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Global Public Health Security
Rating: 4.0 out of 5(32 ratings)
138 students

Global Public Health Security

International law, policy and public health emergencies
Created byVictoria Sutton
Last updated 4/2020
English

What you'll learn

  • Students will learn legal and ethics issues in various real life examples of global public health incidents

Course content

5 sections • 18 lectures • 4h 12m total length

  • Introduction1:54
  • History of Global Biosecurity, Policy and Law11:14

    Trace the history of global biosecurity and bioterrorism, from ancient tactics to modern law, and explore international treaties and safeguards for emerging infectious diseases.

  • A Museum Tour of Global Biosecurity14:39
  • Biosecurity and the Rule of Law16:57

    Explore how the rule of law guides biosecurity, balancing security and public health with due process, non-discrimination, transparency, and distributive justice across federal and state roles.

  • Biosecurity and the Rule of Law

Requirements

  • no

Description

In this course, you will work through historical public health security events and pandemics and see how society uses the rule of law to control outbreaks and threats of the use of biological weapons. The focus of this course is on policy, international law and public health history, but some examples will include U.S. domestic law. The course begins with a history of law and global public health and biological disasters and the use of biological weapons. Then, the course considers how the rule of law is used by society to protect society through international law, public health law using concepts of distributive justice and ethics. Then we explore incidents of public health outbreaks like Ebola, SARS and Zika. COVID-19 is included in some of the examples.

Who this course is for:

  • Citizens of the world, public health professionals, national security professionals
  • lawyers, students, instructors

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