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Fall Institute Course Offerings PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT TRACK 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. Students taking this course for Hopkins academic credit will be evaluated based on a final paper. This paper will be due within one month after the conclusion of the course, on a date identified by the instructor. 305.607.98 PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE This course will focus on the areas of knowledge and skills necessary to the administration of health agencies inside and outside of government. Topics to be addressed will include administrative structures, intergovernmental relations, legislation, politics and the public budgetary process with reference to health departments on the federal, state, and local levels. Issues for which public health agencies are responsible, including AIDS, health promotion strategies, primary care, environmental health and immunization programs will also be examined. Students taking this course for Hopkins academic credit will be evaluated based on a final essay and class participation. The assignment will be due within one month after the conclusion of the course, on a date identified by the instructor. 340.653.98 epidemiologic inference in outbreak investigations Using lectures, seminars, and lab discussions, this course provides students with a practical understanding and set of epidemiologic tools to detect, investigate, and interpret infectious disease outbreaks. The course will provide skills for examining field data and deriving inferences from infectious disease epidemics and outbreak investigations. Steps used to investigate an outbreak will be discussed. In addition, cases of large and small outbreaks from the distant past will be examined. Students taking this course for Hopkins academic credit will be evaluated based on class participation, solving in-class problem sets and solving a final problem that involves investigating an outbreak. The final assignment will be due within one month after the conclusion of the course, on a date identified by the instructor. 340.706.98 METHODS AND APPLICATIONS OF COHORT STUDIES This course will examine the following topics and issues related to cohort studies; definition and basic characteristics of cohort studies; recruitment and follow-up procedures; assessment of exposure and outcome; descriptive analysis of cohort data; methods to estimate and compare incidence rates, including Poisson regression; methods for the analysis of disease-free and survival times; estimation and testing of relative hazards (Cox regression) and of relative times; methods to nest case-control and case-cohort designs in cohort studies; procedures to combine prevalent and incident subcohorts; and the role of cohort studies in evaluating interventions and in guiding public policy. Illustrations used include cohort studies in which faculty have been directly involved. Students taking this course for Hopkins academic credit will be evaluated based on class participation and a final exam. The final exam will be due within one month after the conclusion of the course, on a date identified by the instructor. 301.876.98 EVALUATING PROGRAM OUTCOMES AND IMPACTS This course will provide an overview of the methods for evaluating program effects. The course will address the rationale for evaluating programs at all and some of the basic issues in the design of an outcome evaluation. Identifying and conceptualizing outcomes; measuring outcomes; basic outcome designs and their elaborations; and design sensitivity and effect size will also be addressed. Students taking this course for Hopkins academic credit will be evaluated based on class participation and a final paper. The final paper will be due within one month after the conclusion of the course, on a date identified by the instructor.
This course will Introduce students to the following content areas with regard to suicide: history and theories; epidemiology; etiological factors and mechanisms; clinical phenomenology and co-morbid disorders; assessment of suicidal behaviors; special populations; preventive and treatment interventions; ethical issues on the conduct of research on suicidal populations. Students taking this course for Hopkins academic credit will be evaluated based on class participation and a final paper. The final paper will be due within one month after the conclusion of the course, on a date identified by the instructor. 309.869.98 PRIMARY HEALTH CARE IN THE 21ST CENTURY This course will examine the reforms that have taken place in primary health care over the last 25 years. Issues that will be addressed in the course include: the model and functions of primary health care, have they really changed; the level of coordination between primary health care and other levels of the health system; and what is the role of primary health care in health promotion and prevention. Students taking this course for Hopkins academic credit will be evaluated based on class participation and a final paper. The final paper will be due within one month after the conclusion of the course, on a date identified by the instructor. ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND MANAGEMENT TRACK 187.610.98 PUBLIC HEALTH TOXICOLOGY This course will examine the basic concepts of toxicology as they apply to environmental toxicology. Topics to be discussed include distribution, cellular penetration, metabolic conversion, and elimination of toxic agents, as well as the fundamental laws governing the interaction of foreign chemicals with biological systems. Areas of focus include the application of these concepts to the understanding and prevention of mortality and morbidity resulting from environmental exposure to toxic substances through a case study format. ** This course meets requirements for the Certificate in Public Health Preparedness, the Certificate in Risk Sciences and Public Policy, and the Certificate in Environmental and Occupational Health. Students taking this course for Hopkins academic credit will be evaluated based on class participation and a final exam. The final exam will be due within one month after the conclusion of the course, on a date identified by the instructor. 180.670.98 INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS This course provides an introduction to public health emergency preparedness, including natural disasters, unintended human acts, terrorism, and emerging threats such as a pandemic. The course will focus on the critical issues facing public health professionals and policy makers. ** This course meets requirements for the Certificate in Public Health Preparedness, the Certificate in Risk Sciences and Public Policy, and the Certificate in Environmental and Occupational Health. Students taking this course for Hopkins academic credit will be evaluated based on class participation and a final paper. The final paper will be due within one month after the conclusion of the course, on a date identified by the instructor. SOCIAL AND POLITICAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH POLICY TRACK R. Virchow, one of the founders of public health, once said that “Public Health is a Social Science and Politics is Public Health in its most profound sense.” Yet research into how political and economic forces shape the health of populations is limited. The focus of this course is on the dynamics of these political and economic forces and on the powerful effects they have on health. The course aims to analyze how power ---- namely class, race, and gender power --- is reproduced in society, nationally and internationally, and how power affects the health and well-being of populations. The course analyzes the causes of underdevelopment and looks at the reasons for the growth in social inequalities, both worldwide and within nations. Additional issues central to this course include the effect of wealth and income distributions on level of population health; the question of why some countries have national health insurance, others have national health services, and the U.S. has neither; the influences of financial and corporate capital in the health sector; the question of whether political parties make a difference; the finances of political parties; and what is meant by democracy with a look at its meaning for health. These and other topics are discussed in both formal presentations and in Oxford-style debates with active student participation. The course has twice been awarded The Golden Apple, the top award given by the students of the Bloomberg School of Public Health to the best course given in the School. Students taking this course for Hopkins academic credit will be evaluated based on class participation and a final paper. The final paper will be due within one month after the conclusion of the course, on a date identified by the instructor. This course will provide an overview of the various manners in which the road traffic infrastructure and environment may contribute to the occurrence of accidents and injuries and also to social inequalities in mobility and safety. Analytic methods related to injury research and prevention will be examined using examples from both LMICs and HICs. Students taking this course for Hopkins academic credit will be evaluated based on class participation and a final paper. The final paper will be due within one month after the conclusion of the course, on a date identified by the instructor. This course will provide an outline of the following aspects of health impact assessment: origins; global policy context and current policy drivers; detailed introduction to procedures and methods; relationships with health inequalities; methodological controversies; institutionalization; theoretical and practical gaps in knowledge and practice; prospects for further development in the US and Europe; relationship to other forms of impact assessment; aspects of capacity building. It will also provide practical experience of undertaking a rapid HIA. Students taking this course for Hopkins academic credit will be evaluated based on class participation and a final paper. The final paper will be due within one month after the conclusion of the course, on a date identified by the instructor. |
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