Courses ︎
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Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health | Fall 2018
Designed for physicians, public health officers, or others who may be charged with responsibility for intervention during crisis situations. The focus will be on societal response to disasters and war as well as decision-making under stress. The course will examine U.S. and international case studies within the established research and policy frameworks for disaster response and humanitarian action. Students outside of HSPH must request instructor permission to enroll in this course.
Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Social Problems ︎
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In this interdisciplinary course available to students across Harvard University, students examine salient economic and social problems of the developing world through the entrepreneurial lenses of the artist, scientist, and planner; each theme taught by one of the professors above. The class encourages students to hone their problem-solving skills by consciously adopting a multi-dimensional approach, drawing from wide-ranging case-studies around the world: Why did a computer scientist build a dairy in China? Why were street children in Venezuela being taught classical music? Why did the mayor of Bogotá replace his traffic cops with mimes? How did a city host 80 million visitors attending a religious fair? Through these and other case studies, students will learn to develop entrepreneurial strategies to tackle the most pressing challenges in today’s emerging economies: health, education, transport, energy, pollution, corruption, lawlessness, violence, food, sanitation, water, shelter, migration, and more. This course pushes students to engage with each subject critically; to immerse themselves in the subject matter and reflect on their own thought processes.
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Division of Emergency Medicine at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College | Spring 2012
The program has engaged with several hundred professionals across India, Sri Lanka, Dubai, Qatar, Montenegro, Guatemala, Haiti and the Dominican Republic through training workshops, collaborative research initiatives and clinical service. The program is also an integral part of the four-year longitudinal Global Health Curriculum at the Weill Cornell Medical College, with program faculty overseeing global health electives in the first and final years of the medical school curriculum.
• More than 30 expert faculty from UN agencies, international foundations and NGOs including Doctors Without Borders, Partners in Health, Physicians for Human Rights, Grameen, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, the International Rescue Committee, the International Medical Corps, and Cornell, Columbia, Brown, Harvard, McGill and UCLA.
• More than 75 hours of programming on a range of themes including HIV, TB, malaria, non-communicable diseases, research methods, cost-effective analysis, global health institutions, complex humanitarian emergencies and climate change.
• The 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. lecture days are followed by daily evening keynotes open to the public.
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Coursera | Fall 2019
Around the world, we are increasingly socially and economically interdependent. Health on one side of the globe affects people on the other. Global health, once merely an ethical consideration, now dominates discussions and policies of global security. A diverse team of experts in this emerging field has come together to help you contextualize your experiences as a new or seasoned global health responder. By the end of this course, you will be enlightened about the changing world you live in, and have a much better understanding of the machinations on how organizations and governments are striving to improve health worldwide. You'll also learn how to keep yourself safe and be a savvy participant in the global health arena. You'll be prepared to travel and to take your skills to chronic/emergent situations and help respond to the pressing needs while participating in global health activities throughout the world.
Societal Response to Disasters and War ︎
︎ (Course Link)
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health | Fall 2018
Designed for physicians, public health officers, or others who may be charged with responsibility for intervention during crisis situations. The focus will be on societal response to disasters and war as well as decision-making under stress. The course will examine U.S. and international case studies within the established research and policy frameworks for disaster response and humanitarian action. Students outside of HSPH must request instructor permission to enroll in this course.
Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Social Problems ︎
︎ (Project Link)
In this interdisciplinary course available to students across Harvard University, students examine salient economic and social problems of the developing world through the entrepreneurial lenses of the artist, scientist, and planner; each theme taught by one of the professors above. The class encourages students to hone their problem-solving skills by consciously adopting a multi-dimensional approach, drawing from wide-ranging case-studies around the world: Why did a computer scientist build a dairy in China? Why were street children in Venezuela being taught classical music? Why did the mayor of Bogotá replace his traffic cops with mimes? How did a city host 80 million visitors attending a religious fair? Through these and other case studies, students will learn to develop entrepreneurial strategies to tackle the most pressing challenges in today’s emerging economies: health, education, transport, energy, pollution, corruption, lawlessness, violence, food, sanitation, water, shelter, migration, and more. This course pushes students to engage with each subject critically; to immerse themselves in the subject matter and reflect on their own thought processes.
Global Emergency Medicine Program ︎
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Division of Emergency Medicine at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College | Spring 2012
The program has engaged with several hundred professionals across India, Sri Lanka, Dubai, Qatar, Montenegro, Guatemala, Haiti and the Dominican Republic through training workshops, collaborative research initiatives and clinical service. The program is also an integral part of the four-year longitudinal Global Health Curriculum at the Weill Cornell Medical College, with program faculty overseeing global health electives in the first and final years of the medical school curriculum.
• More than 30 expert faculty from UN agencies, international foundations and NGOs including Doctors Without Borders, Partners in Health, Physicians for Human Rights, Grameen, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, the International Rescue Committee, the International Medical Corps, and Cornell, Columbia, Brown, Harvard, McGill and UCLA.
• More than 75 hours of programming on a range of themes including HIV, TB, malaria, non-communicable diseases, research methods, cost-effective analysis, global health institutions, complex humanitarian emergencies and climate change.
• The 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. lecture days are followed by daily evening keynotes open to the public.
Foundations for Global Health Responders ︎
︎ (Course Link)
Coursera | Fall 2019
Around the world, we are increasingly socially and economically interdependent. Health on one side of the globe affects people on the other. Global health, once merely an ethical consideration, now dominates discussions and policies of global security. A diverse team of experts in this emerging field has come together to help you contextualize your experiences as a new or seasoned global health responder. By the end of this course, you will be enlightened about the changing world you live in, and have a much better understanding of the machinations on how organizations and governments are striving to improve health worldwide. You'll also learn how to keep yourself safe and be a savvy participant in the global health arena. You'll be prepared to travel and to take your skills to chronic/emergent situations and help respond to the pressing needs while participating in global health activities throughout the world.
Fellowship ︎
Climate and Human Health:
Training physician-leaders in research, advocacy and policy-making ︎
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Medical School Teaching Hospital
The Fellowship trains physicians to examine and advance evidence-based policies that help build climate-resilient communities and health systems. This two-year experiential fellowship training includes a master’s degree in public health (research methodology) at Harvard Chan, research projects focused on community- and hospital-based resilience and response strategies, and policy and advocacy training with partners in Washington, DC and elsewhere.
Fellows hold a clinical appointment at the BIDMC Department of Emergency Medicine and Harvard Medical School, and are based at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard C-CHANGE). In addition, they have the opportunity to be mentored by faculty from across Harvard, including the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics and the Harvard University Center for the Environment.
The fellowship is part of the LCF Consortium on Climate & Health Science Policy in partnership with the Climate & Health Science Policy Fellowship at the University of Colorado. Off-site education is obtained through internships and visiting scientist opportunities at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and other sites.
Climate and Human Health:
Training physician-leaders in research, advocacy and policy-making ︎
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Medical School Teaching Hospital
The Fellowship trains physicians to examine and advance evidence-based policies that help build climate-resilient communities and health systems. This two-year experiential fellowship training includes a master’s degree in public health (research methodology) at Harvard Chan, research projects focused on community- and hospital-based resilience and response strategies, and policy and advocacy training with partners in Washington, DC and elsewhere.
Fellows hold a clinical appointment at the BIDMC Department of Emergency Medicine and Harvard Medical School, and are based at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard C-CHANGE). In addition, they have the opportunity to be mentored by faculty from across Harvard, including the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics and the Harvard University Center for the Environment.
The fellowship is part of the LCF Consortium on Climate & Health Science Policy in partnership with the Climate & Health Science Policy Fellowship at the University of Colorado. Off-site education is obtained through internships and visiting scientist opportunities at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and other sites.