Learners will be provided an opportunity to work with your company to apply theories they have learned into practice. Undergraduate students will work in mentored groups and will be expected to provide an appropriately scaled deliverable. These deliverables will include, at minimum one written report highlighting approaches taken (literature reviewed, etc.), and key findings, and one virtual meeting to discuss findings. If able, students may also provide actionable products, analyses, and recommendations, but are not expected to do so.

Project activities that learners can complete will build on theoretical approaches to health, development, and global health transitions. Applied projects could include, but are not limited to: 

• Researching how demographic, epidemiological, nutritional, educational, and political transitions interconnect and impact population health.
• Analyzing health data to unveil disparities and evaluate the proximal and underlying causes that lead to these differences.
• Reporting on how globalization trends across and between sectors impacts population health
• Creating educational materials for companies on global health transitions and population health management.
• Reviewing a defined population health management intervention design

Past community-based projects for this class have included:

• Health communication / outreach
• Evaluation of population health data
• Background research for grant writing for a community project related to health/empowerment (tenant rights, community garden for food access, adverts for free clinic)
• Work with a local refugee resettlement agency to help refugees access healthcare resources in their newly adopted community
• Develop informational materials for community health outreach organizations
• Design workshops to reduce food insecurity for families to better utilize and access local food resources