This module introduces core concepts related to public health and postgraduate education. At the end of this course, students will have developed an understanding of the population approach and the evolution of Public Health agencies and gained critical thinking, systems thinking, and academic writing skills, all based on an Evidence-Based approach.
This is a review course designed to refresh students' previous in-depth coursework and cover the basic public health competencies: biostatistics, epidemiology, program planning, health promotion (behavior change & health communication), environmental health (with occupational health), disparities, inequities, and cultural competence, leadership & management, health policy, public health ethics & professionalism, research methods, and systems approaches to public health.
Each topic will cover the competencies associated with the content of a full course in that domain. This course will remind the student of the basic principles and definitions within that competency and show how each is an essential component of public health practice. The culminating final assignment will test the student's ability to apply each of the domain learning to a representative public health problem in an integrated and coherent narrative.
