全球健康既是一个日益流行的新研究领域，也是一个紧迫的社会问题，也是一个强大的跨学科知识综合，旨在了解并有效干预全球的健康，疾病和康复过程。程序课程的术语“全球结构”有两种含义：第一种定义了一个具有行星性和国际性的地理空间，第二种定义了一个整体的，跨学科的知识范围。全球卫生计划的学士学位（文学学士学位和辅修学位）旨在通过比较和跨学科的视角，使学生深入了解与疾病，健康和康复相关的因素，这些观点超越了国界和地区利益，并具有文化差异并充分考虑跨文化多样性。全球卫生直接关系到实现全世界人民的卫生平等。它是基于人群的
Global health is at once an increasingly popular new field of study, an urgent social concern, and a powerful interdisciplinary intellectual synthesis aimed at understanding and productively intervening in processes of health, illness, and healing across the globe. Two senses of the term global structure the program's curriculum: The first defines a geographical space that is planetary and international, the second is an intellectual scope that is holistic and interdisciplinary. Undergraduate degrees in the Global Health Program (BA and minor) are designed to provide students with an in-depth understanding of factors related to illness, health, and healing from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective that transcends national borders and regional interests and takes cultural difference and cross-cultural diversity fully into account. Global health is directly concerned with achieving equity in health for people worldwide. It is a synthesis of population-based prevention, individual-level clinical care, health policy and program development, and cross-cultural understanding of variations and commonalities in the experiences with and causes of illness, the process of becoming and staying well, and the practices of healing. The Global Health Program covers a wide range of topics, including health care, health education, environmental effects on health, infectious disease, mental health, health inequalities, medical sequelae of natural disaster or political violence, indigenous healing practices, nutrition, and reproductive health. The program's degrees are designed to be intellectually comprehensive, integrating the social sciences, biological sciences, and humanities. In addition, they combine academic and experiential learning, as well as strike a pedagogical balance between the acquisition of hard skills, theory, and real-world knowledge. An important feature of the program is a Global Health Field Experience at a research, service, or clinical site either in the United States or abroad, which for majors culminates in a capstone seminar and senior thesis. This program of study helps to prepare students for a career in research and teaching, immigrant service-providing organizations, government agencies, health sciences, or law. The unique research and writing opportunities offered by this minor also make it an excellent preparation for medical and graduate school.