Overview
Description
This course will introduce students to field of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) by focusing on high-impact pathogens, and their associated diseases, which disproportionally affect the world’s lowest-income populations and are particularly severe in developing regions.
Requirements
Prerequisites
BIOL 315
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): BIOL 315.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall
Terms
fall
Core
CO10
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- identify the basic biological characteristics, pathogenesis, human immune responses, and current effective therapeutics/management strategies for NTDs.
- list the core historical diversity issues that have led to the prevalence of NTDs and articulate an awareness of the role that race, culture, ethnicity, gender, social class, religion, politics, sexual identity, or national origin play in NTDs.
- explain and communicate the core contemporary diversity issues that currently prevent the clearance of NTDs despite the availability of effective management strategies, curative therapies, and vaccines.
- interpret and critically analyze (CO3) the roles of cultural differences, biases, and rules with relation to NTD prevention in addition to the direct role of socio-economic inequity.
- integrate the scientific/medical prevention measures for NTDs with the current social, cultural, political, and economic factors underlying the inequality that drives NTD persistence.
- discuss current innovative programs/policies that attempt to address barriers to NTD management, and postulate their own solutions and management options.