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  Note: this syllabus is not a contract. It is subject to further change or revision, to best realize the educational goals of the course. Revisions will be announced in class or in course materials online with appropriate prior notice. Introduction to Global Health ASB 100 Spring 2019 Line Number: 26700 Course Meetings: Tuesdays and Thursdays 12pm – 1:15pm CDN 60 Instructor: Jonathan Maupin Office: Mathews Center 209 Contact Info: [email protected] Phone: 480-965-2167 Office Hours: Wednesdays 12pm-3pm Teaching Assistant: Jose Rosales Chavez Office: Mathews Center 203V Contact Info: [email protected] Office Hours: Tuesday 10-12 Teaching Assistant: Eunice Villasenor Office: SHESC 143 Contact Info: [email protected] Office Hours: Thursday 1:30-3:30 Course Description: What makes us sick? How can we promote health? These are big questions that are necessarily global in scope. In an increasingly complex and globalized world, the causative factors in sickness are not just disease agents. They include our evolutionary pasts, and historical decisions, our current natural, social and built environments, how we relate to each other, and what we believe. This course provides an introduction to the field of Global Health by drawing on studies from the social and life sciences to question our most basic assumptions about why we get sick and what we should do about it. It recognizes the need for a transdisciplinary and highly collaborative approach to addressing illness around the world, highlights the critical role of social perspectives in the global promotion of health, and advocates for the importance of health as a social justice issue. The course highlights several main areas of Global Health including: health actors and policy; measuring the burden of disease; evolutionary medicine; environmental and climate impacts on health; culture and health; global mental health; and the ethics in and of Global Health. These areas provide a basic introduction to each topic which students may pursue in more advanced Global Health courses. Course Goals / Learning Outcomes By the end of this course, each student will have demonstrated that they are able to: • Identify actors in global health system and the relationship between them • Analyze Global Health policies and factors that drive them • Conduct basic quantitative analysis of public health data • Investigate how evolutionary approaches can help to understand contemporary health issues and to improve health systems

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Analyze the impact of environment and climate on health at a global and local scale Analyze the contribution of social factors, including poverty and inequality, to the cause and spread of disease Analyze the role of cultural beliefs regarding health and healing in influencing behavior Analyze the ethics in and of Global Health regarding health interventions Design a Global Health proposal for a specific condition that integrates questions of health policy and actors, estimating total burden of disease, consideration of underlying causes, and the ethics of intervention.

Pre-requisites/Co-requisites/Anti-requisites: None Required Course Texts/ Readings: There are no required texts for the course. All readings will be available either through the online Canvas platform or available through the ASU library. Course Format: The course is in-person lecture class. During the lectures, we will discuss the overall topics, readings, and view films. Additional materials (including short films or homework assignments) will be available through the Canvas platform. All quizzes will be available on the Canvas platform. Quizzes will be due outside of the regular class time so please be aware of announcements indicating the day and time that the quizzes will be available to take. Quizzes will include material from lectures, assigned readings, and any videos during the respective time period. While attendance is not taken every class period, there are five in-class pop-quizzes administered during in class the semester. These pop-quizzes are meant to measure attendance as well as gauge students’ understandings of the material. Students will be allowed to drop the two lowest pop-quiz scores and the top three quizzes will be included in the final grade calculation. All homework assignments must be turned in through Canvas. Written homework assignments will be submitted through Turnitin, a plagiarism detection device. There are five short writing assignments that will require the student to address specific topic related to the sections theme (e.g. global health actors and policies, burden of disease, ethics, etc.). The final assignment, Global Health Proposal, will require students to develop a proposal for a health intervention for a specific topic that incorporates and expands upon the topics included in the shorter writing assignments. Each week includes a discussion board post. These posts are short responses to a question regarding the topic of the week and are meant to start a discussion among students. Coursework: Final grades for the course will be assigned on basis of • Discussion Posts (15) 10 points each • Written Assignments (5) 30 points each • Quizzes (5) 40 points each • In-class Pop-Quizzes (3) 20 points each • Global Health Proposal (1) 200 points

the following (a total of 760 points): 150 points 150 points 200 points 60 points 200 points

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Final Grades: Final Grades will be assigned based on the following grading scheme: A-/ A/ A+ 89.5-92.4/ 92.5-97.4/ 97.5-100 Excellent B- /B/ B+ 79.5-82.4/ 82.5-87.4/ 87.5-89.4 Good C/ C+ 69.5-77.4/ 77.5-79.4 Average D 59.5-69.4 Passing E...