Global Health

• SPH GH 815: Methods for Impact Evaluation
  Graduate Prerequisites: SPH PH717 and GH745 and a statistical computing course, either BS723 o r BS730 - This four-credit course provides students with a set of theoretical and methodological skills to evaluate the causal impacts of public health programs and policies. Students learn to use a broad range of evaluation methodologies, including experimental and quasi-experimental designs. They strengthen their skills through critical analysis of published evaluation research. They also apply their skills to design an ideal impact evaluation for an intervention or program of their own choosing. Students taking this course should already be competent in understanding and applying basic quantitative methods for public health research. This is a Third Level course intended for MPH students enrolled in the Monitoring and Evaluation Certificate, and these students are given priority for enrollment. Other interested students may enroll, space permitting.
• SPH GH 854: From Data to Dashboards: Building Excel Skills to Support Health Program Decisions
  Graduate Prerequisites: For upper level MPH students who have basic proficiency with Excel - In these uncertain times, managers need, more than ever, to make sound decisions based on data. Good spreadsheet models are important tools in this process. Build your Excel "toolbox" by learning and applying robust formulas, graphing and dashboarding techniques, and data analysis in a wide range of real-world case study examples, such as cost and utilization analysis, estimation of revenues and expenses, and performance dashboards to monitor and evaluate performance of health interventions. Students will have the opportunity to build their own models to apply to a health service challenge of their choosing. This course is appropriate for upper level MPH students who have basic excel skills.
• SPH GH 881: Global Reproductive and Perinatal Health
  This course addresses the major reproductive and perinatal health problems facing communities around the world. We will focus on current strategies to address sexual and reproductive health, maternal and newborns health. For each problem, we will consider the fundamental causes and possible solutions--what works/doesn’t work and what is being tried. Topics will include determinants of maternal mortality, perinatal mortality, respectful maternity care, gender-based violence, conditions that impact pregnancy outcomes, major causes of global maternal and newborn mortality, initiatives in global maternal and newborn health including research, programming, policy and advocacy.
• SPH GH 887: Planning and Managing MCH Programs in Developing Countries
  Graduate Prerequisites: (SPHPH720) Students may not take both GH744 and GH887 for MPH degree credit. - This course provides a practical framework to enable students to design, manage, and evaluate services for children and women, with an emphasis on child health. The course covers the major health challenges with a focus on children and explores specific interventions to address these challenges. Topics covered include diarrheal disease, acute respiratory infection, immunization, malaria, micronutrient deficiencies, HIV/AIDS, safe motherhood and neonatal health. The final six weeks of the course will give students the opportunity to identify the technical, political, organizational, and environmental factors necessary for a successful program. Students will work in teams to respond to an RFP for improving the health of women, children, or newborns in a developing country. Teams will attend a bidder's conference and then prepare and present a written and oral proposal to an outside grants committee. Students cannot take both IH744 and IH887 for MPH degree credit.
• SPH GH 888: Seminar on Global Health Policy Issues
  Graduate Prerequisites: MPH integrated core courses or SPH doctoral students. - Foundational knowledge on the development, implementation and evaluation of global health policy is critical to improve population health that is relevant to all students regardless of whether they are planning to work domestically or internally. How is policy formulated in different settings and what can we learn from the process? Who sets the policy agenda? Why do some issues get the attention of policy-makers, while other equally important issues fail to gain traction? And what approaches can be used to improve the chances of a particular policy being adopted and successfully implemented in different settings? Students will carry out a policy analysis on a policy issue of their choice, using the policy analysis approaches and tools presented in class. They will develop a political strategy for the implementation of the policy of their choice and propose a plan for the effective implementation and evaluation of the policy. They will present the work to a policy maker and receive feedback and guidance from experts in the field.
• SPH GH 891: Global Pharmaceutical Policy: At the Intersection of Process and Politics
  Graduate Prerequisites: SPH GH888 or permission of instructor - Health care organizations need to provide viable and sustainable solutions to the many problems confronting them while balancing the often inconsistent and opposing agendas and interests of stakeholders. GH891 introduces the student to the real world of pharmaceutical policy making in global health. Students will analyze medicines issues at the intersection of policy, process and politics. Students will develop skills in pharmaceutical policy analysis through case studies, lectures, and discussion.
• SPH GH 941: Directed Studies in Global Health
  Directed Studies provide the opportunity for students to explore a special topic of interest under the direction of a full-time SPH faculty member. Students may register for a 1, 2, 3, or 4-credit directed study by submitting an add/drop form and a signed directed study proposal form. Students who are completing the culminating experience project must register for GH943. Directed studies with a non-SPH faculty member or an adjunct faculty member must be approved by and assigned to the department chair. Students are placed in a section by the Registrars Office according to the faculty member with whom they are working. Students may take no more than eight credits of directed study, directed research, or practica courses during their MPH education.
• SPH GH 942: Directed Research in Global Health
  This course provides the opportunity for advanced students to become involved in global health research of a public health nature or to undertake research independently. Arrangements are made with the appropriate full time GH faculty member. Students must submit an add/drop form and a directed research proposal form signed by the supervising faculty. Directed research is a graded, variable credit course (1, 2, 3, or 4 credits). Students may complete a maximum of 8 directed study, directed research or practicum credits during their MPH program.