Academics

ENVH 610H: Global Environmental Health, Leadership and Equity (3 credits)

Professor Courtney Woods, UNC Department of Environmental Science and Engineering and Professor Kim Ramsey-White, UNC Department of Leadership and Public Health Practice
Students will travel to Salvador, Bahia Brazil and learn about environmental health issues impacting Brazilian populations and their parallels to environmental issues in the US, the social, economic and political factors/structures that contribute to these issues and examples of leadership in public health and adjacent fields that serve as models for improving community and population health. 

PHLP XXXH: Leadership Through Language and Cultural Immersion (2 credits)

Professor Courtney Woods, UNC Department of Environmental Science and Engineering and Professor Kim Ramsey-White, UNC Department of Leadership and Public Health Practice

Students will learn about and practice leadership principles related to public health practice in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Throughout the course they will meet important leaders in public health and adjacent fields that serve as role models for improving community and population health. Students will also learn about environmental health issues impacting Brazilian populations and their parallels to environmental issues in the US, the social, economic and political factors/structures that contribute to these issues.  

Program Learning Objectives:

At the end of the program, students will be able to  

• Employ elements of cultural humility and a global conscience/ethic in their engagement with locals to better understand an environmental health issue  
• Describe social, economic and/or political determinants that affect specific global environmental health inequity  
• Compare environmental regulations and environmental health outcomes between the US and Brazil  
• Explain the literature by Brazilian scholars that describe a specific environmental health inequity  
• Demonstrate effective leadership skills in course teamwork to investigate a specific environmental health inequity