Population Health

October 30, 2018

Winter 2019 undergraduate course highlights population health research

Course ImageThe Population Health Initiative has again partnered with the 91̽»¨’s Undergraduate Research Program (URP) to offer a series of faculty lectures during winter quarter 2019 focused on the three pillars of population health: human health, environmental resilience and social and economic equity.

The Research Exposed! (General Studies 391) course will feature faculty from a number of disciplines discussing their population health-related research. Undergraduates may take this course for credit (i.e., one credit/quarter; three quarters max). Each lecture is open to all interested faculty, students, staff, alumni and members of the community.

The course will meet Wednesdays from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m. in Odegaard Library. The speakers and topics for this quarter are described in the following table.

Date Speaker Topic Unit
1/9 Jennifer Harris
Derek Fulwiler
Course introduction
Introduction to population health
URP
Population Health Initiative
1/16 The Global Burden of Disease: Understanding health disparities Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
1/23 Obesity and social disparities in diets and health School of Public Health
1/30 Developing sustainable infrastructure for cities College of Built Environments
2/6 Homelessness Research Initiative: Understanding housing and food insecurity among 91̽»¨students Evans School of Public Policy & Governance
2/13 Understanding how social and cultural factors influence the health of Latinx and American Indian communities School of Public Health
2/20 REFUGEES Project: Oral health among immigrant populations School of Dentistry
2/27 Benefits of nature contact to human health College of the Environment
3/6 Jennifer Harris and students Undergraduate research panel URP

This course is sponsored by the Odegaard Undergraduate Library, Undergraduate Academic Affairs, the Undergraduate Research Program and the Population Health Initiative.