Fall 2023
University of Kentucky
GEO 261: Global Dynamics of Health
Course Syllabus
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Dr. J. Anthony Stallins
Department of Geography
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Date |
Day |
Topic slides |
Canvas
questions |
Friday recitation |
Readings |
| Aug 21 |
M |
Week 1: The context and origins of global health |
Reading/questions (RQ) 1
(due 11:59 pm Tuesday, Sept 5)
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Overview of documentary film essay paper
Start Crip Camp
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How Long Will This Child Live (NYT) |
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| This May Be the Most Important Thing Happening in the World (NYT) |
| The Chains of Mental Illness in West Africa (NYT) |
| Aug 23 |
W |
A Radical Experiment in Mental Health Care, Tested Over Centuries (NYT) |
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| Cervical Cancer and Overcoming Haitian Cultural Barriers (Pulitzer Center) |
| Aug 25 |
F |
Why Saving Kids is Bad Business in America (NYT) |
| It's Time to End the Colonial Mindset in Global Health (NPR) |
| The Problem with Decolonizing Global Health (Persuasion) |
| Aug 28 |
M |
Week 2: Particulate air pollution and global health |
RQ 2 (due 11:59 pm Tuesday, Sept 5)
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Crip Camp |
Air Pollution Kills 10 Million People a Year. Why Do We Accept That as Normal? (NYT) |
| See How the World's Most Polluted Air Compares With Your City (NYT) |
| The American West's Haunting, Smoke-Filled Future (NYT) |
| Aug 30 |
W |
Air Quality This Week Gives U.S. a Glimpse of the World's Air Pollution (NYT) |
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| Sept 1 |
F |
Burning Coal for Survival in the World's Coldest Capital (NYT) |
| A New York City Clean Air Program Pays Citizens to Report Idling Trucks (NYT) |
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| Labor Day - Monday Sept 4 |
| Sept 6 |
W |
Week 3: Climate change and extreme heat |
RQ3 (due 11:59 pm Sunday, Sept 10) |
Finish Crip Camp |
Phoenix's Month in Hell: A 31-Day Streak of Record Heat Ends (NYT) |
| A Climate Warning from the Cradle of Civilization (NYT) |
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| More Than a Third of Heat Deaths Are Tied to Climate Change (NYT) |
| Sept 8 |
F |
In India, Summer Heat May Soon Be Literally Unbearable (NYT) |
| Extreme Heat Is Endangering America's Workers and Its Economy (Pulitzer Center) |
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| How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering (NYT) |
| This Is Inequity at the Boiling Point (NYT) |
| Sept 11 |
M |
Week 4: Non-communicable diseases |
RQ4 (due 11:59 pm Sunday, Sept 17) |
Start The Cave
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In Kenya and Across Africa, An Epidemic of Obesity (NYT) |
| The World's Malnourished Kids Don't Need a $295 Burger (NYT) |
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| Sept 13 |
W |
Obesity Was Rising as Ghana Embraced Fast Food. Then Came KFC (NYT) |
| In Sweeping War on Obesity, Chile Slays Tony the Tiger (NYT) |
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| Sept 15 |
F |
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| Melted, Pounded, Extruded: Why Many Ultra-Processed Foods Are Unhealthy (WP) |
| In Poorer Countries, Obesity Can Signal Financial Security (NYT) |
Test 1
Posted 5:00 pm Friday, Sept 15
Due 11:59 pm Sunday, Sept 24
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| Sept 18 |
M |
Week 5: Influenza and respiratory viruses |
RQ 5 (due 11:59 pm Sunday, Sept 24) |
The Cave |
2023-2024 Recommended Composition of Influenza Virus Vaccines (WHO) |
| A Freshly Killed Chicken Is Mightier Than the Coronavirus (NYT) |
| We Knew Disease X Was Coming. It's Here Now (NYT) |
| Sept 20 |
W |
Why Dead Birds Are Falling From the Sky (NYT) |
| An Undiscovered Coronavirus? The Mystery of the 'Russian Flu' (NYT) |
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| Sept 22 |
F |
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| Could the Next Pandemic Start at the County Fair? (NYT) |
| A Dolphin, a Porpoise and Two Men Got Bird Flu. That's a Warning (NYT) |
| Sept 25 |
M |
Week 6: Political instability |
RQ 6 (due 11:59 pm Sunday, Oct 1) |
Finish The Cave |
The Tragedy of Saudi Arabia's War (NYT) |
| In Kashmir, a Race Against Death, With No Way to Call a Doctor (NYT) |
| As Venezuela's Politicians Fight Over Aid, Patients Die Without It (NYT) |
| Sept 27 |
W |
Climate Change and Political Chaos: A Deadly Mix in Honduras Dengue Epidemic (NYT) |
| In Myammar, Health Care's Collapse Takes Its Own Toll (NYT) |
| Russia's Attacks on Ukraine Hospitals Show a Sinister Pattern (NYT Video) |
| Sept 29 |
F |
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| 'It's a Struggle Against Death': Ukrainian Combat Medics Race to Save Lives (NYT Video) |
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| Oct 2 |
M |
Week 7: Economic disparity |
RQ 7 (due 11:59 pm Sunday Oct 8)
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Start Motherland |
How Do We Fix the Scandal That Is American Health Care? (NYT) |
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| 'Not the Kind of Life a Human Being Should Live' (Pulitzer Center) |
| Oct 4 |
W |
Rich Countries Lure Health Workers From Low-Income Nations to Fight Shortages (NYT) |
| Your Ancestors, Your Fate? (NYT) |
| Who Killed the Knapp Family (NYT) |
| Oct 6 |
F |
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| The $15 Minimum Wage Doesn't Just Improve Lives, It Saves Them (NYT) |
| Rabies Kills Tens of Thousands Yearly. Vaccinating Dogs Could Stop It (NYT) |
| Oct 9 |
M |
Week 8: Global opioids |
RQ 8 (due 11:59 pm Sunday, Oct 15 |
Motherland
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The U.S. Has Led the War on Drugs Abroad for Decades, and It's Been a Failure (NYT) |
| Why Americans Feel More Pain (NYT) |
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| Oct 11 |
W |
'Opiophobia' Has Left Africa in Agony (NYT) |
| 'Safer Opioid' Has Sparked a Crisis in Vulnerable Countries (AP-Pulitzer) |
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| Oct 13 |
F |
The Drug Trade Now Flourishing in Afghanistan: Meth (WP) |
| Scenes From a City That Only Hands Out Tickets for Using Fentanyl (NYT) |
| How a Man With a Van Is Challenging U.K. Drug Policy (NYT) |
Test 2
Posted 5:00 pm Friday, Oct 13
Due 11:59 pm Tuesday, Oct 24
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| Oct 16 |
M |
Week 9: Antimicrobial resistance |
RQ 9 (due 11:59 pm Tuesday, Oct 24) |
Finish Motherland |
Your Ancestors Knew Death in Ways You Never Will (NYT) |
| New Genomic Tests Aim to Diagnose Deadly Infections Faster (NYT) |
| In the Wake of India's Covid Crisis, a 'Black Fungus' Epidemic Follows (NYT) |
| Oct 18 |
W |
A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy (NYT) |
| Drug Giants Create Fund to Bolster Struggling Antibiotic Start-Ups (NYT) |
| Can a Federally Funded 'Netflix Model' Fix the Broken Market for Antibiotics? (NYT) |
| Oct 20 |
F |
Where a Sore Throat Becomes a Death Sentence (NYT) |
| In Poor Kenyan Community, Cheap Antibiotics Fuel Drug-Resistant Infections (NYT) |
| Drug-Resistant Bacteria Tied to Eyedrops Can Spread Person to Person (NYT) |
| Fall Break - Monday Oct 23 |
Oct 25
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W |
Week 10: Ecosystem change and zoonotic disease |
RQ 10 (due 11:59 pm Sunday, Nov 5) |
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How Humanity Unleashed a Flood of New Diseases (NYT) |
| Animals That Infect Humans Are Scary. It's Worse When We Infect them Back (NYT) |
| Nearly Eradicated in Humans, the Guinea Worm Finds New Victims (NYT) |
| Yellow Fever Circles Brazil's Huge Cities (NYT) |
| You're Missing Microbes. But Is Rewilding the Way to Get Them Back? (NYT) |
| We Made the Coronavirus Pandemic (NYT) |
| Oct 27 |
F |
Deforestation Brings Bat-Borne Virus Home to Roost (NYT) |
| Epidemics That Weren't: How Countries Shut Down Recent Outbreaks (NYT) |
| Why the Wealthy Fear Pandemics (NYT) |
Test 3
Posted 11:59 pm Sunday Oct 29th
Due 11:59 pm Sunday Nov 12th |
| Oct 30 |
M |
Week 11: Vaccines, vaccine hesitancy, and anti-vaxxers |
RQ 11 (due 11:59 pm Sunday, Nov 5) |
Start How To Survive a Plague |
Nigerian State Winning War Against COVID Is Losing Children to Meningitis (Pulitzer Center) |
| Covid Vaccine Gets Muted Welcome in Land Awash in Bigger Problems (NYT) |
| She Hunts Viral Rumors about Real Viruses (NYT) |
| Nov 1 |
W |
Vaccine Injury Claims are Few and Far Between (NYT) |
| How Anti-Vaccine Sentiment Took Hold in the United States (NYT) |
| Lab Leak Fight Casts Chill Over Virology Research (NYT) |
| Nov 3 |
F |
The Pandemic Is Showing Us How Capitalism Is Amazing, and Inadequate (NYT) |
| Sharp Drop in Childhood Vaccinations Threatens Millions of Lives (NYT) |
| The Variant Hunters: Inside South Africa's Effort to Stanch Dangerous Mutations (NYT) |
| Nov 6 |
M |
Week 12: HIV-AIDS
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RQ 12 (due 11:59 pm Sunday, Nov 12)
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How to Survive a Plague
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The Cell that Started a Pandemic (Radiolab) |
| 3 Lessons the AIDS Pandemic Taught Us About Covid (NYT) |
| Two Strains of H.I.V. Cut Vastly Different Paths (NYT) |
| Nov 8 |
W |
H.I.V. Arrived in the U.S. Long Before 'Patient Zero' (NYT) |
| How a Drugmaker Profited by Slow-Walking a Promising H.I.V. Therapy (NYT) |
| H.I.V. Is Coming to Rural America (NYT) |
| Nov 10 |
F |
A U.N. Declaration on Ending AIDS Should Have Been Easy. It Wasn't (NYT) |
| The U.S. Program That Brought H.I.V. Treatment to 20 Million People (NYT) |
| Global Push to Treat H.I.V. Leaves Children Behind (NYT) |
| Nov 13 |
M |
Week 13
Malaria, dengue, and mosquitoes |
RQ 13 (due 11:59 pm Sunday, Nov 26) |
How to Survive a Plague |
U.S. Sees First Cases of Local Malaria Transmission in Two Decades (NYT) |
| Mosquitoes Are a Growing Public Health Threat, Reversing Years of Progress (NYT) |
| An Invasive Mosquito Threatens Catastrophe in Africa (NYT) |
| Nov 15 |
W |
Insecticides Can't Stop These Mosquitoes, Now What (NYT) |
| Unleashing a New Weapon on the Mosquito: A Mosquito (NYT) |
| The Gamble: Can Genetically Modified Mosquitoes End Disease? (NYT) |
| Nov 17 |
F |
At Long Last, Can Malaria Be Eradicated? (NYT) |
| One Village Two Houses - A New Tactic to Win the War on Mosquitoes (NYT) |
| What to Know About Dengue Fever as Cases Spread to New Places (NYT) |
| Thanksgiving Break |
| Nov 27 |
M |
Week 14
Primary care
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RQ 14 (due 11:59 pm Sunday, Dec 3)
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Finish How to Survive a Plague
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World Population May Peak in Your Lifetime: What Happens Next (NYT)
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| Long Slide Looms for World Population, With Sweeping Ramifications (NYT) |
| The Lifesaving Power of Paperwork? (NYT) |
| Nov 29 |
W |
The Moral Crisis of America's Doctors (NYT) |
| Your Next Hospital Bed Might Be at Home (NYT) |
| A Decongestant in Cold Medicines Does Not Work at All, an F.D.A. Panel Says (NYT) |
| Dec 1 |
F |
One Day With an Ambulance in Britain: Long Waits, Rising Frustration (NYT) |
| I Studied Five Countries' Health Care Systems. We Need to Get More Creative (NYT) |
| China's Health Care Crisis: Lines Before Dawn, Violence and 'No Trust' (NYT) |
| Dec 3 |
S |
Week 15 |
Documentary film essay paper due in Canvas at 11:59 pm |
| Dec 4 |
M |
Prep days |
| Dec 6 |
W |
| Dec 8 |
F |
Reading day - no class meeting |
Test 4
Posted 11:59 pm Sunday, Dec 10th
Due 11:59 pm Thursday, Dec 14th |