“Cross-Cutting Global Health Issues”

-Current Threats to Global Health, Part 1

Readings: 

• Urgent health challenges for the next decade (WHO, 2020): https://www.who.int/news-room/photo-story/photo-story-detail/urgent-health-challenges-for-the-next-decade?utm_source=STAT+Newsletters&utm_campaign=1931cb646b-MR_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8cab1d7961-1931cb646b-150708293
  
  
• Polluted environments kill 1.7 million children each year, WHO says (CNN, 2017):      http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/05/health/pollution-child-deaths-who/index.html 

-Current Threats to Global Health, Part 2: Focus on the HIV/AIDS Epidemic

Readings: 

• United Nations AIDS Initiative (UNAIDS) Website: https://www.unaids.org/en 
• About UNAIDS (UNAIDS, 2020): https://www.unaids.org/en/whoweare/about 
• Global HIV/AIDS Statistics – 2019 Fact Sheet (UNAIDS, 2020): https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/fact-sheet 

-Current Threats to Global Health, Part 3: Mental Health and Emergency Preparedness

Readings: 

• Global Mental Health (American Psychiatric Association, 2020): https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/international/global-mental-health 
• Somalia Starts Cholera Vaccination Campaign (New York Times, 2017): https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/health/cholera-somalia-vaccination-campaign.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fglobal-health&action=click&contentCollection=science%C2%AEion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=5&pgtype=collection&_r=0
• The International Committee of the Red Cross (2019):

https://www.icrc.org/en