This document provides a framework for MPH students to earn a Concentration in
Global Health Studies as part of their education experience. Documentation will appear on the student’s transcript.
An expanded list of electives is purposely recommended beyond the primary discipline of public health, acknowledging the importance of social determinants of health. The basis for this strategy is the well-recognized experience of global health practitioners: on-theground expectations of technical skills and knowledge often extend beyond one’s
‘advertised’ expertise.
This program is available to students currently enrolled in the Epidemiology track of the
OHSU-PSU (Portland State University) School of Public Health. An application is required. Two to three elective courses with a broad global health focus will satisfy expectations of this trans-disciplinary educational agenda.
A list of non-inclusive graduate level courses is offered in this document, which have a global ‘health’ focus and a ‘500’ course number designation or higher. Potential courses include the social sciences, agriculture, health, sociology, geography, urban studies, public administration, health management (MBA), anthropology, nutrition, international studies, and economics. The Internship experience, a requirement of the MPH program, should reflect a global health theme.
Additionally, a ‘Physical Skills/Infrastructure Development Course’ (Pass/Fail - without credit) is required . Courses of this nature are offered at Portland Community College and elsewhere, and might include solar power systems, biogas systems, water/sanitation, small engine repair, construction, carpentry, cabinetry, welding, heavy equipment operation, etc.
It is anticipated that some of the listed courses and lecturers will evolve, be added, or discontinued over time. If MPH students identify other courses that would fit the intent and spirit of this endeavor, approval for inclusion will be considered.
At the end of the document a selection of upper level undergraduate courses (300 – 400 level designations) are listed. The rationale for including courses at this academic level is best explained by examining, for example, graduate economics courses. Graduate level courses in this discipline require requisite knowledge of complex economic theory that a non-economics major may not possess. For the motivated student, who might be interested in economics, an upper level undergraduate course would provide essential knowledge and training for a public health graduate student.
Last updated: 4/9/2014

Registering for courses at PSU:
If you wish to take a non-MPH graduate level course at PSU, you must register through
OHSU and pay tuition directly to OHSU. Instructor approval must be coordinated
2 through the intercampus online registration form found here: http://oregonmph.org/content/course-registration-request . Place your request as soon as the registration period opens.
If you wish to enroll in an undergraduate level course, the instructor must assign a graduate level number to the class in order to gain graduate credit. It is best to speak to the instructor in advance to see if this can be done. Dr. Kravitz might be able to assist in this dialogue. Remember that undergraduate course work cannot be accepted by the MPH program, unless the course is assigned a graduate course number (i.e., "PHPM 505:
Readings and Conference" equivalent).
To repeat: Should students express interest in a lower ranked course, they will:
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Contact the instructor directly to determine how one might adapt the course to gain graduate school endorsement, and
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Discuss this interest with MPH program administrators to facilitate the process.
With the permission of willing instructors, these courses must be assigned a graduate level course number.
Please note: this course list is an evolving document. Courses and instructors do change. The most current version will be posted on the website: http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/schools/school-of-medicine/departments/clinicaldepartments/public-health/education-programs/mph/global-health-concentration.cfm

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Economics
Ec 450U/550. (4) Third-World Economic Development
This course examines problems of post-colonial legacy: underdevelopment and persistent poverty, rapid population growth, uneven development, capital flight, dual economy, brain drain, industrialization strategies, foreign trade, education and human capital, population slowdown, micro-credit institutions, and the role of women.
Mechanical Engineering
ME410/510. (2) International Sustainable Development
Course instructor, Evan Thomas, PhD, P.E., Assistant Professor and Director,
The SWEETLab www.sweetlab.org
The Sustainable Water, Energy and Environmental Technologies Laboratory
Office: 503.725.2898 Mobile: 303.550.4671 Skype: evan.a.thomas
Email: evan.thomas@pdx.edu
This course reviews some of the origins of poverty and the current conditions of people in developing countries, and offers some development solutions being pursued around the world. The course hopes to empower students to play an active role in international poverty reduction. Over a billion people in the world lack access to safe drinking water and reliable sources of energy. While numerous technological, medical, and educational solutions have been implemented for the benefit of disadvantaged communities, there is no ‘magic bullet’ to poverty reduction. Instead, development agencies must partner directly with these communities to address their public health needs through assessment, education, appropriate technology, microenterprise and social enterprise.
Sociology
Soc 510. (3) Interdisciplinary Seminar on Research Methods in Social Determinants of Health . Instructor Name: Christina Nicolaidis
This course focuses on applied research methods that can be used to translate a passion for social justice into rigorous, high-impact, community-engaged research on Social
Determinants of Health (SDH). We will explore a variety of research methods used to identify, understand, and address SDH, with particular attention to practical issues that are critical to the meaningful and equitable inclusion of marginalized populations in research. Students will be expected to choose a research area and a specific research question, design a research study, make a convincing argument that this particular project is important, innovative, and impactful, and describe how they will actually carry out the project to ensure methodological rigor and equitable community involvement.
Soc 588. (4) Globalization Seminar
This course analyzes ways in which economic patterns reach across national boundaries affecting the security of communities and their standards of living. Topics include how different economic classes fare in the rapid reshuffling of national economies that globalization entails; the role of international institutions in shaping economic globalization; the experience and responses of workers as a group; and the role of states

in facilitating or resisting the adverse impacts of globalization. Prerequisite: Soc 320.
Spring
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Soc 586/686. (4) Topics in Health and Inequality
This course focusing on the impact of race, class, and/or gender on health and health care.
Topics may include medicalization of women’s bodies, the social consequences of disparities, and current public policy debates about reducing disparities. Winter
Geography
GIS 588. (4) Geographic Information Systems
Useful for understanding origin and spread of disease; Intro/Lab 588L. An introductory course covering the theory and application of geographic information systems. The course includes an overview of the general principles of GIS and practical experience in its use. The practical component involves the use of the desktop GIS software package
ArcGIS 9. Both the theoretical and practical components of the course are important. Without a theoretical understanding of GIS methods, you will make poor geographic modeling decisions and when necessary you will not be able to migrate to a new or different GIS software package. Without a practical understanding of GIS software, your theoretical knowledge cannot be put to use. All students must complete a final project in which they investigate a GIS application in depth. Fall.
Regional geography courses for in depth background on particular places
230: Environment & Society: Global Perspectives
350: Geography of World Affairs
352: Himalaya and Tibet
353: Pacific Rim
354: Europe
356: Russia and its Neighbors
360: Latin America
363: Africa
364: The Middle East
453: Japan
Geog 4/514. (4) Hydrology
Climate change, water quality, and public health. Fall
Geog 4/597. (4) Spatial Quantitative Analysis
Spatial analysis and public health
Geog 446/546. (4) Water resource management
This course focuses on US water management, with some references to the global water issues that we face. This is a policy course, not a science course, so it could be of interest to students who want to understand how our ability to cope with water issues is limited by law and policy. Winter
Public Administration
The two listed PA courses are considered core for students focusing on international work, intended to provide both theory and practical analytical tools to be used in both international and domestic contexts.

PA 514. (3) Global Leadership and Management
This course emphasis various models of global governance and leadership. It has both an international and a comparative aspect. This course equips students with professional
5 skills and practical knowledge that will help them to understand global trends and to lead and manage responsibly in a range of global settings. Students study and put into practice several innovative global leadership and management concepts and approaches that governments, NGOs and corporations use to address global issues, while learning the strengths and limitations of each.
PA 542. (3) Sustainable Development Implementation
This course extends beyond simple rhetoric about sustainable development or various policy designs to the more challenging question of why some policies are implemented effectively and others languish. The course focuses on the challenges involved in attempting to turn international commitments and policy promises into action. Using examples from around the U.S. and the world, sustainable development policy implementation and operations are scrutinized in an effort to see what worked, what did not, and how implementation challenges can be addressed. Challenges associated with sustainable development in post-conflict situations, following war, terrorism, or civil disorders are discussed.
Health Management
Health management courses are part of a MBA/MS program offered jointly by PSU and
OHSU. The three listed courses offered in MS/Healthcare Management are similar to what is offered in the MBA, but open to anyone. Because of an agreement with PSU in the joint MBA in Healthcare Management program, MBA courses are only open to matriculated MBA students. Courses are hybrid blends of online and face-to-face learning.
MGT 520. (4) Becoming an Effective Manager
This course focuses on developing abilities to understand and influence human behavior in the workplace. You will learn to manage yourself, manage one-on-one relationships at work, manage your career, and manage teams, all using ethical approaches to building coalitions and influencing others without formal authority. A major emphasis in the course will be on the practice of “reframing” - the ability to rethink and re-conceptualize a situation, so as to widen one’s perspective and available responses.
Reframing is an important skill for managing people and projects in fast changing, technologically intensive organizations by considering interpersonal and group dynamics, politics, and symbolism.
MGT 562. (4) Program Management in Healthcare
The course will provide an overview of project management techniques and tools, as they apply to health care operations, projects, and programs. Special emphasis will be placed on the planning of the project and developing a vision as to how the project fits into the overall business of the health care organization. The ability to communicate the goals and objectives clearly to others and why this is critical will be reviewed. The course will review the basics of a sound action plan that includes identifying the tasks, task relationships, scheduling, risk, and resources including obtaining the commitment from

all involved. Teams, team building, problem solving, and leadership, as important tools necessary to improve the odds of success, will be discussed.
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MGT 570. (4) Operations Management in Healthcare
This course is designed to explore the progress that has been made and the challenges that remain in bringing the concepts, practices, and tools of operations management to the healthcare industry.
In addition to covering the basics of operations management students, this course will explore the significant environmental trends in the healthcare industry through a series of case studies to develop an understanding of strategic operations management and its integration into processes in the healthcare industry.
Urban Studies and Planning
USP 445U//545. (3) Cities and Third World Development
This is a survey course that focuses on historical, political, economic, urban, and cultural aspects of Third World development, starting with 15th century European contacts with
Africa, Asia, the Atlantic, and the "New World." Early European colonialism is reviewed, documenting the Third World's historical political-economic and cultural resistance to and integration with the emerging world capitalist system that gave rise to modern patterns of urban development. Important transformations include the Latinization and
Anglicization of the Americas, the impacts of the industrial revolution, "dependent development," triangular slave trade, the rise of nationalism and independence movements, and problems of early independence. Within a world system analysis, post-colonial debates focus on problems of political democracy, "dependency," state-led growth policies, domestic and international conflicts, economic and cultural globalization, environmental degradation, and inadequate social infrastructure.
Definitions of social indicators and historical understandings of the Third World experience are explored; contemporary questions about urban political economic and social development. Concerns related to urban poverty, class, racial, and gender inequality, export-oriented industrialization, the international division of labor, unemployment, low political participation, food scarcity, population growth, environmental and health protection, militarism, and cultural/ethnic conflict are discussed. Fall term.
USP 616.
(3) Cities in the Global Political Economy
This course focuses on the transformation of cities and urban life arising from the forces of globalization and the new international division of production and labor. The premise is that political economic and other forces are reconstituting cities in line with the initiatives and imperatives of neoliberal global capital and finance and capital-labor relations, as public sector actors struggle to retain spaces and allocations in resistance to or in collaboration with private commercial, financial, and industrial interests. These tensions play out in policy conflicts over land use planning, tax policy, environmental protection, investment and commerce, job creation, wages and work conditions, cultural life, and access to information, the airwaves, education, health care, transportation, housing, public assistance, and other basic human requirements. An overview of global political economic theories and a broad set of city studies and political, social policy, and planning issues within the changing global and urban matrix are explored. Winter term.

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PHPM 571. (2) American Indian/Alaska Native Health
Instructors: William Lambert, PhD and Thomas M. Becker, MD, PhD
This course provides an overview of American Indian & Alaska Native (AI/AN) health issues, and is designed for MPH and health profession students. The topics cover a broad array of issues of importance to AI/AN health, including both infectious and chronic disease conditions. The course will emphasize epidemiologic methods, in addition to the sociologic and anthropologic information that will be presented in class. Guest lecturers will be invited to conduct several of the sessions. This course is offered every other year.
PHPM 567. (3) Global Health Epidemiology
Instructor: Jay D. Kravitz, MD, MPH
Description: This course challenges students to apply epidemiological principles to address problems and diseases found in lower income nations and among displaced persons in the context of a matrix of social, political, economic, resource-poor, and ethical "environments." Instructor will provide necessary background regarding health issues to stimulate discussion and analysis aimed at preventing or mitigating complex impediments to health. Winter term.
PHPM 556. (3) HIV/AIDS Epidemiology
Instructor: Mark Loveless, MD
Description: The course will start with a review of the known characteristics and pathology of the human immunodeficiency virus infection and the pathogenesis of the clinical acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Biological and behavioral factors that determine the risks of transmission of the HIV infection will be emphasized and public health prevention strategies will be evaluated. The global HIV epidemic will be considered along with the impact of HIV infection on vulnerable populations, especially women and children. Ethical factors and the impact of stigma will be discussed.
PHPM 540. (3) Introduction to Research Design
Instructors: William Lambert, PhD and Atif Zaman, MD, MPH
Description: An introduction to research design methodology. The class will prepare students for formulating questions so they can be translated into research designs and follow the steps of the research process from the specification of the original idea to reporting the results of the study. A variety of types of research will be covered including program evaluation, meta-analytic designs, non-experimental observational research, survey research, and experimental designs. Students will study classic research literature and design their own research project. Particularly targeted at MPH students designing their thesis proposals.
PHPM 568. (2) Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control
Instructor: Kevin Winthrop, MD
This course provides students with an opportunity to apply epidemiologic principles to infectious disease, including implementation of control measures based on epidemiologic investigation. It includes a didactic section on specific infectious diseases, followed by a classroom study of both endemic and epidemic outbreaks. There will be in-class exercises on each of the infectious diseases, including the testing of hypotheses based on epidemiologic findings leading to a discussion of control measures.

NUTN 530. (3) Nutrition & Global Health
Instructor: Diane Stadler
This course reviews the structure, function, metabolism, and requirements of macro- and micro-nutrients and perturbations in energy balance during various states of the life-
8 cycle. Strategies to address the full spectrum of malnutrition from under-nutrition resulting in wasting and stunting to cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and other chronic conditions associated with obesity will be explored.
These courses, offered at OSU, are not part of the OHSU/PSU School of Public Health curriculum. Should you wish to take a course at OSU, you must register at OSU and arrange for a credit transfer at the completion of a course.
Anthropology
ANTH 440/540. (1-4) Topics in Physical Anthropology
Recent advances in physical anthropology and their applications to special fields of study. Evolutionary Medicine. Topics vary from term to term.
ANTH 444/544. (4) Nutritional Anthropology
Examines human nutrition and food systems from comparative, biocultural, and evolutionary perspectives. Long-term evolutionary processes are examined within an ecological framework as significant factors affecting human biology and susceptibility to diet-related disease. An emphasis on anthropological methods in nutritional assessment provides students with tools to evaluate human diet from skeletal and fossil collections through contemporary cross-cultural populations.
ANTH 483/583. (4) Advanced Medical Anthropology
An overview of anthropological studies of the health of human communities from a biological and behavioral perspective. Topics include prehistory of disease, cultural perspectives on causation of disease and approaches to healing; anthropological approach to international health issues; and case studies
ANTH 571. (4) Cash, Class, and Culture: Hunter-Gatherers to Capitalism
Students explore the cultural and social effects of capitalism in the contemporary world within the larger question of how economics and society intersect and change over time.
Special emphases are put on food and work, but students explore the linkages of global forces and local life in a variety of ways. PREREQS: 3 credits of social science.
Health
H 591. Health Development for Displaced Populations (International Health Track)
The course examines various health issues related to internally and externally displaced populations and introduces essential assessment and management skills for addressing these issues. Theses skills include rapid assessment and response during an emergency, application of a basic needs approach, long term assessment, and development management.

Undergraduate level courses that might be available as
‘Readings and Conference’ (PHPM 505) option
International Studies
Intl 396. (4) The United States and the World
Interdisciplinary study and analysis of the role of the United States in world affairs with emphasis on the twentieth century, relations between the U.S. and the Third World, the era of the Cold War, American globalism, diplomatic, economic, and geopolitical issues.
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Intl 397. (4) United States policy and Developing Nations
Exploration of economic policy and broader questions about the relation between U.S. domestic and foreign policy on the formulation of the concept of development, its theoretical evolution, and application in developing nations. A historical approach is utilized starting with colonialism and ending with topics of contemporary salience such as trade, financial liberalization, and sustainability. Although more basic in its approach, the course covers very explicitly policy questions. Spring term.
Intl 490. (4) Global Sustainable Development
An examination of key concepts of global sustainable development, international policies associated with sustainable development, and the power relations inherent to these policies. The subject matter is approached from an interdisciplinary perspective. Fall term.
Economics
Ec 338U. (4) Political Economy of Latin America
Provides students an opportunity to analyze the political and economic complexities of development in Latin America. Studies the social, political, and economic institutions that have shaped the development process in Latin America; reviews competing theoretical frameworks; and discusses current issues such as foreign debt, privatization, trade liberalization, and recurrent financial crises. EC 338 I used to teach, but I am afraid
I will probably not teach it any longer. I doubt Econ will be able to offer it again any time soon.
Ec 340. (4) International Economics
Examines trade and financial relations among countries with an emphasis on policy perspectives. Outlines international policy options and the principles that govern world trade and financial arrangements. Regional and international trade organizations and currency arrangements will be discussed.
Geography
Geog 230. (4) Environment and Society: Global Perspectives

An introduction to the ways in which humans, acting through social constraints and structures, have lived in and modified their environment. The spatial patterns produced from human activities (such as population growth, transportation systems, urban
10 structure, economic development, resource use and management, and the evolution of political patterns) are considered in a global context. Case studies from several world regions illustrate the processes by which humans modify their world to create distinctive cultural landscapes.
Geog 331. (4) Geography of Globalization
An introduction to theories and concepts related to global economic activities within agriculture, manufacturing, service and information industries. The course focuses on global processes and linkages between local and global economies: includes geographic distributions, interaction among urban and regional economies, the processes of regional economic development, and international economic linkages. Recommended prerequisite: upper-division standing. For Juniors and Seniors; offered every year. Spring
Geog 340U. (4) Global Water Issues and Sustainability
Global change and public health via water quality. This course is fully on-line.
Geog 345. (4) Resource Management
Survey of natural resources, their occurrence, and their management. Primary focus will be on the United States, with case studies from other countries and regions.
Recommended prerequisite: upper-division standing.
Geog 346. (4) World Population and Food Supply
An introduction to the dynamics of the current national and international problems associated with rapid population growth, unemployment, major population migrations, shortages of food and other critical commodities, and the present and potential adjustments to these situations. Recommended prerequisite: upper-division standing.
Geog 314U. (4) Severe weather
Provides an understanding of the nature, scope, scale, and impacts of severe weather events (such as hurricanes, lightning, and storms). Understanding the nature of these natural hazards may enhance understanding of how to cope with the medical impacts that ensue. Winter
Agriculture
HORT 300. (4) Introduction to Crop Production
Principles, practices, and issues relating to the production, marketing, and improvement of horticultural and agronomic crops. Comparison of crop production systems; geography of crop production; cropping calendars. Lec/rec. CROSSLISTED as CSS 300.
Horticulture 301 - more of a biological science class
ANS 121. Introduction to Animal Science
Principles of breeding, physiology, nutrition, and management as they apply to modern livestock and poultry production. Lec/lab.

CSS Soils
(an outstanding instructor - received a standing ovation from his class last winter term), as we believe soil is the most important aspect of any type of agriculture.
AG 412. Ag Safety and Health
Many students interested in production agriculture enroll in this class. The AG 412 also
11 on line AG 412 – Ag Safety and Health may not be a course of interest to your students, as it is designed for those that will teach high school agriculture. We are hoping to make future changes in the course, but it is rather agriculturally related. One of the components is tractor safety and they actually drive tractors through a course. We have other components related to pesticide safety, safety in handling animals, mechanical safety, and
CPR/First Aid.
ANTH 474. (4) Cross Cultural Health and Healing
A comprehensive overview of current issues in global health with particular emphasis on social, cultural, and behavioral interventions. Explores issues of health and development in the international context, focusing on such issues as inequality, structural adjustment, economic development, and community-based approaches to health care, specific cultural beliefs and practices, and the influence of people's perceptions of health, illness, and healing.
H 417. (3) Medical and Public Health Entomology
Arthropod pests of man and domestic animals, including biology of pests, disease transmission mechanisms, epidemiology of important arthropod-borne diseases, and prevention and control of pest-related problems
H 422. (4) Health, Aging, and Control of Chronic Diseases
Epidemiology of the major chronic diseases, risk factors, potential methods of prevention/intervention, ethical issues, and efficacy of current methods of prevention and control. Emphasis on adult populations and public health services, policies, and programs at the local, state, and federal levels designed to promote healthy aging.
H 448. (3) Public Health Toxicology and Risk Assessment
Principles of toxicology and risk assessment with a public health perspective. Topics covered include: toxico-kinetics, target organ toxicity, carcinogenesis, and chemicalspecific case studies relevant to public health and risk assessments. PREREQS: One year basic college chemistry and biology and two terms organic chemistry.
H 489. (3) Emergency and Disaster Management
Study of preparedness, response, recovery and business resumption strategies, activities and applications needed to effectively deal with emergency and disaster incidents.