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GSC seeks to nurture campus-wide cooperation on curricular and programmatic initiatives related to global health. Our aim is to promote the multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary study of global health among students and faculty by creating spaces for collaboration among scholars. In particular, we seek to understand the global burden of disease, social determinants of health, and treatment disparities from transnational and historical perspectives that are also attentive to the varied cultural and behavioral elements of health.

 

Watch Global Health Case Competition Student Presentations

 Global Health Case Competition

Sponsored by the Global Studies Center and the Center for Bioethics & Health Law, Pitt’s global health case competition is designed to give students simulated professional experience in developing strategies to address a real-world global health issue. 

Interdisciplinary teams of graduate and undergraduate students will develop a plan to address the scenario in a holistic way. Each team will present its strategy to a panel of experts, with the top team receiving cash prizes and support to participate in the 2022 Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition. The case competition is sponsored by the Graduate School of Public Health’s Center for Global Studies and Global Health Student Association and Pitt’s Global Studies Center. 

Last year Pitt’s winning team went on to place 3rd out of 53 teams at Emory University’s global competition.  View the 2021 first and second place presentations at Pitt’s competition here.

Students must agree to attend all of the following events (this is a tentative schedule):

September 24, 2021, 1PM – 3 PM: Opening Session with Key-Note address, case reveal, and team assignments (in person)
October 1,  2 PM – 4 PM: How to effectively compile and present your case (virtual)
October 8, 2 PM – 4 PM: Presentations on geographic and cultural context  (virtual)
October 15, 2PM  – 4 PM: Free Day
October 22, 2 PM – 4 PM: Presentation on equity and policy implications (virtual)
October 29: Presentation on specific case-relevant content (virtual)
November 5, 2 PM – 6 PM: Case presentations (in person)

Register Here by September 22, 2021.

Questions? Contact Elaine Linn eel58@pitt.edu

 

Past Mini-Course

Global Health and Climate Change Mini-Course
  
This course uses the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to highlight the multi-faceted field of global health. The SDGs address everything from gender equality to clean water and sanitation to affordable, clean energy. In examining how health intersects with these goals, this course draws on the expertise of Pitt and CMU as well as health and sustainability practitioners. Students who complete the course will understand how climate and sustainability contribute to good health and well-being from an truly interdisciplinary perspective.

With each global health crisis, the interconnectedness of populations around the globe becomes more pronounced. Diseases not only affect the health of communities, but they have a profound impact on political, economic, and social stability within countries and regions. This course engages the interdisciplinary nature of global health by approaching the issue through the lens of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) developed by the United Nations. The SDGs range in focus from good health and well-being to gender equality to clean water and sanitation to affordable, clean energy. By engaging the ways that health has a stake in these goals, the course will bring the expertise of faculty from the University of Pittsburgh and CMU as well as practitioners to understand and address the issue surrounding global health from a myriad of perspectives and avenues. With an applied focus, the course will assist students in engaging and advocating for a community on a global health issue through a policy memo. This iteration of the course will examine climate change and SDGs #13 and 15.

Questions? Please contact Veronica Dristas or click here !

 

 

Register for the 2021 Global Health Case Competition:

The competition is open to undergraduate, graduate, and professional students from all areas of study. Post-graduate and post-doctoral fellows are not eligible to participate. Teams will be composed of four to six students from three or more disciplines. There are three options for registration:

  • A student may register individually and will be assigned teammates from other academic disciplines to form a full team.
  • Two or three students may register as a partial team and will be assigned teammates from other academic disciplines to form a full team.
  • Four to six students may register as a full team. Full teams must represent at least different three disciplines or schools and are highly encouraged to include members from a broad array of academic disciplines.  
Register Here

 

2021 Global Health Case Competition

September 24, 2021, 1PM – 3 PM: Opening Session with Key-Note address, case reveal, and team assignments (in person)
October 1,  2 PM – 4 PM: How to effectively compile and present your case (virtual)
October 8, 2 PM – 4 PM: Presentations on geographic and cultural context  (virtual)
October 15, 2PM  – 4 PM: Free Day
October 22, 2 PM – 4 PM: Presentation on equity and policy implications (virtual)
October 29: Presentation on specific case-relevant content (virtual)
November 5, 2 PM – 6 PM: Case presentations (in person)

Global Health and Climate Change Mini-Course

Please click here to learn more.

 

Veronica Dristas
dristas@pitt.edu
University of Pittsburgh, Associate Director Global Studies Center

Video Material

View the Global Health Case Competition here!

Podcasts

 

 

 

 

Mari Webel

mwebel@pitt.edu
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Mari Webel is an Associate Professor in the Department of History, specializing in modern Africa and the history of health.  She received her Ph.D in 2012 from Columbia University, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in global health and African Studies at Emory University.  Webel joined the Pitt faculty in 2014.  Her book The Politics of Disease Control: Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa, 1890-1920, will be released this month in the New African Histories series of Ohio University Press.  The Politics of Disease Control is a history of African politics and colonial public health, focusing on sleeping sickness at Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika.  Her current project, The Neglected Tropical Diseases in Global Health’s History and Present examines the emergence of the “NTDs” as an operative and imaginative category in public health since the 1970s.  She was awarded the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s New Directions Fellowship in 2019 to pursue training in epidemiology and parasitology for her ongoing work on the history of the NTDs.

Michael Goodhart

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Michael Goodhart is Professor of Political Science, and he holds secondary appointments in Philosophy and in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies. His current research focuses on questions to do with global injustice and responsibility for injustice.  He is also interested in thinking about new modes of political theorizing for the Anthropocene. His core intellectual interests are in the theory and practice of democracy and human rights in the context of globalization and in related questions concerning global justice, democratic governance, and political responsibility at the transnational level.
 
Dr. Goodhart is co-president of the Association for Political Theory; he is an affiliate of the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut, a member of the Center for Ethics and Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, and sits on several editorial boards. In 2008-2009 he was an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation research fellow and Guest Professor in the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin. 

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