This course is open to all graduate and professional students, serves as a required course for public health students enrolled in the Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Global Health (GISGH), and an elective course for non-public health students in the GISGH. The course is designed to apply core public health principles to global health problems, some using a case-study approach. For each topic, we will conduct an in-depth examination of public health issues and challenges in a region of the developing and emerging world with research papers from high impact, peer reviewed journals to be discussed.