Professor: Yalda Asmatey
4 credits
This course examines global health in context of a crisis, focusing on how violence, power, and inequality shape health outcomes across diverse populations and settings. Students explore how armed conflict, structural racism, colonial legacies, gendered violence, environmental change, and forced migration intersect to produce health inequities across the life course. Drawing on ethnographic work, interdisciplinary scholarship, and sustained online engagement via Zoom class sessions, the course centers lived experiences and everyday practices of care while critically examining global health systems, humanitarian and public health responses, and ethical challenges of care in crisis settings. Students are encouraged to think of immediate emergency responses in relationship to how factors such as culture, history, and structural forces shape possibilities for health, healing, and justice in a rapidly changing world.
Graduation Requirement: This class will fulfill a Social Science Colloquium and the Global Perspectives (GP) cultural literacy requirement. If the student has already taken a Social Science Colloquium, this class will fulfill both of the following requirements: an Elective Colloquium and Global Perspective cultural literacy.