November 19, 2020
Winter 2021 undergraduate course highlights 91探花population health research
This winter, the Population Health Initiative is again partnering with the 91探花鈥檚 Undergraduate Research Program (URP) to offer a series of lectures that focus 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).
The course will meet online via Zoom on Wednesdays from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m. The speakers and topics for this quarter are described in the following table.
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Department |
| 1/6 | Jessica Salvador Meher Antia |
Course introduction Introduction to population health |
URP Population Health Initiative |
| 1/13 | Global Burden of Disease: Understanding health disparities | Health Metrics Sciences, IHME | |
| 1/20 | Promoting health equity in underserved communities | Health Services | |
| 1/27 | Messaging of health risks | Foster School of Business | |
| 2/3 | Designing a social robot to reduce teen stress | Human Centered Design and Engineering | |
| 2/10 | Tradeoffs in natural resource management | Environmental and Forest Sciences | |
| 2/17 | COVID-19 and mental health | Psychology | |
| 2/24 | Cost effectiveness analysis | Pharmacy | |
| 3/3 | Jessica Salvador and students | Undergraduate research panel | URP |
This course is sponsored by Undergraduate Academic A铿�airs, the Undergraduate Research Program and the Population Health Initiative.