School of Health Courses
The School of Health offers transdisciplinary health courses that draw on expertise from across Concordia’s four Faculties. These health courses promote system-level thinking and knowledge transfer.
School of Health Courses
HLTH 601 Global Health Sciences for Innovators (3 credits)
Description :
This course covers health sciences knowledge and skills necessary for global health innovators. It discusses the health sciences and population health knowledge underpinning global health systems, it explores quantitative health sciences methods and AI tools to analyze health data, socioeconomic determinants of health, and complex health systems, and it applies these quantitative health sciences knowledge and skills along with entrepreneurship and innovation concepts to make value-added propositions. The course provides a set of health sciences competencies that will empower students to challenge outdated health models, design new solutions, and lead to meaningful change in global health systems. The course includes a term project consisting of analyzing a global health sciences entrepreneurial case study.
Component(s): Seminar; Workshop
Notes : This course is graded on a pass/fail basis
HLTH 602 Biomedical Sciences for Innovators (3 credits)
Description :
The course covers biomedical sciences knowledge and skills necessary for global health innovators. The topics explored include visualization of biomedical sciences data from diverse sources, conditional probability and statistical reasoning to assess health intervention effectiveness and risk, the use of biomedical data AI models (including their performance, limitations, and potential biases), data standards across the biomedical sciences landscape including privacy and ethical concerns, using biomedical sciences knowledge with an entrepreneurial lens to explore the full biomedical innovation pathway, conducting a biomedical sciences industry analysis and market research, prototyping and developing a minimum viable product. The course includes a term project to develop an original biomedical business model canvas.
Component(s): Lecture; Workshop
Notes : This course is graded on a pass/fail basis
School of Health Sponsored Course Sections (based in the Faculties)
The School of Health (SOH) financially supports the offering of courses in health-related topics which are transdisciplinary and straddle expertise across Concordia’s four Faculties (FAS, FoFA, GCS, JMSB).
Such courses can bolster interactions between SOH members, provide additional sought-after skills on the job-market, and help foster knowledge transfer and innovation in health.
Fall 2026 - LOYC 498 / CATS 631 / MSCA 652
Topic: Environmental Health and Well-Being
Format: hybrid SGW (synchronous); Schedule: Fridays 2:45-5:30 PM
Description: The current environmental crisis has both direct and indirect effects on human health and well-being. Using a blended strategy of lectures and discussion, this course will take an interdisciplinary approach to these cross-cutting issues from a health and natural science, social science, and humanities perspective. Suitable for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students from all disciplines, the course will involve guest lectures from multiple disciplinary perspectives and the opportunity for personal projects and will address issues such as ecoanxiety and other mental health issues; plastic and other pollution; fire, flood, and other natural disturbances and their impacts; biodiversity and zoonotic disease; agricultural practices and food systems; genetically-modified organisms; environmental cancers; AI and the digital world; resource extraction; and more. Guest lecturers will be drawn from the combined networks of the School of Health and the Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability/Loyola Sustainability Research Centre.
Winter 2027 - POLI 316 / CATS 631 / MSCA 652
Topic: Introduction to Public Health in Québec
Format: online/remote (synchronous); Schedule: Wednesdays, 5:45PM - 8:30PM
Description: Public health is the science and practice of preventing disease, extending lifespan, and promoting health and wellbeing through coordinated efforts and informed decisions of society, organizations, communities and individuals. This course addresses how the public health approach unfolds in post-industrial societies. Topics include: (i) core functions and essential services of public health, (ii) stakeholder roles in the fields of public health, population health and health policy, and (iii) healthcare delivery in the health care system and communities in Québec and globally. In addition to learning the fundamental concepts, students will work on practical case studies and develop an applied understanding of how public health monitors various health inequalities and can intervene to tackle them. Students will learn to analyze these actions based on the social, cultural, political, and economic context in which they are implemented.
