Date Preparatory week (from Jan 5) Week 1 (From Jan 9) Live session #1: Tues Jan 10 Week 2 (From Jan 16) Week 3 (From Jan 23) Week 4 (From Jan 30) Week 5 (From Feb 6) Live session #2: Tues Feb 7 Week 6 (From Feb 13) Feb 20-24 READING BREAK Week 7 (From Feb 27) Week 8 (From Mar 7) Week 9 (From Mar 13) Live session #3 Tues March 14 Week 10 (From Mar 20) Week 11 (From Mar 27) Week 12 (From Apr 3) Exam Period (Apr 11-26) No EXAM Page 3 of 5 SCHEDULE OF TOPICS Session Topic Getting ready for the course • Introduce yourself and reflect on personal objectives • Course Introduction Watch Unseen Enemy video · Course expectations and assignments · What is global health? · History of global health · Ethical issues in global health Theme: Global health ethics and the COVID-19 Pandemic Global Burden of Disease in Transition · How do we measure health? · Where do we find health data? · The global burden of disease · Demographic and epidemiologic transitions Health systems · What is a health system? Types of health systems • Resilience of health systems Health and its determinants · Proximal versus distal drivers of health · Health and trade Communicable Disease . . COVID-19 · Malaria, TB, HIV Theme: Global health field experience Non-Communicable Disease · Cardiovascular disease & cancer · Demographic transition · Commercial determinants of health Health Equity • Foundational knowledge on health equity · Social determination of health Ethical issues in global health Partnerships in global health Theme: Project Presentations Indigenous Health and Impact of Colonialism · Racism in health · Immigrant health Climate change and global health governance · MDGs, SDGs Course Wrap Up