Health Sciences

This course is an introduction to the science of epidemiology, the study of the distribution and determinants of health and disease in human populations, and to different ways of understanding health.

This course helps solve the intertwined mystery of what it is that makes us choose to adopt a physically inactive and sedentary lifestyle, when we know the negative health impacts of it. To unfold the box of this enigma, the course first provides understanding of the inter-disciplinary nature of exercise and physical activity determinants. Through a series of themed lectures, it explores together how individuals’ participation in exercise and physical activity is determined not only by personal factors, but also by contextual, cultural, and environmental factors. "Be Fit! Be Active!" is a course that radically changes your understanding of the essence of bodily movement. It helps not only acquire a strong theoretical background, but also engagement in hands-on tasks and experience. It includes practical, useful projects, and the opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of real-world interventions. Students learn in-depth about the fundamental techniques needed to design programs and policies aimed at increasing physical activity and well-being.

This course explores biohacking and sports from a scientific perspective to improve cognitive performance, minimize the influence of myths and misinformation in health, as well as to provide efficient tools to optimize personal well-being. It offers an introduction to biohacking practices, sports training principles, and strategies applicable both personally and professionally in the health and sports field.

This course introduces key theories and concepts related to health governance through interdisciplinary perspectives from sociology, political science, and related fields. It covers topics such as global health, infectious disease governance, state capacity, and the role of non-governmental organizations. Substantive issues include traditional Chinese medicine, the governance of infectious diseases in China, and international cooperation in global health.

This course is designed to provide a systematic exposition of the scientific foundations, policy frameworks, and global practices of drug regulation, serving as a cornerstone curriculum in the fields of public health and pharmaceutical innovation.

This course examines the major physiological processes and metabolic basis of nutritional requirements; the nutritional qualities of food; skills needed to ensure a balanced diet can be formulated for a range of mammals; the impact of dietary imbalances; and the role of food in behavioral, psychological and social contexts.

The theoretical courses mainly introduce hot issues related to medical treatment, including organ donation and medical science popularization, so that students can experience the humanistic care in the medical treatment process and understand the current medical development situation and national policies. 

This course will seek to present the current state of health in the global health field, its role in improving the health of the population, and its future prospects with detailed data and  case studies. It covers global health-related concepts, including global health, global health governance, global health research, health diplomacy, etc. It introduces pecific practices in global health governance and global health practice in diffferent areas.

This course provides a basic understanding of and an integrated view of current landscape of risk analysis. It covers risk analysis; health impact assessment; environmental health and safety; policy making, and evaluation processes. The course mainly deals with selected applications of epidemiological methods and findings to public health issues.

This course explores the field of anthropology from the perspective of health systems in diverse sociocultural contexts (global North and global South, indigenous and non-indigenous societies, etc.). The first part of the course focuses on mental health, concepts of normalcy and pathology from a transcultural perspective, representations of madness, and the social and medical institutions that objectify them. The second part of the course examines the notion of the person, how the body is conceived of culturally and physically, how it ages and how it dies. The course also considers other topics such as feminist anthropological critiques of sexuality and gender, the anthropology of transmissible diseases, profound trauma, and questions of morality and culture in biomedicine and medical technology.