Global Public Health Security

Global Public Health Security

In this course, you will work through historical public health security events and pandemics and see how society uses the rule of law to control outbreaks and threats of the use of biological weapons. The focus of this course is on policy, international law and public health history, but some examples will include U.S. domestic law. The course begins with a history of law and global public health and biological disasters and the use of biological weapons. Then, the course considers how the rule of law is used by society to protect society through international law, public health law using concepts of distributive justice and ethics. Then we explore incidents of public health outbreaks like Ebola, SARS and Zika. COVID-19 is included in some of the examples.

International law, policy and public health emergencies

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What you will learn

• Students will learn legal and ethics issues in various real life examples of global public health incidents

Rating: 4.3

Level: Intermediate Level

Duration: 4 hours

Instructor: Victoria Sutton