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Communicating Climate Change and Health
by Connie Roser-Renouf- 4.7
Approx. 19 hours to complete
How can you persuasively discuss the negative effects of climate change on human health to motivate change in your community? How do you encourage your friends, family, neighbors and community leaders to take meaningful action to address these impacts? Throughout the course, you will build a step-by-step plan for developing and delivering a communications campaign....
Easing the burden of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease
by Stephen Simpson- 4.6
Approx. 16 hours to complete
This course is multidisciplinary in nature, and aims to equip the global audience of interested lay people, people with chronic disease, public health researchers, health clinicians, students, administrators, and researchers to reflect on the overall impact of the burden of chronic disease . These factors are genetic, environmental, psychological, economic, social, developmental, and media related....
Providing Social, Emotional, Behavioral, and Special Education Services in School
by Eve Kutchman , Lauren Welch , Karen Hecker , Daniel Nicklas- 4.8
Approx. 12 hours to complete
Welcome to our the third course in the School Health specialization: Providing Social, Emotional, Behavioral, and Special Education Services in School. In this course, you will learn about how social-emotional skills, mental health, and learning are related. We will focus on how schools can support social-emotional learning and promote mental health for all students....
Interventions and Calibration
by Nimalan Arinaminpathy- 4.6
Approx. 24 hours to complete
This course covers approaches for modelling treatment of infectious disease, as well as for modelling vaccination. Building on the SIR model, you will learn how to incorporate additional compartments to represent the effects of interventions, such the effect of vaccination in reducing susceptibility. Modelling Interventions Welcome to the Course An Insider's View of IDM...
Cannabis, Chronic Pain, and Related Disorders
by Kent Hutchison- 4.7
Approx. 14 hours to complete
This Cannabis, Chronic Pain, and Related Disorders course is designed to have you think critically about the health effects of cannabis (i. e. , marijuana) in the context of chronic pain, opioid use disorder, obesity, sleep dysfunction and cancer. We will discuss special considerations for using cannabis for these conditions, such as dose, timing, side effects, and drug interactions....
Global Disease Masterclass: Global Disease Distribution
by Helen Ward , Timothy Hallett- 4.4
Approx. 12 hours to complete
The Global Diseases Masterclass is part of the full-degree Masters of Public Health that the School of Public Health. By the end of this specialisation, our aim is that students will be able to critically apply epidemiological concepts to major global diseases and be able to appraise and recommend policy options to combat them....
Engineering Life: Synbio, Bioethics & Public Policy
by Debra JH Mathews, PhD, MA- 4.3
Approx. 14 hours to complete
Synbio is a diverse field with diverse applications, and the different contexts (e. g. , gain-of-function research, biofuels) raise different ethical and governance challenges. The objective of this course is to increase learners’ awareness and understanding of ethical and policy/governance issues that arise in the design, conduct and application of synthetic biology....
Health in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
by Dabney P. Evans, PhD, MPH , Cyrus Shahpar- 4.8
Approx. 8 hours to complete
The Center for Humanitarian Emergencies is a partnership between CDC's Emergency Response and Recovery Branch and the Rollins School of Public Health that drives global collaboration, research and evidence based training to improve the lives and well-being of populations impacted by humanitarian emergencies. - Center for Humanitarian Emergencies: http://www. che. emory....
Stayin’ Alive! First aid in Emergency
by Elena V. Kiyasova , Venera M. Satdarova , Andrei A. Anisimov , Maksim S. Kaligin , Iulia V. Valeeva- 4.8
Approx. 5 hours to complete
This course introduces the basic actions that should be performed by eyewitnesses right at an emergency scene. The course consists of 5 blocks: a) first aid for heart arrest (Cardiopulmonary resuscitation) b) first aid for airway obstruction and drowning c) first aid for bleeding, injuries, trauma d) first aid for physical factors exposure...
Disease Screening in Public Health
by Antoine Flahault , Fred Paccaud (In Partnership with UNIGE) , Gillian Bartlett-Esquilant- 4.6
Approx. 22 hours to complete
Current and future public health is characterized by the increase of chronic and degenerative diseases, corresponding to the worldwide ageing of the population. The increasing prevalence of these conditions together with the long incubation period of the chronic diseases and the continual technological innovations, offer new opportunities to develop strategies for early diagnosis....