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In public health, healthcare systems, biotech, and medical research, data analysis is used to improve outcomes and advance scientific understanding. Students drawn to medicine, epidemiology, or health equity may find this pathway a strong fit.
Anthropology (ANT)
- ANT 230 – Medical Anthropology: Comparative study of disease ecology and medical systems of other cultures; sociocultural factors affecting contemporary world health problems; cultural aspects of ethnomedicine and biomedicine; ethnicity and health care.
- ANT 231 – Predictive Health and Society: This course introduces the evidence base for the science of health and emphasizes STEM educational translations to the population, clinic and individual levels. Innovative efforts are needed to drive changes in health care from a reactive, disease-focused system to a proactive health-focused one.
- ANT 334 – Evolutionary Medicine: Biological and cultural adaptations to disease, the role of specific diseases in evolution, social epidemiological patterns related to culture, contemporary issues in disease control, and economic development. Considers a variety of diseases including malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS, and malnutrition.
- ANT 338 – Global Health: Biosocial Model: This course surveys the global landscape of challenges to physical and mental health that confront us today, and traces the emergence of biosocial approaches to both explaining and tackling these challenges.
- ANT 339 – Defining Health: Biocultural Perspectives: How paradigms of health-focused beliefs and systems develop, are maintained, and change reflect history, society, and technology. We interrogate the scientific basis for present biomedical concepts that have co-opted concepts of the human body's health and well-being.
- ANT 349 – Food, Health, and Society: Human health is intrinsically linked to dietary practices. The pharmacological properties of foods will be examined and case studies of dietary complexes will be examined in order to better understand the food-medicine continuum as a determinant of health and well-being.
Biology (BIOL)
- BIOL 344 – Food, Health, and Society: Human health is intrinsically linked to dietary practices. The pharmacological properties of foods will be examined and case studies of dietary complexes will be examined in order to better understand the food-medicine continuum as a determinant of health and well-being.
- BIOL 352 – Epigenetics & Human Disease: Epigenetics is the study of heritable characteristics not caused by changes in DNA sequence, but rather induced by non-genetic factors that alter gene expression and are dependent on time and location. The course explores epigenetics and its relation to normal development and disease.
Environmental Sciences (ENVS)
- ENVS 270 – Environmental Data Science: Students will learn to summarize and explore patterns and relationships in social and environmental data, conduct independent research, effectively communicate results and implications, and critically assess data-driven assertions.
- ENVS 310 – Environmental Justice: This course explores environmental justice focusing on systemic and historical injustices in America and globally. Topics include toxic waste, clean water, tree equity, hazards, and climate change. It examines impacts on marginalized communities and strategies to address environmental racism.
- ENVS 323 – Sustainable Food Systems: The class will question the extent to which current food systems are socially desirable and environmentally sustainable and explore tools, theories, and interventions to envision and create food systems that are sustainable, resilient, and just.
Health (HLTH)
- HLTH 207 – Fundamentals of Epidemiology: Epidemiology is the study of disease patterns and determinants within a population and the application of this information to mitigate public health problems. Topics include study design, measure of disease frequency and association, sampling, causation, bias, confounding, and how to critique epidemiologic literature.
- HLTH 210 – Predictive Health and Society: This course introduces the evidence base for the science of health and emphasizes STEM educational translations to the population, clinic and individual levels. Innovative efforts are needed to drive changes in health care from a reactive, disease-focused system to a proactive health-focused one.
- HLTH 230 – Health, Wellbeing & Humanities: Health is a fundamental human experience with multifaceted intersections in areas of humanistic inquiry.
- HLTH 250 – Foundations of Global Health: An introduction to the overall field of global health, its history, methods, and key principles, with case studies illustrating the burden of disease in nations with strikingly different political-economic contexts.
- HLTH 306 – Designing Health Research: This course explores qualitative and quantitative methodologies used in health research, as well as principles for responsible conduct of research. Through hands-on development of a research proposal, students build skills for reviewing literature, evaluating evidence, and scientific communication.
- HLTH 307 – Epidemiological Methods: This course covers basic epidemiologic methods used in public health research. Topics include basic study design, measures of disease frequency, measures of effect, types of bias, and options for control of co-variates with an introduction to modeling.
- HLTH 310 – Defining Health: Biocultural Perspectives: How paradigms of health-focused beliefs and systems develop, are maintained, and change reflect history, society, and technology. We interrogate the scientific basis for present biomedical concepts that have co-opted concepts of the human body's health and well-being.
- HLTH 341 – Vaccines & Immunology in Health: We will discuss vaccine discovery, dissemination, and health impacts across the globe from a historical and present-day perspective. Special consideration will be given to the mechanisms different vaccines employ to confer efficacy, safety across populations, and preparedness for future diseases.
- HLTH 352 – Advancing Global Health Equity: We will apply community-based primary health care methods to advance more equitable solutions for maternal-newborn global health challenges. Teams will measure the disparity and look "back" to identify causes before looking "forward" to propose more equitable solutions for future change.
- HLTH 364 – Epidemiology of Obesity: Obesity is a growing health burden in low- and middle-income countries, such as Peru. The purpose of this course is to study the distribution, determinants, and consequences of obesity in the Peruvian context, as well as the strategies implemented to control and reduce it.
- HLTH 370 – Health Policy: The course covers the US health care system, including the factors responsible for increasing health care spending, the purpose of regulation in the individual insurance market, the role of Medicare and Medicaid, and pros and cons of horizontal and vertical integration among providers and hospitals.
- HLTH 373 – Delivering Health: This course employs multiple perspectives, including organizational theory, business, and economics, to examine the structure, financing, and performance of the US health care system and its ability to deliver health. Mental health, long-term care, and public health sectors are explored in depth.
- HLTH 379 – Health Communication: We examine the language around health and health care as a type of intercultural discourse, including communication between doctors and patients, between health care providers, and discussions of health in the media. We also examine language as a diagnostic tool.
- HLTH 400 – Community Health Education Strategies: This course enables students to translate classroom knowledge into professional settings to support novel populations in Atlanta and at Emory. Students learn skills and approaches used in community health education and coaching including session planning and design in support of existing programs.
- HLTH 408 – Epidemiology in Action: Health problems have many complex causes. After mapping the causes of a problem from a specific context (with research, theory & epidemiology), learners will create a proposal with real-world solutions. The proposal will be converted into a persuasive presentation to request funding for the work.
- HLTH 409 – Co-design for Health Technology: This interdisciplinary course provides an overview of the key issues involved in the introduction of low-cost, sustainable healthcare technology in resource-constrained settings. Working with partner organizations, student teams develop low-cost solutions to a real-world health problem.
- HLTH 410 – Contemporary Health Challenges: Predictive health is a paradigm change in the science of health. This class focuses on the challenges posed by this changing perspective, and involves critical analysis and consideration of solutions to present day health issues.
Philosophy (PHIL)
- PHIL 316 – Bioethics: This course explores the central questions of biomedical ethics, such as end-of-life issues, abortion, and justice in the distribution of health care.
Sociology (SOC)
- SOC 230 – Sociological Aspects of Health and Illness: Social etiology and ecology of disease, sociological factors affecting treatment and rehabilitation, and the organization of medical care and medicine as a social institution.
- SOC 250 – Foundations of Global Health: An introduction to the overall field of global health, its history, methods, and key principles, with case studies illustrating the burden of disease in nations with strikingly different political-economic contexts.
- SOC 330 – Mental Health and Wellbeing: Explores the development of conceptions of mental health, both negative (depression) and positive (well-being) forms. Examines the intrapersonal, interpersonal, social and cultural theories, and underpinnings of mental health and well-being.
- SOC 347 – Gender and Global Health: Overview of theories, case studies, and social policies related to men and women's health in resource-poor countries.
TBA
- Astrana Health
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Child Mind Institute
- CVS Health
- Emory Healthcare
- Elevance Health
- Harvard Medical School
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Marcus Autism Center
- MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Merck
- New York Genome Center
- Nimbus Health
- Northwell Health
- PharmaACE
- Rollins School of Public Health
- Jude Children’s Research Hospital
- UCSF
- UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
- UnitedHealth Group
- Craig Hadley
- Abhishek Ananth
- Michal Arbilly
- Weihua An
Scott Parent