Assignment

What makes a successful global health program? Discuss challenges and barriers to the creation, funding, and dissemination of global health programs. Explain how a past successful global health program has positively affected your professional field.

Expectations

1 page, 2 cited sources min from required reading

Required Reading

Hinman, AR. (1998). Global progress in infectious disease control. Vaccine, 16(11), 1116-1121.

Kaiser Family Foundation (2013). Global Health Policy. Retrieved from http://kff.org/global-health-policy/ This site has information that could help with your assignment.

Komatsu, R, Korenromp, EL, Low-Beer, D, Watt, C, Dye, C., Steketee, R. W, & Schwartländer, B. (2010). Lives saved by Global Fund-supported HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria programs: estimation approach and results between 2003 and end-2007. BMC Infectious Diseases, 10(1), 109.

Yu, D, Souteyrand, Y, Banda, MA, Kaufman, J, & Perriëns, JH. (2008). Investment in HIV/AIDS programs: Does it help strengthen health systems in developing countries? Globalization and Health, 4(1), 8.

Bhattacharya, S, & Dasgupta. R. (2009). A tale of two global health programs: Smallpox Eradication’s Lessons for the Anti-polio Campaign in India. American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 99, No. 7, pp. 1176-1184.

Bhutta, ZA, Darmstadt, GL, Hasan, BS, & Haws, RA. (2005). Community-based interventions for improving perinatal and neonatal health outcomes in developing countries: a review of the evidence. Pediatrics, 115 (Supplement 2), 519-617

Garrett, L. (2007). The challenge of global health. Foreign Affairs, 14-38.