ENS 320 Global Environmental Health & Development
This course will introduce students to global health issues, exploring various microbes that cause infectious diseases. We will learn definitions pertinent to epidemiology and host-parasite relationships, as well as vectors/hosts, pathogenic agents and routes of transmissions. Humanity is experiencing with many emerging and re-emerging diseases long thought gone, controlled, or eradicated such as Tuberculosis, Yellow Fever, Zika, Dengue Fever, Ebola, and Malaria to name a few. The contemporary disease landscape in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia has been shaped by diverse evolutionary, ecological and anthropogenic processes. We will address the relationships between environment, disease, and development in sub-Saharan Africa. We will also explore the intertwined histories of human-environment relations and diseases including – but not limited to – sleeping sickness, West Nile virus, and rinderpest.