STHS 324 | History of Public Health in the United States

This course explores the history of public health in the U.S. In doing so the course examines debates regarding the following: the goals of public health, the role of quantitative and qualitative methods and sciences in describing and assessing a
population’s health, the nature of evidence, the environmental and biological factors that influence health, the relation of public health to biomedicine, and the social determinants of health. Throughout, the course examines both the history of racism,
sexism, classism, and ableism in the field of public health (and biomedicine) and the history of efforts to make public health more equitable and inclusive.