Discussion of history and definitions of public health and emerging themes: Public Health Disparities (health and wealth; social justice); Issues in Public Health (lead poisoning; tobacco; obesity; emergency; clean water/air; injury; health systems/reform); and Global Health Issues (globalization and development; maternal and child health).

Location

Morey Room 321 (TR 9:40AM - 10:55AM)

Introduction to four core areas of public health: biostatistics, health policy and management, environmental health science, and social and behavioral sciences. PHLT 101 is a pre-requisite.

Location

Morey Room 321 (TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM)

This course will examine the intersection of religion/spirituality and public health, locally, globally and nationally.  Extensive evidence-based research has shown that religion and spirituality have a significant impact on the health of individuals.  More recently, researchers have found that religion/spirituality is a social determinant of public health, making it a factor that public health practitioners should consider when approaching public health challenges such as responses to pandemics, gun violence, women’s reproductive health, or entrenched political conflicts.  We will survey the research establishing the connection between religion and health/mental health and spend time analyzing a variety of case studies illustrating how they have intersected in real world scenarios.  This is a community engaged course, with Common Ground Health joining us as our community partner. Students will be assigned to one of several projects currently being pursued by Common Ground Health, working with public health practitioners at that organization to complete projects. 

Location

Interfaith Chapel Room 200 (TR 3:25PM - 4:40PM)

This course covers the basic principles used to evaluate the potential human health risk of exposure to environmental contaminants in air, water, and food. Pre-requisites: BIOL 110/112; CHEM 131; PHLT 103 or permission of instructor.

Location

Morey Room 525 (TR 3:25PM - 4:40PM)

This interdisciplinary course is an introduction to critical concepts and approaches used to investigate the intersections of gender, health, and illness, particularly in the context of individual lives both locally and transnationally. Special attention will be paid to the historical and contemporary development of medical knowledge and practice, including debates on the roles of health-care consumers and practitioners, as well as global linkages among the health industry, international trade, and health sector reform in the developing world. Emerging issues around the politics of global health include clinical research studies, bodily modification practices, and reproductive justice movements. This is a writing-intensive course and may be counted toward the University of Rochester’s Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies (GSW) major, minor, or cluster.

Location

Morey Room 504 (M 4:50PM - 7:30PM)

Using a critical lens, this course examines how forms of social organization create global health for some groups and poor health for other groups. Pre-requisites: PHLT 101 or ANTH 101.

Location

Dewey Room 2110D (TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM)

Addressing the devastating effects of HIV/AIDS in the United States, United Kingdom, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Haiti, and elsewhere, this uniquely interdisciplinary course will incorporate insights from the fields of public health, medical anthropology, and ethnomusicology. Studying the HIV/AIDS epidemic through the lens of musical expression, we will ask how individuals and communities affected by HIV/AIDS have mobilized musical sound in response to the disease. Topics addressed within the class will include musical representations of HIV/AIDS within queer communities; the use of music in public health campaigns to raise awareness about the disease; and the mobilization of musical performance within grassroots support groups for individuals affected by HIV/AIDS.

Location

Lattimore Room 540 (TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM)

The course introduces the legal and social justice frameworks for urgent public health issues, such as vaccinations, tobacco regulation and gun control. Pre-requisites: PHLT 116 or PHLT 236 or previous policy or public health coursework; juniors & seniors only.

Location

Lattimore Room 210 (MW 2:00PM - 3:15PM)

Students will learn how government funds, organizes and delivers health care, broadly defined, to mothers, children, and adolescents; as well as legal and policy writing skills relevant to advocacy, such as issue fact sheets, legislative testimony, and letters to the editor. Pre-requisites: PHLT 116, PHLT 236, or PHLT 230 required or previous policy or public health coursework; juniors & seniors only

Location

Morey Room 504 (TR 2:00PM - 3:15PM)

This course takes a systems-change approach to problems of environmental health and justice. It will provide students with a methodological, conceptual, and experiential foundation in addressing problems through policies, partnerships, and community engagement. We will closely examine several timely local issues such as subsistence fishing, climate adaptation, equitable transportation, and housing. For each major topic, students will engage in background research, practice diverse data collection strategies, interact with relevant community groups, and gain experience integrating multidisciplinary information. Students will also undertake a semester-long community engaged project to address an environmental justice issue of concern to a local organization. 

NOTE: This is a community-engaged class and will involve significant blocks of time in field work, trips, and guest speakers. To accommodate this, there is an extended "lab" session; this session is required and will take place on Thursday from 3:25 - 4:40. This class is designated as part of the Certificate of Achievement in Community-Engaged Learning.

PRE-REQUISITES: PH 101, PH 116, or PH 102; or by permission of instructor for students with significant policy, community change, or environmental management background.

Location

Lechase Room 184 (TR 2:00PM - 3:15PM)

This course is the required lab for PHLT 238/PSCI 216.

Location

Lechase Room 184 (R 3:25PM - 4:40PM)

This course uses social theories to frame current issues in global health. Readings include critiques of development and ethnographic methods. Pre-requisite: PHLT 101 or ANTH 101.

Location

Gavett Hall Room 312 (MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM)

Seminar for students selected for one of two mountain health summer field schools.

Location

Hylan Building Room 306 (R 4:50PM - 6:05PM)

Intended as a capstone experience, this course provides a setting in which students bring together what they have learned in the major and hone their skills by exploring in-depth two or three central issues in bioethics of particular interest to the participants.

Location

Lattimore Room 531 (F 12:00PM - 2:40PM)

In this advanced seminar, students will learn about prior epidemics and pandemics primarily in the United States, and asses the policy responses to these events. They will learn about a number of key case studies in the history of pandemic response, and examine the political history of these responses. They will critically examine primary sources to shed light on contemporary understandings of pandemics and the responses to them, and how these responses were negotiated. With this knowledge and analysis, students will learn to think critically about current pandemics and tie them to a longer history of pandemic responses.  

Location

Rush Rhees Library Room 305 (R 2:00PM - 4:40PM)

Students accepted in the Public Health Research Honors program must successfully complete a total of 3 credit hours of Public Health Honors Seminar (PHLT 389) over and above the credit hours required for the public health major. Students in the PHLT Research Honors program will complete: 1 credit hour in PHLT 389 for the junior year (preferably in spring of junior year), 1 credit hour of PHLT 389 fall semester of the senior year, and 1 credit hour for PHLT 389 the spring semester of senior year.  PHLT 389 is in addition to PHLT 393.

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This opportunity is offered in conjunction with The Washington Center. For more information about the program and the application process, please visit the Greene Center.

This course is designed to expose students who are interested in careers in health and/or research to executing clinical research in the emergency department setting. Students will have hands-on experience in the ED screening, enrolling, and collecting research data, they will learn to think critically about research protocols, successful study execution, and ethical considerations about human subjects, and will develop competencies that support successful transition to post-graduate education or job opportunities. The internship includes short lectures followed by group discussion, guest speakers from various areas of research linked to reading assignments, followed by interactive discussion, opportunities to interact with each other and share experiences in an online forum, 1:1 mentoring in the Emergency Department with an experienced enroller, and actively enrolling subjects into research protocols in the Emergency Department. This course requires an application.

Location

Hylan Building Room 101 (TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM)

These internships are designed to give students knowledge and skills to contribute to policy and program development and operations in the Greater Rochester community. This course requires an application. Pre-requisites: PHLT 116 or PHLT 236; juniors & seniors only. Students must use UR Student to register for this course; this course is not an independent study.

This is a mentored field experience applying principles of community engaged practice in real world settings. Students work 8 hours/week with a community agency and attend a weekly 75-mintue on-campus seminar for discussion. THIS COURSE REQUIRES A SPECIAL APPLICATION. Course open to: juniors, seniors, Take Five, and e5 students, majoring in one of the five public health-related majors. Students must have completed: PHLT 101, PHLT 102, and PHLT 103.

Location

Lattimore Room 431 (W 3:25PM - 4:40PM)

This opportunity is offered in conjunction with The Washington Center. For more information about the program and the application process, please visit the Greene Center.