PHP 1070 Burden of Disease in Developing Countries

Many undergraduate and graduate students are introduced to courses in global health via PHP 1070, Burden of Disease in Developing Countries. 

The International Health Institute site also features a list of classes at Brown for students interested in taking courses with global health content. We have also compiled a list of courses with global health content across all academic departments at Brown University.

Scholarly Concentration in Global Health

Brown University medical students can focus on global health through the Scholarly Concentration in Global Health.

MPH Global Health Track at the School of Public Health (SPH)

The School of Public Health offers a Global Heath MPH Concentration for students who are interested in issues related to global health. Global health research and training focus primarily on health inequalities within communities and populations throughout the world. Global health thus focuses on domestic and international health inequalities, and is not about crossing borders but bridging health inequalities with scientific evidence of etiology and prevention.

BRIGHT Pathway

Trainees in the Brown University Medicine, Pediatrics, and Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Programs can refine their commitment to global health through participation in the BRIGHT Pathway. 

Alpert Medical School

Alpert Medical School supports a number of formal and informal exchange programs for students with an interest in global health study. 

Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

The Research Training Program in Child/Adolescent Biobehavioral HIV prepares post-residency psychiatrists, post-doctoral psychologists, and behavioral scientists to conduct independent research in the area of child/adolescent biobehavioral HIV as full-time University faculty members. The Program is a two-year fellowship in which five research fellows train under the guidance of experienced mentors. It includes didactic work, participation in ongoing funded projects, and independent research.

Department of Emergency Medicine

The Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship is sponsored by Brown Emergency Medicine and affiliated with the Brown University Alpert Medical School as well as Brown School of Public Health. The two-year academic fellowship boasts a wealth of research mentoring opportunities, robust interdepartmental collaboration, and a rich clinical and teaching experience, both domestically and abroad. 

Department of Family Medicine

The Brown Global Health Faculty Development Fellowship was started in 2010 to provide FM physicians with the additional global health, health equity, and faculty development skills necessary to assist with the development of pre-doctoral, residency, clinical, and research education in underserved settings locally and globally.  As an academic family medicine department with a long history of involvement in global health, the Department of Family Medicine at Brown is particularly well situated to provide faculty development in this area.

Department of Medicine

The Department of Medicine Training Program in the Division of Infectious Diseases brings together the multiple strengths of clinical research from an institution that has a robust track record of training junior faculty members to become independent clinical investigators in the area of HIV and substance abuse.

Undergraduate Concentration in Public Health and Undergraduate Statistics Concentration

The School of Public Health sponsors the Undergraduate Concentration in Public Health for students with career interests in public health, disease prevention and health promotion, health policy and epidemiology, clinical health care delivery, health care administration, international health, and health law.

It also sponsors the Undergraduate Statistics Concentration for students interested in pursuing statistics careers in industry and government, for graduate study in statistics or biostatistics and other sciences, as well as for professional study in law, medicine, business, or public administration.