ABOUT THIS COURSE

ATH 448 class of 2019 with their reviewers: Dr. Baiju Gopal & Dr. Madhavi Rangaswamy from Christ University in Bengaluru, India, and Dr. Vaishali Raval, Dr. Joe Carlin, and Dr. Joyce Fernandez from Miami University.

Anthropology 448: Developing Solutions in Global Health

Global health is a transdisciplinary field focused on improving health equity locally or globally.

Grant writing has a language and art of its own, that I learned the hard way -- trial and error. Increasingly my grant proposals are collaborative efforts because the problems we seek to address are too complex for a single individual or a single discipline.

This course has three primary goals:

Successful team collaboration
Mastering the basics of grant writing
Understanding the complexities of ameliorating health inequities

NOTE: The goal is not to have a proposal that would necessarily be submittable by the end of the semester, but instead to have a well planned and well-written draft of a grant proposal designed to address a problem of health inequity.

I have done research on the assumptions behind teaching this course: a transdisciplinary course teaching grant writing that is taught by a single professor. If you are curious, I've attached it here.