Registration is open for GH/HSERV 544 “Maternal and Child Health in Low and Middle Income Countries” in Winter Quarter 2022. 

The School of Nursing is offering the following NEW Population Health courses for winter 2022. These courses will meet virtually, via Zoom.  See detailed descriptions below.

 

NSG 573 Systems Thinking for Population Health  (3 credits), SLN 18306

Meets via Zoom on Tuesdays 4:00-6:50pm ODD weeks of winter quarter

 

NSG 574 Program Development and Evaluation to Improve Population Health  (4 credits), SLN 18307

Meets via Zoom on Tuesdays 4:00-6:50pm EVEN weeks of winter quarter

 

===============================================

Please consider signing up for this exciting new course! It will use a problem-based learning approach to actively develop applied skills in systems thinking!

This course is fully VIRTUAL and meets (via Zoom) on Tuesdays 4pm-6:50p on ODD weeks of Winter Quarter.  

 

NSG 573 Systems Thinking for Population Health  (3 credits)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Develops systems-level thinking with emphasis on identifying, analyzing, and addressing factors relevant to improving population health.  Reviews theories focused on approaches and actions to affect change for the utilization and delivery of health promoting services.  Emphasis on developing a theory of action and multicultural considerations to transform the health status of underserved and marginalized communities.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. Describe interdisciplinary systems thinking frameworks and methods for practice implementation and systems change.
2. Describe how prevention and health and social service delivery systems can function together to benefit population health.
3. Apply systems thinking to analyses of population health problems and health improvement strategies.
4. Summarize how policy decisions at multiple system levels influence population health status, health and social services delivery, and utilization.

===============================================

 

Please consider signing up for this exciting new course!

This course will focus on the development of community- and population-level interventions through the steps of assessment, prioritizing, planning, and evaluation. The role of stakeholders, use of assessment and planning models, and analysis of quality improvement mechanisms for improving community and population health will be emphasized. 

This course is fully VIRTUAL and meets (via Zoom) on Tuesdays 4pm-6:50p on EVEN weeks of Winter Quarter.  

 

NSG 574 Program Development and Evaluation to Improve Population Health  (4 credits)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Focuses on developing population health interventions and programs, including assessment, prioritization, planning, and evaluation. Appraises best practices and evidence to inform the execution of strategies that improve health.  Examines the use of reliable data sources and value of stakeholder engagement, while considering ethical, political, and socio-cultural contexts.

Learning Objectives

1. Describe program planning and quality improvement processes necessary for assuring effective community- and population-level prevention strategies.
2. Formulate an assessment of a community or population group to plan and develop health program initiatives.
3. Construct an evidence-based, health-enhancing intervention within a population health care system that considers ethical, legal, political, and socio-cultural contexts.
4. Evaluate the effectiveness and quality of a population health intervention utilizing systematic methods that align with community goals and priorities.
5. Use data from multiple information sources to inform decision-making, assessment, planning, and evaluation.

NMETH 595  Designing a Theory-Driven Behavioral Intervention (3 credits)

Faculty: Frances Marcus Lewis, Professor

Winter 2022       |       Thurs 8:30-11:20 am   |   Location  HST T359 

Pre-requisites: NURS 589 or equivalent or permission of instructor

Course description:  Focuses on the design and development of a theory-and population informed behavioral intervention to enhance health behavior and outcomes.  Examines selected theories of health behavior, including potential contribution to framing a behavioral intervention.  Includes gaining an analytic process of “fitting” a theory onto an observed health-related problem in a specific population as well as research designs and methods to evaluate interventions.

Course content is relevant to multiple disciplines, including social work, nursing science, clinical psychology, global health, public health, dentistry, medicine, occupational therapy, physical therapy, educational psychology, among others

In-class time: 3 hours/week

This class is an on-site class with interactive exercises; it is not a hybrid nor a virtual learning class.

Non-instructional hours: 6 hours/week

 

Evaluation details:

20%    Application of selected theory of behavior to health problem

20%    Behavioral intervention is “mapped” to a theory and a population

20%    Protocol [operational implementation plan] for theory-driven behavioral             intervention

40%   Final assignment: Design and proposed evaluation of a theory-based   behavioral intervention

 

Learning objectives:

Following the course, the learner will be able to:

1. Analyze the origins, conceptual elements, and applications of selected behavioral theories and the scope and importance of the health-related problems to which the theories are relevant.
2. Apply selected theory(ies) of behavior to patients, dyads, communities that includes both the unique aspects of the theory and its relevance to health-related problem and population.
3. Generate a new behavioral intervention that derives from health-related theory(ies) and knowledge of a specific population.
4. Generate a research protocol for assessing the impact of the proposed behavioral intervention, including the measurement model, primary and secondary outcomes, methods to assess dosage and fidelity, and a data analytic plan to assess impact or efficacy.
5. Analyze the limitations and strengths of the proposed behavioral intervention and research methods.

AUT 2021: L ARCH 498C / GH 490/590– Interdisciplinary Frameworks for Health, Ecology and the Built Environment

Autumn 2021 | Thursdays 4:30 – 5:50 p.m. | Gould 208J
1 credit | SLN: 23703
Instructors: Coco AlarcÓn, Rebecca Bachman
What is the built environment? What is ecology? What is public health? What frameworks stem from these fields, and how have they been integrated to take a critical, holistic approach to complex problems facing our world? This seminar explores frameworks stemming from disciplines of the built environment, ecology, and public health/global health and the ways that they have been integrated throughout history. Students are familiarized with practical applications of interdisciplinary frameworks through exposure to current projects of researchers and professionals.

 

AUT 2021: L ARCH 498A – Therapeutic Design for Human Health: An Interdisciplinary Seminar

What if design was approached with a commitment to human health and wellness focused on the user and wellbeing? Designers, planners, healthcare, and public and population health practitioners each have their own unique perspectives and each typically practice siloed from the others. Reported rates of collaboration between these groups is low, while potential to design for health and wellness is high, particularly as we navigate through the current public health crisis and pressing issues of social and health inequities. By expanding awareness and creating opportunities to collaborate, this paradigm can change. As with most interprofessional collaboration, the respective professions profit; however, in the case of therapeutic design there is synergy and an even greater beneficiary: the end-user. This interdisciplinary seminar is timely and will provide students opportunities to learn about and engage in a conceptual collaborative therapeutic design project.

PHARM 579 The COVID-19 Pandemic: An Update on Science, Vaccines and Public Health (1 credit)

SLN: 20026

Meetings: Tuesdays from 1:30-2:20 pm (mix of hybrid and virtual class sessions)

Instructors: Sean Sullivan and Doug Black, School of Pharmacy, with a variety of guest speakers

Syllabus: Pharm 579 Au 2021

NUTR 511 Survey of Advanced Nutrition (2)

Tuesdays from 830-1020 in GNOM S060

Taught by Cristen Harris, Associate Teaching Professor and Core Faculty in the Nutritional Sciences Program

 

Dr. Harris is a dynamic instructor who uses a flipped classroom approach to teaching that encourages participation from each student and promotes collaborative learning.

 

Using a topic each week to offer an advanced introduction to nutritional sciences, the course ponders deep questions, such “What is an ‘optimal’ diet?” and “How do we address food safety?” They take a short journey through the life course with maternal and child nutrition; briefly explore the gut microbiome and associated food allergies, insensitivities, and intolerances; and critically analyze nutrition-related recommendations for “obesity,” cardiovascular disease, heart failure, type 2 diabetes, chronic kidney disease, cancers, and neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease.

 

The Healer’s Art

UCONJ 565 Autumn 2021

 

*Do you sometimes feel too isolated during your health sciences education?

*Do you find it difficult at times to remember the reasons you chose to pursue a career in the health sciences?

*Have you found that it seems necessary to leave a good part of yourself outside the walls of health sciences?

*Are you determined to avoid the pitfalls and behaviors of “pessimistic clinicians”?

*How does one stay open to intrigue and awe within healthcare?

If these questions stir your interest, and you are a graduate/professional UW Health Sciences student, please join us for five Tuesday evenings from 6:30-8:30 PM on Sept 28, Oct 5, 12, 19, and 26. We will meet virtually over Zoom.  We use a large group and small group format.  This course is intended for students from all health professional training programs at UW.

The Healer’s Art elective (as developed at the UCSF School of Medicine by Rachel Remen, MD) is now offered in over 60 health professional (medical, nursing, physician assistant, veterinary, pharmacy, etc) schools in the U.S. and more than a half a dozen health sciences schools internationally.  For more perspective on Dr Remen’s work, please take a look at her 1996 book of essays: Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal and the Healer’s Art.

website: http://www.ishiprograms.org/programs/medical-educators-students/

 

Each week, students will be asked to engage in self-reflective work and to read Kitchen Table Wisdom. At the end of the course, students will be asked to submit a one-age reflection. There are no exams or graded assignments.

Finding meaning in one’s work is the antecedent to commitment and service.  The course will help you to gain skills that facilitate the discovery of meaning in your work over the course of a career in health care.

To obtain your add code for registration please email Rachel Lazzar at rlazzar@uw.edu

BCULST 592 Topics in Cultural Research: Black Arts North/West (5 credits)

Instructor: Jed Murr
W 5:45 – 10 pm

UW Bothell campus

SLN#22898

This course explores what theorist and poet Fred Moten calls the “autonomous aesthetic thrust of Black radicalism” as it has taken shape in multiple formations on the West Coast of the U.S. and in the Pacific Northwest from the 1960s to the present. Drawing on interdisciplinary scholarship that situates African American and Black diasporic life and politics on the West Coast in comparative and transnational frames, we will work to (1) collectively investigate this new body of scholarship with a specific focus on the Pacific Northwest; (2) generate place-based research and critical and creative writing about local political and aesthetic movements; and (3) engage together recent Black Digital Humanities projects as examples of public-facing, accountable, participatory, and accessible scholarship.

Students will be asked to attend–in-person or virtually–and write about local arts events, such as Barbara Earl Thomas’s The Geography of Innocence and upcoming exhibits at Wa Na Ri. We will also work together to build and curate two online archives, one focused on Black periodicals in the PNW and one on contemporary Black art practices. And we will interrogate the stakes of doing cultural studies work in a time of revolt against racial capitalism and its violences.

Questions?  Contact Jed Murr, jmurr@uw.edu

Open to all students in the 13 graduate Health Sciences professional programs, in the schools of Nursing, Public Health, Social Work, Pharmacy, Medicine, and Dentistry!

Sign up now for Introduction to Advocacy for the Health Professions – UCONJ 646!

• Learn from advocacy and topic specific experts about fundamental elements of health advocacy.
• Develop hands-on skills for moving beyond witnessing health disparities to upstream action rooted in community-centered advocacy.
• See flyer for details (attached and copied below)

Course details:

• Fall quarter 2021
• One Credit, CR/NC
• Wednesdays 5:30-7:30pm
• Online only

Contact Leonora Clarke at clarkel@uw.ed for an add code or with questions!

EDSPE 422 (dis)Ability, Education, and the Arts

5 CR, VLPA, DIV

Full-term, 100% online, asynchronous

SLN 11274

**Also offered in Autumn quarter**

IPM 598: Special Topics: Resettlement and Camp Infrastructure  

https://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SUM2021/95ipm.html
Offered as a blended course.(synchronous and asynchronous) on Mondays 4:30 pm to 5:20 pm
Credits:  1 credit cr/nc

Instructor: Lan Nguyen
For more details on course content, email lan8@uw.edu

Registration Instructions:  State Students must register by calling PCE registration at 206-543-2310. This is a fee based program course. Tuition is NOT included in your tuition cap.

This graduate level urban planning based course is designed to familiarize students with the social, political and economic processes that produce vulnerability and induce migration which is increasing across the globe.

“We are facing the biggest refugee and displacement crisis of our time. Above all, this is not just a crisis of numbers; it is also a crisis of solidarity.” – Ban Ki Moon, United National Secretary General. 

Students will learn about prototypes for construction and maintenance of critical and social infrastructure in temporary settlements. Given that the topic is vast, the course is a survey of the types of temporary settlements that are created largely as a response to climate change, geohazards, violence and pandemics.

Tuesdays, 2:30pm-5:20pm, offered remotely, 3 cr/nc

For more details, email gaaf@uw.edu

Monday-Friday 9-10:30 am PST (remote), July 5-9 & July 26-30, 3 credits, CR/NC

Course Description:
In this course, we will think together about how to create a writing practice that is sustainable and sustaining. Writing is not just a form of reporting what we learn in our work, but is itself a way of knowing. Writing is a way of being in relation: to ourselves, to our communities, to lands and waters, to the past and future, and sometimes, to readers that we will never otherwise know. Our course will engage in reading and writing about writing as a practice. We will attend to practices of description, citation, revision, rest, reading, and collaborative writing as relation and meaning-making. The class, remote with synchronous meetings, will meet across two separate weeks.

Interested students should email edcodes@uw.edu for registration information.

T/Th, 11:30am-12:50pm (T session is asynchronous; Th session is synchronous), offered remotely, 3 credits; SLN: 17905

This new course uses food systems as a lens for viewing and understanding population health principles.

Students will:

• be introduced to the connections between food systems and population health, including issues related to the determinants of health, food production and supply chains, food access and environments, and the bidirectional relationship between dietary intake and food systems;
• learn how food systems in the US and in global settings have changed over time and the evolution of public health approaches to food systems;
• use the tools of systems thinking to examine food systems, including an assessment of various stakeholders, their priorities, and dynamic interactions within the system;
• learn the multifaceted nature of sustainability as it relates to food systems, including the intersections between food systems and sustainability, resilience, equity, and justice;
• understand roles and opportunities for different public health disciplines and practitioners in in shaping the food system.

Open to all graduate and professional students.

The instructor is Marie Spiker, PhD, MSPH, RDN, Assistant Professor in the Nutritional Sciences Program and the Department of Epidemiology.

Online course announcement.

 

Space, Place, Health and Disease: The Geography of the Opioid Epidemic(s) in America (5 credits)

Tuesday and Thursdays 1:00 to 2:30 Remote Seminar via Zoom

Suzanne Withers (Geography) & Jonathan D Mayer (Geography & Epidemiology)

This graduate research seminar explores the geography of the opioid epidemic(s) in the United States. The course begins with the geography and epidemiology of pain (chronic through acute), and journeys through the production of prescription opioids, the geography of prescribing, the politics of monitoring, and the epidemiology of prescribing practices. The journey continues by exploring spatial patterns of overdose, death, and dying, the geography of illicit drugs and public health responses to overdose, and the accessibility of treatment for opioid use disorder. Students gain a rich understanding of the importance of place and space from this close study of the opioid epidemic(s).

In parallel, this course provides students with advanced training in GIS for geospatial health research. Analytical techniques such as mapping uncertainty, web mapping, proximity analysis, patterns and hot spot analysis, spatial/temporal analysis, colocation analysis, geographically weighted regression, and Bayesian smoothing techniques for rate stabilization are reviewed using hands-on exercises, primarily with ArcGIS Pro. Prior GIS training is advantageous, but not essential. Students gain a rich understanding of the geospatial techniques frequently applied in spatial health research.

For more information please contact Suzanne (swithers@uw.edu) or Jonathan (jonathan.d.mayer@gmail.com).

Mondays + Wednesdays, 3:00pm-3:50pm, offered remotely**, SLN: 21316

This 2 or 3 credit  course covers the fundamentals of Indigenous health, including Indigenous conceptual frameworks specific to health, wellness, and resilience. Topics include Indigenous social determinants of health, Federal Indian health policy, and American Indian and Alaska Native trends in population health outcomes within the context of the socio-ecological model.

**Students can opt for 2 or 3 credits. If students register for 3 credits, they commit to a volunteer component with local and regional AIAN tribes and urban Indian organizations for 2 hours per week (a total of 10 hours).

The Evans School of Public Policy & Governance is offering a new 4-credit topics course in winter quarter, PUBPOL 537 A: Development Policy and Politics (SLN 22186) with Professor Stephen Kosack. The course meets on Tuesdays from 2:30-5:20pm. Please see the attached flyer for additional information that can be shared with students who may be interested in the course

Other elective courses at the Evans School with space available include:

– PUBPOL 504: Leadership Ethics in the Public Interest

– PUBPOL 520: Intergovernmental Relations

– PUBPOL 541: The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations in International Development

– PUBPOL 555: Funding the Social Sector

– PUPBOL 578: Asset Building for Low Income Families

– PUBPOL 598 A /B /C: Professional Skills Workshops (1-credit, see Time Schedule for topics)

 

Registration link: https://bit.ly/CCT-Winter2021

Tuesdays, 6:00pm-7:50pm, offered remotely; SLN 21778

Homeless in Seattle is a multidisciplinary course developing knowledge and skills in service delivery to people experiencing homelessness. This course offers the opportunity to hear from providers who have specialized in different fields. Students will do readings, have lectures, do active learning,  and participate in a group project and presentation on a social justice issue.

Course Questions?   Contact loist@uw.edu

Registration Questions? Contact abatts@uw.edu

← Previous Page — Next Page →