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Public Involvement in Research (Coursera)

Oct 4th 2023
Public Involvement in Research (Coursera)
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This course focuses on participatory approaches in research, known as 'public involvement' in the UK. You'll specifically, consider why citizens and patients would be involved in research and explore participatory approaches across and within the research cycle in more detail, diving into questions such as: What kinds of participation [...]

Reflections from 40 Years Fighting International Epidemics (Coursera)

Oct 2nd 2023
Reflections from 40 Years Fighting International Epidemics (Coursera)
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Reflections on patients, policies, pan-epidemics, prose and medical humanities from a 40-year career fighting epidemics around the world by an infectious disease public health physician. Examples include HIV/AIDS, Anthrax, SARS, MERS, H5N1 and H1N1 influenza, Nipah, Ebola (with MSF 2014), Zika, Plague (with WHO 2017) and COVID-19. Working [...]

Sustainable Building: Design and Specification (Coursera)

This course is an examination of the role designers play in protecting health through specification of materials and choices made in the building design phase. You learn about strategies and principles employed in the execution of healthier design projects. Finally, you look at how the use of healthier materials [...]

Infectious Disease Transmission Models for Decision-Makers (Coursera)

Oct 2nd 2023
Infectious Disease Transmission Models for Decision-Makers (Coursera)
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, both the promise and perils of using infectious disease transmission models to make public health policy decisions became clearer than ever. Optimal use of modeled output requires that public health policy makers be informed consumers of models, that they understand the strengths and limitations of [...]

Tools and Practices for Addressing Pandemic Challenges (Coursera)

An overview of the tools, techniques, and practices that can be enacted by policy makers, countries, and organizations to monitor, manage, and react to pandemics and mitigate and govern their impacts. An introductory, multidisciplinary course covering data science, social science, healthcare, and management, paving the way to various courses [...]

Responsible Reporting on Suicide for Journalists (Coursera)

Oct 2nd 2023
Responsible Reporting on Suicide for Journalists (Coursera)
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Responsible Reporting on Suicide for Journalists is designed to give working journalists and students who are interested in the field an understanding of how news media can impact suicide trends and how that power can be used to improve public health. An extensive body of research shows that certain [...]

Molecular Tumoral Board 2020-21 (Coursera)

Oct 2nd 2023
Molecular Tumoral Board 2020-21 (Coursera)
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Se trata de un curso que nace a raíz de una de las sesiones formativas que realiza cada 15 días el Servicio de Oncología Médica del Hospital Clínic de Barcelona (HCB). En este curso se presentan casos clínicos simulando un MTB de tumores sólidos, con un objetivo principal, mejorar [...]

Climate Change, Sustainability, and Global Public Health (Coursera)

The third course of the Impacts of the Environment on Global Public Health specialization will introduce you to two major environmental health challenges facing the world today. The first is climate change –the preeminent threat to public health today, and a threat that will impact every human and ecosystem [...]

Inclusión social de personas con discapacidad desde un enfoque de derechos (Coursera)

Oct 2nd 2023
Inclusión social de personas con discapacidad desde un enfoque de derechos (Coursera)
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La OMS en el año 2011 publicó el Informe Mundial sobre la Discapacidad, en el cual se evidencia un aumento en la prevalencia de discapacidad de un 15% (anteriormente se estimaba entre un 7 y un 10% de la población). Las personas que viven en situación de discapacidad presentan [...]

Pioneers of Medicine and Medical Breakthroughs in Taiwan (Coursera)

Through ages, doctors and scientists have worked hard to fight against different diseases, but it is not easy to find the effective way to deal with them. However, it is a lot faster and easier to approach new problems nowadays with the help of past experience and modern technology. [...]