Global Health, Family Medicine and Primary Care

This 3-day course offers a broad overview of Global Health with specific relevance to primary care. It is offered as an early exploration of the field of global health.

Some of the topics explored in this course are:

• primary care in the context of global health
• ethics of global health and service learning
• essentials of infectious diseases
• HIV/AIDS care
• tuberculosis care
• refugee health
• caring for vulnerable populations in Canada and abroad
• global health partnerships
• career planning in global health