Fall 2022
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 22 |
M |
Week 1: The context and origins of global health |
Reading/questions (RQ) 1
(due 11:59 pm Sunday, Sept 4)
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Overview of UK Core Project
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How Long Will This Child Live (NYT) |
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| Under Lockdown In China (NYT) |
| Millions Had Risen Out of Poverty (NYT) |
| Aug 24 |
W |
As India Limits Syringe Exports, A Supply Crunch (NYT) |
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| Cervical Cancer and Overcoming Haitian Cultural Barriers (Pulitzer Center) |
| Aug 26 |
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 29 |
M |
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RQ 2 (due 11:59 pm Sunday, Sept 4)
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Google Blogger set up |
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) |
| In China's Coal Country, A Ban Brings Blue Skies and Cold Homes (NYT) |
| Aug 31 |
W |
A New Era of Air Pollution in the Tropics (NYT) |
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| Sept 2 |
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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| Sept 5 |
M |
Labor Day - No class |
RQ3 (due 11:59 pm Sunday, Sept 11) |
Prompt 1
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More Than a Third of Heat Deaths Are Tied to Climate Change (NYT) |
| In India, Summer Heat May Soon Be Literally Unbearable (NYT) |
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| Sept 7 |
W |
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On Climate Change's Front Lines, Hard Lives Grow Even Harder (NYT) |
| As Temperature's Climb, The Elderly, Frail, and Poor are Put at Risk (WNYC) |
| The Great Climate Migration (NYT) |
| Sept 9 |
F |
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| The Mysteriously Low Death Toll of the Heat Waves in India and Pakistan (NYT) |
| This is Inequity at the Boiling Point (NYT) |
| Sept 12 |
M |
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RQ4 (due 11:59 pm Sunday, Sept 18) |
Prompt 2
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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 14 |
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 16 |
F |
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| The Other Way Covid Will Kill (NYT) |
| Long Slide Looms for World Population, With Sweeping Ramifications (NYT) |
Test 1
Posted 5:00 pm Friday, Sept 16
Due 11:59 pm Wednesday, Sept 28
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| Sept 19 |
M |
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RQ 5 (due 11:59 pm Sunday, Sept 25) |
Prompt 3
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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 21 |
W |
Is This What Endemic Disease Looks Like? (NYT) |
| An Undiscovered Coronavirus? The Mystery of the 'Russian Flu' (NYT) |
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| Sept 23 |
F |
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| A Gull Flaps Its Wings and a Deadly Virus Explodes (NYT) |
| 10 African Countries Have No Ventilators. That's Only Part of the Problem (NYT) |
| Sept 26 |
M |
Guest Speaker - in person attendance required |
RQ 6 (due 11:59 pm Sunday, Oct 2) |
Prompt 4 |
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 28 |
W |
Week 6: Political instability |
Climate Change and Political Chaos: A Deadly Mix in Honduras Dengue Epidemic (NYT) |
| How Mexico's Drug Cartels Are Profiting From the Pandemic (NYT) |
| Russia's Attacks on Ukraine Hospitals Show a Sinister Pattern (NYT) |
| Sept 30 |
F |
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| A Multibillion-Dollar Plan to End Polio, and Soon (NYT) |
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| Oct 3 |
M |
Week 7: Economic disparity |
RQ 7 (due 11:59 pm Sunday Oct 9)
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Prompt 5 |
Living with the Risks of Childhood Lead Exposure (Pulitzer Center) |
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| A Desperate India Falls Prey to Covid Scammers (NYT) |
| Oct 5 |
W |
Collapse: Inside Lebanon's Worst Economic Meltdown in More Than a Century (NYT) |
| Who Killed the Knapp Family (NYT) |
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| Oct 7 |
F |
Rabies Kills Tens of Thousands Yearly. Vaccinating Dogs Could Stop It (NYT) |
| In Latin America, the Pandemic Threatens Equality Like Never Before (NYT) |
| College Made Them Feel Equal. The Virus Exposed How Unequal (NYT) |
| Oct 10 |
M |
Week 8: Global opioids |
RQ 8 (due 11:59 pm Sunday, Oct 16 |
Blog URL due 11:59 pm, Sunday, Oct 23
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Trapped by the 'WalMart of Heroin' (NYT) |
| The U.S. Has Led the War on Drugs Abroad for Decades, and It's Been a Failure (NYT) |
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| Oct 12 |
W |
'Opiophobia' Has Left Africa in Agony (NYT) |
| 'Safer Opioid' Has Sparked a Crisis in Vulnerable Countries (AP-Pulitzer) |
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| Oct 14 |
F |
How a Man With a Van Is Challenging U.K. Drug Policy (NYT) |
| Vancouver's Unconventional Approach to its Fentanyl Crisis (NYT Podcast) |
| Canada Decriminalizes Opioids and Other Drugs in British Columbia (NYT) |
Test 2
Posted 5:00 pm Friday Oct 14
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| Oct 17 |
M |
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RQ 9 (due 11:59 pm Sunday, Oct 23) |
Blog URL due 11:59 pm, Sunday, Oct 23 |
Your Ancestors Knew Death in Ways You Never Will (NYT) |
| Scientists Discover New Cure for the Deadliest Strain of Tuberculosis (NYT) |
| New Genomic Tests Aim to Diagnose Deadly Infections Faster (NYT) |
| Oct 19 |
W |
Drug-Resistant Infections in Hospitals Soared During the Pandemic (NYT) |
| A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy (NYT) |
| Drug Giants Create Fund to Bolster Struggling Antibiotic Start-Ups (NYT) |
| Oct 21 |
F |
Hedgehogs are a Source of Drug-Resistant Bacteria (NYT) |
| In Poor Kenyan Community, Cheap Antibiotics Fuel Drug-Resistant Infections (NYT) |
| Where a Sore Throat Becomes a Death Sentence (NYT) |
Oct 31
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M |
Week 10: Ecosystem change and zoonotic disease |
RQ 10 (due 11:59 pm Sunday, Nov 6) |
Prompt 6 |
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) |
| Nov 2 |
W |
We Made the Coronavirus Epidemic (NYT) |
| The Forgotten Virus: Zika Families and Researchers Struggle for Support (NYT) |
| You're Missing Microbes. But Is Rewilding the Way to Get Them Back? (NYT) |
| Nov 4 |
F |
Why the Wealthy Fear Pandemics (NYT) |
| Yellow Fever Circles Brazil's Huge Cities (NYT) |
| New Infectious Threats Are Coming. The U.S. Probably Won't Contain Them (NYT) |
Test 3
Posted 5:00 pm Friday Nov 4
Due 11:59 pm Sunday Nov 13 |
| Nov 7 |
M |
Week 11: Vaccines, vaccine hesitancy, and anti-vaxxers |
RQ 12 (due 11:59 pm Sunday, Nov 13) |
Prompt 7 |
In Romania, Hard-Hit by Covid, Doctors Fight Vaccine Refusal (NYT) |
| Covid Vaccine Gets Muted Welcome in Land Awash in Bigger Problems (NYT) |
| She Hunts Viral Rumors about Real Viruses (NYT) |
| Nov 9 |
W |
Vaccine Injury Claims are Few and Far Between (NYT) |
| How Anti-Vaccine Sentiment Took Hold in the United States (NYT) |
| Public Health Catastrophe Looms in Ukraine (NYT) |
| Nov 11 |
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 14 |
M |
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RQ 13 (due 11:59 pm Sunday, Nov 20)
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Prompt 8
UK Core video
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Yes, a Raging Pandemic Can Be Quelled. Recent History Shows How (NYT) |
| Two Strains of HIV Cut Widely Divergent Paths (NYT) |
| H.I.V. Arrived in the U.S. Long Before 'Patient Zero' (NYT) |
| Nov 16 |
W |
What Can One Life Tell Us About the Battle Against HIV (NYT) |
| Gilead Will Donate Truvada to US for HIV Prevention (NYT) |
| A U.N. Declaration on Ending AIDS Should Have Been Easy. It Wasn't (NYT) |
| Nov 18 |
F |
HIV Infections Remain Persistently High (NYT) |
| HIV is Coming to Rural America (NYT) |
| How the Fight Against AIDS Can Inform the Fight Against Covid-19 (NYT) |
| Thanksgiving Break |
| Nov 28 |
M |
Week 13
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Final blog submission and Zoom URL due by 11:59 pm Sunday, Dec 4
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In class film: Motherland
(No Zoom access, students not in attendance are responsible for renting the film on their own) |
| Nov 30 |
W |
| Dec 2 |
F |
| Dec 5 |
M |
Week 14 |
Prep days - Class meets
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In class film: Invisible Demons
(No Zoom access, students not in attendance are responsible for renting the film on their own) |
| Dec 7 |
W |
| Dec 9 |
F |
Reading day - No class |
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Test 4
Posted 9:00 am Monday, Dec 12
Due 5:00 pm Thursday, Dec 15
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