Global Health Field Courses Open for 2014

Are you interested in global health? If so, consider taking advantage of the global health field course opportunities available for 2014. These exciting experiences all convey basic concepts in public health, but explore the field through highly varied lenses including agriculture, nutrition, environmental science, media, and community development. Each takes place in a global context, involving either work abroad or work here in the U.S. with diverse marginalized populations. Students interested in the Certificate in Global Health are the primary audience for these courses, but they are open to any UW undergraduates who meet the prerequisites of a given course!

Read more about the global health field courses after the jump! Questions? Email Robin Mittenthal or call 608-262-3718.


International field courses happening summer 2014:
-Multi-disciplinary Community-based Health Education, Nutrition Promotion and Sustainability Innovation in Rural Sierra Leone
-Urban healthcare and the interaction of traditional Chinese and Western medicine in Shanghai and Beijing, China
-History and Modern Development of Environmental Health in China
-Health by Motorbike (HbM): Health Training and Community Health Outreach in Rural Kenya -Water for Life: Sustainability and Community Health in Ecuador

Domestic (in-state!) field courses happening summer 2014:

-Green Summer Freiburg in Madison
-Bad River Tribal Youth Media Project/Visualizing Global Health in a Cultural Context (Ashland County, WI)

International field courses happening over next winter break (Dec. 2014 to Jan. 2015):
-Health and Nutrition in Developing Countries (Uganda)
-Biodiversity, Health, and Food Security in Sidama, Ethiopia