and inseparable from each other. It is widely understood that no one perspective, be it cultural, ethical, political or academic, can develop the best solution to a problem alone, particularly at a population level. Global health is an inherently interprofessional field, spanning medicine, nursing, pharmacy, law, social work, engineering, business, anthropology, political science, and environmental science. Global perspectives on health are useful to analyze structural challenges faced in all healthcare systems and help understand the diversity of cultures and concepts of disease. In this course students will be trained to collaborate not only with their professional colleagues, but also professionals and stakeholders across different fields, their communities, and their individual clients.

This is an interprofessional education course that will be taught in person at the UMB Graduate School. Contributing faculty include Dr. Shailvi Gupta, MD, MPH, FACS (SOM), Carlos Faerron Guzman, MD (SOGS), Emily Heil, PharmD, MS, FIDP, BCIDP, AAHIVP (SOP), Lynn Michalopoulos, MSW, PhD (SOSW), Charlotte Nwogwugwu, DrPH, BSN, RN, HIV PCP, CPH-BC (SON), and Matiangai Sirleaf, MA, JD (SOL). Students may use this course to satisfy the Advanced Writing Requirement.