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Health, Development and Human Rights - PHCM9663
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Faculty: Faculty of Medicine
 
 
School:  School of Public Health and Community Medicine
 
 
Course Outline: See Course Outline
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 8
 
 
Excluded: PHCM9664
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

This intensive course seeks to analyse the interface of three important global topics: Health, Development and Human Rights. Included within this analysis will be the present status of international human rights law as it applies to public health practice in relation to developing countries. The course seeks to engage students, scholars, human rights practitioners, health professionals, advocates, development professionals and members of civil society in a dialogue about the reciprocal interaction between health, human development and human rights, as well as present practical tools stakeholders can use to incorporate a health, development and human rights framework into their work.

Learning Objectives

This five-day intensive course will allow students to:
  1. Define underlying principles and prominent approaches applied to each of the fields of health, development and human rights;
  2. Describe the reciprocal interaction between health, development and human rights and how these linkages can be analysed and applied in practice in one or more selected area pertinent to participants’ interests;
  3. Illustrate how international mechanisms and procedures can be applied to health, development and human rights and how they can be accessed;
  4. Identify key actions and research that is needed to further the synergy between health, development and human rights.

Further Information

This intensive workshop is scheduled for Summer 2009 (7-11 December 2009). The course is available as a full-fee paying professional development course, or as an elective to a number of postgraduate programs within the UNSW Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences, Law and Medicine.


Students wishing to take the course as an elective can apply to take the course for 6 UoC (PHCM9663) for Medicine or Arts & Social Sciences programs, or for 8 UoC (PHCM9664) for Law programs. Please note that those who take the course for 8 UoC will be expected to submit an expanded assessment.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Online enrolment is not available for this course as there are limited for students from the Faculties of Medicine, Law, Arts & Social Sciences, and others on a case-by-case basis. Interested students should complete an Expression of Interest form and submit it to the UNSW Initiative for Health and Human Rights (see link below). Once approved, students will be invited to confirm their enrolment.

After meeting the participant profile criteria, students will be invited to enroll in the course on a first-come-first-serve basis. A waitlist will be created if there is expressed interest in the course beyond the allocated student spaces per Faculty. Waitlisted students will be invited to enroll in the course as spaces within their Faculty allocation open.

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