Case Studies

Sam Clark    |    Jonathan Gorstein - Abstract    |    Jonathan Gorstein - Outline    |    Anne Marie Kimbal    |    Ann Kurth
Martina Morris    |    Beth Rivin    |    Bettina Shell-Duncan    |    Clarence Spigner    |    Joe Zunt    |    Combined

Faculty workshop to develop a case-based capstone course

This faculty workshop is intended to bring an interdisciplinary group of faculty together to develop cases for a new graduate seminar at the UW.  The seminar will function as the capstone for graduate certificate programs in global health, and for other graduates and upper division undergraduates desiring a unifying educational experience focusing on global health.    

The seminar will use a problem-based, case-study approach that will emphasize the role of multidisciplinary collaboration.  Students will consider the case studies and be exposed to legal, ethical, social and policy analyses of the issues and possible solutions incumbent in a given case study.   Each case study will be robust enough to provide study for several weeks. Students will develop an ability to delve deeply into the underlying causes of a given global health problem, research and study the problem from different perspectives, and work together to posit possible solutions. 

The aim of this course is to create an integrated approach to the diverse determinants of global health.  Our goal is to provide grounding in the medical and public health approaches to individual and population health, but also to go beyond this traditional construct to promote study and research on the broader determinants of global health.

As an example, equity issues such as access to pharmaceutical products and other products of research are central to achieving global health. Issues to be addressed, include the role of intellectual property rights, trade law and policy, social and economic status of the target populations, the health and public health delivery system and its underpinnings, and geopolitical constraints.   Even simple determinants of health such as nutrition and childhood vaccination have a cascade of underlying determinants ranging from land rights in the former to superstition in the latter.

Workshop Participants

Case Study Proposals

Lecture Outline Template

Case study presentation schedule (we will present 2 cases per meeting):