This course will provide students with an opportunity to study a practical and current public health problem. Students will apply critical thinking, analytical abilities, and communications skills.

This course is an introduction to global health from an interdisciplinary perspective. It will examine issues that affect population health the world over and policy recommendations to prevent emerging and re-emerging diseases.

Using assigned readings, written assignments and other learning activities, peer advisors will develop their capacity to think about the complexities of public health and how to convey this to their peers in order to help them become successful university students. Through the practice of community building, communications and leadership skills, advisors will have the opportunity to encourage and empower students in the program to proactively engage with the field and their interests.

This course is intended to introduce the science of epidemiology and to explore how epidemiologic methods are applied to solving public health problems. Students will learn basic quantitative methods, study design concepts, and critical thinking skills relating to infectious and chronic disease epidemiology.