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FALL INSTITUTE COURSE OFFERINGS Public Health Practice Concentration 410.626.98 Alcohol, Society and Health This course will examine alcohol use and alcohol policy as a social, behavioral and political phenomena. The history of alcohol policy in the United States and other countries will be reviewed, as well as U.S. and international epidemiological evidence regarding health harms and possible health benefits of alcohol use. The course uses recent neurological research and social science research to inform the question of why people drink. Evidence of effectiveness of various interventions will be explored, ranging from individual to societal, and for preventing (in the case of underage and other high-risk populations) and reducing harmful use of alcohol. All students enrolled in this course will be evaluated for receipt of the certificate of participation based on class participation. Students taking this course for Johns Hopkins academic credit will be further evaluated based on a final paper due within one month after the conclusion of the course, on a date identified by the instructor. 340.744.98 Advanced Topics on Control and Prevention of HIV/AIDS This course will focus on directed readings and discussion on the science and pathogenesis of HIV/AIDS. Dynamics of the HIV epidemic in the populated world will be examined as well as the difficulties and contrasts between clinical management of HIV/AIDS in developed and developing countries. Other topics to be addressed include the prevention and control modalities against HIV/AIDS, and predicting patterns of future growth of the HIV/AIDS epidemic with special reference to global economic impact of HIV vaccine and eradication issues of HIV/AIDS. All students enrolled in this course will be evaluated for receipt of the certificate of participation based on class participation. Students taking this course for Johns Hopkins academic credit will be further evaluated based on a final paper due within one month after the conclusion of the course, on a date identified by the instructor. 300.874.98 Injury Surveillance Systems and Indicators to Assess, Monitor and Evaluate the Burden of Injury This course will prepare students to design and implement injury surveillance systems that capture the number and types of injuries that occur and the circumstances that lead to injuries. The course will prepare students to utilize injury surveillance systems for public health policy and program evaluation. Topics to be covered include definitions for injury surveillance, discussion of advantages and disadvantages of various data sources, methods of data collection, processing, and reporting, identification of injury indicators and performance measures for benchmarking and assessment, and using injury surveillance systems for program evaluation and the monitoring of progress towards reducing the burden of injury. All students enrolled in this course will be evaluated for receipt of the certificate of participation based on class participation. Students taking this course for Johns Hopkins academic credit will be further evaluated based on a written individual critique of an injury surveillance case study and a small group presentation based on an injury surveillance system for an assigned region or country. 340.868.98 Public Health Dimensions of Global Tuberculosis Control This course will examine the global TB disease burden with special reference to the TB High-Burden Countries and the emerging challenges of urban TB control in industrialized countries. The rationale, history and current status of the global response, including a critical examination of the DOTS Strategy, the Stop TB Strategy and the evolving role of global institutions (e.g. WHO, Stop TB Partnership, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) will be examined. Also addressed in this course will be concrete examples of national program implementation (Vietnam, Tanzania, Indonesia, China, the Netherlands and Spain). Key technical components of national programs (e.g. treatment delivery, diagnostic services, monitoring and evaluation) as well as the wider public health dimensions (e.g. integrated versus categorical delivery, centralized services versus decentralized services) will also be examined. All students enrolled in this course will be evaluated for receipt of the certificate of participation based on class participation. Students taking this course for Johns Hopkins academic credit will be further evaluated based on a group presentation of the Comstock exercise. Health Inequalities and Social Determinants OF HEALTH Concentration This course will examine social determinants of population health and health inequities. The course will explore the pathways from research to progressive policy and program change. Students will become acquainted with Knowledge Translation, which refers to a wide range of frameworks, practices, and tools that researchers can adopt to increase the relevance and influence of research in guiding health policy and practices. Intensely focuses on hands-on, leading-edge knowledge translation strategies that have been tailored for health equity research and practice. Participants will acquire new competencies and tools to increase the use of research evidence and research methods in decision-making. All students enrolled in this course will be evaluated for receipt of the certificate of participation based on class participation. Students taking this course for Johns Hopkins academic credit will be further evaluated based on two in-class assignments and a final paper due within one month after the conclusion of the course, on a date to be determined by the instructor. 300.872.98 Employment Conditions and Social Inequalities This course focuses on the linkages between employment and work on health inequalities, presenting evidence and examples of new research in this area, offering a forum to explore the policy application of these perspectives. Although there is abundant literature on the impact of employment and work on health, research has less often focused, particularly in middle and poor-income countries, on the key role played by employment and working conditions as important social determinants in shaping health inequalities. The course will emphasize definitions, theoretical models, empirical analyses and policies and interventions to tackle them. All students enrolled in this course will be evaluated for receipt of the certificate of participation based on class participation. Students taking this course for Johns Hopkins academic credit will be further evaluated based on a final paper due within one month after the conclusion of the course, on a date to be determined by the instructor. Public Health Policy and Management Concentration This course will provide a framework to integrate biological and sociological influences on adolescent health and development. Developmental biology will be placed within a social context to illustrate how social forces, even those which seem far removed from health, shape biology and behavior during adolescence. Multidisciplinary approaches will be emphasized, principally integrating basic science with the social and behavioral sciences. The course will examine the role of context in individual-level developmental and cognitive processes including: social influences on brain development, decision-making and behavior. Other areas which will be addressed include neighborhood, family, school, media influences, socioeconomic status, and race/ethnicity. All students enrolled in this course will be evaluated for receipt of the certificate of participation based on class participation, small group work and group presentation. Students taking this course for Johns Hopkins academic credit will be further evaluated on a final paper due within one month after the conclusion of the course, on a date identified by the instructor. 300.876.98 Public Opinion Polling and Health Policy This course will introduce students to public opinion polling, which has become a critical tool in political campaigns and elections, public policy decision making, and news media reporting. The course will focus on developing the skills required to design, field, interpret and use public opinion surveys. Relevant theory on public opinion formation, and how public opinion research is used in setting public agendas and framing policy issues will be discussed. In addition, the course will review evidence on how and under what circumstances public opinion influences health policy outcomes. The course will provide the student with a hands-on experience designing sample public opinion survey instruments in a small group, in-class exercise, critically evaluating the quality of existing international opinion polls, and reviewing key methodological issues in interpreting survey results. All students enrolled in this course will be evaluated for receipt of the certificate of participation based on class participation, small group work and group presentation. Students taking this course for Johns Hopkins academic credit will be further evaluated on a final take-home examination due within one month after the conclusion of the course, on a date identified by the instructor. 550.608.98 Problem Solving in Public Health This course serves as an integrated introduction to the field of public health, offering definitions of health and public health, a comparison of the fields of public health and medicine, and an introduction to a broad array of current public health issues. The main focus of the course is to help students develop an effective, coherent approach to solving public health problems. Public health work is rarely conducted in isolation: Students will work in teams to develop their skills in the use of a public health framework for addressing public health challenges—and opportunities. All students enrolled in this course will be evaluated for receipt of the certificate of participation based on class participation, small group work and group presentation. Students taking this course for Johns Hopkins academic credit will be further evaluated on a final paper due within one month after the conclusion of the course, on a date identified by the instructor. 300.873.98 Leadership Case-Studies in Public Health Decision-Making This course will challenge students to develop competencies in public health decision making, leadership, and management. The course will focus on global/universal/overriding leadership principles and public health management competencies and uses very specific examples and case studies that illustrate these principles. All students enrolled in this course will be evaluated for receipt of the certificate of participation based on class participation. Students taking this course for Johns Hopkins academic credit will be further evaluated based on a final group presentation at the conclusion of the course. Mental Health Concentration This course will examine the level of met and unmet need for mental health care and the extent and predictors of mental health treatment-seeking in community settings. Issues to be addressed include issues of disparities in access to, and the use of, mental health services; mental illness stigma and attitudes towards mental health treatment seeking; the impact of public campaigns to reduce stigma and enhance treatment seeking; the impact of new pharmaceutical marketing strategies on demand for mental health care and national and international trends in mental health service use. The course also introduces the students to trends in service delivery systems in the US and acquaints students with the structure, staffing and financing of mental health services in the US and introduces the mental health care system in two other industrialized countries as a comparison. Substance abuse treatment services and mental health services for special populations are among the other topics discussed. Environmental Policy and Management Concentration This course summarizes the key scientific evidence on the nature, consequences and control of indoor air pollution. The course will identify major indoor air pollutants (e.g. volatile organic compounds, environmental tobacco smoke, particulate matter, combustion products, radon) and their sources (e.g. furniture and other materials, heating and cooking, smoking, outdoor pollution), describe the measurement and monitoring of these pollutants, evaluate their health effects, and discuss public health interventions to reduce and control indoor air pollution. The course will emphasize methodological issues to monitor air pollutants, including the main measurement techniques. Determinants of air pollutant concentrations such as emission rates from sources, ventilation rates, and cultural, political and geographical differences will be described. Finally, different health oriented interventions to reduce and control indoor air pollution in private and public indoor places will be presented. All students enrolled in this course will be evaluated for receipt of the certificate of participation based on class participation, small group work and group presentation. Students taking this course for Johns Hopkins academic credit will be further evaluated on a final paper due within one month after the conclusion of the course, on a date identified by the instructor. |
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