Public health is the interdisciplinary study of the barriers and supports to the health of a population. Key topics in public health include nutrition, environmental health, and infectious disease.

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Public Health Overview

  • UC Irvine – Principles of Public Health (PubHlth1), Lecturer: Zuzana Bic
    • 16 lectures, approximately 70 minutes each
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  • UC San Diego – History of Public Health (HILD 30), Lecturer: Catherina Gere
    • 25 lectures, approximately 50 minutes each
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  • Johns Hopkins – Health Across the Life Span: Frameworks, Contexts, and Measurements; Lecturers: Henry Mosley, Kristin Mmari
  • UC San Diego – Primary Care and Public Health (FPMU 50), Lecturer: Michelle Johnson
    • 20 lectures, approximately 80 minutes each
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  • Johns Hopkins – Case Studies in Primary Health Care; Lecturers: Henry Taylor, Henry Perry
  • UC San Diego – Environmental and Preventative Health (USP 144), Lecturer: Leslie Lewis
    • 18 lectures, approximately 80 minutes each
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Biostatistics

  • Johns Hopkins – Introduction to Biostatistics; Lecturers: John McGready, Rakesh Aggarwal, Amita Aggarwal, Nikhil Gupte
  • UC San Diego – Biostatistics in Public Health (FPMU 102), Lecturer: Florin Vaida
    • 27 lectures, approximately 50 minutes each
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  • Johns Hopkins – Methods in Biostatistics, Lecturer: Brian Caffo
  • Johns Hopkins – Biostatistics for Medical Product Regulation; Lecturers: Mary Foulkes, Simon Day
    • Course materials (slides, limited readings)
    • Note that most of the readings are not provided for free
  • Johns Hopkins – Fundamentals of Epidemiology; Lecturers: Sukon Kanchanaraksa, Marie Diener-West
  • UC San Diego – Epidemiology & Biostatistics (FPMU 101B), Lecturer: Florin Vaida
    • 19 lectures, approximately 80 minutes each
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    • Note that the audio is unavailable for several of the lectures!
  • Johns Hopkins – Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, Lecturer: Kenrad Nelson

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Health Policy, Program, and Evaluation

  • Johns Hopkins – Introduction to Health Policy, Lecturer: Gerard Anderson
  • UC San Diego – The US Health Care System (USP 143), Lecturer: Leslie Lewis
    • 16 lectures, approximately 80 minutes each
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  • UC San Diego – Global Health Policy (GLBH 160), Lecturer: Timothy Mackey
    • 20 lectures, approximately 80 minutes each
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  • Johns Hopkins – Family Planning Policies and Programs, Lecturer: Henry Mosley
    • Course materials (slides, notes, assignments)
    • Note that most of the readings are not provided for free
  • UC San Diego – Aging-Social & Health Policy (USP 145), Lecturer: Leslie Lewis
    • 17 lectures, approximately 80 minutes each
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  • Johns Hopkins – Concepts in Economic Evaluation, Lecturer: Kevin Frick

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Other Resources

Complete the following exercises to apply your newly acquired knowledge.

  • WRITE: Article review (4-6 pages double spaced)
    • Find an academic article on a subject of interest to you in public health published no earlier than 2016. Summarize the article and critique it. Include a discussion of the methodology, interpretation of findings, and an assessment of the persuasiveness of argumentation.
  • WRITE: Literature review (4-6 pages double spaced)
    • Write a summary of the prevailing literature about a topic of interest to you in public health.
  • WRITE: Policy brief (6-8 pages double spaced)
    • Write a policy brief outlining a public health problem of interest to you for a federal-level US policymaker. Explain the problem, the population(s) implicated, and a proposed policy intervention.

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