New Department Courses
NEW Courses -- FALL 2012
CBTA 595: Community Resilience
The impacts of disasters on a community are not necessarily determined by the scale of a disaster but are significantly influenced by the preparedness of the community. Community resilience is the capacity of groups to withstand, recover from, and respond positively to crisis or adversity. Community resilience is often described as having three properties: resistance, recovery and creativity.
This online course is designed to assist graduate students working in the area of social work, community development, and public health to understand and apply concepts of resilience to building the capacity of communities to successfully weather disasters whether naturally occurring or manmade. How do planners measure, foster, organize, evaluate and implement the tools, processes and programs that seek to foster resiliency in urban communities? Particular attention will be paid to the role of community‐level initiatives aimed at educating graduate students to think critically at how a community can prepare for, cope with, and recover from the adverse social, health and community impacts of disasters through the interrelated domains of prevention, preparedness, response and recovery with the end goal of achieving resilience. Emphasis will also be on identifying federal, state, local, private sector and non-governmental agency plans to enhance community resilience for health security threats and describe options for building community resilience.
Instructor: Leonard Rosenthal, Paula Scaglini & Jeff Stiefel
Credits: 3
Time: TBA
Location: Online Course
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MICB 842: Global Infectious Disease Research Seminar
This seminar will primarily feature presentations by Global Infectious Disease students on the progress of their thesis research. Students in the pre-thesis portion of their training will give presentations on their internship work. In addition, several guest speakers both from within and outside the University will be invited to present on leading topics in global infectious disease research.
Instructor: John Casey
Credits:1
Time: M 11am – 12pm
Location: Med-Dent NE 301
NEW Courses -- SPRING 2012
MICB 703: Advanced Regulatory Science and Public HealthCourse
Public Health Regulatory Science. This course is an in depth treatment of a focused set of public health regulatory science issues that are introduced in MICB-702. (MICB 702 is not a pre-requisite, however.) The course begins with specific coverage of methodologies that are the substance of (A) health risk assessment and (B) risk benefit analysis. Based on a working familiarization with methodology, the course turns to a concentrated treatment of specific regulatory public health topics, including (1) regulatory toxicology, (2) regulatory pharmacology, (3) medical device regulation, (4) regulatory atmospheric sciences (as pertains to public health), and (5) regulatory nutritional sciences.
Instructor: Dennis McBride, A. Alan Moghissi
Credits: 2
Time: M 6:30pm – 8pm
Location: Med-Dent NE 301
NEW Courses -- FALL 2011
MICB 502: Interdisciplinary Global Infectious Diseases
This course will present a comprehensive view of the global infectious disease landscape through a series of lectures that will first introduce the student to the biology and pathogenic manifestations of specific infectious agents followed by a corresponding lecture on a relevant health policy or program implementation example by an expert with direct experience in the subject. These presentations will cover “high impact” as well as neglected tropical diseases and potential pandemic agents. This course is designed for graduate and undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds that intend to work in an interdisciplinary environment and will benefit from a thorough understanding of all aspects surrounding global health issues.
Instructor: Grace Ostera
Credits: 3
Time: MWF 1:30pm – 2:20pm
Location: Med-Dent NE 301
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CBTA 566: Preparedness, Response, and Capacity to CBRNE Threats
This course explores on the medical effects and response to a nuclear/radiological, chemical, biological threat attacks. Additionally, the course will include a current analysis of the capacity of the US system to withstand the effects of a major CBRNE attack. It will also evaluate the H1N1 Pandemic Influenza as a case study for preparedness.
This course will move from addressing the threats presenting to individuals to threats presenting to communities (local, state, national) based on the potential medical and system outcomes for both. Specifically, it will address both individual medical outcomes and treatment strategies of disease, and larger community, state, and national outcomes and response strategies for an attack.
Instructor: Shane Kappler
Credits: 3
Time: TBA
Location: Online Course
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MICB 702: Regulatory Science and Public Health
This course begins with the fundamental treatment of the unique nature of regulatory science -- how science is used in regulatory, legislative, executive, and judicial decisions and affairs and scientific and other (e.g. communication) competencies that are needed to respond to regulatory requirements. This includes an overview of the development of regulation as a living product of public administration and public policy. The course covers methodological regulatory science beginning with health risk assessment, and an overview of regulatory economics. With this as a foundation, the course provides a concentrated treatment of specific regulatory public health topics ranging from regulatory atmospheric sciences to regulatory toxicology and regulatory pharmacology. With this as a foundation, the course provides treatment of various regulatory science areas concentrating on specific public health topics.
Instructor: Dennis McBride, A. Alan Moghissi
Credits: 2
Time: M 6pm – 8pm
Location: Med-Dent NE301
