Global Impacts of Infectious Disease is a senior elective at The Haverford School, a nonsectarian college preparatory day school for boys in Haverford, Pennsylvania, on Philadelphia’s Main Line.

Students examine the historical and contemporary impacts of infectious disease on our planet and its inhabitants. Course materials engage students in the challenges facing global health in both the developing and developed world by focusing on diseases that have far-reaching impacts.

Augmenting the problem based nature of the course is a curriculum focused on the intersections of molecular and cellular biology, microbiology, immunology, physiology, ecology, epidemiology, and principles of public health. Students culminate the course with an authentic assessment of understanding as they present information and recommendations for the eradication of one of seventeen neglected tropical diseases.