Global Health Diplomacy

Having completed this course, learners will be able to:Describe and analyze the opportunities, challenges and limits of Global Health Diplomacy. Examine the diplomatic, financial, and geopolitical context that underlies global health decision-making. Explain the role of the many players in the space, including governments, philanthropists, and multilateral institutions .

Course Objective The field of global health is often thought of purely in medical or public health terms, but there are important geopolitical and policy dimensions of global health that underlie programmatic responses to global health challenges. By completing this course, learners will be able to explain the specific institutions and initiatives that are fundamental to current global health diplomacy activities and functions, and how these influence global health outcomes. Learners will further be able to summarize real-world examples where global health diplomacy either helped or limited global health outcomes, and explain the reasons for those outcomes.

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Syllabus

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Week 1
Overview and who are the players in global health diplomacy?
Week 2
What are the drivers of policy for global health diplomacy?
Week 3
How is global health financed?
Week 4
Global health financing institutions
Week 5
What is global health governance and how does it work?
Week 6
Global health security
Week 7
Final Course Assessment

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Is financial aid available?

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Reviews

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Global health ones how to maintain health and support health countries and fight

Diseases such as AIDS and tuberculosis

Am really enjoying this course. Its one of the courses in the Cousera database:-) . Though this is the 2nd week through this course but It has really broaden my horizon in most of Global Health

I learned a lot from this course. The video lecture and the reading materials are very informative . Thank you, the orgnisers and Coursera!

Very informative! One would increase his knowledge for sure i believe.