Public Health 512 - Critical Analysis of Health Disparities
Caroline Wang is a senior faculty member in the field of public health. She's been teaching a course on health disparities at the University of Michigan for the past 3 years.
The course asks students to critically analyze the complexity of health disparities rooted in multiple levels of historic and contemporary inequities. These levels include health care systems, health policies and health care professionals.
Caroline's goal is to use a Sakai course site she built over the summer to engage students in critical analysis of health disparities and encourage them to work collaboratively on innovative solutions to address these disparities.
Pedagogical challenges to address in the online environment:
- This course uses multiple guest speakers with extensive experience in specific areas of health disparities
- This course requires students to analyze cases and to engage in peer analysis/review
- This course has students in multiple time zones
- This course requires students to engage in a community project that must be supervised by the faculty member and presented in an online environment