Course Description
Global Health 150: Migration and Health, GLB HLT 150
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Introduction to history, current status, and future of migration and health using social determinants of health model to foster multidisciplinary analysis of status of migrant health around world. Exploration of social determinants of health affecting migrating populations, including gender, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, poverty, religion, politics, governance, and environment. Letter grading.
Key Information
Credit: 4 quarter units /
2.67 semester units credit
UC Los Angeles, Global Health
Course Credit:
Upon successful completion, all online courses offered through cross-enrollment provide UC unit credit. Some courses are approved for GE, major preparation and/or, major credit or can be used as a substitute for a course at your campus.If "unit credit" is listed by your campus, consult your department, academic adviser or Student Affairs division to inquire about the petition process for more than unit credit for the course.
UC Berkeley:
Unit Credit
UC Davis:
Unit Credit
UC Irvine:
Unit Credit
UC Los Angeles:
Major Requirement: Upper Division for Global Health Minor
UC Merced:
Unit Credit (see your Academic Advisor)
UC Riverside:
General Education: Elective units
UC San Diego:
General Education: TMC 1 course toward upper division disciplinary breadth if noncontiguous to major, Seventh - 1 course towards Alternatives - Social Science; Muir: 1 course in a Social Sciences theme in "Culture, Society and Social Justice"
Major Requirement: Global Health Major: Medical Social Science Elective or Global Processes
Global Health Minor: Elective
Global Health Departmental Limit of 2 online courses per student in the Major, 1 online course per student in the Minor
UC San Francisco:
Unit Credit
UC Santa Barbara:
General Education: Area D-Social Science
UC Santa Cruz:
Unit Credit
Course Creators
M.A. Rodriguez
Dr. Michael A. Rodríguez, MD, MPH, is professor and vice chair in the Department of Family Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health and founding director of the UCLA Blum Center on Poverty and Health in Latin America. Additionally, he is founding director ...
Nancy Burke
Dr. Burke is Professor of Public Health at UC Merced. She has conducted research in Cuba and the U.S. on social and cultural processes associated with chronic disease management and cancer prevention, treatment and survivorship. Her research addresses health literacy, social inequality, bioethics, and culture.
Dr. Burke is Professor of Public Health at UC Merced. She has conducted research in Cuba and the U.S. on social and cultural processes associated with chronic disease management and cancer prevention, treatment and survivorship. Her research addresses health literacy, social inequality, bioethics, and culture.