International health is a field focusing on public health across regional or national boundaries. It seeks to (a) understand health problems in a global context, (b) compare factors that affect the health of people in resource-poor and transitional economies around the world; and (c) develop means of disease reduction and health protection and promotion for these populations.
Program Goals
The program aims to develop international health professionals who are able to:
- Design health programs that address significant global health problems and issues (e.g. pandemics, industrial accidents, disasters, health effects of environmental change) that are informed by a critical understanding of the global political, economic, environmental, and cultural systems and how these relate to health and development.
- Implement services that work in a global context for health promotion and development in accordance with international and local policies, directions, and ethical standards.
- Evaluate health development programs and strategies across different settings, both local policies, directions, and ethical standards.
- Engage in effective collaboration with important international organizations as well as non-government organizations for the improvement of health, taking into account the interplay of political, economic, environmental, and cultural factors in different development settings especially in middle- and low-resource countries.
- Contribute to the continuously evolving discipline of international health through research generation.
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