This course serves as an overview of the discipline and practice of public health. Course content includes the history of public health, tools and techniques used in the field, a population perspective, and an emphasis on disease prevention and health promotion.

This course introduces concepts of health policy at the global, national, state and local level, and reviews current and emerging issues in health policy. Special emphasis will be on international health. The international emphasis will be on the public health problems facing low- and middle-income countries today, especially those problems relating to reproductive health, infectious diseases, nutrition, and literacy. We will also examine the interaction of health policy and law, and issues of international cooperation and global governance.