printer friendly pageHUMBIO 128: Community Health Psychology (PSYCH 101)
Social ecological perspective on health emphasizing how individual health behavior is shaped by social forces. Topics include: biobehavioral factors in health; health behavior change; community health promotion; and psychological aspects of illness, patient care, and chronic disease management. Prerequisites:
HUMBIO 3B or
PSYCH 1, or equivalent.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
Instructors:
Heaney, C. (PI)
HUMBIO 129: Critical Issues in International Women's Health (FEMGEN 129)
Women's lives, from childhood through adolescence, reproductive years, and aging. Economic, social, and human rights factors, and the importance of women's capacities to have good health and manage their lives in the face of societal pressures and obstacles. Emphasis is on life or death issues of women's health that depend on women's capacity to exercise their human rghts including maternal mortality, violence, HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, and sex trafficking. Organizations addressing these issues. A requirement of this class is participation in public blogs. Prerequisites: Human Biology core or equivalent or consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Murray, A. (PI)
HUMBIO 129M: Measuring Global Health (HRP 241, MED 231)
Open to MD, graduate, and undergraduate students. Assessing the global burden of disease, its distribution among and within countries, its causes, and appropriate interventions requires rigorous quantitative approaches. This course develops skills in these areas by critically examining questions like: How do we know who is sick and where? How are risk factors incorporated into our projections of future disease trends? How do we combine mortality and morbidity in a meaningful way? What works for improving health efficiently? Workshops build familiarity with relevant data and their analysis. Prerequisite: coursework in statistics, biostatistics, quantitative epidemiology, econometrics, or equivalent.
Last offered: Spring 2013
| UG Reqs: WAY-AQR, WAY-SMA
| Repeatable
for credit
HUMBIO 129S: Global Public Health
The class is an introduction to the fields of international public health and global medicine. It focuses on resource poor areas of the world and explores major global health problems and their relation to policy, economic development and human rights. The course is intended for students interested in global health, development studies, or international relations, and provides opportunities for in-depth discussion and interaction with experts in the field. .
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Wise, P. (PI)
HUMBIO 12SI: The Right to Health: Frameworks for Advocacy and Action
Interactive dialogue on the right to health, beginning with general frameworks on human rights instruments and then applying them to case studies of global health disparities. Features weekly guest lectures by experts in global health, health policy, and human rights. Topics include: global health governance, maternal and child health, and global mental health. Students will use lectures and dialogues as frameworks for their own advocacy projects. Classes will be held in the Arrillaga Study Room.
Instructors:
Stacy, H. (PI)
HUMBIO 130: Human Nutrition
The study of food, and the nutrients and substances therein. Their action, interaction, and balance in relation to health and disease. Emphasis is on the biological, chemical, and physiological processes by which humans ingest, digest, absorb, transport, utilize, and excrete food. Dietary composition and individual choices are discussed in relationship to the food supply, and to population and cultural, race, ethnic, religious, and social economic diversity. The relationships between nutrition and disease; ethnic diets; vegetarianism; nutritional deficiencies; nutritional supplementation; phytochemicals.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-SMA
HUMBIO 133: Human Physiology (BIO 112)
Human physiology will be examined by organ systems: respiratory, cardiovascular, renal, and gastrointestinal. Concepts of cell and molecular biology that underlie organ development, pathophysiology and opportunities for regenerative medicine will be introduced. Signaling and integrative control by the endocrine, autonomic and central nervous systems will be introduced. Prerequisite: Biology or Human Biology core.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci
Instructors:
Kao, P. (PI)
;
Hamaguchi, R. (TA)
;
Juszczak, H. (TA)
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Instructors:
Kao, P. (PI)
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Hamaguchi, R. (TA)
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Juszczak, H. (TA)
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Sztraicher, D. (TA)
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Zaw, C. (TA)
HUMBIO 135: Exercise Physiology
How body systems respond to the stress of acute exercise and adapt to chronic exercise training. How the cardiovascular system adapts to optimize oxygen delivery and utilization, how muscles generate force and hypertrophy in response to training, how metabolic/biochemical pathways are regulated to support the increased energy demand of exercise. Theories on the causes of fatigue and muscle soreness, and on what limits human performance. Applied topics such as the effects of aging, gender, and environmental conditions (high altitude, heat, cold, microgravity) on exercise capacity will also be discussed. Portions of the class will be flipped with some lectures online and others in class. Heavy emphasis on practical physiology in the second half of the course. Prerequisite: Human Biology core, Biology core, or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
HUMBIO 135S: Applied Topics in Exercise Physiology and Metabolism
Discussions of controversial topics related to exercise physiology, sports performance, impacts of aging and environmental physiology. Special focus on how to get science out of the lab via novel training programs, medical device development, and science communication. Students will learn the fundamentals of science storytelling and mixed media presentation of ideas. A requirement of this class is participation in blogs, participation in discussions and evaluations of physiology research, and creation of a science-based story to share with the class. If class is full, contact instructor for an application. Enrollment limited to 10. Prerequisites: B+ or higher in HB135 and/or consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Friedlander, A. (PI)
HUMBIO 136: Human Physiology Laboratory (BIO 107)
This laboratory course is inquiry based, so the subject matter of the course will change in successive years. In 2015, the two questions to be researched concurrently in Spring will be (1) Can heat-related performance decrements incurred by individuals clad in impermeable attire (e.g., biohazard personal protective suits) be mitigated?¿ and (2) Can the sensation of thermal comfort be affected by regional skin temperature manipulations.nStudents will participate both as experimenters and as subjects. The laboratory work will focus on exercise and temperature. Thus, participants must be in good physical condition and be willing to participate in strenuous exercise routines under adverse environmental conditions. Varsity athletes currently participating in a spring sport should first talk with Prof. Heller before applying.nCombined Lab/Discussion sessions will be Tue and Thurs 1:15 - 5:05. You must attend both days each week, with no conflicts with other courses.nPrerequisite is
Bio 42 or
HumBio 4A. Satisfies WIM for majors in biology. nEnrollment for Spring 2015 course is limited to 16 students by permission.nSee:
sites.stanford.edu/bio107 for the link to online application form.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
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