Health Science Course

Global Health

Global Health introduces learners to public health on a global scale. They discover what disease is and investigate how it impacts world populations. By studying different societies, they learn about the relationship between health and socioeconomic development. Learners discover how environmental, nutritional, and behavioral risk factors jeopardize health and understand how communities, governments, and cooperative global efforts can intervene to improve health.

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The Process

What global health cause would you like to focus on? Follow the design process to brainstorm opportunities to create a more equitable world from the Gates Discovery Center

mRNA Vaccines

This supplementary curriculum module is framed around the mRNA vaccines developed against COVID-19. Thee module’s activities make connections between basic molecular biology and mRNA vaccines—an application that impacts all our lives.

SimPandemic

SimPandemic helps you learn how a pandemic evolves by visualizing different scenarios in graphs that depict infections, symptomatic individuals, deaths, and acquired immunity, as well as economic output.

A Student Exploration of the Global Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health

Using content from international reports, students are prompted to explore the impacts of changing climate conditions on human health with an emphasis on vulnerable populations.

Social Determinants of Health

This teaching pack was developed by the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University to introduce high school and undergraduate college students to the “social determinants of health,”

Global Public Health

Boclips for Teachers has built collections of videos and learning resources to support global health educators.

Taking Action for a Clean Environment

In this media-rich, self-paced lesson, students explore activism—taking action to bring about change—including some causes that activists espouse and the tactics that they use to end harmful practices or reshape policies, PBS Learning Media

The Spread of Infectious Diseases

A multi-part lesson that tracks how infectious diseases spread on a global scale.

STEM Global - Covid 19 in Context

Created by the Gates Foundation Discovery Center, this virtual field trip encourages students to make connections between their individual and collective experiences with Covid-19.

Preparing for the Next Pandemic

A hypothetical case study set in 2050 from Model Diplomacy

STEM Global Data Driven Curriculum

Students review data of past, current and future trends of air pollution and its effect on human health from the Washington Global Health Alliance

The Process

What global health cause would you like to focus on? Follow the design process to brainstorm opportunities to create a more equitable world from the Gates Discovery Center

mRNA Vaccines

This supplementary curriculum module is framed around the mRNA vaccines developed against COVID-19. Thee module’s activities make connections between basic molecular biology and mRNA vaccines—an application that impacts all our lives.

SimPandemic

SimPandemic helps you learn how a pandemic evolves by visualizing different scenarios in graphs that depict infections, symptomatic individuals, deaths, and acquired immunity, as well as economic output.

A Student Exploration of the Global Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health

Using content from international reports, students are prompted to explore the impacts of changing climate conditions on human health with an emphasis on vulnerable populations.

Social Determinants of Health

This teaching pack was developed by the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University to introduce high school and undergraduate college students to the “social determinants of health,”

Global Public Health

Boclips for Teachers has built collections of videos and learning resources to support global health educators.

Taking Action for a Clean Environment

In this media-rich, self-paced lesson, students explore activism—taking action to bring about change—including some causes that activists espouse and the tactics that they use to end harmful practices or reshape policies, PBS Learning Media

The Spread of Infectious Diseases

A multi-part lesson that tracks how infectious diseases spread on a global scale.

STEM Global - Covid 19 in Context

Created by the Gates Foundation Discovery Center, this virtual field trip encourages students to make connections between their individual and collective experiences with Covid-19.

Preparing for the Next Pandemic

A hypothetical case study set in 2050 from Model Diplomacy

STEM Global Data Driven Curriculum

Students review data of past, current and future trends of air pollution and its effect on human health from the Washington Global Health Alliance