The Challenges of Global Health

The Challenges of Global Health course will close for new learner enrollment on January 2nd, 2023. The instructor, Dr. David Boyd, is retiring, and Duke University will no longer be able to keep the course updated. If you enroll before that date, you will continue to see this course on your Coursera Dashboard as long as you remain enrolled in it.

If you are interested in earning a Course Certificate for this course, please upgrade or apply for Financial Aid by January 1st, 2023 if you have not already done so. If you are a Coursera for Business learner, you can continue to use your sponsored credit. In order to earn a Course Certificate, you will need to complete all graded assignments by July 1st, 2023. After that point, no new assignment submissions will be accepted for Certificate credit.

What are the world’s major health challenges? What contributes to them? What can we do to improve health outcomes and reduce health disparities?

Whether you are new to Global Health, want to take a refresher course, or want to sample Global Health before undertaking undergraduate or graduate study in the field, The Challenge of Global Health is designed to provide a comprehensive but concise foundation for understanding Global Health problems and solutions.

Taught by Dr. David Boyd, an award-winning professor at Duke University’s Global Health Institute (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB4xBBzNxVQ), the course combines lectures with videos shot around the world and interviews with some of the world’s foremost Global Health experts.

• Getting Started
• Start here!
• Basic Concepts in Global Health
• This module covers some of the most important basic concept that you need to know to understand global health. In particular we will focus on key terminology and the determinants underlying health and disease.
• Understanding the Key Global Health Challenges
• This module focuses on examining the causes and distribution of infectious disease, noncommunicable disease, injury/violence/disaster, and MCH (maternal and child health).
• Actors & Action: Finding Global Health Solutions
• This module explores the main global health actors, how they work, and what strategies they use to improve global health outcomes and to solve global health problems.
• The Future of Global Health
• This module examines the changes that we expect to occur in global health in the near future and what strategies will best help us to meet the challenges that lie ahead.