 Welcome to Global Public Health and Infectious Disease. This course provides an introduction to a wider way of topics and issues in public health with an emphasis on our global community. Some topics that we discuss include mental health, food insecurity, occupational health, healthcare systems, environmental health, and much, much more. This course also addresses a number of impactful case studies and controversies in health and biomedical ethics. Because public health relies on a number of systems to operate and serve diverse populations, students will also use system and design thinking in order to solve real-world problems. This means lots of discussion, teamwork, and data analysis. Students will be working in teams to research, analyze, and share their solutions with each other. All analyses will be evidence-based and student-driven. Students are regularly allowed to pick their own issue and choose to learn about it. This interdisciplinary course requires complex reasoning, critical thinking skills, extensive use of technology, communication, and problem-solving skills.