Fall 2021
University of Kentucky
GEO 261: Global Dynamics of Health
Course Syllabus
UK Core Activity
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Dr. J. Anthony Stallins
Department of Geography
ja.stallins@uky.edu
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Date |
Day |
Topic slides |
Canvas
questions |
Friday recitation |
Readings |
Aug 23 |
M |
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Reading/questions 1
(due 9:00 am Friday, Sept 3)
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Overview of UK Core Project
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| How Long Will this Child Live? (NYT) |
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Aug 25 |
W |
How To Speak Addiction (NPR) |
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| Cervical Cancer and Overcoming Haitian Cultural Barriers (Pulitzer Center) |
Aug 27 |
F |
Chains of Mental Illness in West Africa (NYT) |
| A Mexican Hospital, an American Surgeon, and a $5,000 Check (NYT) |
| Myths about Physical Racial Differences (NYT) |
Aug 30 |
M |
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RQ2
(due 9:00 am Friday, Sept 3)
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Google Blogger set up |
See How the World's Most Polluted Air Compares With Your City (NYT) |
| Wildfire Smoke is Poisoning California's Kids (NYT) |
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| Sept 1 |
W |
Who Gets to Breathe Clean Air in New Delhi (NYT) |
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| Sept 3 |
F |
What Does It Take to Stop Accepting Pollution as Progress (NYT) |
| Scary Moms are Part of the Citizen War Against Pollution in Pakistan (NPR) |
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Sept 6 |
M |
Labor Day - No class |
RQ3
(due 9:00 am Friday, Sept 9) |
UK Core Prompts 1 and 2
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Every Place Has Its Own Climate Risk. What Is It Where You Live? (NYT) |
| More Than a Third of Heat Deaths Are Tied to Climate Change (NYT) |
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Sept 8 |
W |
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As Temperature's Climb, The Elderly, Frail, and Poor are Put at Risk (WNYC) |
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Sept 10 |
F |
The Great Climate Migration (NYT) |
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| This is Inequity at the Boiling Point (NYT) |
Sept 13 |
M |
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RQ4 (due 9:00 am Friday, Sept 17) |
UK Core prompts 3 and 4
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In Kenya and Across Africa, An Epidemic of Obesity (NYT) |
| The Other Way Covid Will Kill (NYT) |
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Sept 15 |
W |
Obesity Was Rising as Ghana Embraced Fast Food. Then Came KFC (NYT) |
| In Asia's Fattest Country, Nutritionists Take Money From Food Giants (NYT) |
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Sept 17 |
F |
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| Gut Microbes Might Keep Malnourished Children From Growing (NYT) |
| Long Slide Looms for World Population, With Sweeping Ramifications (NYT) |
TEST 1
Posted online 5:00 pm Friday, Sept 17
Due 11:59 pm Monday, Sept 27
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Sept 20 |
M |
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RQ 5 (due 9:00 am Friday, Sept 24) |
UK Core prompts 5 and 6
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| A Freshly Killed Chicken Is Mightier Than the Coronavirus (NYT) |
| A New Bird Flu Jumps to Humans. So Far, It's Not a Problem (NYT) |
Sept 22 |
W |
An Unequal Blow (Science) |
| Bill Gates Calls On US to Lead Fight Against A Pandemic That Could Kill 30 Million (WP) |
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Sept 24 |
F |
Is the Future Just a Spike Protein Stamping on a Human Face, Forever? (NYT) |
| 10 African Countries Have No Ventilators. That's Only Part of the Problem (NYT) |
Sept 27 |
M |
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RQ 6 (due 9:00 am Friday, Oct 1) |
UK Core prompt 7 |
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) |
| Climate Change and Political Chaos: A Deadly Mix in Honduras Dengue Epidemic (NYT) |
| How Mexico's Drug Cartels Are Profiting From the Pandemic (NYT) |
Sept 29 |
W |
12 Hours, 4 Syrian Hospitals Bombed, and One Culprit: Russia |
Oct 1 |
F |
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| A Multibillion-Dollar Plan to End Polio, and Soon (NYT) |
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| Oct 4
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M
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Week 7: Economic disparity |
RQ 7 (due 9:00 an Friday Oct 8)
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Peer grading of blogs
UK Core prompt 8 |
The U.S. Is Lagging Behind Many Rich Countries. These Charts Show Why (NYT) |
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| Who Killed the Knapp Family (NYT) |
| Oct 6 |
W |
The $15 Minimum Wage Doesn't Just Improve Lives, It Saves Them (NYT) |
| How to Save a Country from Snakebite (Mosaic) |
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Oct 8 |
F |
Poverty, Disease, Customs: Why So Many Indonesian Children Die of Covid (NYT) |
| In Latin America, the Pandemic Threatens Equality Like Never Before (NYT) |
| College Made Them Feel Equal. The Virus Exposed How Unequal (NYT) |
| Submit blog URL for grading by 11:59 pm Sunday Oct 10 in Canvas |
| Oct 11 |
M |
Week 8: Global Opioids |
RQ 8 (due 9:00 am Friday, Oct 15) |
UK Core prompt 9 |
The Drug Became His Friend: Pandemic Drives Hike in Opioid Death (NYT) |
| Tasked With Combating Opium, Afghan Officials Profit From It (NYT) |
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Oct 13 |
W |
How a Man With a Van Is Challenging U.K. Drug Policy (NYT) |
| China Bans All Types of Fentanyl (NYT) |
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| Oct 15 |
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'Safer Opioid' Has Sparked a Crisis in Vulnerable Countries (AP-Pulitzer) |
| Opioid Crisis Compels New York to Look North for Answers (NYT) |
| Trapped by the 'WalMart of Heroin' (NYT) |
TEST 2
Posted online 5:00 pm Friday, Oct 15
Due 11:59 pm Monday, Oct 25
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Oct 18 |
M |
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RQ 9 (due 9:00 am Friday, Oct 22) |
UK Core prompt 10 |
Your Ancestors Knew Death in Ways You Never Will (NYT) |
| Scientists Discover New Cure for the Deadliest Strain of Tuberculosis (NYT) |
| Doctors Heavily Overprescribed Antibiotics Early in the Pandemic (NYT) |
Oct 20 |
W |
A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy (NYT) |
| Drug Giants Create Fund to Bolster Struggling Antibiotic Start-Ups (NYT) |
| In Poor Kenyan Community, Cheap Antibiotics Fuel Drug-Resistant Infections (NYT) |
Oct 22 |
F |
Where a Sore Throat Becomes a Death Sentence (NYT) |
| Could Antibiotics Be A Silver Bullet For Kids In Africa? (NPR) |
| New Genomic Tests Aim to Diagnose Deadly Infections Faster (NYT) |
Oct 25 |
M |
Fall Break
No class |
No reading questions this week |
No prompt this week
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How Humanity Unleashed a Flood of New Diseases (NYT) |
| In Uganda, Encounters With the Zika Virus and Mosquitoes Decades Ago (NYT) |
| What You Need to Know About MERS (NYT) |
| Oct 27 |
W |
Week 10: Ecosystem change and disease |
Nearly Eradicated in Humans, the Guinea Worm Finds New Victims (NYT) |
| Yellow Fever Circles Brazil's Huge Cities (NYT) |
| We Made the Coronavirus Epidemic (NYT) |
| Oct 29 |
F |
You're Missing Microbes. But Is Rewilding the Way to Get Them Back? (NYT) |
| Why the Wealthy Fear Pandemics (NYT) |
| The Pandemic From the Virus's Point of View (NYT) |
Nov 1
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RQ 10 (due 9:00 am Friday, Nov 5) |
UK Core prompt 11 |
The Mosquitoes Are Coming for Us (NYT) |
| In Rare Success, Paraguay Conquers Malaria (NYT) |
| Fatal Malaria in the U.S. More Common Than Previously Known (NYT) |
Nov 3
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W |
The Fight Against Malaria Has Reached a Standstill (NYT) |
| The Enemy in Waiting (Nature) |
| In Remote Villages, Surprising New Measures Save Children With Malaria (NYT) |
| Nov 5 |
F |
Giving Malaria a Deadline (NYT) |
| Scientists Hail Historic Malaria Vaccine but Note Challenges (Nature) |
| F.D.A. Approves the First Vaccine for Dengue Fever, but Limits Its Use (NYT) |
TEST 3
Posted online 5:00 pm Friday, Nov 5
Due 11:59 pm Monday, Nov 15 |
| Nov 8 |
M |
Week 12: Vaccines, vaccine hesitancy, and anti-vaxxers |
RQ 11 (due 9:00 am Friday, Nov 12) |
UK Core prompt 12 |
Vaccine Injury Claims Are Few and Far Between (NYT) |
| "I Won't be Used as a Guinea Pig for White People" (NYT) |
| Vaccines Save Lives, But Stricter Laws May Backfire (WP) |
| Nov 10 |
W |
She Hunts Viral Rumors about Real Viruses (NYT) |
| Health Facts Aren't Enough. Should Persuasion Become a Priority? (NYT) |
| How Anti-Vaccine Sentiment Took Hold in the United States (NYT) |
| Nov 12 |
F |
Brazil Halts Trial of Chinese Coronavirus Vaccine (NYT) |
| The Pandemic Is Showing Us How Capitalism Is Amazing, and Inadequate (NYT) |
| The Husband-Wife Team Behind the Leading Vaccine to Solve Covid-19 (NYT) |
Nov 15 |
M |
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RQ 12 (due 9:00 am Friday, Nov 19)
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Video assessment instructions
Blog submission (URL due 11:59 pm, Dec 8)
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How the Fight Against AIDS Can Inform the Fight Against Covid-19 (NYT) |
| 3 Lessons the AIDS Pandemic Taught Us About Covid (NYT) |
| Two Strains of H.I.V. Cut Vastly Different Paths (NYT) |
Nov 17 |
W |
H.I.V. Arrived in the U.S. Long Before 'Patient Zero' (NYT) |
| Gilead Will Donate Truvada to US for HIV Prevention (NYT) |
| H.I.V. Is Coming to Rural America (NYT) |
Nov 19 |
F |
A U.N. Declaration on Ending AIDS Should Have Been Easy. It Wasn't (NYT) |
| The City Losing Its Children to H.I.V (NYT) |
| America's Hidden H.I.V. Epidemic (NYT) |
| Nov 22 |
M |
Thanksgiving Break |
| Nov 24 |
W |
| Nov 26 |
F |
| Nov 29 |
M |
Week 14
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Zoom video assessment recording during recitation (URL for video due 11:59 pm, Dec 5)
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Film: Motherland |
| Dec 1 |
W |
| Dec 3 |
F |
| Dec 6 |
M |
Week 15 |
Prep Days
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Film: In the Same Breath |
| Dec 8 |
W |
| Dec 10 |
F |
Reading day |
No class |
TEST 4
Posted online Friday, Dec 10 5:00 pm
Due
Thursday, Dec 16th at midnight
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