Fundamentals of demographic analysis of health and mortality with a special focus on global public health challenges including those induced by climate change. Class will focus on essential concepts from demography and public health, global and historical shifts in mortality and morbidity patterns, and the determinants of health and mortality over the life course, including environmental determinants. Students’ will develop their own research project related to health and mortality using real-world demographic data. Students will learn to interpret, construct, and calculate common demographic and public health indicators, and will develop a basic toolkit for analyzing health and mortality data.

This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of demographic analysis on the subject of health and mortality, with a special focus on global public health challenges including those induced by climate change. Over the course of this semester, we will learn about essential concepts from demography and public health that are routinely used to study health and mortality, global and historical shifts in mortality and morbidity patterns, and the determinants of health and mortality over the lifecourse, including environmental determinants. Students will have the opportunity to analyze demographic data to develop and answer their own questions related to health and mortality. At the end of this course, students will be able to interpret, construct, and calculate common demographic and public health indicators, and have
a basic toolkit for analyzing data about health and mortality.

Repeat Rules

Course is not repeatable for credit.