Richard Skolnik, lecturer for Yale's Essentials of Global Health course, covers neglected tropical diseases as part of the course's unit on communicable disease. He outlines the nature of these conditions, their burden of disease, who is most affected, and the determinants and risk factors driving transmission. The session sits alongside coverage of emerging infectious diseases, HIV, TB, and malaria within the same course module, and follows the course's standard framework of examining a condition's scope before turning to cost-effective interventions. Skolnik keeps the focus practical, pointing toward what public health programs have found actually works to reduce the toll of diseases that get far less funding and attention than their prevalence would suggest. The talk is brief, built as one segment of a longer Coursera course rather than a standalone deep dive, but it gives a clear structural overview of how global health practitioners assess and prioritize neglected conditions.