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Global Health Concentration

Focuses on bridging health inequalities with scientific evidence of etiology and prevention

The mission of the Global Health Concentration is to develop public health professionals who are experts in issues related to global health. Global health research and training focus on health inequalities within communities and populations and across populations throughout the world. Global health thus focuses on domestic and international health inequalities, and is not about crossing borders but bridging health inequalities with scientific evidence of etiology and prevention.

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Competencies

Students who earn an MPH in Brown with a concentration in Global Health should be able to do the following:

  • Analyze trends in the burden of disease in a specific LMIC low- or middle-income country) or another similarly under-resourced setting.
  • Apply a health equity lens to a specific global public health issue.
  • Reflect on how their positionality should inform collaborations with LMIC partners.
  • Design a context-specific, scientifically assessable intervention for a resource-constrained setting.
  • Formulate a social determinants of health explanation for a global health outcome that is grounded in evidence.

Information for students who matriculated prior to Fall 2020

Courses

Global Health Concentration Courses

Complete the following courses:

  • PHP2710, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Disability and Death in the Global South (Fall)
  • PHP2720, Implementing Public Health Programs and Interventions in the Global South (Fall of either 1st or 2nd year)
  • PHP2730, Including the Excluded: Global Health Ethics (Spring)
  • PHP2740, Learning Global Health by Doing GH [must take in the first year] (Spring)
  • PHP2760, Critical Perspectives in Global Health [recommend taking in the second year] (Fall)

*Students taking the qualitative analytic sequence must also take PHP2061, Qualitative Analysis in Public Health Research, as an elective.

Global Health Sample schedules (PDF)

Qualitative Analytic Sequence with Fall Epidemiology

Sample schedule: Global Health Concentration Qualitative Analytic Sequence with Fall Epidemiology

Qualitative Analytic Sequence with Spring Epidemiology

Sample schedule: Global Health Concentration Qualitative Analytic Sequence with Spring Epidemiology

Quantitative Analytic Sequence with Fall Epidemiology

Sample schedule: Global Health Concentration Quantitative Analytic Sequence with Fall Epidemiology

Quantitative Analytic Sequence with Spring Epidemiology

Sample schedule: Global Health Concentration Quantitative Analytic Sequence with Spring Epidemiology

Thesis

Students in the Global Health Concentration must complete their thesis focused on an Global Health topic with an advisor approved by the Global Health Concentration Lead

Faculty

Global Health Concentration Lead

  • Harrison

    Abigail Harrison, PhD, MPH

    Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences (Research)
    Abigail_Harrison@brown.edu
    Research Profile
Brown University School of Public Health
Providence RI 02903 401-863-3375 public_health@brown.edu

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