Description: Lecture, four hours. Preparation: completion of core MPH curriculum. Masters students in other degree programs should have completed their core requirements. Doctoral students should have completed at least one year of doctoral coursework. Focus on relationships among gender inequality, restrictive gender norms, and health. Examination of evidence pulled together by World Health Organization (WHO) Commission on social determinants of health and others on how gender inequality and restrictive gender norms impact health across sexes and genders. Examination of evidence on extent of gender inequality in other social determinants of health globally including education, work, and poverty. Focus on policies to improve health. Discussion of examples of policy and programmatic approaches to inequalities in education, work, family, and other spheres. Students have opportunity to dive deeper into area of choice. S/U or letter grading.

Units: 4.0