Please see the attached flyer with details about a new interdisciplinary section of a “Disasters & Public Health” course being offered this fall through a joint effort with the Department of Emergency Medicine and School of Public Health. This special intensive section will be run the week before fall quarter starts, and students will earn fall quarter credit. Graduate students from all UW health sciences schools are encouraged to register! Priority registration deadline: July 15, 2019
This interprofessional course provides an introduction to different types of public health and environmental health disasters, their consequences, and the role of public health agencies, healthcare organizations, public health practitioners, and clinicians in preparedness, response, and recovery. The course will employ an all-hazards, domestic perspective, and explore different types of natural, biological, chemical, radiological, nuclear, and other human-caused disasters. Through course lectures and readings, case studies, discussion, and debate, students will learn and understand the foundational concepts of the public and environmental health community’s role in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from disasters. Through in-course activities and assignments, students will learn to apply these concepts to real-world disasters, and identify, evaluate and synthesize information related to public health disaster response. The special, intensive section of the course is designed to develop proficiency in analyzing and evaluating the public health and healthcare response to disasters and identifying interprofessional solutions and methods for improvement.
Instructors: Stephen Morris, MD (Emerg Med) and Nicole Errett, PhD (Env Health)
Open to graduate students across all UW Schools, Colleges & Programs
For more information, email Dr. Errett at nerrett@uw.edu
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