Course title<English>Affiliateddepartment,
Job title,Name

グローバルヘルス通論
Global health

Target year 1st year students or above Number of credits 2
Day/period Wed.3

Class style

Graduate School of Medicine
Professor,KIHARA MASAHIRO
Graduate School of Medicine
Senior Lecturer,Sonia Pilar Suguimoto Watanabe

Course offeredyear/period

2017/Second semester

Language EnglishLecture[Outline and Purpose of the Course]*this is the course provided by the Interdisciplinary Unit for Global HealthThis course includes a wide variety of classes to provide students with insight into the current challenges forglobal health. Students will be introduced to the socio-cultural, economic, political, and environmental factorsthat affect the health of populations globally. We will also examine global health interventions to understandfeatures of successful programs. A series of guest speakers will be drawn from diverse fields to share theirexpertise.
[Course Goals]
Gain an understanding of why tackling global health issues is such an important endeavor with the potential
to reduce poverty, build stronger economies and promote peace.
[Course Schedule and Contents]
Wednesday 3rd sessio0n(Tentative: Speakers and the order of the topics will be changed)
Oct 6
Introduction: Why study global health?
Speaker:Masahiro Kihara Professor, Department of Global Health and Socio-pidemiology School of PublicHealth, Kyoto University
Oct 11
Migration and Global Health
Speaker:Wako Asato GCOE Associate Professor , Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University
Oct 18Global Health Policy
Speaker:Patou M. Musumari Assistant Professor, Department of Global Health and Socio-pidemiology
School of Public Health, Kyoto University
Oct 25The environment and health
Speaker:Kouji Harada Associate Professor, Health and Environmental Sciences School of Public Health,Kyoto University
Nov 1
Energy and Global Health
Speaker:Hooman Farzaneh Associate Professor, Advanced Energy Generation Division Institute of Advanced
Energy, Kyoto University
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Speaker:Rintaro Mori MD PhD MSc FRCPCH
Director, Departments of Health Policy and of Clinical Epidemiology National Center for Child Health andDevelopment
Nov 15
Women s health
Speaker:Teeranee Techasrivichien MSc PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Global Health and Sociopidemiology School of Public Health, Kyoto University
Nov 29Noncommunicable diseases
Speaker:Hemant Poudyal MBiotech, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Diabetes, Endocrinology andNutrition Graduate School of Medicine and The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research、Kyoto University
Dec 6
Communicable diseases
Speaker:BT Slingsby MD, PhD, MPH CEO, Global Health Innovative Technology Fund
Dec 13 Global Health and Aging
Speaker:Ryota Sakamoto MD, PhD Associate Professor Division of Human-Nature Dynamics Center forSoutheast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
Dec 20Culture and health
Speaker:S. Pilar Suguimoto MD, PhD Junior Associate Professor, Center for Medical Education Graduate
School of Medicine, Kyoto University
Jan 10Global Mental Health
Speaker:Toshi A. Furukawa MD, PhD Professor, Department of Health Promotion and Human Behavior
School of Public Health, Kyoto University
Jan 17Science and technology
Speaker:Kayoko Ishii Professor, Research and Education Unit of Leaders for Integrated Medical System(LIMS) Center for the Promotion of Interdisciplinary Education and Research
Jan 24Health. Education, Poverty and the Economy
Speaker:Megumi Kano PhD Technical Officer, Urban Health, WHO Centre for Health Development, Kobe
Jan 24 Report and Feedback

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グローバルヘルス通論(3)[Class requirement]
None[Method, Point of view, and Attainment levels of Evaluation]-Lectures, group work, discussion, case studies-Attendance (30%), and final examination or report (70%)[Textbook]Not used[Reference books, etc.]（Reference books）
There is no official textbook for this course. Instead, the course may use chapters from textbooks andreadings from academic literature. Readings will be introduced when necessary[Regarding studies out of class (preparation and review)]
Not necessary（Others (office hour, etc.) ）Students must be proficient in English
Room: Seminar room, 1st floor of the Science Frontier laboratory. School of Medicine
TEL: 4350*Please visit KULASIS to find out about office hours.