Applications Open for Global Health in Local Contexts Course

April 10, 2025

Students engage in a discussion during CGHSR's Global Health in Local Contexts course.

Applications are now open for Global Health in Local Contexts, a fall 2025 course available to University of Minnesota graduate and professional students, faculty, staff, alumni and members of the general public.

Applications for the course are open until June 1, 2025.

The course focuses on the global social forces that impact health and uses a classroom-less model, with course sessions taking place at various locations around the Twin Cities. The course explores community-based healthcare and the practice and possibilities of global health.

The course provides an opportunity to dive deeply into local health disparities and to become part of the solution. Students will explore what creating conditions for healing, health, and safety means in their own lived communities through exposure to community organizing, mutual aid and community-based care, embodied healing practices, the arts, and storytelling.

Course highlights include:

Theoretical and experiential engagement with racial capitalism, embodiment, abolition, storytelling, narrative health, and Theater of the Oppressed
A visit to the sacred space of Bdote led by storyteller Jim Bear Jacobs
Connection with the land and story of Frogtown Farm
A pilgrimage to George Floyd Global Memorial with Jeanelle Austin
A walking tour on Payne Avenue led by Peter Rachleff of East Side Freedom Library exploring immigration and labor movements
Sharing creative performative space with zAmya Theater Troupe

Class schedule and location:

The course will take place during the 2025 fall semester (September – December)
Sessions will take place on Wednesday evenings from 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. with monthly Saturday sessions
Courses will take place at various community locations in the Twin Cities

Learn more:

Apply for the Course on the Global Health in Local Contexts Course Page