TRN136Y1: Canadian Health Policy in the Global Context
This course explores public health policy in Canada and connects it to the global political context. We study the evolution of Canadian healthcare into its current form and then turn to international institutional arrangements that offer different approaches to a range of health policy challenges, including universal health care, antimicrobial drug resistance, infectious disease, non-communicable diseases, maternal newborn and child health and environmental health. TRN136Y1 provides 0.5 FCE towards breadth requirement 3 (Society and Its Institutions) and 0.5 FCE towards breadth requirement 4 (Living Things and Their Environment)
Breadth Requirement: 3) Society and Its Institutions + 4) Living Things and Their Environment
HOW WILL I BE EVALUATED?
TRN136 explores how public health decisions are made both in a Canadian and global context. Assignments will often focus on exploring these principles and require students to research specific concepts. These assignments can include but are not limited to:
- Written work
- Research Presentations
- Reflections
Note: Assignments can vary from year to year
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TRN136Y1 COURSE INSTRUCTOR
Dr. Joy Fitzgibbon, PhD
Associate Professor
Associate Director, Margaret MacMillan Trinity One Program
Associate Director, International Relations Program
Email: joy.fitzgibbon@utoronto.ca
Joy Fitzgibbon received her PhD from the University of Toronto. She serves as Assocciate Professor and Associate Director of the Margaret MacMillan Trinity One Program at 91直播 and is a Fellow of College. Joy鈥檚 research is interdisciplinary and focuses on global governance, international security, and global health policy. She is preparing a book manuscript, Preventing 鈥淪tupid鈥� Deaths: A Comparative Analysis of Policy Failures in Pandemic Response that explores solutions to governance dilemmas in managing global pandemics.
In the Trinity One program, she is exploring new modalities of pedagogy that enable us to learn, live and serve our communities in integrated and sustainable ways.
Interesting fact: She鈥檚 a marathon runner (2010 Marathon de Paris, Paris, France) and a vocal singer (Grade 8 Vocal Music University of Western Ontario; Grade 2 Theory Royal Conservatory of Music).