This multidisciplinary seminar addresses fundamental issues in global health faced by community-based healthcare programs in developing countries. Students will broadly explore topics with expert lecturers and guided readings. Topics will be further illuminated with case studies from healthcare programs in urban centers of Zambia. Multidisciplinary teams will be formed to develop feasible solutions to specific health challenges posed in the case studies and encouraged to pursue their ideas beyond the seminar. Possible global health topics include community-based AIDS/HIV management, maternity care, health diagnostics, and information technology in patient management and tracking. Students from Medicine, Public Health, Engineering, Management, and Social Sciences are encouraged to enroll. No specific background experience is expected, but students should have some relevant skills or experiences.

This is a handbook which assists global health educators develop their programmes for delivery online.

This video lesson shows students that math can play a role in understanding how an infectious disease spreads and how it can be controlled. During this lesson, students will see and use both deterministic and probabilistic models and will learn by doing through role-playing exercises. The primary exercises between video segments of this lesson are class-intensive simulation games in which members of the class 'infect' each other under alternative math modeling assumptions about disease progression. Also there is an occasional class discussion and local discussion with nearby classmates.

Lecture slides by Dr. Jennifer Infanti (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and recommended related/supporting readings for an introductory course in global health. This is one of the first lectures in the course, covering some of the foundations of the field of research and practice we call global health. It briefly introduces the history and development of global health, key concepts and definitions of global health, and provides an overview of the breadth of theoretical models that can be applied to make sense of various global health challenges. By the end of the lecture, students should have: 1) Acquired a basic understanding of the defining features of global health. 2) Gained an awareness of the diversity of theoretical approaches that can be used to approach and understand global health problems 

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a threat to global health. One concern is that bacteria will pass antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) to each other through horizontal gene transfer. A new study identified a novel source of ARGs in the environment. Bacteriophages are viruses that replicate inside bacteria, where they can incorporate bacterial genome fragments into phage capsids, allowing them to transfer those fragments to future hosts. Using metagenomics, researchers screened viral genes from an urban river for ARGs. They discovered 25 ARGs originating from bacteriophage genomes. Four genes were predicted to encode novel, functionally active beta-lactamases, conferring resistance to a variety of antibiotics. The results demonstrate that although present at low abundance, bacteriophages actively contribute functional ARGs to the freshwater metagenome, suggesting that they should be considered as a potential ARG dissemination route and included in ARG monitoring systems..."

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This course will explore innovations in information systems for health care delivery in developing countries, and focus not only on the importance of technology, but also on broader issues necessary for its success, such as quality improvement, project management, and leadership skills. 
This course is targeted toward individuals interested in designing or implementing a health information and communication technology (ICT) solution in the developing world. Implementing a health information technology project requires multidisciplinary teams. Thus, with this course, we hope to bring together individuals from a variety of disciplines—computer science, medicine, engineering, public health, policy, and business.
What you'll learn:

Global health burden
Design thinking
Health informatics
Software development process
Evaluation and monitoring

This course is part of the Open Learning Library, which is free to use. You have the option to sign up and enroll in the course if you want to track your progress, or you can view and use all the materials without enrolling.

In this three-day workshop, students will get a broad introduction to global health issues. We will look at one particular non-governmental organization in India that works to improve health across the lifespan by empowering existing community resources to provide appropriate physical, psychological and social therapies, focusing on child development, adolescent and youth health, mental health, and chronic disease. This workshop equips student to explore novel ideas and technologies with an inspiring and ground-breaking Indian NGO.
Fulfills the Sloan Innovation Period (SIP) elective requirement. SIP occurs at the midpoint of each semester providing students with an intensive week of experiential leadership learning, as well as exposure to groundbreaking faculty work. It allows students to engage in intellectual exploration outside the classroom. SIP degree requirements include core courses in ethics and leadership as well as electives.

This course pairs faculty-mentored student teams with enterprises on the front lines of health care delivery in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. To tackle specific barriers identified by each partnering organization, the course is built around custom-designed projects in strategy, business model innovation, operations, marketing, and technology. Class sessions include interactive cases, practical exercises, and lively conversations with experts, all designed to support project work before, during, and after the intensive two-week onsite collaboration with entrepreneurs, leaders, staff, and stakeholders in the setting. Course assignments include a portfolio of host deliverable, a foundational toolkit designed to support each project, and a distillation of learning from the field.
Acknowledgements
Special thanks is given to Imperial Health Sciences, Unjani Clinic and L V Prasad Eye Institute for allowing their organizations to be featured in the sample student projects on this course site.

Title: A Global View of HIV InfectionCourse of Origin: Population Change and Public HealthKeywords: aids, disease, global, hiv, illness, infection, map, outbreak, spread, transmission, worldTopic Areas: Adolescent Health, Global Health, HIV/AIDS, Infectious DiseaseCitation Format: "A Global View of HIV Infection" from Population Change and Public Health. Copyright © Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"Obesity is a global health problem with wide-reaching health effects and limited effective treatment options. One new treatment, fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), has received attention for its ability to affect the gut microbiota and microbial metabolism. Although researchers have found that donor selection influences microbiota engraftment and therefore the efficacy of FMT, the degree, variation, and stability of strain engraftment have not yet been examined in the context of multiple donors. In a new double-blind randomized control trial of FMT, researchers examined 87 adolescents with obesity receiving either multi-donor FMT or placebo. They found that over time, multi-donor FMT sustainably altered the structure and function of the gut microbiome. Two donor microbiomes – one female, one male – dominated in strain engraftment. These “super-donors” were characterised by high microbial diversity and a high Prevotella-to-Bacteroides (P/B) ratio..."

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Here you can find weblectures with basic information about HIV/TB in a global perspective. The first lecture is about the epidemiology and recent developments of HIV globally. The second part gives more detail on testing and treating HIV, with methods and obstacles. The third web lecture discuss pediactirc HIV and how to prevent mother-to-child transmission. In the fourth lecture you will find an introduction to tuberculosis, both with a historical perspective and with the current situation in the world.The web lectures can be used seperately or as a package.

This is a collection of resource packages suggesting how education systems can change their analysis and conduct in relation to HIV and AIDS. The site also contains manuals and booklets offering basic facts and information needed for the acquisition of knowledge and development of attitudes, values, skills and practices (KAVSP) related to the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS.

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"The spread of antibiotic resistance is one of the most pressing threats facing global health. Every year, approximately 700,000 deaths worldwide can be traced to antibiotic resistance. That makes it crucial to identify antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and their transmission between humans and the environment. Unfortunately, because they rely on curated databases and are not sensitive to certain mutations, many methods can overlook novel ARGs. Now, a new machine learning method called HMD-ARG could provide researchers with a more powerful alternative. Taking sequence encoding as input, it determines whether an input sequence is an ARG, what antibiotic family the ARG is resistant to, its mechanism of resistance, and whether it is intrinsic or acquired, and even the sub-class of antibiotic the ARG resists, if it happens to be a beta-lactamase, all without querying against existing sequence databases. The HMD-ARG database is the largest of its kind..."

The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

Here you can find two web lectures dealing with the topic of health promotion. The first discussed the concept of prevention and the second continues with more comprehensive strategies that can be used in promotin good health. The lectures are sequential and should be used together.Here you can also find pdf-files with the presentation slides.

Introduces a comprehensive overview of wellness concepts including fitness, nutrition, stress, disease prevention, and various other lifestyle factors that improve the quality of life. Each student's health and fitness is individually evaluated through a series of tests measuring cardiovascular endurance, strength, body composition, flexibility, blood pressure, nutrition, stress levels and blood lipid and blood glucose.

Workplace injuries happen every day and can profoundly affect workers, their families, and the communities in which they live. This textbook is for workers and students looking for an introduction to injury prevention on the job. It offers an extensive overview of central occupational health and safety (OHS) concepts and practices and provides practical suggestions for health and safety advocacy. Foster and Barnetson bring the field into the twenty-first century by including discussions of how precarious employment, gender, and ill-health can be better handled in Canadian OHS.

Vaccines do much more than protect against the disease they are designed for. Watch this talk from TEDxAarhus 2018 by medical doctor and professor in global health Christine Stabell Benn and learn how hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved every year just by using the existing vaccines smarter. Christine Stabell Benn is a medical doctor and professor in global health. By studying real-life effects of vaccines in Africa, she has found that vaccines do much more than protect against the target disease; they have so-called non-specific effects. In most cases, they come with an added bonus of increased resistance against other infections than the target disease. If we take that into account, we can save hundreds of thousands of lives every year just by using the existing vaccines smarter. Christine argues that we should not only study vaccines' effects on the target infection, but also ask the often ignored question: what is the impact of vaccines on overall health?

In this lesson, students will learn about concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance their health. They will also incorporate personal responsibility, analyze healthy and unhealthy behaviors, and use decision making skills throughout. At the end of this lesson, students should have learned about different diseases, injuries, and health problems and how to prevent them.