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Available evidence at the national and cross-country level linking social welfare interventions and health outcomes. If and how non-health programs and policies could have an impact on positive health outcomes. Evaluation of social programs and policies that buffer the negative health impact of economic instability and unemployment among adult workers and their children. Examination of safety nets, including public health insurance, income maintenance programs, and disability insurance. Enrollment limited to junior and seniors and graduate students or consent of the instructor. HUMBIO students must enroll in
HUMBIO 122. Med/Graduate students must enroll in
PEDS 222.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Rodriguez, E. (PI)
PEDS 223: Human Rights and Global Health
Open to medical students, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates. Examines the newly emerging field of human rights and global health, beginning with the essential background into the field of human rights, and the recent emergence of health as a human right. Emphasis is on the pioneering work of Dr. Paul Farmer and Partners in Health and the challenge he and his organization have posed to the conventional wisdom about approaches to combating poor health and disease worldwide. Topics include the "big three" infectious diseases -- tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV/AIDS -- as well as emerging infectious diseases, clean water and sanitation, and malnutrition and famine.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Patenaude, B. (PI)
PEDS 224: Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention (HISTORY 224C, HISTORY 324C, JEWISHST 284C, JEWISHST 384C)
Open to medical students, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Traces the history of genocide in the 20th century and the question of humanitarian intervention to stop it, a topic that has been especially controversial since the end of the Cold War. The pre-1990s discussion begins with the Armenian genocide during the First World War and includes the Holocaust and Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s. Coverage of genocide and humanitarian intervention since the 1990s includes the wars in Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo, the Congo and Sudan.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Patenaude, B. (PI)
PEDS 225: Humanitarian Aid and Politics
Open to medical students, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Examines the moral dilemmas and political realities that complicate the delivery of humanitarian aid, especially when undertaken by the United Nations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Emphasis is on what humanitarians call "complex humanitarian emergencies": crises often characterized by famine and/or epidemic disease and typically the result of war and/or civil war. Provides background into the history of humanitarian aid, though focus is on the post-Cold War era, up to the recent crises in Libya and Syria.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Patenaude, B. (PI)
PEDS 226: Famine in the Modern World (HISTORY 226E, HISTORY 326E)
Open to medical students, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Examines the major famines of modern history, the controversies surrounding them, and the reasons that famine persists in our increasingly globalized world. Focus is on the relative importance of natural, economic, and political factors as causes of famine in the modern world. Case studies include the Great Irish Famine of the 1840s; the Bengal famine of 1943-44; the Soviet famines of 1921-22 and 1932-33; China's Great Famine of 1959-61; the Ethiopian famines of the 1970s and 80s, and the Somalia famines of the 1990s and of 2011.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Patenaude, B. (PI)
PEDS 227: Introduction to Pediatric Specialties
The aim of this course is to provide pre-clinical MD students with exposure to the wide variety of medical specialties within pediatrics. Weekly lectures will feature physicians from fields such as Pediatric Cardiology, Pediatric Neurology, Pediatric Infectious Disease, and Pediatric Surgery. Physician speakers will discuss their daily work, why they selected their chosen field, their career path, and their pursuits outside of clinical medicine. The physicians will also provide students with advice and guidance on how to define and successfully pursue their goals.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 2 units total)
Instructors:
Chi, K. (PI)
;
Uchitel, J. (TA)
PEDS 229: Reducing Health Disparities and Closing the Achievement Gap through Health Integration in Schools (EDUC 429, HUMBIO 122E)
Health and education are inextricably linked. If kids aren't healthy, they won't realize their full potential in school. This is especially true for children living in poverty. This course proposes to: 1) examine the important relationship between children's health and their ability to learn in school as a way to reduce heath disparities; 2) discuss pioneering efforts to identify and address manageable health barriers to learning by integrating health and education in school environments. HUMBIO students must enroll in
HUMBIO 122E. Med/Graduate students must enroll in
PEDS 229 . Education students must enroll in
EDUC 429.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
PEDS 231: Writing and Storytelling Workshop for Clinical Students
This course is an intensive workshop for clinical students devoted to oral and written communication skills. Students receive instruction in the art and craft of storytelling for a variety of media from radio/podcast to print media. Topics covered: methods for constructive self-editing; the art of interviewing; pitching creative work to agents and editors; writing craft for narrative nonfiction and personal essay; negotiating consent with subjects; communication about difficult topics; best practices for science and medical communication; slide design for impactful presentation and best practices for public speaking and live storytelling. The workshops are held off-campus (fall workshop is a Sat/Sun (wknd) at Soul Food Farm), spring and winter workshops are daylong, held Pie Ranch with a single two-hour follow up session. Enrollment limited to 55. Please visit the course website at whatsyourstory.club for more information.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
8 times
(up to 8 units total)
PEDS 232: Bioethics, Film and Advocacy
This course will examine narrative films, documentaries, and shorts on bioethics. We will focus both on the content of the films, in terms of ethics and advocacy, as well the filmic and narrative techniques they employ. We will explore how these films promote engagement and advocacy for those individuals and groups most impacted by disease, illness and disability in the world. During class we will screen films and employ open discussion, critical analysis, as well as reflective writing. The students will also be asked to work in teams to create an original media product and present these at end of term.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
PEDS 240: (Re)Meditating Systems Change: Disability, Language & Difference (CSRE 340, EDUC 440)
This is a course about gaining a deep understanding of the levers of systems change in K-12 education focusing especially on (re)mediating systems in ways that center inclusion, equity, and justice. This course is concerned with systems change processes: why we need them; what they look like; and what theories can be called upon to guide them. We will examine the role of educational reform processes. We will examine various conceptions how reform efforts bear on systems change efforts at all levels of education: the classroom, the school, the district, and the state and federal levels of educational policy. In this course, we will examine contemporary theories of educational systems change that pay close attention to Disability, Language, and Difference. We will consider some examples of how these change processes interact to improve academic and social outcomes for all students, especially those who have been historically marginalized. We will consider urban, suburban, and rural appli
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This is a course about gaining a deep understanding of the levers of systems change in K-12 education focusing especially on (re)mediating systems in ways that center inclusion, equity, and justice. This course is concerned with systems change processes: why we need them; what they look like; and what theories can be called upon to guide them. We will examine the role of educational reform processes. We will examine various conceptions how reform efforts bear on systems change efforts at all levels of education: the classroom, the school, the district, and the state and federal levels of educational policy. In this course, we will examine contemporary theories of educational systems change that pay close attention to Disability, Language, and Difference. We will consider some examples of how these change processes interact to improve academic and social outcomes for all students, especially those who have been historically marginalized. We will consider urban, suburban, and rural applications of these processes, as major sources of evidence for what works and what fails. We will consider the "big picture" of our society, its values, and its economic position in a global economy to better understand why the need for systems change, which may seem obvious, is so difficult to achieve in practice.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| Repeatable
12 times
(up to 36 units total)
Instructors:
Jaquith, A. (PI)
;
Kozleski, E. (PI)
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