Word: globalitis
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...others say that structural changes in Harvard’s curricula are, in part, the cause behind students’ increased interest in Global Health...
Rebekah Getman, the program manager for the Harvard Initiative for Global Health, points to the launch of the General Education program as fostering an “uptick in student interest” in the field...
...given Harvard a “platform to address global health in a way we haven’t been able to before by encouraging more broad-based classes and innovative teaching techniques that allow a faculty member...to bring what she does over at the Harvard School of Public Health [for example] to the undergrads,” Getman says...
...according to David Cutler, a professor in applied economics noted for his work on the economics of health, the global health scene at Harvard was starkly different just a few years...
...There was almost nothing a student interested in global health could do in terms of studying it formally at Harvard,” Cutler says. “We had very few courses. There were faculty interested but they weren’t brought together in any serious...