Courses
Fall 2024 Course Offerings
Global Health Security and Diplomacy (STIA-3294-01, GLID-5030-01)
Graduate Level • Fall 2024 • Rebecca Katz
Global Health Security and Diplomacy will explore the interconnection between international affairs and the science and technology of critical global health issues such as pandemic preparedness and response (eg, Zika, Ebola, influenza); infectious diseases such as HIV, malaria, and TB; the rising spread of noncommunicable diseases such as tobacco and diabetes; regulation of medicines, health products and food; and the securitization of health. This seminar will examine the role of diplomacy and policymaking processes in addressing these issues including the development of national foreign policies for global health; the establishment of treaties and international agreements; negotiations with public, private and philanthropic players; and governance of international organizations and public-private partnerships. In this course, the student will seek to understand the role that diplomatic and political processes play in shaping global health programs, policies and operations through readings, discussion and lecture and present a paper on a specific topic chosen in conjunction with the professor of her/his choosing.
Global Health Diplomacy (DIAF-5024-70, GU-Q)
Undergraduate Level • Fall 2024 • Rebecca Katz
Global health security and pandemic preparedness and response are rapidly becoming of foreign policy, requiring public health officials to operate within a broader political context. This course introduces students to the concept of Global Health Diplomacy and Global Health Security, starting with historical case studies of how diplomacy has been used to advance health agendas, and conversely, how health issues have been used to improve diplomatic relations between countries. We introduce students to formal health diplomacy, multi-stakeholder health diplomacy and informal health diplomacy, and provide comparative studies of how different countries have devised health diplomacy strategies to advance health security as well as reach foreign policy objectives. We will use current health emergencies and ongoing negotiations to strengthen the global health security architecture to explore core concepts and emerging challenges Most importantly, this course will demonstrate the importance of combining diplomacy with technical understanding of science, technology, epidemiology and medicine in order to achieve outcomes that advance both population health and foreign relations. Now, more than ever, these skills are critical to saving lives, advancing foreign policy, and creating a stronger architecture for pandemic preparedness and global health security. This course will challenge students to read and interpret health related agreements, negotiate a position, and assess the policy context while trying to advance health security.
Theory & Legal Framework (MPDM-5600-01)
Graduate Level • Fall 2024 • Tim Manning
This course will provide the disaster risk management student with an advanced All-Hazards preparedness view of the complexities of emergency management and disaster response, from local, state, and international/ global perspectives. It grounds students in the historical context and rapidly changing factors impacting Global and U.S. emergency management practices, including theoretical concepts (such as risk, hazard, sustainability, resilience, disaster risk reduction, and climate change adaptation), legal structures, the risk assessment community and their skill sets and core competencies. Students understand the evolution of the emergency management system, environmental public health systems (and opportunity for integration), and public expectations, perceptions, and engagement. By the end of this course, students will demonstrate how to respond to historical and hypothetical scenarios by applying knowledge of hazards, public health considerations, community readiness, and regulations.
Previous Course Offerings
Global Health Security & Diplomacy
Undergraduate/Graduate Level • Fall 2024, Summer 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2017
Dis. Research Methods
Graduate Level • Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Engaging Communities for Health
Graduate Level • Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2022
Emerging Diseases after COVID
Undergraduate Level • Fall 2022
Perspectives in Infectious Disease 1
Graduate Level • Fall 2022
How to End a Pandemic
Undergraduate Level • Spring 2024, Fall 2021
Data Science Basics in R
Undergraduate Level • Summer 2024
Infectious Disease and Conflict
Undergraduate/Graduate Level • Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018
Microbiology of Threat Agents and Emerging Infectious Disease
Graduate Level • Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018
Planetary Health Law
Undergraduate Level • Fall 2021
Quantitative Evidence in Infectious Disease Research
Graduate Level • Fall 2021
Emerging & Re-emerging Infectious Diseases: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Graduate Level • Spring 2021
Epidemiology for Lawyers
Graduate Level (Law) • Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019 (Week 1), Spring 2018
Global Health Security
Graduate Level • Summer 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019
Methods in Health Geography
Undergraduate Level • Fall 2020
Decolonizing Global Health
Undergraduate Level • Fall 2020
Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Infectious Disease I
Graduate Level • Fall 2021, Fall 2020
COVID-19: Theory and Action in a Time of Pandemic
Undergraduate Level • Spring 2020
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Undergraduate/Graduate Level • Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2017
Global Health Law Intensive: A Problem Based Exploration
Undergraduate/Graduate Level • Spring 2020, Spring 2019
Science & Technology in the Global Arena
Undergraduate Level • Fall 2023, Spring 2020
Ecology of Infectious Diseases
Undergraduate Level • Fall 2019
Science and Technology in the Global Arena
Graduate Level • Fall 2019, Fall 2018
Webinar – Emerging Infectious Diseases and One Health
2019 Health Security Partners Iraq Stewards Virtual Curriculum • July 2019
Global Health Diplomacy | The George Washington University
Graduate Level • Summer 2019, Summer 2018, Spring 2018, Summer 2017, Winter 2017
Emerging Technologies
Graduate Level • Spring 2019
Internship Experience
Graduate Level • Spring 2018
International Affairs Tutorial
Undergraduate Level • Fall 2017