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2020-21 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2020-21 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PBH 360 The Global Environment: Sustainability, Climate Change and the Built Environment


Global health is a field of study that prioritizes on improving health and achieving health equity in populations across the globe.   Global health professionals will need to understand the influence of environmental factors and changes on the populations they serve as well as potential impacts of the population’s behaviors on the environment.  Partnering with countries, particularly lower income countries, to achieve improvements in public health through environmental sustainability is a critical skill in a world where shifts in availability of clean air and water and changes in climate and ecosystems factors will potential exacerbate existing global health disparities. This course will assess the impact of climate change and access to natural resources on population health, particularly in lower income countries, and will explore current practices of populations which directly impact the health of local environments and the global environment. Students will learn to utilize a sustainability lens for public health solution development, to perform assessments environmental resources and their sustainability, to identify built environment (man-made environmental features) which create and/or reinforce health disparities, and will develop skills to assess and moderate the impacts of environmental hazards on a population.

Prerequisite: PBH 110