Global Health and Justice

This course considers the ways colonial power dynamics continue to structure our present and are fundamentally sickening. Solutions for contemporary health injustices must take into account ongoing colonial effects including the construction and continued salience of race, the imposition of gender/sex binaries, ecological devastation, global inequities in wealth and power, and the dominance of colonial knowledge systems. Through case studies, in-class activities and independent research projects, students will begin to conceptualize more deeply decolonizing solutions for our contemporary health crises.

Fulfills DIV13 (2013 curriculum).