All OCW Courses
Uses lectures, readings, discussion and panels of guest speakers to explore a variety of aspects of adolescence and adolescent health.
Covers the basics of R software and the key capabilities of the Bioconductor project, including importation and preprocessing of high-throughput data from microarrays and other platforms.
Examines the various biological agents that terrorists could use against food or water supplies.
Addresses topics that commonly arise from the day-to-day collaboration between researchers in public health and Biostatistics at the School.
Presents three illustrative case studies to reinforce basic concepts and principles of terrorism preparedness and response, as well as to identify some specific practical considerations.
Describes how economic theory is linked to economic evaluation techniques like cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis and to introduce students to many concepts that are specific to economic evaluation.
Guides students interested in working on injury control in areas with little or no tradition in injury prevention from a public health perspective.
Provides the knowledge one needs to critically appraise a weight control diet or dietary supplement and choose the best plan for success.
The workshop is intended for Doctoral students in the health and social sciences who are at the stage of developing a research proposal.
Examines health issues, scientific understanding of causes and possible future approaches to control the major environmental health problems in industrialized and developing countries.
Introduces the basic methods for infectious disease epidemiology and case studies of important disease syndromes and entities.
Introduces the theory and application of modern, computationally-based methods for exploring and drawing inferences from data.
Focuses on ethical theory and current ethical issues in public health and health policy, including resource allocation, the use of summary measures of health, the right to health care and conflicts between autonomy and health promotion efforts.
Introduces students to the ethics of human subject research, including ethical theory and principles are introduced and followed by a brief history of research ethics.
Introduces issues and programmatic strategies related to the development, organization and management of family planning programs, especially those in developing countries.
Familiarizes and engages the student with the process of developing policies.
Fundamentals of Program Evaluation familiarizes students in different types of program evaluation, including needs assessment, formative research, process evaluation, monitoring of outputs and outcomes, impact assessment, and cost analysis.
Presents the health and economic burden of tobacco use worldwide and highlights practical approaches to tobacco prevention, control, surveillance and evaluation.
Introduces and examines the basic prinicples which guide growth and development and the health of individuals across the lifespan, from the prenatal period through senescence.
Introduces the study of aging, its implications for individuals, families, and society, and the background for health policy related to older persons.
Examines the historical experience of health and illness from a population perspective.
Examines the path of the avian influenza and examines how it could impact world health.
This unique training addresses the institutional culture of five responder groups: law enforcement, EMS, fire, public health, and private security in an attempt at fostering understanding among these groups.
Presents major nutritional problems that influence the health, survival and developmental capacity of populations in developing societies.
Introduces the topics of disaster mental health services, mental health surge capacity, and psychiatric first aid.
Introduction to Methods for Health Services Research and Evaluation provides an introduction to basic methods for undertaking research and program evaluation within health services organizations and systems.
Presents issues related to malaria as a major public health problem.
Presents an overview of major issues related to the design, function, management, regulation, and evaluation of health insurance and managed care plans.
This course will consider long-term service delivery programs designed to meet the special needs of seniors.
Presents fundamental concepts in applied probability, exploratory data analysis, and statistical inference, focusing on probability and analysis of one and two samples.
Presents fundamental concepts in applied probability, exploratory data analysis, and statistical inference, focusing on probability and analysis of one and two samples.
Provides an understanding of the complex and challenging public health issue of food security and in a world where one billion people are under-nourished while another billion are overweight.
Public health workers need to understand and implement basic concepts of personal preparedness planning so that they can function effectively as public health emergency responders in a post-9/11 world.
Students will be guided to analyze problems and develop strategies based on real world drug management issues including regulations, manufacture, procurement, distribution, safety, policy, financing and the unique aspects of international pharmaceutical trade, the role of the World Trade Organization - Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (WTO-TRIPS), government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and individuals/programs in the selection and use of pharmaceutical products.
This course introduces the basic elements of population studies, including: population size, composition, and distribution, and the causes and consequences of changes in these characteristics.
This course focuses on the historical problems and interventions associated with infant mortality.
Presents principles underlying preclinical and clinical development of new therapeutic drugs and procedures.
Provides an integrated overview of the physiological requirements and functions of protein, energy and the major vitamins and minerals that are determinants of health and diseases in human populations.
Principles of Industrial Hygiene provides an introduction to the field of industrial hygiene and to occupational health in general.
This material will cover immunization basics and survey the public health, sociological, and economic literature, identifying and analyzing common problems using a standard problem-solving approach.
Students participate in the preparation of a research protocol for a study in a human population.
Psychiatric Epidemiology reviews descriptive and analytic epidemiology for major mental disorders of childhood, adulthood, and late adult life.
Offers an integrative molecular and biological perspective on public health problems. Explores population biology and ecological principles underlying public health and reviews molecular biology in relation to public health biology.
Introduces you to general radiation principles, radiation safety and protection, and the basic types of radiological terror, and also provides practical guidance on acute response techniques and general countermeasures.
Refugee Health Care addresses the provision of basic health requirements for refugees and the coordination of care among the agencies concerned with them.
This course focuses on current research, controversial issues, and methodological problems in the epidemiology of reproductive and perinatal health.
The course is designed to help students develop basic literacy regarding social concepts and processes that influence health status and public health interventions.
Aims at providing you with the knowledge and skills needed to diagnose (understand) community, individual, and organizational behaviors and change processes in developing countries and in cross-cultural settings as a foundation for planning culturally appropriate primary health care (PHC) in the context of the ecological model of health behavior.
Statistical Reasoning in Public Health provides an introduction to selected important topics in biostatistical concepts and reasoning through lectures, exercises, and bulletin board discussions.
Statistical Reasoning in Public Health II provides an introduction to selected important topics in biostatistical concepts and reasoning through lectures, exercises, and bulletin board discussions.
This course introduces the basic concepts and methods of statistics with applications in the experimental biological sciences.
This course introduces the basic concepts and methods of statistics with applications in the experimental biological sciences.
Presents quantitative approaches to measurement in the psychological and social sciences.
Considers features of sexually transmitted diseases relevant to their control, reviewing the natural history of the infections and laboratory diagnoses.
This course in Training Methods and Continuing Education for Health Workers identifies the role of training and continuing education as an important component of health service and personnel management.
During this class we will be discussing some of the problems arising from poor facilities in many developing countries.
The primary objective of this content is to prepare students to read and interpret cost-effectiveness studies.
Presents a historical overview of the influence of water and sanitation on human health; types of water and sanitation facilities and equipment presently available and particularly suited to refugee populations displaced by war, famine, drought, and economic turmoil; and methodologies for assessing and quantifying water and sanitation needs :)
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