Online University Programs
Women's Global Health Leadership University Program
Applications for Fall 2026 are now open
Fall 2026 classes:
Classes begin Tuesday, September 1, 2026
Gender, Economic Inequality, & Health (Certificate Requirement)
- How does economic inequality contribute to public health crises? This course investigates the current state of the global economy with a focus on how economic inequality produces wide disparities in health risk, access to healthcare and clinical outcomes. It also explores how domestic and global structures related to economic trade and migration create dysfunctional healthcare delivery systems. Students leave the course understanding why transnational struggles for a single standard of care for all people will heal inequality in our global society.
Gender, Environmental Justice & Health
- What conditions of the current economy deplete the earth’s resources and contribute to human-made climate catastrophes? This class identifies market forces and practices, including pursuit of economic growth, that degrade our environment and disproportionately impact women’s health and livelihoods. Students leave the class understanding that environmental pollution is a symptom of a toxic political-economy, that it increases both chronic and emergent health crises, and that health advocates can be pivotal in preventing disaster and reversing toxic trends.
Care Work
- This class situates professional nursing within the broader global context of the transnational care economy. Students will learn about the intimate nature of care work and identify how intensive physical labor, person-to-person communication, and human touch pose a challenge to market-driven efforts to increase profit-making through mechanization and exploitation of nurses, migrant and precarious workers. It identifies strategies that care workers have used to improve working conditions and their ability to deliver safe, therapeutic, and effective care both domestically and globally.
