Health Sciences

Through an analysis of their health policies, this seminar examines the philosophical, historical, and political conceptions underlying the organization of health systems in France and the United States. It looks at the actions of governmental and local actors through decentralization or devolution; health systems and social coverage financing; the impact of political and media debates reflected in the texts, from the Social Security financing bills to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act instituting "Obamacare”; hospital governance; the management of care, technical, and organizational projects in hospitals; and the reality of daily life management and crises.

The course provides a basis and preconditions to constructively and critically reflect on the interplay between global health, the Convention of the Rights of the Child, and different international and national norm-supporting structures. The course
offers basic knowledge of the contents of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and global health, and also discusses the interplay between the Convention on the Rights of the Child and global health. The course discusses the importance of the Convention for the development of children's rights and living conditions, policies, strategies, and laws.
 

The course engages students in systematic reflection on the assumptions, concepts, and values inherent in the fields of global public health; develops participants' critical awareness and appreciation of theories and themes from applied moral philosophy related to the fields of global public health; develops students' capacity to use this awareness to analyze the nature and values of health/public health-related practice and the policy context shaping it; and develops participants' awareness of the contribution of bioethics to the health-care arena.

The International Internship course develops vital business skills employers are actively seeking in job candidates. This course is comprised of two parts: an internship, and a hybrid academic seminar. Students are placed in an internship within a sector related to their professional ambitions. The hybrid academic seminar, conducted both online and in-person, analyzes and evaluates the workplace culture and the daily working environment students experience. The course is divided into eight career readiness competency modules as set out by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), which guide the course’s learning objectives. During the academic seminar, students reflect weekly on their internship experience within the context of their host culture by comparing and contrasting their experiences with their global internship placement with that of their home culture. Students reflect on their experiences in their internship, the role they have played in the evolution of their experience in their internship placement, and the experiences of their peers in their internship placements. Students develop a greater awareness of their strengths relative to the career readiness competencies, the subtleties and complexities of integrating into a cross-cultural work environment, and how to build and maintain a career search portfolio.

This course examines the genetic and physiopathological bases of monogenic diseases due to occasional mutations, dynamic mutations, and large reordering of the genetic material. Other topics include: genomic, chromosomal, and imprinting diseases; multifactorial diseases; pathologies of the mitochondrial genome.

This course provides knowledge of cross-cutting global health issues from diverse national and international perspectives (e.g. philanthropists, WHO, WHA, etc.), and ways of working together to improve global health. In addition to lecture, the course pedagogy includes analysis of case studies, discussion, and debates.

In Part I of this course, students are introduced to studying in an academic environment, the Problem Based Learning (PBL) system, the library, and the structure and content of the European Public Health program. Students examine the many dimensions and complexity of the concept of health, reflect on how health has been defined within various traditions over time, and elaborate on concepts of "public" and "European." In Part II, students examine determinants of health at various levels with the most influential models. The topic of health inequalities is introduced.  Part III focuses on the European Union by addressing issues such as the history of the EU, the main economic purpose of the EU, the EU treaties and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU, the EU institutions, and the decision-making processes on EU level. The course ends with a reflection on several ethical issues and dilemmas at play when thinking about public health in Europe.