Provides multidisciplinary trainees insight into over-arching themes of global health. Topics include systemic issues affecting healthcare progress globally, ethical and thoughtful approaches to solving these issues, as well as economics, water sanitation, public health, organizations in global health, human rights, involvement in NGOs, ethics of overseas work, and other non-medical aspects of this subject. This course will cover some of the essentials of patient care while working in the field as well including child health care, malaria, TB, and HIV. Priority is given to School of Medicine Residents and Fellows. Graduate students and MD/MSPA/PhD students and faculty (of any discipline) are eligible to enroll if there are open spots. Undergraduates are not eligible to enroll. If interested, please contact the Course Manager, Yosefa Gilon at ygilon@stanford.edu to enquire about enrollment.
4 units · Medical Option (Med-Ltr-CR/NC)
Provides multidisciplinary trainees insight into over-arching themes of global health. Topics include systemic issues affecting healthcare progress globally, ethical and thoughtful approaches to solving these issues, as well as economics, water sanitation, public health, organizations in global health, human rights, involvement in NGOs, ethics of overseas work, and other non-medical aspects of this subject. This course will cover some of the essentials of patient care while working in the field as well including child health care, malaria, TB, and HIV. Priority is given to School of Medicine Residents and Fellows. Graduate students and MD/MSPA/PhD students and faculty (of any discipline) are eligible to enroll if there are open spots. Undergraduates are not eligible to enroll. If interested, please contact the Course Manager, Yosefa Gilon at ygilon@stanford.edu to enquire about enrollment.
Offered in Autumn 2026 at Stanford University.