Social Entrepreneurship and Global Health
Social and structural determinants of health create barriers to availability, accessibility, and uptake of health services in many countries. We will take a case study approach to examining how social entrepreneurs develop and scale up responses to help marginalized communities overcome these barriers. Most of the social enterprise cases we review in this course focus on healthcare work across Sub-Saharan Africa. We will explore factors at play in the region, including human rights, poverty, disenfranchisement of women, government health care systems and infrastructure, human resources for health, task shifting, the politics of sexual/reproductive health, and infectious diseases. We will also draw on articles and online materials that engage healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa as it compares to that in the US and Southeast Asia. This course combines theory with a case study approach and will count as an elective towards the Global Health minor. 3 hrs. lect. (not open to students who have taken INTD1213).