Dr. Ostebo
| This course offers anthropological perspectives on global public health. Students will be introduced to various global health challenges and problems, and to the initiatives and approaches that have been undertaken to address them. This includes a focus on the main actors and institutions that constitute the field of global health and on the different value systems and forms of knowledge production that have informed historical and contemporary trends in global health policy and practice. Key topics to be covered include: social, cultural and political determinants of health, human rights and health, vertical and comprehensive health interventions, the politics and economics of health systems and governance, measuring health, the role of the state, civil society and public-private partnerships in health care delivery, global health technologies, innovations, research and ethics. |