David Torres
Professor of the Practice
- Office
- Hesselgrave House rm.101--123 South Main Street (next to Public Safety)
- Tel
- (802) 443-5303
- dtorres@middlebury.edu
- Office Hours
- Spring 2024: 14:30-16:30 T/R and by appointment
David Torres, ‘84 is a Professor of the Practice of Social Entrepreneurship and Global Health, a member of the Innovation Hub team, a MiddMentor, and a Posse Faculty Mentor. He has worked at Middlebury College since January, 2019, teaching courses on Global Health, Social Entrepreneurship, MiddCORE, and the US response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
After graduating from Middlebury, David had a 22- year career in finance, working for JPMorgan Chase in a variety of investment banking and fixed income businesses across Latin America, the US and Europe.
In 2006, David decided to end his career in banking and moved with his family to Cape Town, South Africa to join the management team at mothers2mothers, a Social Enterprise working across Sub-Saharan Africa to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV and promote maternal and child healthcare. David fulfilled a number of senior roles at m2m, including management and support for business development, new-country start-up, fundraising, governance; donor, ministry of health and implementing partner relationship management, and a ground-breaking outcomes-based funding initiative. During the 12 years that David spent at m2m, the organization scaled its programming to ten countries, employed more than ten thousand women with HIV as Community Health Workers, and worked to support more than ten million women and children through its services. David serves as a board member to different social enterprises and foundations, and provides pro-bono organizational development support in the social sector
Courses Taught
GHLT 0235
Soc Entrep and Global Health
Course Description
Social Entrepreneurship and Global Health
Social and structural determinants of health create barriers to availability, accessibility and uptake of health services in many countries. We will take a case study approach to examining how social entrepreneurs develop and scale up responses to help clients overcome these barriers. We will explore factors including: human rights, poverty, disenfranchisement of women, government health care systems and infrastructure, human resources for health, task shifting, the politics of sexual/reproductive health, and infectious diseases. We will draw on articles and online materials. This course mixes theory and case study, and will count as an elective towards the Global Health minor. (not open to students who have taken INTD 1213 or INTD 0235) 3 hrs. lect.
Terms Taught
Requirements
GHLT 0257
Upcoming
Global Health
Course Description
Global Health
This course provides an introductory survey of the basic issues and initiatives in contemporary global public health, demonstrating the inextricability of public health problems from the social, cultural, economic, political, and environmental issues that exist in an era of globalization. Examining these connections will enable us to critically evaluate the goals and strategies of public health interventions, and discuss factors impacting their success or failure. To do this, we must also examine the lens through which the West views public health problems as they relate to our cultural beliefs, biomedical views of health, sense of justice, and strategic interests. (Not open to students who have taken INTD 0257 or SOAN 0267) (GHLT minors, others by waiver.) 3 hrs. lect./disc.
Terms Taught
Requirements
GHLT 1016
COVID-19 in the United States
Course Description
The US Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Global Health Context
This course will examine the COVID-19 Pandemic experience in the United States. The class will focus on the US healthcare system capacity and response, differential health outcomes for marginalized and other communities, the politics of COVID-19, and the reasons behind different morbidity and mortality results in the US and in other countries. Source material will include articles from news media, journals, periodicals, online social media accounts.
Terms Taught
Requirements
INTD 0235
Soc Entrep and Global Health
Course Description
Social Entrepreneurship and Global Health
Social and structural determinants of health create barriers to availability, accessibility, and uptake of health services in many countries. We will take a case study approach to examining how social entrepreneurs develop and scale up responses to help marginalized communities overcome these barriers. Most of the social enterprise cases we review in this course focus on healthcare work across Sub-Saharan Africa. We will explore factors at play in the region, including human rights, poverty, disenfranchisement of women, government health care systems and infrastructure, human resources for health, task shifting, the politics of sexual/reproductive health, and infectious diseases. We will also draw on articles and online materials that engage healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa as it compares to that in the US and Southeast Asia. This course combines theory with a case study approach and will count as an elective towards the Global Health minor. 3 hrs. lect. (not open to students who have taken INTD1213).
Terms Taught
Requirements
INTD 0257
Global Health
Course Description
Global Health
This course provides an introductory survey of the basic issues and initiatives in contemporary global public health, demonstrating the inextricability of public health problems from the social, cultural, economic, political, and environmental issues that exist in an era of globalization. Examining these connections will enable us to critically evaluate the goals and strategies of public health interventions, and discuss factors impacting their success or failure. To do this, we must also examine the lens through which the West views public health problems as they relate to our cultural beliefs, biomedical views of health, sense of justice, and strategic interests. (Not open to students who have taken SOAN 0267) 3 hrs. lect./disc.
Terms Taught
Requirements