"This unit examines theoretical and practical issues confronting health professionals and practitioners globally, especially those in low resource locations. It allows students to understand how they can apply their health discipline to national and international health issues that require interdisciplinary solutions. The unit will introduce students to a) historical, political and economic forces that influence the health of populations around the world and contribute to international health inequities; b) global health crises (and emerging infectious diseases such as Covid-19, and chronic disease such as diabetes and cancer, and disability) facing both developed and developing countries and their impacts; and c) international health initiatives and practices, including key actors and initiatives, as well as challenges and strategies for working in cross-cultural contexts. The Unit will examine how individual and population health is impacted by poverty and inequality, foreign aid and development assistance, globalisation, technology at local, regional, national, international and global levels. The Unit also provides an introductory overview of contemporary international health challenges such as food security, humanitarian crises and climate change. Students will learn how to apply the social determinants of health framework and sociological and epidemiological theories to case studies on health issues and interventions in international contexts, with a particular emphasis on populations in low¬resource settings. Students will be introduced to global health data to better understand disparities in health and inequality. Students will undertake individual and group work to study global health from multiple disciplinary perspectives; they will investigate an in-depth study of a global health issue, analyse global health data to explore the context in which it emerged and the forces that propel it, and advocate for actions to improve the issue in a specific local context and population group."