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Aug 31, 2025
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Fall 2025 Health Sciences Catalog
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HPH 531 - Women and Gender Minorities’ Population Health
This course introduces students to the barriers faced in improving population health and reducing health disparities for women and gender minorities. From hysteria to `atypical’ presentations of cardiac disease, women have historically been excluded from medical research. Consequently, women have been seen and treated as the default male with differences only in hormones and reproductive organs, too difficult to study. We will explore the definitions of sex and gender, representation in medical research, how these identities are asked and recorded in data collection, sex as a non-binary categorical variable, and how this affects research conclusions and public health recommendations. This course will go beyond the common understanding of Women’s Health as reproductive health, towards gaining an understanding of how phenotypic gender, gender identity, bias, sexism, and transphobia affect individual and population health through erasure and inability to create evidence-based guidelines. The effects of political and public health policies on health recommendations and disparities will be covered at length, drawing from work and theories in: sociology, medical history, psychology, political science and law, and biostatistics.
3 credits
Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)
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