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 h2 Lecture Topics Include:
 
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 __Evaluating Therapies in Observational Studies: HAART to Heart Lessons from HIV/AIDS__
 
 This lecture addresses the evaluation challenges posed by observational studies, paying particular attention to the cardiovascular implications raised by recent HAART research.
 
 __Adolescent Health and Development__
 
 Uses lectures, readings, discussion and panels of guest speakers to explore a variety of aspects of adolescence and adolescent health.
 
 __Baltimore Food Systems: A Case Study of Urban Food Environments__
 
 This seminar-style course challenges students to look closely at the environment of Baltimore City's complex food systems and to consider what it would take to improve these systems to assure access for all to nutritious, adequate, affordable and sustainably produced food.
 
 __Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Solutions Using R and Bioconductor__
 
 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.
 
 __Biological Agents of Water and Foodborne Bioterrorism__
 
 Examines the various biological agents that terrorists could use against food or water supplies.
 
 __Biostatistics for Medical Product Regulation__
 
 Provides a broad understanding of the application of biostatistics in a regulatory context.
 
 __Biostatistics Lecture Series__
 
 Addresses topics that commonly arise from the day-to-day collaboration between researchers in public health and Biostatistics at the School.
 
 __Confronting the Burden of Injuries__
 
 Guides students interested in working on injury control in areas with little or no tradition in injury prevention from a public health perspective.
 
 __Critical Analysis of Popular Diets and Dietary Supplements__
 
 Provides the knowledge one needs to critically appraise a weight control diet or dietary supplement and choose the best plan for success.
 
 __Culture, Politics, and Community: Living Public Health in Nigeria__
 
 In this lecture, Professor Brieger discusses some of the lessons he learned during his 26-year experience working in Nigeria and his subsequent work with a wider variety of African nations, focusing on on tropical diseases and their associated social, cultural, and behavioral aspects.
 
 __Dean's Lecture Series: 2007-2008__
 
 In these presentations, the lecturers address challenging public health issues of the day and report on lessons learned from their own research and experience in the field.
 
 __Dissertation Workshop__
 
 The workshop is intended for Doctoral students in the health and social sciences who are at the stage of developing a research proposal.
 
 __Environmental Health__
 
 Examines health issues, scientific understanding of causes and possible future approaches to control the major environmental health problems in industrialized and developing countries.
 
 __Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases__
 
 Introduces the basic methods for infectious disease epidemiology and case studies of important disease syndromes and entities.
 
 __Ethical Issues in Public Health__
 
 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.
 
 __Family Planning Policies and Programs__
 
 Introduces issues and programmatic strategies related to the development, organization and management of family planning programs, especially those in developing countries.
 
 __Food and Nutrition Policy__
 
 Familiarizes and engages the student with the process of developing policies.
 
 __Food Production, Public Health, and the Environment__
 
 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.
 
 __Fundamentals of Epidemiology I__
 
 Fundamentals of Epidemiology I is the first half of a course that introduces the basic concepts of epidemiology and biostatistics as applied to public health problems.
 
 __Fundamentals of Epidemiology II__
 
 Fundamentals of Epidemiology I and II introduce the basic concepts of epidemiology and biostatistics as applied to public health problems.
 
 __Fundamentals of Oncology for Public Health Practitioners__
 
 Lectures by current practitioners of cancer prevention control in clinical oncology cover the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention/screening measures used for cancers such as lung, breast, prostate, colon/rectal, etc.
 
 __Fundamentals of Program Evaluation__
 
 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.
 
 __Health Across the Life Span: Frameworks, Contexts, and Measurements__
 
 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.
 
 __Health Issues for Aging Populations__
 
 Introduces the study of aging, its implications for individuals, families, and society, and the background for health policy related to older persons.
 
 __History of Public Health__
 
 Examines the historical experience of health and illness from a population perspective.
 
 __How Risky is Breathing? Statistical Methods in Air Pollution Risk Estimation__
 
 This lecture explores the statistical methods used for assessing the health effects of air pollution. Dr. Dominici uses examples from her own national-level research.
 
 __Impact of Pandemic Influenza on Public Health__
 
 Examines the path of the avian influenza and examines how it could impact world health.
 
 __International Nutrition__
 
 Presents major nutritional problems that influence the health, survival and developmental capacity of populations in developing societies.
 
 __Introduction to Health Policy__
 
 Introduces the material covered in the Department of Health Policy and Management. Focuses on four substantive areas that form the analytic basis for many of the issues in Health Policy and Management.
 
 __Introduction to Mental Health and Disaster Preparedness__
 
 Introduces the topics of disaster mental health services, mental health surge capacity, and psychiatric first aid.
 
 __Introduction to Methods for Health Service Research and Evaluation__
 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.
 
 __Introduction to the Ethics of Human Subjects Research__
 
 Introduces students to ethics concepts as they apply to questions and challenges in conducting human subject research.
 
 __Malariology__
 
 Presents issues related to malaria as a major public health problem.
 
 __Managed Care and Health Insurance__
 
 Presents an overview of major issues related to the design, function, management, regulation, and evaluation of health insurance and managed care plans.
 
 __Managing Long-Term Care Services for Aging Populations__
 
 This course will consider long-term service delivery programs designed to meet the special needs of seniors.
 
 __Masculinity, Sexual Behavior and Health__
 
 Reading seminar focusing on male adolescent health and sexual issues and explores the meaning of masculinity and the impact of masculine beliefs on men's health and health care use.
 
 __Methods in Biostatistics I__
 
 Presents fundamental concepts in applied probability, exploratory data analysis, and statistical inference, focusing on probability and analysis of one and two samples.
 
 __Methods in Biostatistics II__
 
 Presents fundamental concepts in applied probability, exploratory data analysis, and statistical inference, focusing on probability and analysis of one and two samples.
 
 __Occupational Health and Vulnerable Worker Populations__
 
 Discusses occupational health program considerations, (including all levels of prevention), for vulnerable populations, using examples such as the health needs of women workers, shift workers, aging workers, families of workers, and workers with chronic diseases and impairments.
 
 __Personal Preparedness Planning For Public Health Workers__
 
 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.
 
 __Pharmaceuticals Management for Underserved Populations__
 
 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.
 
 __Population Change and Public Health__
 
 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.
 
 __Preventing Infant Mortality and Promoting the Health of Women, Infants, and Children__
 
 This course focuses on the historical problems and interventions associated with infant mortality.
 
 __Principles of Drug Development__
 
 Presents principles underlying preclinical and clinical development of new therapeutic drugs and procedures.
 
 __Principles of Human Nutrition__
 
 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__
 
 Principles of Industrial Hygiene provides an introduction to the field of industrial hygiene and to occupational health in general.
 
 __Problem Solving for Immunization Programs__
 
 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.
 
 __Problems in the Design of Epidemiologic Studies (Grant Writing)__
 
 Students participate in the preparation of a research protocol for a study in a human population.
 
 __Psychiatric Epidemiology__
 
 Psychiatric Epidemiology reviews descriptive and analytic epidemiology for major mental disorders of childhood, adulthood, and late adult life.
 
 __Public Health Biology__
 
 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.
 
 __Public Health Practice 101__
 
 A series of presentations developed to introduce health department employees to the basic terms and concepts that they are likely to encounter in the field.
 
 __Public Health Toxicology__
 
 This course examines basic concepts of environmental toxicology, including distribution, cellular penetration, metabolic conversion, and elimination of toxic agents, as well as the fundamental laws governing the interaction of foreign chemicals with biological systems.
 
 __Radiation Terror 101__
 
 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__
 
 Refugee Health Care addresses the provision of basic health requirements for refugees and the coordination of care among the agencies concerned with them.
 
 __Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology__
 
 This course focuses on current research, controversial issues, and methodological problems in the epidemiology of reproductive and perinatal health.
 
 __Sexual Health, HIV/STI, and Human Rights__
 
 Sexual Health, HIV/STI, and Human Rights
 
 __Social and Behavioral Aspects of Public Health__
 
 The course is designed to help students develop basic literacy regarding social concepts and processes that influence health status and public health interventions.
 
 __Social and Behavioral Foundations of Primary Health Care__
 
 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.
 
 __Social and Economic Aspects of Human Fertility__
 
 Analyzes the correlates of fertility levels in societies and childbearing among individuals and couples. Examines classical theories of fertility change at the societal level and contemporary critiques of these theories.
 
 __Statistical Reasoning I__
 
 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 II__
 
 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.
 
 __Statistics for Laboratory Scientists I__
 
 This course introduces the basic concepts and methods of statistics with applications in the experimental biological sciences.
 
 __Statistics for Laboratory Scientists II__
 
 This course introduces the basic concepts and methods of statistics with applications in the experimental biological sciences.
 
 __Statistics for Psychosocial Research: Structural Models__
 
 Presents quantitative approaches to theory construction in the context of multiple response variables, with models for both continuous and categorical data.
 
 __Statistics in Psychosocial Research: Measurement__
 
 Presents quantitative approaches to measurement in the psychological and social sciences.
 
 __STI Prevention: Using Epidemiology to Inform Policy and Program__
 
 Considers features of sexually transmitted diseases relevant to their control, reviewing the natural history of the infections and laboratory diagnoses.
 
 __The Impact of Primary Care on Population Health__
 
 This lecture summarizes Professor Leiyu Shi's recent work on primary care, the definition of primary care, and his research rationale and framework. It includes a close look at international primary care studies, US primary care studies, Metropolitan Statistical Area analyses, county-level studies, multi-level studies, meta-analyses, and US health center studies.
 
 __Training Methods and Continuing Education for Health Workers__
 
 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.
 
 __Tropical Environmental Health__
 
 During this class we will be discussing some of the problems arising from poor facilities in many developing countries.
 
 __Understanding Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care__
 
 The primary objective of this content is to prepare students to read and interpret cost-effectiveness studies.
 
 __Urban Health in Developing Countries__
 
 Explores the emerging public health issues associated with rapid growth of urban population in developing countries, with a particular focus on the urban poor.
 
 __Water Sanitation Needs in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies__
 
 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.
 
 __Web 2.0: Risks for STI/HIV - Opportunities for Prevention__
 
 This lecture explores the risks and prevention opportunities presented by the emergence of social networking and internet dating sites. Presented by the Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health
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