GW Medical School Global Health

Will you give me Lecture Series of Global Health Track of George Washington School Of Medicine And Health Science ?

[Arun Vats]

The George Washington School Of Medicine And Health Science offers Global Health Track to increase students' awareness about international health systems and global diseases , assessment techniques for the specific health needs of countries at various stages of development.

Global Health Track Lecture Series:

Human rights:
UN Declaration of the Human Rights
The framework of Health and Human Rights
Ethics and human rights: history of physicians in human rights protection and abuses
Law and human rights

Social determinants of health:
Basic economics and health
Poverty and health
Income inequality and health
Gender issues
Policy, trade, and health:
WHO, UNAIDS
WTO, World Bank, IMF, GATT, TRIPS, trade agreements
NGOs
Governments

Global burden of disease:
Water, nutrition, and child health
HIV/AIDS/TB
Infectious diseases
Non-communicable diseases, injuries and violence
Measuring population health

Health care delivery systems:
Western healthcare models: insurance, payers, individual care
Community-based care
Participation and empowerment
Access to care and health: evidence-based research
Healthcare workforce
Public health model: vaccination, eradication, population approaches

The environment and health:
Migration, travel, global interaction: epidemics, immigration impacts on global disease
Natural disasters and disaster relief
Man-made disasters: global conflict, war, refugees, global toxin burden


Contact detail:
George Washington School Of Medicine And Health Science
Ross Hall, Suite 222
2300 Eye Street, NW
Washington, DC 20037
Phone: (202) 994-2295
Fax: (202) 994-4740