NS 4631

Global Health Practice and Policy Research in Zambia

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2020-2021.

Students enrolled in this course will complete a nine-week intensive health and development policy research project based in the Zambian context. Students will work with a Cornell peer and a local organization in Lusaka to complete and present a research paper on a global health and development topic of relevance to Zambia. This course will include collaborative and cross-cultural virtual learning, facilitated critical reflection, and professional skill development.

When Offered Summer.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: students formally accepted into the Global Health Summer Program in Lusaka, Zambia.
Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: NS 2600, NS 4620.

Distribution Category (CA-HE)
Course Attribute (CU-CEL, CU-ITL)

• Describe a public health issue through engagement in practice, policy, or research.
• Examine and explain the key characteristics and interests of their host organization, hospital, institution, or research project, and how they relate to public health issue they have described and analyzed.
• Analyze a public health issue integrating academic knowledge and experiential learning.
• Document and explain how the applied experience advanced academic, professional, and personal learning goals.
• Demonstrate the capacity to critically reflect on their own values, ethics, assumptions and actions in the context of cultures, collaborations and institutions.
• Demonstrate the capacity to collaborate across differences (e.g. cultural, social, personal, economic, values, religious).

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