Education Overview

The educational mission of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine is to develop intellectual and analytic resources to investigate and to address key social, cultural, and ethical barriers to the delivery of health care and to diminishing population disparities in the receipt of care.

Faculty members engage students by:

  • introducing them to the specialized literatures and methods in medical anthropology, epidemiology, social history of medicine, medical ethics, and medical humanities;
  • providing opportunities for supervised experiences in community, international, and clinical settings that join service with learning; and
  • fostering personal development and commitment to humane and ethical medical care.

Courses, fellowships, and advanced degree programs are available to students from the undergraduate to the postdoctoral level who seek to understand the relationships between medicine and the social forces and conditions that affect health.

Courses

Descriptions of courses in global health and social medicine, medical ethics, medical anthropology, history of medicine, medical sociology.

Degree Programs

Links to master’s and doctoral programs related to global health and social medicine.

Fellowships

Descriptions of predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships with application information.

Lectures and Workshops

Information about the Roger Allan Moore, W.H.R. Rivers, and John McGovern lectures.

Other Opportunities

Service learning, internships and other ways to engage in global health and social medicine.