{"id":7045,"date":"2017-02-27T12:58:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T20:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/?p=7045"},"modified":"2017-02-27T12:58:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T20:58:32","slug":"spring-public-health-course-work-with-real-world-seattle-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/2017\/02\/spring-public-health-course-work-with-real-world-seattle-organizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Public Health Course, Work with Real-World Seattle Organizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT!<\/p>\n<p>Social Work Students will enjoy the new\u00a0<u>Public Health Leadership, Planning and Advocacy skills class<\/u>, which was piloted last year and earned top ratings.<\/p>\n<p>HSERV 590A: Public Health Leadership, Planning and Advocacy (4)<\/p>\n<p>SLN 14990<\/p>\n<p>Mondays and Thursdays, 3-4:5pm<\/p>\n<p>South Campus Center 303<\/p>\n<p>In this course you will tackle pressing public health problems with Seattle-area organizations (our \u201cclients\u201d) while working in interdisciplinary teams. You will have a real-world influence on important public health problems while producing a great project for your job portfolio!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We have organized some\u00a0<strong>strong projects\u00a0<\/strong>for students to work on in small teams, including (plus more):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increase access to\u00a0<strong>Hepatitis C\u00a0<\/strong>treatment for active drug users (People\u2019s Harm Reduction Alliance)<\/li>\n<li>Help city of Auburn residents to better prepare for a variety of\u00a0<strong>emergencies<\/strong>(UW-City of Auburn Livable City Year Program)<\/li>\n<li>Work with the\u00a0<strong>Somali Health Board<\/strong>to develop a training for mental health workers in south Seattle<\/li>\n<li>New WA law on\u00a0<strong>Medicaid access for released prisoners<\/strong>: how\u2019s it going? (NW Health Law Advocates)<\/li>\n<li>Are we prepared for what happens with all the\u00a0<strong>nuclear weapons in Puget Sound<\/strong>if there\u2019s an earthquake? (Physicians for Social Responsibility)<\/li>\n<li>With the\u00a0<strong>death of the Affordable Care Act<\/strong>, how should the UW help its students get health insurance? (Hall Health)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Email Amy Hagopian for syllabus or questions, <a href=\"mailto:hagopian@uw.edu\">hagopian@uw.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT! Social Work Students will enjoy the new\u00a0Public Health Leadership, Planning and Advocacy skills class, which was piloted last year and earned top ratings. HSERV 590A: Public Health Leadership, Planning and Advocacy (4) SLN 14990 Mondays and Thursdays, 3-4:5pm South Campus Center 303 In this course you will tackle pressing public health problems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses-and-registration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7046,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7045\/revisions\/7046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}