- Class Dates
- 01/16/2024 to 05/03/2024
- Units
- 3.0
- Delivered By
- Online Asynchronous
- Instructor(s)
-
Uma Chitra
(umac@ksu.edu) - Meeting Times
- Meets by Appt
- Meeting Location
- Distance Education
Global Health and Nutrition
FNDH 700 - Class Number: 13897
Description:
This course will focus on emerging Global health issues including infectious diseases and the global threats posed by HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. It features the new sustainable development goals and the nutritional problems faced by low and middle-income countries. It will provide an understanding of global food security and the impact of the Epidemiologic transition on global health enabling students to become acquainted with the health issues in developed and developing countries. It will help students analyse current and emerging global health priorities, newer nutritional problems and major global initiatives for disease prevention and health promotion. Designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in a health-related field including biological or social sciences.
Permissions:
- Instructor Uma Chitra's permission is required after 01/23/2024.
Prerequisites:
- Prerequisite: Graduate level classification, or undergraduate student with instructor permission.
- Enrollment Dates
- 10/23/2023 to 01/16/2024
- Enrollment Limit
- 50
Credit/Tuition Options
Enrollments received on or after the first day of class may be assessed a $65 special handling fee.
Courses in Kansas State University’s new tuition and fees structure charge by program type — campus-based or online — versus by individual course delivery format. Tuition and fees rates are available at k-state.edu/costs.