Global Health Security: Policies and Organisations

Foster global health security with Taipei Medical University

With the rapid advance of technology and the rise of big data, twentieth-century health issues have become globalised. That makes global health security an issue of vital importance everywhere.

This six-week course from Taipei Medical University provides an overview of global health security and the policies and organisations that promote it.

Paying particular attention to the Global Health Security Agenda and International Health Regulation, you’ll learn how international cooperation can help prevent the spread of diseases and protect public health.

Explore SDG 3 and global health security from a regulatory perspective.

You’ll start the course by tracing the history of international health regulations, and the organisations that determine them.

You will learn about disease control, international cooperation, public health infrastructure, emergency preparedness and gain insights into how regulations are formulated.

Unpack health policies including the GHSA and the PIP

Next you’ll home in on two crucial contemporary policies: the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) and the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP) framework.

You’ll examine the different goals of the two regulations, and some of the controversial issues they are tasked with resolving.

Explore the impact of COVID-19 on global health governance

Over the four weeks of the course, you’ll focus on one particularly important case study: the COVID-19 pandemic.

As you explore changing approaches to infectious disease control, you’ll learn how the world’s experience of the pandemic has helped shape global health governance.

By the end of the course, you’ll have the knowledge you need to play your own part in tackling infectious diseases and fostering health security all around the world.

This course is designed for anyone interested in understanding and fostering global health security.

You don’t need any prior knowledge or experience to enrol in this course.

This course is designed for anyone interested in understanding and fostering global health security.

You don’t need any prior knowledge or experience to enrol in this course.

• Describe the history of international health regulations.
• Explore global health organizations, what they are for and what they are doing.
• Explain what PIP framework is, and how it contribute to global health.
• Summarise the Current Global health security threat, and how to face them.
• Explore the regulation and implementation of important areas of public health from the regulatory level.
• Explore legislative background, health law and its impact on policy implementation.