DIET 841
International Nutrition and World Hunger

Advanced study of the magnitude, cause, and nature of hunger and undernutrition in low-income countries; emphasis on programs, policies and planning directed toward alleviating hunger.

RESP 620
Community and Global Health

This course will explore a wide variety of major health issues that impact us as global citizens. Students will be exposed to an overview of challenges that face the world today as they learn about strategies and programs that promote health in a variety of settings. Through this course, students will become more culturally competent healthcare providers. They will learn about disparities related to ethnicity, socioeconomic issues, human rights, and resource limits as they relate to the health of populations.

PMED 950
International Health Experience

Within this elective are presented opportunities for the student to gain clinical and community health experiences in an international setting.  The country selected is to be prearranged by the student with the assistance of faculty.

PRVM 816
International Health

This course is divided into seven sections: 1) Global health introduction, 2) Health inequalities and the socio-economic context of disease, 3) Maternal and child health, the health of special populations, 4) The spread of infectious diseases, and HIV/AIDS, malaria, TB, 5) Globalizations and emerging infectious diseases, and nutrition, 6) Environmental health ,and the health of effects of environmental change, 7) Global health payers and players, and global health priorities.

PRVM 864
Global Public Health Impact of HIV/AIDS

Reviews the HIV pandemic to evaluate lessons learned in prevention and treatment of the disease and successes and failures of public policies to reduce the impact of HIV in various countries.  Critically analyzes HIV prevention interventions (voluntary counseling and testing, prevention of mother-to-child transmission, promotion of safer sex practices, clean needle exchange, methadone or buprenorphine programs, treatment with antiretroviral therapy, pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis, vaccine and microbicide development) and challenges with their implementation.

NURS 445
International/Global Health Care Elective: A Clinical Experience

This course is designed to enlighten students to new cultures, provide the opportunity to see how these cultures deal with health care, and assess the clients' internal and external environment that impact health care. Various roles and responsibilities of nurses participating in international health are examined. A short-term immersion experience provides an opportunity to incorporate the nursing process in clinic and community settings and to function as members of a health care team.

Nurs 485
Population Health, From Local to Global I

Population based health and multi-sectoral systems influencing health, locally and globally, are explored. Students build upon clinical judgment skills from an individual level of care to a global context of care.

NURS 485
Population Health, From Local to Global Ii

Community theories, models and frameworks are explored to guide a community health improvement project. Community engagement and collaboration, health coaching and behavior change, and chronic disease management are used to create a community health improvement plan.

NRSG 826
Global Perspective and Diversity in Healthcare

Students partner with a community of interest to understand their health and illness beliefs, identify barriers to healthcare access, integrate the historical, social, political and economic forces that impact healthcare.  Together they plan and implement appropriate strategies to influence positive community outcomes.

NRSG 839
Global Perspectives and Diversity in Healthcare: Practicum

Students will have the opportunity to integrate concepts and theories of global health and diversity by direct program planning, delivery, and evaluation of care activities with a vulnerable population.