Saving Lives Millions at a Time: Global Disease Control Policies and Programs (Coursera)

The course, offered by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, presents an overview of major elements of global public health. Through a series of lectures and short discussions, the course provides students an introduction to key elements of the history, development, organization, technical content and socio-political context of major initiatives and programs. The course frames these specific global health initiatives in the context of the origins of International and Global Health, the research to program continuum, concluding with a review of major paradigm shifts in global health financing, technologies and leadership.