EPID/PHP 597C - Border Health Service Learning
Grab your passport and prepare for a binational, bicultural experience. Explore the role of public health advocacy in globalization, migration and health.
Community: Maricopa County & Southern Arizona
Collaboratively respond to health disparities encountered by disadvantaged and marginalized communities. Learn along side different communities such as urban, rural, homeless, veterans, border region, immigrants, and farmworkers through community-based engagement and experiential learning in collaboration with the Primary Prevention Mobile Health Unit, and Street Medicine.
2 credit, Spring Semester
Connect, Engage, Learn
In this course we:
- Integrate fundamentals of agribusiness and labor dynamics with social determinants of health
- Meet and work with community partners on both sides of the US-Mexico border
- Develop skills to build effective community partnerships capable of achieving social change
- Reflect on your role as a public health professional in a binational setting
Contact Course Facilitators to Enroll Course Facilitators: Kate Ellingson, Karina Duenas, Priscila Ruedas, Edgar Villavicencio & Jill Guernsey de Zapien in partnership with Regional Center for Border Health