Program-Specific Required Courses
Kredi: 3
This course will provide an overview of the most important health issues that the contemporary world is facing. Health issues changing with demographic and epidemiological transformations and future projections, determinants of global health, successful international programs in improving global health and reducing inequalities, key declarations, key subjects, key actors in global health and global health metrics will be discussed.
Kredi: 3
The course will cover common methods of study designs in health sciences with a particular focus on the divergence between quantitative and qualitative approaches. The course will introduce the participants to various concepts from research question to data collection and important analysis types in the global health context. Besides basic concepts of epidemiology, rate, ratio and criteria, data analysis, and research design, qualitative inquiry and data analysis will be covered.
Kredi: 3
This course aims to define and systematically examine the social determinants that affect health. The focus of the course is to discuss the social determinants of health in a social, economic and political context with a methodological approach. In this course, the factors affecting the health of the societies living in rich and poor countries and the systems that affect the health of the society in different parts of the world are evaluated with a critical perspective. Health inequalities, early life, physical environment, unemployment, nutrition, migration and minorities, elderly life, religion, beliefs and values related to health and inequality are discussed with a conceptual and methodological approach.
Kredi: 0
This course is non-credit and aims to increase scientific interaction between students and improve students’ presentation skills by ensuring the participation of students from all interdisciplinary programs. The seminar course, which consists of the presentation of the studies and research conducted in front of the community within the framework of the techniques determined with the guidance of the advisor and the question and answer section, is graded periodically as S/U by the program coordinators. The course must be taken at least once and completed successfully within the framework of Council of Higher Education rules. Program-specific rules are determined by program coordinators and shared with students.
Kredi: 0
This course is non-credit and is a course in which the advisor evaluates the student’s thesis work. It covers all the studies and research to be carried out on the thesis topic determined with the guidance of the advisor and is graded periodically as S/U by the advisor faculty member.
Kredi: 0
This course is non-credit and is a course in which the advisor evaluates the student’s work. It covers all the studies and research to be carried out on the project topic determined with the guidance of the advisor and is graded periodically as S/U by the advisor faculty member. It is sufficient to take it only in the last semester of project writing.
General Required Courses
Credit:3
Ethical principles in biomedical research, biosafety, ethics in animal studies, human and patients’ rights, ethics in clinical research, national and international examples in publication ethics and principles will be discussed. Course will be completed via CITI online education program.
Credit: 3
An introduction to important topics in biostatistical concepts and reasoning. Tools for describing central tendency and variability in data; methods for performing inference on population means and proportions via sample data; statistical hypothesis testing and its application to group comparisons. Several statistical methods such as linear regression, ANOVA, logistic regression, survival analysis, nonparametric methods, ROC analysis that are commonly used to study biological problems. In-lab practices on computers and software for statistical analysis, to provide students with the skills to generate, read and interpret the results in their fields of study.
Credit: 0
Foundations and basics of designing effective teaching environments for higher education courses, learning principles, teaching in English, integrating learning technologies into teaching practices, grading, communicating with students and instructors, and superdiversity and gender sensitive pedagogy.
Credit: 0
The following objectives will be met through extensive reading, writing and discussion both in and out of class.Build a solid background in academic discourse, both written and spoken. Improve intensive and extensive critical reading skills. Foster critical and creative thinking. Build fundamental academic writing skills including summary, paraphrase, analysis, synthesis. Master cohesiveness as well as proper academic citation when incorporating the work of others.
Program-Specific Elective Courses
Kredi: 3
Basic theories of change in population size and structure, fertility, death and migration levels, trends and differences will be discussed. In this course, theories about the impact of changes in population size and structure on health, human and economic development and related research results will be evaluated.
Kredi: 3
The biological, social and political factors contributing to the emergence of infectious diseases and the effectiveness of disease control strategies will be discussed. Basic concepts related to the epidemiology of infectious diseases will be discussed. In particular, patterns related to the emergence and spread of emerging infectious diseases, disease control strategies, and response mechanisms such as the early warning system will be discussed through historical and recent examples.
Kredi: 3
The field of health care is constantly evolving, impacted by innovation in science and technology, regulated by state, government and corporate entities, and growing in demand. The ultimate goal of the administration of health care is to provide efficient and effective value-added products and services to patients and stakeholders, centered on cost, access, and quality of care. This course introduces students to the knowledge and skills required to strategically manage the rapidly changing internal and external environment of healthcare organizations. Through readings, lectures, class discussions and case reviews, the course is designed to provide students with a foundation in contemporary health care organizational structures and management practices. Students will explore problems and decisions facing health care executives in areas such as clinical quality, organizational effectiveness, efficiency, growth, stakeholder conflicts, provider incentives, margin versus mission tradeoffs, human resources, strategic planning and the like, all in a highly complex political environment.
Kredi: 3
Introduction to different facades of “design for health and wellbeing” domain, including: traditional and social design approaches to design for diversity; positive psychology approaches to design for happiness and flourishing; technical and engineering approaches to design healthcare products and systems. Review of the state-of-the-art case studies and design solutions for health and wellbeing. Application of user experience research methods in “design for health and wellbeing” domain both for insight generation and evaluation. Concept generation to enhance the health and wellbeing of identified user groups and needs.
Kredi: 3
This medical anthropology seminar will explore contemporary epidemic outbreaks through an anthropological lens. As COVID-19 has made abundantly clear, both the causes and effects of epidemics are heavily shaped by social, cultural, economic, and political circumstances. Through close readings of ethnographic and historical literature on epidemics, we will investigate how and why major infectious and non-infectious epidemics play out in the ways that they do, and how people in different times, places, and contexts understand and experience these events.
Kredi: 3
This course is an interdisciplinary pursuit of the study of “care” with a focus on the political economy of care regimes, global care chains, devalued and gendered aspects of care work, feminist perspectives on the ethics of care, long-term family care in the household, and embodied experiences of care from the perspective of care recipients. Incorporating both care theory and empirical research, the course will integrate local practices of care with the large scale changes relating to its governance.
Kredi: 3
Psychosocial wellbeing and related mental health agendas aim to intensify due to emerging social changes and global crises (migration, conflict, social emergencies, health crises). A complex set of dynamics, actors, and stakeholders shape the nature of these agendas. A multidisciplinary, collaborative and systemic approach is needed to address the needs of this multilayered agenda. The course focuses on theoretical background and skills for bridging the systemic thinking and mental health through designing community-based psychosocial interventions. The course aims to gather last year undergraduate (design, engineering, psychology) and master (global health, MBA and clinical psychology) students who are planning to develop new perspectives and professional skills on systemic thinking, ethnographic participant & observation research, and community based psychosocial intervention design.
Kredi: 3
This course is designed to introduce upper level students to the field of Health Economics. Students will study various topics including why health is different from other goods, measurement and determinants of health, health disparities, unhealthy behaviors, health insurance, aspects of the health care market in different countries, health care reforms and policies, as well as discussing the importance of health for development and some fundamental health economics evaluation techniques and economic models including models of health, addiction, demand for healthcare and demand for insurance.
Kredi: 3
The course aims to increase the ability to critically appraise a research article. Also, it aims to familiarize the participants with study designs, data presentation, data analysis and reporting of research findings through discussions on peer reviewed articles.
Kredi: 3
Introduction to system dynamics and systems thinking for Graduate level students with an interest in healthcare problems; integrates theory and applications to support strategic decision making. Covering current topics in health policy and management, mapping tools in for system dynamics, crisis/ pandemic management, case studies, sustainability and management flight simulators. Guest presenters both from industry/ academia will be invited to give short presentations.
Kredi: 3
Aim: Obtaining knowledge about the concepts of mental health, mental disorder and global mental health. Learning impacts of mental disorders and adverse effects of stigma and discrimination on mental health.
Fundamental terms, research and practical applications on global mental health. The brief history of global mental health, mental disorders and health, determinants of mental health, crosscultural mental health and its applications, inequalities in enhancing mental health, stigmatization, and enhancing and prevention studies in global mental health.
Kredi: 3
Key concepts and considerations in migration scholarship at the intersection of migration and health. necessary tools to analyze the ways migration, status and the influence health across contexts and migration types. Case studies from around the world to offer a global perspective on core themes of concern in migration and health, human mobility and health, equity in healthcare in migration, non-communicable diseases and migration, migrant and refugees’ access to health services, gender, health and migration, mental health and migration, mobile health professionals, promoting health in migration.
Kredi: 3
This course includes fundemantal principles and current global issues in occupational health and safety with a global health perspective. The course will introduce participants to the concept of Occupational Health and Safety with a focus on preventive approaches to promote and maintain the highest degree of bio-psychosocial well-being of workers and workforce. Additionally the course will cover the cycle from practice to research and the policy route to understand the global dynamics in the world of work.
Kredi: 3
This course is a special course given by the student’s advisor for the student’s thesis work. The MS students can count 1 Independent Study course credit during the education period.
