COURSE TEXTBOOKS:

Texts:

Textbook of Global Health (4th edn). 2017. Anne-Imanuelle Birn, Yogan Pillay, and Timothy Holtz. Oxford University Press: Oxford. (e-book UW Libraries).

Anthropology and Public Health: Bridging Differences in Culture and Society. 2009. Robert A Hahn and Marcia Inhorn. Oxford University Press: Oxford (e-book UW Libraries).

Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction. 2013. Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, Arthur Kleinman, and Matthew Basilico. University of California Press: Berkeley and Los Angeles (e-book UW Libraries).

All texts are also available to check out for 4 hours at a time at the Odegaard Undergraduate Library.

All text books are available as free e-books through the UW library system.

Articles:

All other readings are available through the course website on Canvas.

COURSE SCHEDULE

Part I: History of International Health and Anthropology

Week 1 - Introduction and Origins of International/Global Health

Thursday, Jan. 4: What is medical anthropology? History of international/global health

Required Readings:

Review syllabus and introduce course themes
Hahn, Introduction

Recommended Readings:

Farmer, Chap. 1

Slides: Week 1

Week 2 - Health and “Development”: Structural Violence, Culture, and Society

Tuesday, Jan. 9: Social determinants of health

Required Readings:

Birn, Introduction
Birn Chap. 7

Thursday, Jan. 11: History of international health

Required Readings:

Recommended Readings:

Farmer, Chap. 3

Slides: Week 2

Week 3 - Anthropology and International health: Agencies, Actors, Primary Health Care, and Decolonizing Global Health.

Tuesday, Jan. 16: Approaches to understanding and improving health

Required Readings:

Birn, Chap. 3

Thursday, Jan. 19: Anthropology, primary health care, and global health agencies

Required Readings:

Birn, Chap. 4
Coreil, Jeannine. 1990. “The Evolution of Anthropology in International Health.” In Anthropology and Primary Health Care, ed. Jeannine Coreil and J. Dennis Mull. Boulder: Westview Press. p. 3-27.
Abimbola, S. and Pai, M., 2020. Will global health survive its decolonisation?. Lancet (London, England), 396 Download Abimbola, S. and Pai, M., 2020. Will global health survive its decolonisation?. Lancet (London, England), 396(10263), pp.1627-1628 Download (10263), pp.1627-1628.

Recommended Readings:

Farmer, Chap. 4

Slides: Week 3

Part II: Global Health Challenges and Programs

Week 4 - Overview; Nutrition and Food Security

Tuesday, Jan. 23: Measuring health; Global burden of disease overview

Required Reading:

Birn, Chaps. 5 and 6

Thursday, Jan. 26: Nutrition and food security

Required Reading:

Baro, M. and Deubel, T. “Persistent Hunger: Perspectives on Vulnerability, Famine, and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa”. Annual Review of Anthropology. 2006. 35:521–38

Slides: Week 4

Week 5 - Population debates, family planning, and reproductive health

Tuesday, Jan. 30: Population debates and family planning

Required Readings:

Sen, Amartya. 1997. “Population: Delusion or Reality.” In The Gender Sexuality Reader. New York; Routledge. 89-106.

Thursday, Feb. 1: Reproductive health

Required Readings:

Hahn, Chap. 15

Chapman R. 2003. Endangering safe motherhood in Mozambique: prenatal care as pregnancy risk. Sci. Med. 57(2): 355-74

Slides: Week 5

Week 6 - Child Survival: Immunization, Diarrheal Disease, Acute Respiratory illness

Tuesday, Feb. 7: Immunization, DD, ARI, and malaria

Required Readings:

Hahn, Chaps. 1 and 18

Nichter, Mark 1996. “Social Science Lessons from Diarrhea Research and Their Application to ARI”. In Anthropology and International Health. Eds. M. Nichter and M. Nichter. pp. 135-171.

Thursday, Feb. 9: Exam

MIDTERM EXAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Slides: Week 6

Week 7 - HIV and TB; Mental Health; Occupational and Environmental Health; Non-communicable Diseases

Tuesday, Feb. 13: HIV/AIDS and TB

Thursday, Feb. 15: HIV/AIDS and TB

Required Readings:

Hahn, Chap. 17

Recommended Readings:

Farmer, Chap. 5

Slides: Week 7

Week 8 - Globalization and Health

Tuesday, Feb. 20: Mental health, environmental health, injury, and chronic disease

Required Readings:

Hahn, Chap. 8
Birn, Chap. 10

Thursday, Feb. 22: Globalization, work, and health

Required Readings:

Birn, Chap. 9

Hahn, Chap 11

Recommended Readings:

Farmer, Chap. 8 (pp. 212-234)

Slides: Week 8

Part III: Global Health Policies and Foreign Aid

Week 9 - Ebola, other infectious diseases, refugees; Structural adjustment, austerity, foreign aid

Tuesday, Feb 27: Ebola, other infectious diseases; refugees and displacement

Required Readings:

Hahn, Chap. 7
Birn, Chap. 8

Farmer, Paul 2014. “Diary”. London Review of Books. 36 (20) October

Thursday, Mar. 2: Structural adjustment and the economics of health

Required Readings:

Pfeiffer, J. and Chapman, R. “Anthropological Perspectives on Structural Adjustment and Public Health.” Annual Review of Anthropology. 2010. 39:149–65

Recommended Readings:

Birn, Chap. 12
Farmer, Chap. 10

Slides: Week 9

Week 10 - Health System Strengthening; Health and Human rights; working as an anthropologist in Global Health

Tuesday, Mar. 5: Health systems and health system strengthening

Required Readings:

Thursday, Mar. 9: Health and human rights/Working for global health

Required Readings:

Birn, Chap. 13

Pfeiffer, J. and Nichter, M. (2008), “What Can Critical Medical Anthropology Contribute to Global Health?” Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 22: 410–415.

Recommended Readings:

Birn, Chap. 14
Farmer, Chap. 12

Slides: Week 10

Final Paper Due: Monday, March 11, 8:00am, uploaded onto Canvas

Final Exam: Thursday, March 14, 4:30-6:20pm