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File Lets start the journey with Dr. Sanjana Zaman


Dr. Sanjana Zaman, PhD is a Pediatrician with having 20 years of professional experience, which included clinical practice, hospital administration, research and teaching in different position. Dr. Sanjana worked as Deputy Director at Institute of Child Health (ICH) and Pediatric Consultant at Central Hospital Limited, Dhaka. She also worked more than 16 years very closely as Assistant Doctor to National Prof. M. R. Khan. 


GLOBAL HEALTH - COUSE DESCRIPTION, SYLLABUS AND RESOURCES Page MPH 429: GLOBAL HEALTH COURSE

COURSE ID: https://elearn.daffodilvarsity.edu.bd/course/view.php?id=13656

ENROLLMENT CODE: mph429

   MPH - 429: Global Health

  • To know the definition of global health, the global context of public health, key concepts in relation to global health, etc.
  • To know about health system, health system framework, health financing, functions of health financing system, unproductive health budgeting, source of health care.
  • To learn the definition of gender and sex, gender issues on health, global feature of gender based violence and violence against women, impact of violence, cost of violence.
  • To know about global status of maternal and child mortality and morbidity, MDG, safe mother hood components and initiatives.
  • To learn about global burden of malnutrition, death for malnutrition, cause of malnutrition, strategies to improve the nutritional status etc.
  • To know about HIV/ AIDS as global public health issues, effects of HIV/AIDS, affecting countries, response of WHO and other international organization to fight HIV/AIDS etc.
  • To gain mainly the knowledge about global funding and the role of different international organizations in addressing global health problems etc.

File MPH SYLLABUS

MPH Syllabus. For your reading.

File MPH 429 Global Health Handbook and assessment Guidelines

MPH 429 Course Syllabus. You must read.

File GLOBAL HEALTH PHOTOBOOK

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Session - 1: Introduction to Global Health File Lesson Plan 1: Introduction to Global Health

Learning Outcomes: 

 What course goals or outcomes will this session address?

  • Global context of Public Health
  • Definition Global Heath
  • A short tour of Global Health
  • Key Concepts in Relation to Global Health

URL Video: What is Global Health - Lancet


Please watch this video, and list 3 key issues on global health.

URL Social Determinants of Health
URL Video - Global Health Threats - WHO's Perspectives
Page Class Recording
File The changing global context of public health
lecture 02: Globalization and Health File lecture 02: Globalization and Health
URL Reference Video: Global Health - What We Need to Know

Are you 1 in a billion? Join WHO in promoting health, keeping the world safe, serving the vulnerable.

Watch the video to learn about WHO's perspective

File Essential Reading - Globalization and Risks

Basis for discussion

File Globalization and Food System

Read this article and come up with three learning points.

Lecture 03: Health systems and financing in a global perspective File lecture 03: Health systems and financing in a global perspective
Page Recorded video of lecture 03
URL Reference Video - Globalization Explained
File Essential Reading - Globalization and Risks (copy)

Basis for discussion

lecture 04: Gender and Global Health (Violence & Injuries) File lecture 04: Gender and Global Health (Violence & Injuries)
Page Recorded video of Lecture 04
File Essential Reading - Reference Materials
lecture 05: Global Maternal and Child Health File lecture 05: Global Maternal and Child Health
Page recorded video of lecture 05
Additional Reference Materials Page Recommended Reading

1.      Birn, A.E., Pillay, Y. & Holtz, T. (2009). Textbook of international health: Global health in a dynamic world, 3rd Ed.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2.      Easterly, W.R. &Birdsall, N. (2008). Reinventing foreign aid. Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
3.      Easterly, W.R. (2007). The white man's burden: Why the West's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good. New York: Penguin Press.
4.      Ehiri, J.E. (ed.) (2009). Maternal and child health: Global challenges, programs, and policies. New York: Springer-Verlag.
5.      Frost, L.J. & Reich, M.R. (2008). Access: How do good health technologies get to poorpeople in poor countries? Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

lecture 06:Global Health Nutrition File lecture 06: Global health Nutrition
Page Recorded video of Lecture 06
Lecture 07:Preventing Diseases through Healthy Environment File lecture 07: Preventing Diseases through Healthy Environment
Lecture 08:Global Health challenges File Lecture 08: Global Health challenges
Page Recorded video of Global Health challenges
Lecture 09: Global Health File lecture 09: Global Health
Page Recorded video of global health