Course Description

Global Health Ethics, PUBHLTH 174

This course is one of a suite of courses developed in partnership with the UC Global Health Institute (UCGHI). Dedicated to training the next generation of global health leaders, UCGHI harnesses the expertise of faculty and programs across the UC system to improve the health and lives of people in California and around the world.

This course covers issues of scientific integrity and satisfies the requirements for training in public health ethics. It includes guidelines for responsible conduct of research, federal and international codes, administrative review and approval, conflict of interest, and privacy and safety of research participants.

Provides a foundation for understanding and application of key issues in global health ethics. Emphasizes competencies needed to practice global health during outbreaks, pandemics, emergencies and disasters, which raise several ethical issues for health professionals, first-responders, researchers, and government agencies.

Key Information

Credit: 4 quarter units / 2.67 semester units credit
UC Irvine, Public 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:
Major Requirement: Upper Division - Public Health Major, Global Health Minor

UC Los Angeles:
Unit Credit

UC Merced:
Upper Division 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, Sixth - None
Major Requirement: Global Health Major: Medical Humanities Elective
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:
Unit Credit

UC Santa Cruz:
Unit Credit

Course Fees

None

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Course Creators

Oladele Ogunseitan

Oladele Ogunseitan (‘dele) holds the University of California Presidential Chair at UC Irvine where he is Professor and served for more than a decade as founding chair of the Department of Population Health & Disease Prevention.  He is the author of Microbial Diversity (Blackwell-Wiley, 2005) and editor of Green Health (Sage, 2011). His articles have appeared in Science, Nature, The Lancet Global Health, Bulletin of the World Health Organization,Environment International, and Environmental Health Perspectives. He has Board Certification in Environmental Science from the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists, and he is Certified in Public Health by the National Board of Public Health Examiners.

Dele serves on the Board of Directors of the University of California Global Health Institute; and Directs Workforce Development for the Institute for Clinical and Translational Science.  He coordinates the Training and Empowerment workgroup for USAID’s One Health Workforce|Next Generation. He is an alumni faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. In 2016, he received the Jefferson Science Fellowship from the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. In 2018, he received a meritorious honor award from the U.S. Department of State for exceptional teamwork and contributions to the successful achievement of U.S. goals at the third United Nations Environment Assembly. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, elected for "distinguished contributions in studies using fundamental science to inform impacts of toxic components in manufacturing on human and environmental health with significant societal impacts."

Oladele Ogunseitan (‘dele) holds the University of California Presidential Chair at UC Irvine where he is Professor and served for more than a decade as founding chair of the Department of Population Health & Disease Prevention.  He is the author of Microbial Diversity (Blackwell-Wiley, 2005) and editor of Green Health (Sage, 2011). His articles have appeared in Science, Nature, The ...

Oladele Ogunseitan (‘dele) holds the University of California Presidential Chair at UC Irvine where he is Professor and served for more than a decade as founding chair of the Department of Population Health & Disease Prevention.  He is the author of Microbial Diversity (Blackwell-Wiley, 2005) and editor of Green Health (Sage, 2011). His articles have appeared in Science, Nature, The Lancet Global Health, Bulletin of the World Health Organization,Environment International, and Environmental Health Perspectives. He has Board Certification in Environmental Science from the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists, and he is Certified in Public Health by the National Board of Public Health Examiners.

Dele serves on the Board of Directors of the University of California Global Health Institute; and Directs Workforce Development for the Institute for Clinical and Translational Science.  He coordinates the Training and Empowerment workgroup for USAID’s One Health Workforce|Next Generation. He is an alumni faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. In 2016, he received the Jefferson Science Fellowship from the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. In 2018, he received a meritorious honor award from the U.S. Department of State for exceptional teamwork and contributions to the successful achievement of U.S. goals at the third United Nations Environment Assembly. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, elected for "distinguished contributions in studies using fundamental science to inform impacts of toxic components in manufacturing on human and environmental health with significant societal impacts."


Homero del Pino
Homero E. del Pino, PhD, MA, MSc, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science. Dr. del Pino, a bilingual (Spanish-English) researcher, received a Doctorate of Philosophy from the Department of Philosophy in the UCLA School of Letters and Science and a Master of Science in Clinical Research degree from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. His primarly research interest is in the role that families play in a person's recovery process from substance abuse, particularly the recovery process of older gay Latinos. Homero E. del Pino, PhD, MA, MSc, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science. Dr. del Pino, a bilingual (Spanish-English) researcher, received a Doctorate of Philosophy from the Department of Philosophy in the UCLA School of Letters and Science and a Master of Science in Clinical Research degree from the ...

Homero E. del Pino, PhD, MA, MSc, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science. Dr. del Pino, a bilingual (Spanish-English) researcher, received a Doctorate of Philosophy from the Department of Philosophy in the UCLA School of Letters and Science and a Master of Science in Clinical Research degree from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. His primarly research interest is in the role that families play in a person's recovery process from substance abuse, particularly the recovery process of older gay Latinos.

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