Epidemics and International Responses

Level: Undergraduate, Graduate

Division: The New School for Public Engagement

School: Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy

Department: Milano General Curriculum

Course Number: NINT 5114

Course Format: Lecture

Location: NYC campus

Permission Required: No

Topics:

• International Affairs
• Human Rights
• Social Development

Description:
This course reviews the interplay between infectious diseases, culture, social and economic development, human rights, technology, and conflict using four infectious diseases that have escaped our efforts of elimination: cholera, AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis. Other pathogens such as those associated with SARs and cervical cancer will be reviewed briefly and serve as representatives of new diseases to come. Students will learn the science and technology of disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment on a "need to know" basis and connect this knowledge to the regulation and protection of indigenous medical knowledge and resources, the development of synthetic antimicrobials, the move toward more appropriate prevention strategies, and the need for the an essential drugs campaign to prevent epidemics caused by multi-drug resistant pathogens.