Type of Credit: Elective
Credit(s)
Number of Students
In our increasingly interconnected world, public health challenges—ranging from infectious diseases to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and public safety incidents—transcend national borders. This course adopts a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to global health governance, aiming to equip future policymakers and practitioners with the analytical skills necessary to address these global health issues effectively.
This course is designed to empower students, the future policy-makers and practitioners, how to analyze and address global health issues. Each week, a topic related to global health governance, such as medicine access and patent protection, health data and privacy, health system and primary care, international health law, and health organization, will be introduced by the instructor(s) or guest speaker(s).
By the end of this course, in the last two weeks, the course will execute a simulated public health emergency under the World Health Organization framework (WHO Simulation). The simulation will include students from this class and invite outside experts, civil society, and journalists to participate in. Students will be divided into four to five countries and assigned roles as key legal, policy, and public health decision-makers to respond to each scenario of the simulation. This simulation will help students to organize what they learn from each class and topic, and to learn cooperating with people with different backgrounds and positions. It will prepare students with competencies in global health governance.
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| 教學週次Course Week | 彈性補充教學週次Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week | 彈性補充教學類別Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type |
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Week |
Topic |
Content and Reading Assignment |
Teaching Activities and Homework |
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1 |
Class Introduction |
Overview of the Class, Group Activity, Student Team Arrangement, Brief of WHO Simulation, Midterm Project |
Lecture |
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2 |
Global Health Governance |
Introduction of Global Health Issues and Governance |
Lecture |
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3 |
Global Health Burden 1: Mental Health |
Mental Health Issues and Public Health Measures |
Lecture & 5 mins Health News |
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4 |
Global Health Project 1 |
Interview and Group Discussion
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Interview / No Class |
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5 |
Global Health Project 1 |
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Oral Presentation |
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6 |
Global Health Burden 2: Infectious Diseases |
Infectious Diseases and Emerging Diseases
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Lecture & 5 mins Health News |
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7 |
Global Health Burden 3: NCDs |
Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs)
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Lecture & 5 mins Health News |
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8 |
Global Health Project 2 |
Field Trip |
Field Trip |
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9 |
Global Health Topic 1 |
Health Economy and Global Health
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Lecture & 5 mins Health News |
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10 |
Global Health Topic 2 |
Resource Scarcity, Distributive Justice, and Vulnerable Groups |
Lecture & 5 mins Health News |
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11 |
Global Health Topic 3 |
Health for All? COVID-19, WHO and Taiwan’s Exceptional Governance
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Lecture & 5 mins Health News |
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12 |
Global Health Topic 4 |
ODAs,, NGOs, and Supragovernment Agencies, Refugees and Humanitarian Aid
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Lecture & 5 mins Health News |
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13 |
Global Health Topic 5 |
Universal Healthcare, Primary Health Care, and Health Governance |
Lecture & 5 mins Health News |
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14 |
Global Health Conference |
Two Day Conference. Seats are reserved for GHG students
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Conference |
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15 |
WHO Simulation |
Simulation Drill and Document Drafting |
Drill |
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16 |
WHO Simulation |
Formal WHO Simulation |
Simulation |
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17 |
WHO Simulation |
Wrap-up of Simulation, Question and Reflection of Simulation |
Discussion |
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18 |
Final Report |
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Online Submission Only |
Class participation 20 %
Project presentation and report 30 %
WHO simulation 30 %
Final report 20 %
The Generative AI tools can be used as long as students disclose what they used the AI for, the specific tools they used and the prompts they used to generate the results.
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Textbook Gostin, L. O. (2014). Global Health Law: Harvard University Press. Gostin, L. O., & Wiley, L. F. (2016). Public health law: power, duty, restraint: Univ of California Press. Latour B. (1993), The Pasteurization of France, Harvard University Press. Reference World Health Organization (2017). WHO simulation exercise manual: a practical guide and tool for planning, conducting and evaluating simulation exercises for outbreaks and public health emergency preparedness and response. World Health Organization (2013). Global action plan for the prevention and control of NCDs 2013-2020. World Health Organization (2014). 2008–2013 action plan for the global strategy for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases. 2008. World Health Organization (2015). Health in 2015: from MDGs, millennium development goals to SDGs, sustainable development goals.
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https://www.facebook.com/nccuxwho.simulation