Global Health Challenges and Governance Coursera

Overview

This Global Health Challenges and Governance Specialization is offered by Coursera in partnership with Coursera - Imperial College London. This specialisation serves to introduce and integrate the key concepts of global health, globalisation and governance to understanding major challenges and threats to global health. 

It aims to provide learners with opportunities to understand the complex international setting of global health, the role of important stakeholders and the need for good governance in global health. 

Learners will be introduced to some of the most important challenges to global health and their implications in global health practice. Learners will discuss the main drivers of global health challenges, including global change and globalisation, and consider issues of inequity surrounding the impact of these challenges.  

What you'll learn

• Identify obstacles, be they biomedical, economic, political and social, in addressing global health challenges

• Describe the complexity of global health governance and critique the role of institutional actors and the role of international collaboration

• Discuss the current and predicted impact of global challenges representing major threats to global health and development

• Assess public policy making within the context of specific global health challenges and contemporary global governance structures

Skills you'll gain

• Health Policy

• Health Equity

• Human Migration

• Climate Change

• Public Health

• global

• right to health

• Evaluation

• health system

• Policy Analysis

• social determinants of health

• determinants of health