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Monday, Jan. 14 - Course Introduction

Wednesday, Jan. 16 - Public health indicators

Skolnik RL. Essentials of global health. Jones & Bartlett Learning; 2008. (Chapter 2)

Monday, Jan. 21 - MLK Day

Wednesday, Jan. 23 - Health inequalities

Jacobsen KH. Introduction to Global Health. Sudbury, Mass: Jones and Bartlett Pub; 2008. (Chapter 2 & 3)

Ruger JP, Kim H-J. Global health inequalities: an international comparison. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 2006;60(11):928-936.

Braveman P, Tarimo E. Social inequalities in health within countries: not only an issue for affluent nations. Soc Sci Med. 2002;54(11):1621-1635.

Monday, Jan 28 - Health systems and funding

Mills & Ranson 2006

Kates J, et al. The U.S. Government’s Global Health Policy Architecture: Structure, Programs, and Funding: Executive Summary. The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. 2009.

Henry J. Kaiser Foundation. The U.S. Global Health Initiative (GHI): Fact Sheet. 2011.

Teklehaimanot A, et al. Study of the Working Conditions of Health Extension Workers in Ethiopia. The Ethiopian Journal of Health Development. 2007;21(3):246-259.

Wed, Jan 30 - Introductory lecture on maternal mortality

Community scorecard process to address maternal mortality in Malawi (Lara Altman)

World Fact Book (Malawi)

World Health Organization (Country Brief- Malawi)

Monday, Feb 4 - Case study of mortality in Sri Lanka

World Fact Book (Sri Lanka)

World Health Organization (Country Brief - Sri Lanka)

Levine R. Case Studies in Global Health: Millions Saved. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers. 2007. (pg. 41-48)

Wednesday, Feb 6 - Case study of family planning in Bangladesh

World Fact Book (Bangladesh)

World Health Organization (Country Brief - Bangladesh)

Levine R. Case Studies in Global Health: Millions Saved. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett
Publishers. 2007. (pg. 97-103)

Monday, Feb 11 - Smallpox eradication globally

Levine R. Case Studies in Global Health: Millions Saved. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers. 2007. (pg.1-8)

Enserink M. What’s Next for Disease Eradication? Science. 2010;330(6012):1736 -1739.

Introductory Lecture on vaccin preventable diseases

Levine R. Case Studies in Global Health: Millions Saved. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers. 2007. (pg. 33-40)

Roberts L. Polio Outbreak Breaks the Rules. Science. 2010;330(6012):1730-1731.

Wednesday, February 13 - Case study of measles in Southern Africa

World Fact Book (Zimbabwe)

World Health Organization (Zimbabwe)

Levine R. Case Studies in Global Health: Millions Saved. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers. 2007. (pg. 127-134)

Case study of Hib in Chile & the Gambia

World Fact Book (Chile & the Gambia)

World Health Organization (Chile)

World Health Organization (the Gambia)

Levine R. Case Studies in Global Health: Millions Saved. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers. 2007. (pg. 147-154)

Monday, February 18 - Study in oral rehydration therapy in Egypt

World Fact Book (Egypt)

World Health Organization (Egypt)

Levine R. Case Studies in Global Health: Millions Saved. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers. 2007. (pg. 57-64)

Wednesday, February 20 - Case study of trachoma in Morocco

World Fact Book (Morocco)

World Health Organization (Country Health Profile - Morocco)

Levine R. Case Studies in Global Health: Millions Saved. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers. 2007. (pg. 73-80)

Jenkins MW, Curtis V. Achieving the “good life”: why some people want latrines in rural Benin. Soc Sci Med.

2005;61(11):2446-2459.

Case study of cataracts in India

World Fact Book (India)

World Health Organization (Country Brief - India)

Levine R. Case Studies in Global Health: Millions Saved. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers. 2007. (pg. 139-146)

Monday, Feb 25 - Case study of indoor cooking stoves in Mexico

World Fact Book (Mexico)

World Health Organization (Country Brief - Mexico)

Masera OR, Díaz R, Berrueta V. From cookstoves to cooking systems: the integrated program on sustainable household energy use in Mexico. Energy for Sustainable Development. 2005;9(1):25-36.

Romieu I, Riojas-Rodriguez H, Marron-Mares AT, et al. Improved Biomass Stove Intervention in Rural Mexico: Impact on the Respiratory Health of Women. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 2009;180(7):649-656.

Zuk M, Rojas L, Blanco S, et al. The impact of improved wood-burning stoves on fine particulate matter concentrations in rural Mexican homes. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2007;17(3):224-232.

Wednesday, Feb 27 - Case study of the SunSmart Program in Australia

World Fact Book (Australia)

World Health Organization (Country Health Profile - Australia)

Montague M, Borland R, Sinclair C. Slip! Slop! Slap! and SunSmart, 1980-2000: Skin Cancer Control and 20 Years of Population-Based Campaigning. Health Education & Behavior. 2001;28(3):290-305.

Monday, March 4 - Case study of fluoridation in Jamaica

World Fact Book (Jamaica)

World Health Organization (Country Brief - Jamaica)

Levine R. Case Studies in Global Health: Millions Saved. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers. 2007. (pg.135-138)

Wednesday, March 6 - Midterm Exam

Monday March 11 - Spring Break

Wedneday March 13 - Spring Break

Monday, March 18 - Introductory lecture on Blood-borne infections; Case study of HIV/AIDs in Botswana

World Fact Book (Botswana)

World Health Organization (Country Brief - Botswana)

Galavotti C, Pappas-DeLuca KA, Lansky A. Modeling and reinforcement to combat HIV: the MARCH approach to behavior change. Am J Public Health. 2001;91(10):1602-1607.

Pappas-DeLuca KA, Kraft JM, Galavotti C, et al. Entertainment-education radio serial drama and outcomes related to HIV testing in Botswana. AIDS Educ Prev. 2008;20(6):486-503.

Lovell CC, Pappas-DeLuca KA, Sebert Kuhlmann AK, et al. “One Day I Might Find Myself HIV-Positive Like Her”: Audience Involvement and Identification with Role Models in an Entertainment-Education Radio Drama in Botswana. International Quarterly of Community Health Education. 2007;28(3):181-200.

Wednesday, March 21 - Case study of HIV/AIDS in Thailand;

World Fact Book (Thailand)

World Health Organization (Country Brief -Thailand)

Levine R. Case Studies in Global Health: Millions Saved. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers. 2007 (pg. 9-16)

Case study of HIV/AIDS in India

World Fact Book (India)

World Health Organization (Country Brief - India)

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Avahan—The India AIDS Initiative: The business of HIV prevention at scale. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation .2008.

Reza-Paul S, Beattie T, Syed HUR, et al. Declines in risk behaviour and sexually transmitted infection prevalence following a community-led HIV preventive intervention among female sex workers in Mysore, India. AIDS. 2008;22 Suppl 5:S91-100.

Monday, March 25 - Case study of tuberculosis in China

World Fact Book (China)

World Health Organization (Country Brief - China)

Levine R. Case Studies in Global Health: Millions Saved. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers. 2007 (pg. 17-24)

Wednesday, March 27 - Case study of Chagas disease in South American;

World Fact Book (Argentina and Bolivia)

World Health Organization (Country Brief - Bolivia)

World Health Organization (Country Health Profile - Argentina)

Levine R. Case Studies in Global Health: Millions Saved. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers. 2007. (pg. 89-96)

Case study of river blindness in West Africa

World Fact Book (Burkina Faso)

World Health Organization (Country Health Profile _ Burkina Faso)

Levine R. Case Studies in Global Health: Millions Saved. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers. 2007. (pg. 49-56)

Monday, April 1 - Case study of guinea worm in Ghana

World Fact Book (Ghana)

World Health Organization (Country Brief - Ghana)

Levine R. Case Studies in Global Health: Millions Saved. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers. 2007. (pg. 81-88)

Wednesday, April 3 - Case study of SARS in Singapore

World Fact Book (Singapore)

World Health Organization (Country Health Profile - Singapore)

Goh et al. (2006). Epidemiology and Control of SARS in Singapore. Annals of the Academy of Medicine in Singapore, 35(5):301-316.

Tan C-C. SARS in Singapore--key lessons from an epidemic. Ann. Acad. Med. Singap. 2006;35(5):345-349.

Deurenberg-Yap M. The Singaporean response to the SARS outbreak: knowledge sufficiency versus public trust. Health Promotion International. 2005;20(4):320-326.

Monday, April 8 - Dual burden disease & addressing the chalenges of overnutrition

World Fact Book (Brazil)

World Health Organization (County Health Profile - Brazil)

Parra DC, Dauti M, Harris JK, et al. How does network structure affect partnerships for promoting physical activity? Evidence from Brazil and Colombia. Social Science & Medicine. 2011;73(9):1365-1370.

Pratt M, Brownson RC, Ramos LR, et al. Project GUIA: A model for understanding and promoting physical activity in Brazil and Latin America. J Phys Act Health. 2010;7 Suppl 2:S131-134.

Hoehner CM, Soares J, Parra Perez D, et al. Physical Activity Interventions in Latin America. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2008;34(3):224-233.e4.

Wednesday, April 10 - Introductory lecture on under nutrition

To be decided

Monday, April 15 - Case study of vitamin A deficiency in Nepal

World Fact Book (Nepal)

World Health Organization (Country Brief - Nepal)

Levine R. Case Studies in Global Health: Millions Saved. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers. 2007 (pg. 25-32)

Case study of iodine deficiency in China

World Fact Book (China)

World Health Organization (Country Brief -China)

Levine R. Case Studies in Global Health: Millions Saved. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers. 2007. (pg. 113-120)

Case study of neural tube defects in Chile

World Fact Book (Chile)

World Health Organization (Country Health Profile - Chile)

Levine R. Case Studies in Global Health: Millions Saved. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers. 2007. (pg. 121-126)

Wednesday, April 17 - Case study of a food store intervention in the Marshal Islands

World Fact Book (USA)

World Health Organization (Country Health Profile - USA

Gittelsohn et al. 2006

Gittelsohn et al. 2007

Monday, April 23 - Case study of violence interrupters in the USA (Chicago)

World Fact Book (USA)

World Health Organization (Country Health Profile - USA)

Kotlowitz A. Blocking the Transmission of Violence. The New York Times. 2008.

Skogan W, et al. Executive Summary:Evaluation of CeaseFire-Chicago. 2008.

Dahlberg LL, Krug EG. Violence a global public health problem. Ciência & Saúde Coletiva. 2006;11(2):277-292.

Wednesday, April 25th - Case study of curbing tobacco use in Poland;

World Fact Book (Poland)

World Health Organization(Country Brief -Poland)

Levine R. Case Studies in Global Health: Millions Saved. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers. 2007. (pg. 105-112)

Levy DT, Chaloupka F, Gitchell J. The effects of tobacco control policies on smoking rates: a tobacco control scorecard. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2004;10(4):338-353.