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Master of Arts in Global Health
Kenya & India
September 2021-August 2022
Required Reading and Texts to Purchase
REQUIRED TEXTS TO PURCHASE
Please purchase the following books or get online purchases before departing for Kenya and
India. Feel free to purchase used or e-copies:
1. Brian Nicholson, Judy McKim, Ann K. Allen (2016). Global Health. Sage Publications Ltd.
ISBN-13: 978-1-4462-8250-2
2. Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Yogan Pillay, and Timothy H. Holtz (2017). Textbook of Global
Health. Published by Oxford University Press. New York. 4th Edition. ISBN-13: 978-0-
1993-9228-5
PRELIMINARY READING ASSIGNMENTS
Please complete the following reading before arriving in Kenya for the start of the program. You
should be able to access most of the following reading through the SIT Library links provided
below, the final reading is from a text you need to purchase before arrival. You will have to
contact Library@sit.edu to get your login to access readings and to trouble shoot any issues.
Kenya Chapter
Fundamentals in Global Health
1. Skolnik R. Global Health 101. 3rd Edition. Boston: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2015.
2. Global Health: Diseases, Programs, Systems, and Policies, 3rd Edition (Merson et. Al.,
2012). ISBN 978-0-7637-8559-8
3. Fried L P, Bentley M E, Buekens P, Burke D S, Frenk J, Klag M J et al. (2010). Global
Health is Public Health. Lancet 375, 535–7.
4. Koplan J P, Bond T C, Merson M H, Reddy K S, Rodriguez M H, Sewankambo N K et al.
(2009). Towards a Common Definition of Global Health. Lancet 373,1993–5.
5. Bentley ME, Van Vliet G. Global Health is (Local) Public Health. NC Med J 2010; 71(5):
448 –51. http://nciom.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/C_bentley_051310_448-
451.pdf
6. Beaglehole R, Bonita R. (2010). What is Global Health? Global Health Action 3, 5142, 1 –
2.7. The National Academies Press. Global Health and the Future Role of the United States.
Report Summary pp. S1 –S6. https://www.nap.edu/download/24737
8. Bernaert A. (2015). Five Global Health Trends You Just Can’t Ignore. World Economic
Forum. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/04/five-global-health-trends-you-just-
cant-ignore/
9. Nathe M. (2017). 7 Global Health Issues to Watch in 2017. Humanosphere.
http://www.humanosphere.org/global-health/2017/01/7-global-health-issues-to-
watch-in-2017/
10. Good, B.J. (2003) Medicine, Rationality and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective,
Cambridge University Press
11. Kakar, S. (1982) Shamans, Mystics and Doctors: A Psychological Inquiry into India and its
Healing Traditions, University of Chicago Press
Epidemiology of Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases
Recommended Readings:
1. Winkelstein W. Interface of epidemiology and history: A commentary on past, present,
and future. Epidemiologic Reviews. 2000; 22:2-6
2. "Infectious Disease Epidemiology", Third Edition, edited by Kenrad Nelson and Carolyn
Williams. Jones and Bartlett, 2014.
3. "Control of Communicable Diseases Manual", 20th Edition, edited by David L. Heymann.
American Public Health Association, 2015.
4. Wang et al. Age-specific and sex-specific mortality in 187 countries, 1970–2010: a
systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet 2012; 380:
2071–94
5. Armenian HK. Epidemiology: A problem solving journey. American Journal of
Epidemiology. 2009; 169:127–131.
6. SEER website, State Cancer Profiles at: http://seer.cancer.gov/statistics/scp.html (death
rate data)
7. Oh et al. Dietary fat intake and risk of coronary heart disease in women: 20 years of
follow-up of the Nurses’ Health Study. AJE. 2005; 161:672-679.
8. Press, DJ & Pharoah, P. Risk Factors for Breast Cancer: A Reanalysis of Two Case-control
Studies From 1926 and 1931. Epidemiology. 2010;21(4):566-572.
9. Vineis et al. Environmental tobacco smoke and risk of respiratory cancer and chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease in former smokers and never smokers in the EPIC
prospective study. BMJ. 2005; 330:1-5.
10. Domınguez A, et al. Large Outbreak of Measles in a Community with High Vaccination
Coverage: Implications for the Vaccination Schedule. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2008;
47:1143–9.11. Andersson et al. Mammographic screening and mortality from breast cancer: the Malmo
mammographic screening trial. BMJ. 1988; 297:943-949.
Bio-Security, Global Health Issues and Challenges
Recommended Readings:
1. Reddy R S. Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 Provides GPS for Global Health 2030.
(2016) Lancet388. 1448 –9. http://www.thelancet.com/gbd/2015
2. Fidler D P. (2005). From International Sanitary Conventions to Global Health Security:
the new International Health Regulations. Chinese Journal of International Law 4
(2):325‐362
3. Garrett L. (2001). The Nightmare of Bioterrorism. Foreign Affairs 80 (1):76‐89.
4. Leitenberg M (2009). The Self‐fulfilling Prophecy of Bioterrorism. Non‐Proliferation
Review 16 (1):95‐109
5. Elbe S. (2011). Should Health Professionals Play the Health Security Card? Lancet
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140‐6736%2811%2961114‐
8/fulltext
Action Research in Global Health
Readings:
1. Brown, Tim, and Barry Kātz. Change by Design: How Design Thinking
Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation. New York: Harper
Business, 2009
2. Cross, Nigel. Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and
Work. Oxford: Berg, 2011
3. Bennett, Kevin. “Design Thinking: Creating a Better Understanding of
Today to Get to a Better Tomorrow.” Forbes (2013): n. pag. Web. 6 Apr.
2014. http://www.forbes.com/sites/darden/2013/08/29/design-
thinkingcreating-a-better-understanding-of-today-to-get-to-a-better-
tomorrow/
4. Martin, Roger L. "The innovation catalysts." Harvard Business Review 89(6)
(2011): 82-87
5. “David Kelley: Human-centered design | Talk Video | TED.” TED: Ideas
worth spreading. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 Mar. 2014.
https://www.ted.com/talks/david_kelley_on_human_centered_design?la
nguage=en
6. PolicyLink. “Healthy Corridor for All: A Community Health Impact
Assessment of transit-Oriented
https://www.policylink.org/sites/default/files/HEALTHYCORRIDOR_SUMM
ARY_FINAL_20120111.PDF7. “Applied Logistic Regression” by DW Hosmer, S Lemeshow, & RX
Sturdivant, Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics, 3rd Ed., 2013
8. Gordis L (2013) Epidemiology, 5th Edition. Saunders, Philadelphia.
9. Dawson and Trapp (2004) Basic & Clinical Biostatistics, 4th edition, Lange
Medical Books/McGraw Hill Medical Pub Division.
10. Kirkwood and Sterne (2003). Essential Medical Statistics, 2nd Edition. John
Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Oxford, UK.
11. “Statistical Tools for Epidemiologic Research” by Steve Selvin, Oxford
University Press, 2011
Assigned readings: In addition to reference chapters, pertinent readings will be
assigned for each class form example journal articles published locally for critical
interrogation and analysis.
1. Brown, Tim. “Designers -- think big!” TED: Ideas worth spreading. N.p., n.d.
Web. 15 Apr. 2014.
http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_brown_urges_designers_to_think_big.htm
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2. A Design Thinking Framework for Healthcare Management and Innovation.
J. P. Roberts, T. R. Fisher, M. J. Trowbridge, and C. Bent. Healthcare,
Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages 11-14 (2016)
3. IDEO Field Guide to Human Centered Design. Download at:
http://www.designkit.org/resources/1/
Introduction to Health Economics
Readings:
1. Recommended course textbook is The Economics of Health and Health Care, 8th ed.
(2017) by Sherman Folland, Allen C. Goodman, and Miron Stano; New York, NY:
Routledge
2. Moses H, Matheson DH, Dorsey ER, George BP, Sadoff D, Yoshimura S. The
anatomy of health care in the United States. JAMA 310(18); 2013: 1947-64
3. Palmer S, Torgerson DJ: Definitions of efficiency. British Medical Journal 318, 1999:
1136
4. Economic Efficiency and Cost-Benefit Analysis (section titled “Economic
Efficiency,” pp. 82-84)
5. Nichols LM, Ginsburg PB, Berenson RA, et al. Are market forces strong enough to
deliver efficient health care systems? Confidence is waning. Health Affairs 2004;
23(2): 8-216. Berenson RA, Upadhyay DK, Delbanco SF, Murray R. Payment Methods: How They
Work. Washington DC: Urban Institute, 2016
https://www.urban.org/research/publication/payment-methods-how-they-work
7. Miller H. From Volume to Value: Better Ways to Pay for Health Care. Health Affairs
2009; 28(5):1418-1428 http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/28/5/1418
8. Skinner J S, Staiger S O, Fisher E S. Is technological change in medicine always
worth it? The case of acute myocardial infarction. Health Affairs 25(2); 2006: w34-
w47. http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/25/2/w34
India Chapter
Indian Health Policy, Design, Systems and Management
Readings
1. Duggal, R. & Gangolli, L. (2005). Introduction to review of Health Care in India.
Report on Review of Healthcare India. Mumbai, India: Centre for Enquiry into
Health and Allied Themes, Research Centre of Anusandhan Trust, Survey No. 2804
& 2805, Aaram Society Road, Vakola, Santacruz East.
2. Chokshi, M., Patil, B., Khanna, R., Neogi, S.B., Sharma, J. Paul, V.K. and Zodpey, S.
(2016). Health System in India. New Delhi: India. Journal of Perinatology, S9 – S12
3. National Health Mission: Framework for Implementation- 2012-2017. (2012). New
Delhi, India: Ministry of Health & family Welfare, Government of India.
4. National Health Policy (2017). National Health Policy, Ministry of Health and
Family Welfare. New Delhi: India. Government of India.
5. National Population Policy (2000). National Population Policy, Department of
Health and Family Welfare. New Delhi: India. Government of India.
6. National Health Profile (2018). National Health Profile 2018. New Delhi: India.
Central Bureau of Health Intelligence, Government of India
Social Determinants, Equity, Reproductive and Child Health
Readings
1. CHANGE (2015, October). The Right to Safe Motherhood: Opportunities &
Challenges for Advancing Global Maternal Health in U.S. Foreign Assistance.
Washington, DC: USA, Center for Health and Gender Equity
2. Commission on Social Determinants of Health (2006). Closing the Gap in a
Generation. Geneva: Switzerland. World Health Organization.
3. Every Women Every Child (2016). Saving Lives Protecting Future, Progress Report
on Global Strategies for Women and Child Health-2010-2015.Italy. Every Women
Every Child, Office of the Secretary General, United Nationmaternal health through social accountability: A case study from Orissa, India,
Global Public Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice,
8:4, 449-464, DOI:10.1080/17441692.2012.748085
4. Papp, SA., Gogoi, A. & Campbell, C. (December 12, 2013) Improving maternal
health through social accountability: a case study from Orissa. India Globe Public
Health. 2013; 8:449–464. doi: 10.1080/17441692.2012.748085
5. Zurbrigg, S. (1984) Rakku’s story: Structures of Ill-Health and The Source of Change;
http://www.communityhealth.in/~commun26/files/ZurbriggRakkusStory.pdf
6. Lupton, D. (1994) Toward the Development of Critical Health Communication
Praxis. Health Communication, DOI: 10.1207/s15327027hc0601_4
Field Methods and Ethics in Health Sciences
Readings
1. World Health Statistics (2013). World Health Statistics 2013, Geneva: Switzerland.
World Health Organization.
2. Ratcliffe JW, Gonzalez-del-Valle A. (1988) Rigor in health-related research:
toward an expanded conceptualization. The International Journal of Health
Services.Vol. 18, No. 3, 361-92.
3. Koch, T. and Harrington, A. (1998) Reconceptualizing rigour: the case for
reflexivity, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Vol. 28, No. 4, 882±890
4. India State-level Disease Burden Initiative Collaborators (November 17, 2014).
Nations within a nation: variations in epidemiological transition across the states
of India, 1990–2016 in the Global Burden of Disease Study. The Lancet.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32804-0
5. Standards and Operational Guidance for Ethics Review of Health-Related
Research with Human Participants (2011). Geneva: Switzerland. World Health
Organization.
6. Caesar, S.A. Apentiik., & Jane, L. P. (2006). Working in Different Cultures: Issues
of Race, Ethnicity, and Identity. Desai, V. & Potter, R.B (Eds.), Doing Development
Research (pp. 34-43). London: UK, Sage.
7. Ahuja, R. (2001). Research Methods. Jaipur: Rawat
8. National Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical and Health Research Involving Human
Participants (2017). New Delhi: India. Indian Council of Medical Research.
9. Roberts, M. J., & Reich, M.R. (2002, August 03) Ethical Analysis in Public Health.
The Lancet. Vol 359, 1055-9.Crisis and Health Care Delivery
Readings
1. Krishnan, S. & Patnaik, I. (October 30, 2018). Health and Disaster Risk
Management in India. New Delhi: India. National Institute of Public Finance and
Policy
2. Nelson C, Lurie N, Wasserman J, Zakowski S. Conceptualizing and defining public
health emergency preparedness. Am J Public Health. 2007;97 Suppl 1: S9-11. doi:
AJPH.2007.114496
3. Shoaf KI, Rottman SJ. Public health impact of disasters. Australian Journal of
Emergency Management. 2000;15(3):58-63.
4. Realizing the Future, We Want for All (June 2012). New York: USA United Nation.
5. National Disaster Management Guidelines (February 2015). Role of NGO in
Disaster Management. New Delhi: India. National Disaster Management
Authority, Government of India.
6. Menghaney, L (January 2017). Humanitarian Action and Public Health in India.
New Delhi: India. Express Health
7. MSF Activity Report (2015). MSF Activity Report of India 2015. New Delhi: India.
Médecins Sans Frontières
Global Health Seminar
Readings
1. Dustin G. Gibson., G.D, Tamrat, T., and Mehl G. (October 2018). The State of
Digital Interventions for Demand Generation in Low- and Middle-Income
Countries: Considerations, Emerging Approaches, and Research Gaps.Global
Health: Science and Practice , 6(Supplement 1):S49-
S60; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-18-00165
2. Chapter 01, Global Health (n.d.). Global Health Today’s Challenge. Geneva: India.
World Health Organization.
3. Polio Eradication Endgame (2013-2018) STRATEGIC PLAN & LEGACY PLANNING
Global Polio Eradication Initiative. WHO
4. Bollyly, B. J., Templine, T., Cohen, M., Schoder, D., Dieleman, L.J., & Wigley, S.,
(2019, April). The relationships between democratic experiences, adult health,
and cause-specific mortality in 170 countries between 1980 and 2016: an
observational analysis. The Lancet. Vol 393. Pp 1628-1640
5. Wilson, P., and Rao A. (2012). India’s Role in Global Health R&D. Washington, DC;
USA. Results for Development Institute.
6. Safaei J. (2006) Is democracy good for health? Int J Health Serv.Vol 36 Pp 767–86.
7. Gunn, S.W.A., Piel, A. & Davies, A.M. (2005). Understanding the global
dimensions of health. New York: Springer.8. Hatefi., A. (2017, December 01). The cost of reaching the health-related SDGs.
The Lancet Vol 5. Issue 12. Doi https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(17)30415-1
9. WHO’s role in global health governance (January 18, 2013). WHO’s role in global
health governance report by Director-General. Geneva: Switzerland. World
Health Organization
10. The UNICEF Health Systems Strengthening Approach (November 2016). New
York: India. Unicef Health Section Program Division.
11. 1st One Health India Summit (May 2018). Position Paper, Acknowledging
Challenges and Paving the Way Forward. New Delhi: India. Sathguru
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