General Introduction by Antoine Flahault

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Saúde Global: Uma Visão Interdisciplinar

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University of Geneva

Saúde Global: Uma Visão Interdisciplinar

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This course proposes an overview of current global health challenges drawing on the insights of several academic disciplines including medicine, public health, law, economics, social sciences and humanities. This interdisciplinary approach will guide the student into seven critical topics in global health.

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Introduction

Welcome to Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Overview! This course consists of the course guides, including discussion forum activities and assessments, along with presentations by a range of presenters, from the University of Geneva, The Graduate Institute, WHO, UNDP, WTO, IUCN, Medicines Patent Pool, among others. You will benefit from the insights and perspectives of multiple contributors involved in global health research, teaching, policy and practice across disciplines and sectors. Your enjoyment and benefits from the course will above all depend on your participation within this course, and we very much look forward to your participation through the discussion forums. Enjoy the course!

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Rafael Ruiz De Castañeda
Institute of Global Health - Faculty of Medicine
University of Geneva
Antoine Flahault
Professor of Public Health and Director of the Institute of Global Health (Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva) and co-Director of Centre Virchow-Villermé (Université Paris Descartes)
University of Geneva and Université Paris Descartes – Sorbonne Paris Cité

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Hello, welcome in this MOOC on global health.

I am delighted to introduce this new MOOC which

will involve a couple of cliques, distinguished speakers from

the University of Geneva, but also the Graduate Institute of Geneva and

all the Geneva international set of organizations.

This MOOC is on global health.

What is global health?

For short, global health is global, geographically speaking.

Meaning, worldwide, cross-border issues in public health.

But global health is also

an interdisciplinary overview of the problems.

This is the purpose of our MOOC.

Global health is also addressing complex issues,

complex system, complexity of this world.

Do not say this is easy, I will solve the problem with easy solutions.

It is very rarely that and you will see why.

Global earns also, a duet and a commit,

some affordable innovation for the good of public global health.

Meaning that global health needs technology,

needs low cost, high-tech technologies.

Global health also need to have some reflections on sustainability.

We need to address all these issues and find solutions which are sustainable.

There's no place for throw away society in

global health, when we tackle the issues of global health problems.

And I will say also, that global health need to involve some nomadic framework.

The nomadic framework of the human right.

We need to address equaity..

It is a scandal, to see so such inequity in our world regarding health,

regarding life expectancy between countries, but also within the countries.

So what I will say that in this MOOC you will find seven modules.

Module is a kind of week, you will spend a module

each week where you can learn through videos,

through quiz, through exercises, through case studies.

Each week will be delineated as a module in a specific theme.

The first module addresses all the social determinant of health.

You know the major determinant of health is income.

Of course, the richer, the wealthiest you are, the better

is your probability of having, and keeping, and maintaining a good health.

So, we will address all of these inequity issues and how to improve equity,

in terms of health and of global health.

The second module will address the cross-border issues of pandemic,

epidemic, neglected topical disease.

All these communicable set of diseases which needs some

international commitment to try to control, to prevent them.

The third module will address the growing issues

of aging in our societies, not only in the global north.

Of course, the developed countries faced the issues of aging for a long time now.

But emerging countries and the developing countries are now

needing to tackle both issues.

The communicable emerging infectious disease issues, but

also the non communicable disease problems and

the chronic disease problems including cancers,

including mental health issues.

The fourth and the fifth modules will otherwise boast governance problems.

Governance in global health meaning how

internationally it is coordinated, how we can put some priorities.

Thanks to these international organization systems of the United Nations and

also on private, public partnerships and also on NGOs

like Médecins Sans Frontières, or for the public-private partnership like GAVIs,

Alliance for Vaccine Initiative and also FINE and also DNDI.

Many, many organizations concur to better global health.

The fifth will address the questions of global health diplomacy,

how vaccines can be a kind of weapon in terms of diplomacy.

A weapon for the good, not a weapon for killing, a weapon for

the good of the global health.

The sixth module will analyze all these issues of research and new visions.

We have said that in innovations, innovative solutions may

really win some better health in the world.

Of course, BioTech we use vaccines, and we use drugs, but also devices, but

also diagnostic and many, many innovative solutions

may really help solving many problems in terms of general health.

And the sevens module, [INAUDIBLE] problems environments and [INAUDIBLE]

you know and you will know that health is not only a matter of humans.

You need to address also the health of animals if you want to keep

the health of humans.

There is a lot of interactions between human There is a lot of

issues also involving the global environment of our health.

Climate change, of course, is such an important issue regarding health.

Not only communicable disease, but also because of floating.

Because of the rise of sea levels.

Because of many issues related to global warming and

maybe also because of the loss of pollutions.

The loss of incomes in certain countries due to the global warming.

So all these issues we are not pretending to be comprehensive.

There's a lot of avenues for other developments in this MOOC,

but that will be an introduction which will give you the main factors,

the main drivers of global health.

So thank you for attending these MOOCs, and

we wish you a pleasant journey in this MOOC..

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