Global Health, B.S.

Program Overview

The Global Health Certificate program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison offers a multidisciplinary approach to global health, focusing on public health, food systems and nutrition, and ecosystem sustainability. Students complete core courses and depth courses in one of three categories, and a capstone course. The program provides a strong foundation for careers in global health, public health, and related fields.

Program Outline

Outline:

• Core Courses:
• Gateway Core Requirement: 3 credits from ENTOM/ENVIR ST 205 Our Planet, Our Health
• Public Health Core Requirement: 3 credits from POP HLTH/C&E SOC 370 Introduction to Public Health, ENTOM/AGRONOMY/NUTR SCI 203 Introduction to Global Health
• Food Systems and Health Core Requirement: 3 credits from AGRONOMY 377 Global Food Production and Health, PL PATH 311 Global Food Security
• Environmental Health Core Requirement: 3-4 credits from A A E 352 Global Health: Economics, Natural Systems, and Policy, HIST SCI/ENVIR ST 213 Global Environmental Health: An Interdisciplinary Introduction
• Global Disease Biology and Epidemiology Core Requirement: 3 credits from MICROBIO 345 Introduction to Disease Biology, NUTR SCI 379 Introduction to Epidemiology
• Depth Courses:
Complete a minimum of 15 credits of depth courses, with at least 9 credits from one category and at least 6 credits from the other categories.

Public Health, Policy, and Development

• A A E/INTL ST 373 Globalization, Poverty and Development
• C&E SOC/SOC 533 Public Health in Rural & Urban Communities
• CSCS 410 Human Trafficking: Global and Local Perspectives
• CSCS 470 The Human Rights of Children and Youth: Global and Local Perspectives
• CSCS 500 Global Health and Communities: From Research to Praxis
• ECON/POP HLTH/PUB AFFR 548 The Economics of Health Care
• ED POL 677
• FRENCH 288 Doctors without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières)
• GEN&WS 525 Gender and Global Health in Critical Perspective
• GEN&WS 534 Gender, Sexuality, and Reproduction: Public Health Perspectives
• GEN&WS/INTL ST 535 Women's Global Health and Human Rights
• GEN&WS/HIST SCI 537 Childbirth in the United States
• GEOG 307 International Migration, Health, and Human Rights
• HISTORY/INTL ST 330 Global History of Humanitarianism
• I SY E 417 Health Systems Engineering
• LEGAL ST 473 Health Impacts of Unmet Social Needs
• LSC/COM ARTS/JOURN 617 Health Communication in the Information Age
• LSC 625 Risk Communication
• MED HIST/PHILOS 505 Justice and Health Care
• MED HIST/HIST SCI 509 The Development of Public Health in America
• MED HIST/PHILOS 515 Public Health Ethics
• MED HIST/AFROAMER/HIST SCI 523 Race, American Medicine and Public Health
• MED HIST/PHILOS 558 Ethical Issues in Health Care
• MED HIST/HIST SCI/HISTORY 564 Disease, Medicine and Public Health in the History of Latin America and the Caribbean
• NUTR SCI 379 Introduction to Epidemiology
• POP HLTH/C&E SOC 370 Introduction to Public Health
• POP HLTH/HIST SCI/MED HIST 553 International Health and Global Society
• PUB AFFR 520 Inequality, Race and Public Policy
• RELIG ST 475 Religion, Global and Public Health
• SOC/C&E SOC 343 Sociology of Health and Medicine
• SOC/AMER IND/C&E SOC 578 Poverty and Place
• SOC/C&E SOC 630 Sociology of Developing Societies/Third World

Food Systems and Nutrition

• A A E 319 The International Agricultural Economy
• A A E/ECON 477 Agricultural and Economic Development in Africa
• AGRONOMY/HORT 338 Plant Breeding and Biotechnology
• AGRONOMY 377 Global Food Production and Health
• AN SCI/DY SCI 370 Livestock Production and Health in Agricultural Development
• BIOCHEM/NUTR SCI 510 Nutritional Biochemistry and Metabolism
• BOTANY/AMER IND/ANTHRO 474 Ethnobotany
• C&E SOC/A A E/SOC 340 Issues in Food Systems
• C&E SOC/SOC 341 Labor in Global Food Systems
• DY SCI/AGRONOMY 471 Food Production Systems and Sustainability
• DY SCI/AN SCI/FOOD SCI/SOIL SCI 472 Animal Agriculture and Global Sustainable Development
• DY SCI/AN SCI/FOOD SCI/SOIL SCI 473 International Field Study in Animal Agriculture and Sustainable Development
• GEOG/ENVIR ST 309 People, Land and Food: Comparative Study of Agriculture Systems
• HORT 350 Plants and Human Wellbeing
• HORT/AGRONOMY 360 Genetically Modified Crops: Science, Regulation & Controversy
• HORT/AGRONOMY 376 Tropical Horticultural Systems
• HORT 380 Indigenous Foodways: Food and Seed Sovereignty
• MED HIST/AGRONOMY/C&E SOC/PHILOS 565 The Ethics of Modern Biotechnology
• MICROBIO/FOOD SCI 325 Food Microbiology
• NUTR SCI 332 Human Nutritional Needs
• NUTR SCI/A A E/AGRONOMY 350 World Hunger and Malnutrition
• NUTR SCI 377 Cultural Aspects of Food and Nutrition
• NUTR SCI 431 Nutrition in the Life Span
• NUTR SCI/POP HLTH 621 Introduction to Nutritional Epidemiology
• PL PATH 311 Global Food Security
• SOIL SCI 301 General Soil Science

Ecosystem Sustainability and Planetary Health

• A A E/ECON/ENVIR ST 343 Environmental Economics
• A A E 352 Global Health: Economics, Natural Systems, and Policy
• AGRONOMY/BOTANY/SOIL SCI 370 Grassland Ecology
• BOTANY/F&W ECOL/ZOOLOGY 460 General Ecology
• BOTANY/ENVIR ST/F&W ECOL/ZOOLOGY 651 Conservation Biology
• CIV ENGR/G L E 421 Environmental Sustainability Engineering
• CIV ENGR 423 Air Pollution Effects, Measurement and Control
• C&E SOC/ENVIR ST/SOC 540 Sociology of International Development, Environment, and Sustainability
• C&E SOC/SOC 541 Environmental Stewardship and Social Justice
• ENVIR ST/AMER IND 306 Indigenous Peoples and the Environment
• ENVIR ST/PHILOS 441 Environmental Ethics
• ENVIR ST/HISTORY 465 Global Environmental History
• F&W ECOL/ENVIR ST/ZOOLOGY 360 Extinction of Species
• GEOG/ATM OCN/ENVIR ST 332 Global Warming: Science and Impacts
• GEOG/ENVIR ST 337 Nature, Power and Society
• GEOG/ENVIR ST 339 Environmental Conservation
• GEOG/ENVIR ST/F&W ECOL/G L E/GEOSCI/LAND ARC 371 Introduction to Environmental Remote Sensing
• GEOG/CIV ENGR/ENVIR ST 377 An Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
• GEOG/SOIL SCI 526 Human Transformations of Earth Surface Processes
• LAND ARC 360 Earth Partnership Restoration Education: Indigenous Arts & Sciences
• LAND ARC 363 Earth Partnership: Restoration Education for Equity and Resilience
• M&ENVTOX/CIV ENGR/SOIL SCI 631 Toxicants in the Environment: Sources, Distribution, Fate, & Effects
• M&ENVTOX/AGRONOMY/ENTOM/F&W ECOL 632 Ecotoxicology: The Chemical Players
• M&ENVTOX/AGRONOMY/ENTOM/F&W ECOL 633 Ecotoxicology: Impacts on Individuals
• M&ENVTOX/AGRONOMY/ENTOM/F&W ECOL 634 Ecotoxicology: Impacts on Populations, Communities and Ecosystems
• MICROBIO/SOIL SCI 425 Environmental Microbiology
• POP HLTH/ENVIR ST 471 Introduction to Environmental Health
• POP HLTH/ENVIR ST 502 Air Pollution and Human Health
• SOIL SCI/PL PATH 323 Soil Biology
• SOIL SCI/ENVIR ST 324 Soils and Environmental Quality
• URB R PL 550 Transportation and the Built Environment

Capstone

ENTOM 570 Systems Thinking in Global Health BIOCORE 587 Biological Interactions C&E SOC/SOC 533 Public Health in Rural & Urban Communities CSCS 500 Global Health and Communities: From Research to Praxis DY SCI/AGRONOMY 471 Food Production Systems and Sustainability

Teaching:

Faculty and instructors

• Jeri Barak, Department of Plant Pathology
• Kerri Coon, Department of Bacteriology
• Lori DiPrete Brown, Department of Civil Society and Community Studies
• Joshua Garoon, Department of Community and Environmental Sociology
• Malia Jones, Department of Community and Environmental Sociology
• Richard Keller, Department of Medical History and Bioethics
• Susan Paskewitz, Department of Entomology (faculty director)
• Jonathan Patz, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
• Paul Peppard, Department of Population Health Sciences
• Daniel Phaneuf, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
• Sherry Tanumihardjo, Department of Nutritional Sciences
• Valentin Picasso Risso, Department of Agronomy
• Devika Suri, Department of Nutritional Sciences
• Monica White, Department of Community and Environmental Sociology

Academic Advising

Each student is assigned an academic advisor who works to understand student goals and helps each student shape their unique Wisconsin Experience and make the most of their time at UW–Madison. Advisors also provide students career advising, as well as resources and guidance on planning for post-college activities such as graduate/professional school and “gap year” experiences.

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