Online University Programs
Women's Global Health Leadership University Program
Scholarship application deadline: Monday, November 30, 2026
Classes begin Tuesday, January 19, 2027.
Spring 2027 Classes:
Women's Global Health Movements (Certificate requirement)
- This course offers a survey of women’s global health movements with a focus on different forms of inequality and health impacts related to gender, sexuality, race, and class. The course explores these health issues by drawing on a wide range of fields such as sociology, political science, anthropology, history, feminist studies, and public health. Topics may include how race, gender, and class intersect with the health care system, and how environmental justice and health justice struggles are linked to other struggles against inequality. The course also examines case studies of contemporary and historical struggles by everyday people who organized and mobilized to demand health justice.
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 economic and public policies shape the domestic and global food system and explore the health consequences for patients and communities around the world.
Debt, Crisis, and Women’s Health
- Why has debt become the binding glue of the 21st century global economy and how does debt adversely affect health? This class explores the economic and social roots of debt and the resulting economic and public health crises it produces. Students will explore structural alternatives to debts and begin envisioning an economy less marked by crisis.
