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Jan 15, 2025
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GOVT145 CM - The Social and Global Pandemics: Perspectives on Public Health in US and Around the WorldPandemics are global and social, spreading through global networks but also rooted in a society’s class, race, and gender inequalities. This course takes the idea that pandemics and public health challenges mirror fault lines of society, exposing biased beliefs about social groups, exposing preexisting health challenges and systemic inequities. Further, health system’s responses mirror and further complicate existing socio-economic health inequities. This courses, thus, uses a unique lens of public health to learn about how political and social factors shape a variety of global health epidemics: HIV-AIDS, COVID-19, and metabolic chronic epidemics such as obesity and diabetes. We also adopt a comparative policy approach exploring how a variety of countries manage emerging pandemics and whether they address the socio-economic roots of public health crises. A variety of perspectives, public policy, comparative politics, psychology, and biology are explored through guest lecturers and readings.
Prerequisite: GOVT 060 CM and GOVT 070 CM
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT145 CM
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