Saving Lives Millions at a Time: Global Disease Control Policies & Programs

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