Foundations of Public Health Practice: Health Protection
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Foundations of Public Health Practice: Health Protection
This course is part of Foundations of Public Health Practice Specialization
Instructor: Dr Richard J Pinder
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Skills you'll gain
- Immunology
- Water Resources
- Environmental Issue
- Emergency Response
- Environmental Science
- Microbiology
- Environment Health And Safety
- Public Health and Disease Prevention
- Water Quality
- Public Health
- Hand Hygiene
- Radiation Protection
- Epidemiology
- Community Health
- Sanitation
- Healthcare Ethics
- Infection Control
- Preventative Care
- Infectious Diseases
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There are 3 modules in this course
The Health Protection course is the fourth instalment of the wider Foundations of Public Health Practice specialisation from Imperial College London's Global Master of Public Health (MPH). The scope and content of this course has been developed from the ground up by a combined team of academics and practitioners drawing on decades of real-world public health experience as well as deep academic knowledge. Through short video lectures, practitioner interviews and a wide range of interactive activities, learners will be immersed in the world of public health practice.
Designed for those new to the discipline, over three modules (intended for three weeks of learning), learners will become familiar with the scope, principles and nuances of health protection in the context of public health practice. Beginning with the basics of Water, Sanitation and Health (WASH) based interventions, the course will introduce learners to the science and principles of practical microbiology, before examining vaccines, incident management and the threat posed by a wide range of manmade and natural environmental threats. By the end of this course, learners will be familiar and conversant with core health protection principles and approaches, and confident in discussing health protection issues when they move into practice.
This fourth course, "Health Protection", part of the wider Foundations of Public Health Practice specialisation, is designed to introduce learners to the area of operational and strategic health protection. This first module, entitled "Water, sanitation and infectious diseases" introduces learners to WASH-based initiatives before, in the second lesson, bringing learners up to speed on basic microbiology and the science that underpins communicable disease control.
What's included
12 videos12 readings2 assignments2 discussion prompts
12 videos•Total 47 minutes
- Meet the Team (Optional): Richard Pinder•3 minutes
- Meet the Team (Optional): Samantha Alvarez Madrazo•4 minutes
- Meet the Team (Optional): Lisa Danquah•3 minutes
- Meet the Team (Optional): Helen Skirrow•3 minutes
- Introduction to the course•3 minutes
- An introduction to Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH)•4 minutes
- WASH: The right to clean water•4 minutes
- WASH: Working towards universal sanitation•3 minutes
- WASH: Hygiene and hand washing•4 minutes
- SHEWA-B: WASH in Bangladesh•5 minutes
- Unintended consequences: Hepatitis C in Egypt•5 minutes
- Practitioner interview: Working in WASH•6 minutes
12 readings•Total 92 minutes
- About Imperial College London & the FPHP Team•5 minutes
- How to be successful in this course•5 minutes
- Grading policy•5 minutes
- Glossary•5 minutes
- The importance of water and sanitation•15 minutes
- Conclusions on WASH•10 minutes
- Vectors, pathogens and microbiology•10 minutes
- Waterborne and foodborne diseases•10 minutes
- The terminology of infection•5 minutes
- Transmission and infection in communicable disease•10 minutes
- Intervention opportunities•10 minutes
- Conclusion•2 minutes
2 assignments•Total 30 minutes
- Dynamics and control of infectious diseases•15 minutes
- Pathogens and disease•15 minutes
2 discussion prompts•Total 25 minutes
- Nice to meet you!•10 minutes
- Applying the evidence•15 minutes
This fourth course, "Health Protection", part of the wider Foundations of Public Health Practice specialisation, is designed to introduce learners to the area of operational and strategic health protection. This second module, entitled "Vaccines and communicable disease control" will cover the science and practice of vaccines. In the first lesson learners are introduced to the evidence-base and impact that vaccines have had on morbidity globally. Some of the main global players are also introduced before discussion of the ethical implications of mandatory vaccination (building on learning from the first course of this specialisation "The Public Health Approach"). Bringing all of the learning on this course together, the second lesson introduces communicable disease control and the management of health protection incidents.
What's included
7 videos10 readings1 assignment1 discussion prompt1 plugin
7 videos•Total 25 minutes
- An introduction to vaccines•4 minutes
- Vaccine preventable disease•5 minutes
- Vaccines in childhood•6 minutes
- Health protection outbreak scenario: Introduction•1 minute
- Health protection outbreak scenario: Conclusion•3 minutes
- Vulnerability in communicable disease•5 minutes
- Conclusion to the module•2 minutes
10 readings•Total 88 minutes
- Welcome to the module•3 minutes
- Vaccinology and key terminology•5 minutes
- The global impact of vaccinations•15 minutes
- The MMR controversy and the anti-vaccination movement•10 minutes
- Conclusions on vaccination•5 minutes
- Defining and detecting outbreaks•10 minutes
- Notification of infectious disease and case definitions•10 minutes
- Public health actions•10 minutes
- Outbreak response to norovirus•10 minutes
- An overview of incident mangement•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Health protection in practice•30 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 15 minutes
- Mandatory vaccines for school?•15 minutes
1 plugin•Total 15 minutes
- Health Protection Outbreak Scenario•15 minutes
This fourth course, "Health Protection", part of the wider Foundations of Public Health Practice specialisation, is designed to introduce learners to the area of operational and strategic health protection. This third module, entitled "Environmental hazards and strategic health protection threats" examines the non-communicable disease elements of health protection - with an introduction to CBRN and exploration of the public health approach in the context of major incidents and health emergencies. In the first lesson learners are introduced to the emerging public health topic of air quality: with specific exploration of the collision of circumstances leading to London's Ultra Low Emission Zone. The second lesson moves into CBRN with a case study of the Fukushima Daiichi radiological incident of 2011.
What's included
5 videos6 readings1 peer review1 discussion prompt
5 videos•Total 24 minutes
- The challenge of air quality•6 minutes
- Air quality in London•6 minutes
- Air quality in industrialising countries•5 minutes
- Fukushima and the public health impacts•5 minutes
- Conclusions to the course•2 minutes
6 readings•Total 55 minutes
- An introduction to strategic health protection•10 minutes
- Air quality work in the European Union•10 minutes
- An introduction to CBRNe•10 minutes
- Fukushima and long term health consequences•5 minutes
- Major incidents and emergency planning•10 minutes
- Course 5: The Emerging Public Health Practitioner•10 minutes
1 peer review•Total 60 minutes
- Antimicrobial resistance incident•60 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 15 minutes
- Identifying priorities in your district•15 minutes
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