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Surveillance Systems: The Building Blocks
by Emily Gurley, PhD, MPH- 4.8
Approx. 6 hours to complete
Epidemiology is often described as the cornerstone science and public health and public health surveillance is a cornerstone of epidemiology. This course will help you build your technical awareness and skills for working with a variety of surveillance systems. Along the way, we'll focus on system objectives, data reporting, the core surveillance attributes, and performance assessment....
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...
Здоровое сердце, здоровые сосуды
by Родионов Антон Владимирович- 4.9
Approx. 13 hours to complete
Курс разработан Московским государственным медицинским университетом имени И. М. Сеченова при поддержке Национального исследовательского Томского государственного университета. Сердечно-сосудистые заболевания – ведущая причина смерти и инвалидизации населения развитых стран, однако до 50% инфарктов и инсультов можно предотвратить, если своевременно заниматься их профилактикой. Наш курс «Здоровье сердца и сосудов» адресован тем, кто хочет, чтобы сердечно-сосудистые заболевания обошли их стороной....
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....