AFCS3424 (Epidemiology of Pandemic Diseases and Health Disparities in the African Diaspora) course reviews and ratings at Northeastern (NEU). Compare professors with RateMyProfessor reviews.
Examines the epidemiology and determinants of diseases and the public health practice among continental African peoples and African-derived populations in the Americas and elsewhere in the African Diaspora. Emphasizes such epidemic diseases as malaria, yellow fever, tuberculosis, smallpox, the current AIDS pandemic, obesity, and cancer. The course also aims to critically address the breadth of factors behind these pandemics, such as socioeconomic, political, health system, behavioral, and genetic. A cross-cutting theme throughout the course is the entrenched health disparities in society.
Data updated October 2026.