PUB-340
Public Health Across the Life Course
Life course epidemiology explores how socioeconomic and behavioral determinants of health experienced at different stages of the life course or across generations can influence health and wellbeing, both in the individual and the community. The course will investigate how life experiences, exposures, and genetics at any point in the life course but especially in the prenatal period and in childhood / adolescence can result in disease risk and poor health outcomes as adults. These factors can also lead to disparities in the determinants that create social and health inequities. The first part of the course will explore the developmental stages and needs ranging from prenatal to the older adult that influence health outcomes. The second part of the course will examine the effects of the life course on selected public health challenges emerging from health inequities. Using a systems thinking approach, students will be asked to analyze the evidence to understand the mechanisms and social determinants which lead to poor health outcomes. The interdisciplinary approach to the course welcomes students from all majors.
PUB-437 |
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Investigation of selected topics related to public health identified by faculty |
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PUB-480
Public Health Professional Seminar
This course provides students with an opportunity to examine the dimensions of professionalism in public health. Students will learn keys to professional success, including networking, navigating organizational culture, contributing to an effective team, responding to varied leadership styles, setting professional goals, seeking professional development, and preparing for the Certified Health Education Specialist Exam( CHES). During this course, students will identify their internship site for PUB 490, meet with their future internship site supervisor, plan their major internship project( s), prepare their internship learning agreement, and submit their internship proposal, specifying the scope and major projects of the internship. Limited to public health majors.
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Public Health Internship |
The public health internship is an opportunity for public health majors to apply the skills and knowledge they have learned in their courses, form relationships with public health professionals in the community and polish their professionalism. Each student will spend approximately of 120 hours working in a public health organization in the community( 10 hours / week for 12 weeks). Students ' time at the internship site should be primarily spent doing the work of a public health professional. Students will be required to submit timesheets and reflection papers throughout the internship. Students |
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