Potential Master of Public Health (MPH) applicants and/or Public Health majors will benefit from this series because it serves as a solid orientation to critical concepts, historical roots, and factors of racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare. Such orientation emphasizes the role of public health in combating racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare.

Students in health professional training programs or those looking to enter health professional training programs will benefit from this series as it highlights the historical and current role of healthcare systems in contributing to racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare. Such highlights will provide future health professionals knowledge of good practices and what role they can play to combat racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare

Healthcare practitioners will benefit from this series as it provides a critical appraisal of the history and the current situation of racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare, in the United States and in international contexts. With such appraisal, healthcare practitioners will be able to understand the issues healthcare disparities they see first-hand, and significantly contribute to combating such issues, in the United States and globally.

This course is completely online, so there’s no need to show up to a classroom in person. You can access your lectures, readings and assignments anytime and anywhere via the web or your mobile device.

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Yes. In select learning programs, you can apply for financial aid or a scholarship if you can’t afford the enrollment fee. If fin aid or scholarship is available for your learning program selection, you’ll find a link to apply on the description page.