Online University Programs
Now accepting applications for Spring Semester 2026
Scholarship application deadline: Monday, December 1, 2025
Spring 2026 classes:
Classes begin Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Women's Global Health Movements (Certificate requirement)
- Global political and economic institutions and policies impact health globally. This course investigates how women’s non-governmental organizations have attempted to transform existing institutions and policies of global health governance such that people everywhere can lead healthier and more dignified lives.
The Global Pharmaceutical Economy and Health
- The pharmaceutical industrial complex (Big Pharma) threatens global public health with profit-motivated research and uncontrolled pricing. This class interrogates the political-economic context in which Big Pharma has evolved and the ethical implications of market-based health care. It prepares students to advocate for research and fair distribution of life-saving medicines as a necessary component of an equitable health care system.
Global Food Politics: Health Consequences
- Enough food is produced internationally to feed the entire global population, so why do over 795 million people in the world go hungry? And why is so much of the food we produce unhealthy, causing chronic illness, malnutrition, and obesity? This class examines shifting patterns of food production from the traditional family farm to industrialized agriculture and transnational export chains. Students will learn how neoliberal trade policies restructure domestic and global food processing and distribution and why unhealthy food has become a staple of global consumption.
