Current courses:

INTS462: The Role of Knowledge in Global Health (Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2023)

Focuses on issues and challenges in international and global work in the fields of health and human development. Using case stories and a broad definition of research that includes the production and application of knowledge, critically examines various factors influencing an integrated and sustainable approach to international work promoting health and human development.

Courses previously taught:

HLTH 480 Epidemics: Dynamic Diseases in a Global Context (Fall 2020, Fall 2021, University of Victoria)

In this interdisciplinary online course, students take on the role of global disease detectives as they examine outbreaks from different perspectives. The course uses case studies of many historical and current epidemics to explore concepts related to epidemiology, global health, political science, economics, and communication.

PHSP503 Population Health and Health Promotion (Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, University of Victoria)

This online course is intended to deepen students’ theoretical and practical understanding of population health and health promotion or population health promotion. It will focus on issues of cultural safety, competencies for public health, and health equity in addition to exploring the history and development of population health and health promotion in Canada. Case examples will focus on health promotion/population health policy initiatives in Canada.

HLTH350 Health Research Methods (Fall 2019, University of Victoria)

This online course reviews basic research practices in health research, examines research questions in relation to health, provides an overview of research methodologies and introduces current ethical debates in health research.

POPM*6950-02 Global Health (Winter 2018, University of Guelph)

This seminar course will explore different dimensions of health in low resource settings from an interdisciplinary perspective. It will provide students with a grounding in the current issues that make up the evolving global health landscape as well of the broader political economy in which health is produced and contested. Potential topics to be explored include infectious disease, chronic disease, nutrition and agriculture, health service delivery and systems, humanitarian aid, environmental health, urbanization, conflict, culture, and gender through a global health research methodology lens. Contemporary topics at the intersection of health, disease, and development will also be covered. Emphasis will be placed on the real world application of course assignments.

POPM*3240: Epidemiology (DE, Fall 2016, University of Guelph)

Undergraduate distance education (online) course on epidemiology study design and data analysis

UNIV*1200: First Year Seminar, Outbreaks: Global insights into dynamic diseases (Fall 2015, University of Guelph)

Topics included epidemiology, outbreak investigation, Global Health, Indigenous Health, health equity, and social justice.