Title: Tackling Health Inequalities in Global Health
Enseignant-e : Claire Somerville
Course Code: J4M328
Evaluation: Seminar participation, presentation and written case study
Class Time: Tuesdays 13.15-15.00
Class Location:
Maraichers 102
Course Description
This interdisciplinary course examines the social, political, commercial and economic determinants of health as a lens on the structural and systemic factors that produce health inequalities. Foregrounding an intersectionality approach to the multiple and intersecting drivers of health inequalities, the course will provoke students to think through innovative policies, practices and interventions that seek to address root causes ranging from global and geopolitical poverty, resource distribution, health system access and the challenges of Universal Health access (UHC) to structural discriminations associated with, for example, race, class, gender, sexuality, ableism, religion, migration and citizenship, indigeneity and colonialism.
Learning Outcomes
The course is structured in three parts each with a specific learning objective:
Part I Foundations to Understanding and Tackling Global Health Inequalities
Part II Understanding Axes of Health Inequalities
Part III Emergent issues in health inequality Learning Outcome:
Assessment
Students are evaluated on the following requirements:
1. Formative assessment of contribution to class discussions, feedback on readings and an in-class group/individual case study presentation and discussion (50%)
2. Final assignment of 1200 words. A policy brief/case study in response to a global health inequality/inequity challenge of choice submitted by midnight 16th Dec 2025