PHLH 25
Public Health, Education, and Community Action in Rural India Winter 2019

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This course will explore access to and reliance on public health services, NGOs, and education in a rural Indian social context. As one of the fasted growing and most populated countries in the world, India has the potential to have an enormous global impact. However, the country’s future in entirely dependent upon the health of its population, specifically its most vulnerable–and most vital–members: women and children. To understand how public health and education policy can be formed and changed to address inequity and sociocultural biases, students will learn about the context of India and how local, national, and global actors currently interact with social systems. The course will begin with an orientation and introductory lectures in New Delhi. Then students will travel to rural Uttar Pradesh (UP) for 10 days for seminars with local experts and field trips to community health centers, schools, and villages. Following their trip to UP, students will travel to Rajasthan to meet NGO workers in Jaipur. The course will include an introduction to fieldwork methods and an interview project on a topic chosen by the student addressing development in India. This course will be run in partnership with the Foundation for Public Health, Education, and Development (http://fphed.org/). A UP-based organization with its own campus, FPHED’s board collectively has decades of experience hosting study abroad programs, including biannual semester-long programs with the School for International Training. FPHED will assist in making all accommodations and travel arrangements, as well as making local connections with experts and translators for students. Adjunct Instructor Bio: Ms. Curtis graduated from Williams College in Spring of 2017 with a degree in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and a Concentration in Public Health. With the support of a Fulbright-Nehru student researcher fellowship, she is currently conducting community-based participatory research with FPHED on reproductive health programs in rural UP. She has spent a cumulative 11 months to-date studying and researching reproductive health in rural India.
The Class: Format: travel
Limit: 8
Grading: pass/fail only
Requirements/Evaluation: 5-page paper 2- to 3-page paper Other: Students will be required to keep a private daily journal
Prerequisites: none; not open to first-year students
Enrollment Preferences: none; not open to first-year students
Materials/Lab Fee: $2800, which includes all transportation, lodging, meals, lectures, and research materials
Attributes: EXPE Experiential Education Courses
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