| | Curriculum Courses are designed to give an overview of select issues in tropical medicine. Specific tropical diseases and case studies stressing diagnosis will be highlighted. Emphasis will be on the control and prevention of tropical diseases and basic pathogenic mechanisms of selected infectious diseases that continue to be of major public health importance. Students will be introduced to both clinical and environmental aspects of public health and disease control, and will acquire a working knowledge of the biology of these diseases, including prospects for effective management and control at both the personal and public health level. Courses include laboratory sessions and practical lab experience, and will help prepare students working with current and emerging health problems in developing countries. Specific areas of focus for each course are listed below. Module I: HIV, Tuberculosis, and Other Chronic Infections in the Tropics
Module II: Vector Borne Diseases in the Tropics
Module III: Intestinal Infections in the Tropics
Module IV: Child and Public Health In the Tropics Module I: HIV, Tuberculosis, and Other Chronic Infections in the Tropics
June 22 - July 3, 2009
8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Robert Gilman, MD, DTMH and Carlton Evans, FRCP, PhD, DTMH
4 Academic Credits - Pathophysiology of HIV/AIDS and clinical presentation of AIDS
- The ecology of AIDS in the tropics and the effects of AIDS on developing countries and resource utilization
- Interaction of HIV/AIDS with other diseases and tropical infections and the prevention of opportunistic infections
- Maternalinfant HIV transmission and breastfeeding
- HIV vaccine development
- Epidemics and impact of sexually transmitted infections, and the diagnosis, and treatment, and control of sexually transmitted infections
- Natural history, clinical presentation, immunology, microbiological diagnosis, and epidemiological factors relating to the control of these diseases
- New diagnostic techniques
- Approaches, treatment and future for projections for drug resistant tuberculosis
- Leprosy history, distribution, and prospects for elimination
- Distribution, epidemiology, pathology, and epidemiology of hepatitis viruses
- Epidemiology, clinical presentation, and treatment of tropical mycoses
- Malignancies in the tropics
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July 6 - July 17, 2009
8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
William Moss MD, MPH and Thaddeus Graczyk PHD
4 Academic Credits - Recognition of vectors and past successes of vector control programs in the tropics.
- The importance of vector control in malaria, leishmaniasis, trypnosomiasis, filariasis, schistosomiasis, and arthropod borne viral diseases.
- Vertical and community-based programs for the control of malaria, onchocerciasis, and other vector-borne diseases
- Global distribution and impact of malaria
- Biology of the parasite and hosts, transmission, epidemiology, and malaria control
- Vector biology, principles of mosquito control, and new vaccine strategies
- Diagnosis, and chemotherapy approaches to malaria treatment
- Clinical presentation, treatment, epidemiology, and control of dengue, hemorrhagic fevers, and other arboviral infections
- Biology, global distribution, treatment and control of Schistosomiasis
- Etiology, transmission, impact, diagnosis and treatment of vector-borne diseases including yellow fever, typhus, trypanosomes, leishmaniasis, filariasis and Onchoceriasis, Borrelia, and Bartonellosis and Tularemia infections
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July 20 - July 31, 2009
8:30 am - 3:00 pm
Robert Gilman, MD, DTMH and Thaddeus Graczyk, PhD
4 Academic Credits - Etiology of associated viral, protozoa, and bacterial diseases
- Diagnosis of secretory and invasive diarrhea
- Interactions of diarrhea and malnutrition
- Treatment of diarrhea including anti-microbials, oral rehydration therapy, vaccines, and other control measures
- Biology and treatment of amoebic and bacillary dysentery
- Biology and treatment of infections, including Salmonella, Shigella, cholera, and typhoid fever
- Epidemiology of other bacterial pathogens including Helicobacter pylori and Campylobacter
- Clinical presentation, lifecycle, distribution, prevention, and treatment of intestinal protozoa including Cryptosporidium and Cyclospora, Giardia and intestinal nematodes
- Rotavirus and enteroviruses
- Helminth diseases including clinical presentation, lifecycle, distribution, prevention and treatment of intestinal nematodes and cestodes
- Helminthes including Ascaris, Trichuris, Strongyloides, and hookworm
- Etiology, zoonotic spread, epidemiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, pathology, treatment, and control of cysticercosis and hydatid disease
Return to top >> Module IV: Child and Public Health In the Tropics
August 3 - August 14, 2009
8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
William Moss, MD, MPH and Robert Gilman, MD, DTMH
4 Academic Credits - Vaccinepreventable diseases
- Acute respiratory infections, including respiratory pathogens; diagnosis, treatment, and resistances; and morbidity and mortality impact
- Overview of helminthes including distribution, prevention, and treatment of selected organisms
- Tropical environmental health
- Tropical eye and skin disease and tropical pathology
- Education and behavioral change
- Travel medicine
- Water supply and sanitation
- Appropriate priorities and technologies for providing clean water and adequate sanitation, and assessment of water quality
- The role of chlorination and latrine design in public health and refugee situations
- The effect of water and sewage disposal on diarrhea and other disease
- Pathophysiology and presentation of acute malnutrition
- Micronutrient deficiencies including Vitamin A and Zinc
- Anthropometric measurement and nutritional assessment
- Implications for health and food policy programs
- Child and infant morbidity and mortality
- The importance and effects of breastfeeding, child nutrition and development, immunizations, and low birth weight
- Integrated management of the sick child and community-based strategies to improve children's health
- Women's status and health issues
- Maternal morbidity and mortality, intervention and prevention strategies
- Current methods of contraception and family planning, and benefits derived from family planning and birth spacing
- Strategies for integration of family planning in to child and maternal health
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