Global Health Courses – Fall 2014 (Graduate level)
LIST OF COURSES – FALL 2014 (Detailed course descriptions follow)
Public Health
PH 203A Theories of Health and Social Behavior 3 units (Holmes)
PH 204A Mass Communications in Public Health 3 units (Dorfman)
PH 206C Nutritional Epidemiology 3 units (Madsen)
PH 212A International Maternal and Child Health * 2 units (Prata)
PH 213A Family Planning, Population Change, and Health * 3 units (Prata)
PH 216A Biological Embedding of Social Factors 2 units (Francis)
PH 226D Global Health Economics & Public Policy * 3 units (Scheffler)
PH 235 Impact Evaluation for Health Professionals 3 units (Colford & Gertler)
PH 250A Epidemiologic Methods I 2 units (Reingold)
PH 251C Causal Inference and Meta-Analysis in Epidemiology 2 units (Smith K.)
PH 252C Intervention Trial Design 3 units (Colford)
PH C235 Global Health Core Course I: Introduction to Global Health Fall, 2 units (Reingold/Fong)
PH 257 Outbreak Investigation * 2 units (Reingold)
PH 260A Principles of Infectious Diseases 4 units (Riley)
PH 260E Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases 2-3 units (Riley)
PH 264 Current Issues in Infectious Diseases 2 units (Liu)
PH 265 Molecular Parasitology * 3 units (Harris)
PH 266A Foodborne diseases 2 units (Lu)
PH 269E Current Topics in Environmental Medicine 2-3 units (Seward)
PH 270 Introduction to Environmental Health Sciences 3 units (Balmes)
PH 272A Geographic Information Science for Public and Environmental Health 4 units (Eisen)
PH 290.4 Health Communications in the Digital Era* 2 units (Catalani)
PH 290.5 Behavior Change in Adolescence: A framework for integrating developmental neuroscience and public health 1-4 units (Dahl)
*New* Graduate Research Seminar: The Human Right to Water 3 units (Smith C., Silverberg, Acey, Ray)
Agriculture & Resource Economics
A RESEC 261 Environmental and Resource Economics 3 units (Berck)
City Planning
CY PLAN 202 Practice Gateway: Introduction to Planning Practice 3 units (Corburn)
CY PLAN 254 Sustainable Communities 3 units (Acey)
CY PLAN 256 Healthy Cities 3 units (Corburn)
Development Practice
DEVP C221 Climate, Energy and Development 3 units (Kammen)
DEVP 222 Economics of Sustainable Resource Development 3 units (Roland-Holst)
Economics
ECON 280A International Economics 3 units (Rodriguez-Clare)
ECON 280B International Economics 3 units (Gourinchas)
ECON C270A Microeconomics of Development 3 units (Sadoulet)
ECON 281 Seminar in International Trade and Finance
Environmental Design
ENV DES 251 Urban Places Seminar 2 units (Jewell)
Information
INFO C283 Information and Communications Technology for Development 3 units (Ray)
Political Science
POL SCI 226A International Political Economy 4 units (Aggarwal)
Public Policy
PUB POL 210A The Economics of Public Policy Analysis 4 units (Raphael)
PUB POL C253 International Economic Development Policy 3 units (Dejanvry)
Science and Technology Studies
STS C200 Topics in Science and Technology Studies 3 units (Mazzotti)
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS FALL 2014
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
PH 203A Theories of Health and Social Behavior
Instructor: Seth Holmes
Thursday 2 – 5 pm, 174 Barrows, 3 units
This course provides a survey of theoretical perspectives and their application in analyzing the behavioral, social, and cultural dimensions of community health problems. An emphasis is placed on critically examining the strengths and weaknesses of particular theories for understanding and addressing complex community health problems.
PH 204A Mass Communications in Public Health
Instructor: Dorfman
Monday 2 – 5 pm, 2011 VLSB, 3 units
Examines the role of mass communication in advancing public health goals. Reviews mass media theories in general, and theories of the news media in particular. Provides an in-depth understanding of media advocacy as a strategy for using news media and paid advertising to support policy initiatives at the local, state, and federal levels. Examples are drawn from a wide range of public health issues.
PH 206C Nutritional Epidemiology
Instructor: Madsen
Wednesday 2 – 5 pm, 79 Dwinelle, 3 units
This course develops the ability to read published nutritional epidemiology research critically. Basic research methods in nutritional epidemiology will be reviewed, and issues in design, analysis, and interpretation unique to nutritional epidemiology will be addressed. This will be accomplished by readings and study questions, lecture/discussions, and problem sets.
PH 212A International Maternal and Child Health
Instructor: Ndola Prata
Thursday, 4 – 6 pm, 2011 VLSB, 2 units
This interactive course uses a gender perspective in order to better understand the health status of mothers, infants, children, and adolescents in developing countries. Topics include maternal mortality, adolescent reproductive health, and child health in complex emergency health situations. Special emphasis will be on successful, cutting edge program interventions.
PH 213A Family Planning, Population Change and Health
Instructor: Ndola Prata, Malcolm Potts, Martha Campbell
Tues/Thurs, 2 – 3:30 pm, 2011 Valley Life Sciences Building, 3 units
This course looks at problems facing those offering fertility regulation choices (i.e. contraception and abortion), and the consequences on individuals and societies when those choices are denied. It is divided into the following modules: The Facts of Life – the basic knowledge needed to understand patterns of human fertility, contraception, abortion and demographic change; Schools of Thought – discussions of the various religious, political, and emotional interpretations of family planning found among decision makers, providers and users; and Facing Reality – discussion and presentations based on client profiles, policy and logistic vignettes.
PH 216A Biological Embedding of Social Factors
Instructor: Francis
Friday 12 – 2 pm, 237 Cory, 2 units
This is an interdisciplinary course which will adopt a broad-based ecological perspective of health and behavior. This class will emphasize the interconnected and multidirectional relationships between biology, behavior, and the social environment. This course will be conducted as a seminar series (with a focus on biological processes). We will investigate the assertion that biological, psychological, and social processes interact over a lifetime to influence health and vulnerability to disease (a developmental epigenetic perspective). Rather than focusing on “if” social factors can influence health and disease we will focus on “how” social factors may regulate/change biological measures. Three very general themes will be addressed: development, “social” neuroscience and gene-environment interactions as they relate to behavior. Topics such as constraints/plasticity and behavior, genetic determinism, vulnerability versus resilience, gene-environment interactions, fetal/developmental programming, and stress will all be touched upon.
PH 226D Global Health Economics and Public Policy
Instructor: Richard Scheffler
Monday, 12 – 2 pm, 225 Dwinelle, 3 units
This class is a survey of different health care systems in western and eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Canada, Japan, Taiwan, and China. Other countries will be added to meet the interests of students. The course examines the structure and financing of the health system in each country and assesses the effectiveness, efficacy, and equity of each systems. Students will make a presentation on a country’s health system and write a paper.
PH 235 Impact Evaluation for Health Professionals
Instructor: Colford
Friday 12 – 2 pm, 109 Morgan, 3 units
This course will review the methods for the design and analysis of impact evaluations relevant to health professionals, especially those working in low and middle-income countries. The class will emphasize the challenges involved in identifying the causal relationship between a program or project and its outcomes while providing students with some experience in drafting a proposal that might be submitted to a funding agency for support of an impact evaluation. For doctoral students the course may help concretely to identify potential dissertation projects; for masters students the course will provide skills useful in obtaining a future job in the field.
PH 250A Epidemiologic Methods I
Instructor: Reingold
MWF 9 – 10 am, 2060 VLSB, 3 units
Principles and methods of epidemiology: study design, selection, and definition of cases and controls; sampling, data collection, analysis, and inference. Discussion session provides an opportunity to apply methods to problem sets and to discuss issues presented in lectures.
PH 251C Causal Inference and Meta-Analysis in Epidemiology
Instructor: Smith
Tuesday 2 – 4pm, 223 Dwinelle, 2 units
This course will review the theoretical aspects of causal inference, literature review, and meta-analysis, but its focus will be more on the practical aspects of these topics that are not commonly found in textbooks or presented in classes on epidemiologic theory. It is hoped that the student develops the day-to-day skills necessary to complete and present a well-documented, accurate, and thorough review of epidemiologic literature.
PH 252C Intervention Trial Design
Instructor: Colford
Friday 2 – 5pm, 203 Wheeler, 3 units
Students learn (through lectures and graded student presentations and projects) to design clinical and population-level field trials. Topics: formulation of a testable hypothesis; identification of appropriate populations; blinding (including indices for assessment); randomization (including traditional and adaptive randomization algorithms); sample-size estimation; recruitment strategies; data collection systems; quality control and human subjects responsibilities; adverse effects monitoring; improving participant adherence; use of surrogate outcomes.
PH 257 Outbreak Investigation
Instructor: Reingold
Tuesday 2 – 4 pm, 238 Kroeber, 2 units
This course will teach students why and how clusters of illnesses/epidemics are investigated. Methods and approaches required for such investigations will be discussed in detail, using published articles from the scientific literature to provide examples. Field work, to be conducted outside regular class hours, will involve the investigation of actual outbreaks and clusters in conjunction with nearby county health departments and under the supervision of the instructor. Students may opt to take the seminar component without the field work for 1 unit.
PH 260A Principles of Infectious Diseases
Instructor: Riley
T/Th 2 – 4 pm, 125 Li Ka Shing, 4 units
No description
PH 260E Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
Instruction: Riley
Wednesday 2 – 4 pm, 110 Barker, 2-3 units
The course will cover general principles and practical approaches in the use of molecular laboratory techniques to address infectious disease epidemiologic problems. It is designed for students with experience in the laboratory or in epidemiology, but not both. The principles to be discussed will include the use of molecular techniques in outbreak investigations, characterizations of dynamics of disease transmission, identifying vehicles, and quantifying attributable risks in sporadic infections, refining data stratification to assist case-control studies, distinguishing pathovars from non-pathogenic variants of organisms, doing surveillance, and identifying genetic determinants of disease transmissions. 3-units if a five-page paper completed.
PH 264 Current Issues in Infectious Diseases
Instructor: Liu
Monday 2 – 3 pm, 209 Dwinelle, 2 units
Examination of scientific, social, and policy dimensions of issues involving infectious diseases. Students select one topic for in-depth analysis and present findings in a public debate. Topics vary from year to year.
PH 265 Molecular Parasitology
Instructor: Harris
PH 266A Foodborne diseases
Instructor: Lu
Tuesday 3:30 – 5 pm, 242 Dwinelle, 2 units
This course will cover public health, microbiological, social, and economical issues related to foodborne diseases. Three areas will be explored: 1) categories, clinical manifestations, and disease processes of foodborne illnesses; 2) etiological agents causing foodborne illnesses; 3) investigation and prevention of foodborne illness. The course will discuss different types of foodborne diseases, clinical manifestations, and the interactions between etiological agents (pathogens and non-pathogens) and human hosts. We will cover pathogens that are the most frequently associated with foodborne illness including bacterial and viral pathogens such as Salmonella, E coli, hepatitis viruses and Norwalk-like gastroenteritus viruses. We will also study non-pathogen agents such as heavy metal, pesticide, and toxic chemicals. Futhermore, the course will discuss how to identify the etiological agents in outbreaks and possible measures that can be taken to minimize the risk to the public including vaccines and education. Finally, we will explore the social and economic issues involved in the food production, distribution, and consumption that contribute to foodborne diseases.
PH 269E Current Topics in Environmental Medicine
Instructor: Seward
Wednesday 4 – 6 pm, 259 Dwinelle, 2-3 units
Topics in environmental medicine will provide students with an overview of the health impacts, disease mechanisms, and public health controversies related to selected environmental exposures. The course will cover established environmental diseases as well as impacts of some emerging exposures of concern. The focus will primarily be on pathophysiology, issues related to exposure pathways, and the susceptibilities of specific human populations. No prior medical knowledge required.
PH 270Introduction to Environmental Health Sciences
Instructor: Balmes
T/Th 3:30 – 5 pm, Location TBA, 3 units
PH 209.4 Health Communications in the Digital Era
Instructor: Catalani
Monday 2 – 5pm, 106 Wheeler, 1-4 units
A discussion of current developments and issues in public health of interest to faculty and students of the department as a whole. Content varies from semester to semester depending upon current issues and interests.
PH 290.5 Behavior Change in Adolescence: A framework for integrating developmental neuroscience and public health
Instructor: Dahl
*New* Graduate Research Seminar: The Human Right to Water (3 units)
Instructors: Smith C., Silverberg, Acey, Ray
First meeting: Tuesday, September 2, 5pm
The seminar will be led by faculty from the Department of Political Science, the Department of City and Regional Planning, the Energy and Resources Group, and the School of Public Health. It is intended for graduate students with an interest in water management who would like to explore this issue in a human rights framework. It is also open to graduate students with an interest in human rights who would like to explore how social and economic rights are implemented or how the human rights framework applies to “collective” goods such as water. The seminar will consider developments in California and countries that formally recognize the human right to water (which includes South Africa, Bolivia, Cambodia, Colombia, Nigeria, Panama, and Tunisia) with a particular focus on the practical meaning of, and challenges of implementing, the human right to water. To register: Students should send a short (2 paragraphs) statement of interest to Professor Helene Silverberg (hsilverberg@berkeley.edu) no later than August 20.
AGRICULTURE RESOURCE AND ECONOMICS
A,RESEC 261 Environmental and Resource Economics
Instructor: Breck
T/Th 6:30 – 11 am, 201 Giannini, 3 units
Theory of renewable and nonrenewable natural resource use, with applications to forests, fisheries, energy, and climate change. Resources, growth, and sustainability. Economic theory of environmental policy. Externality; the Coasian critique; tax incidence and anomalies; indirect taxes; the double dividend; environmental standards; environmental regulation; impact of uncertainty on taxes and standards; mechanism design; monitoring, penalties, and regulatory strategy; emissions markets.
CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING
CY PLAN 202 Practice Gateway: Introduction to Planning Practice
Instructor: Corburn
Tu 9 – 12 pm, 106 Wurster, 3 units
Using challenging real-world cases, this course introduces first year MCP students to the persistent dilemmas, the power and limits of planning action, the multiple roles in which planners find themselves in communities around the globe, and the political and other constraints that planners face as they try to be effective, and the key issues facing planning practice. In all these ways, our focus is on planning action, not the history of urban development or urban social theory, though we will explore the ways in which planning ideals and cities have shaped each other as society evolves.
CY PLAN 254 Sustainable Communities
Instructor: Acey
MW 12:30 – 2 pm, 106 Wurster, 3 units
This course examines and explores the concept of sustainable development at the community level. The course has three sections: (1) an introduction to the discourse on sustainable development; (2) an exploration of several leading attempts to incorporate sustainability principles into plans, planning, and urban design; (3) a comparative examination of several attempts to modify urban form and address the multiple goals (social, economic, environmental) of sustainable urbanism.
CY PLAN 256 Healthy Cities
Instructor: Corburn
W 2 – 5 pm, 214B Wurster, 3 units
Exploration of common origins of urban planning and public health, from why and how the fields separated and strategies to reconnect them, to addressing urban health inequities in the 21st century. Inquiry to influences of urban population health, analysis of determinants, and roles that city planning and public health agencies – at local and international level – have in research, and action aimed at improving urban health. Measures, analysis, and design of policy strategies are explored.
DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE
DEVP C221 Climate, Energy and Development
Instructor: Kammen
Monday 1 – 4 pm, 311 Wellman, 3 units
Graduate seminar examining the role of energy science, technology, and policy in international development. The course will look at how changes in the theory and practice of energy systems and of international development have co-evolved over the past half-century, and what opportunities exist going forward. A focus will be on rural and decentralized energy use, and the issues of technology, culture,and politics that are raised by both current trajectories, and potential alternative energy choices. We will explore the frequently divergent ideas about energy and development that have emerged from civil society, academia, multinational development agencies, and the private and industrial sector. Also listed as Energy and Resources Group C221 and Public Policy C221.
DEVP 222 Economics of Sustainable Resource Development
Instructor: Roland-Holst
T/Th 2 – 3:30 pm, 122 Barrows, 3 units
This course will introduce the basic concepts including economic welfare, externality, public good, global commons, policy approaches for dealing with externality, and techniques for quality analysis. It will include case studies where groups will design economic incentives and policy solutions to major problems. It will have sections on particular problems including climate change, water and air quality, animal waste, toxic contamination, forestry and fishery policy.
ECONOMICS
ECON 280A International Economics
Instructor: Rodriguez-Clare
Tu 9 – 12 pm, 597 Evans, 3 units
The world economy as a general equilibrium system. The theory of international economics, trade policy.
ECON 280B International Economics
Instructor: Gourinchas
Wednesday 10 – 12 pm, 639 Evans, 3 units
This course develops basic theoretical models for studying issues in open-economy macroeconomics. The current account and the trade balance, international capital market integration, developing country debt problems, the real exchange rate, fiscal policy in the open economy, and international policy coordination.
ECON C270A Microeconomics of Development
Instructor: Sadoulet
T/Th 5 – 6:30 pm, 201 Giannini, 3 units
Theoretical and empirical analyses of poverty and inequality, household and community behavior, and contract and institutions in the context of developing countries. Also listed as Agricultural and Resource Economics C251.
ECON 281 Seminar in International Trade and Finance
Instructor: Gourinchas
Tu 4 – 6 pm, 648 Evans, 3 units
No description
Environmental Design
ENV DES 251 Discourse and Methods in Contemporary Urban Design
Instructor: Jewell
Friday 1 – 4pm, 106 Wuster, 3 units
The course is the first of three courses (ED251, ED252, ED253) directed toward the development of research and design proposals that advance the field of urban design. As the first course in the sequence, ED251 introduces topics and research methods in contemporary urban design. There is a lecture component (Section 1) that is open to the College and campus. Graduate students preparing for theses and professional reports in urban design will enroll in Section 2, which includes attending the lectures as well as a seminar that expands on the lecture topics by exploring various research and design methodologies.
INFORMATION
INFO C283 Information and Communications Technology for Development
Instructor: Ray
T/Th 2 – 3:30 pm, 202 South Hall, 3 units
This seminar reviews current literature and debates regarding Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD). This is an interdisciplinary and practice-oriented field that draws on insights from economics, sociology, engineering, computer science, management, public health, etc. Also listed as Energy and Resources Group C283.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
POL SCI 226A International Political Economy
Instructor: Aggarwal
Tuesday 10 – 12 pm, 291 Barrows, 4 units
The creation, maintenance, transformation, and decay of international arrangements designed to manage or regulate interstate activities relating to trade, money, resource use, technology, and physical environment.
PUBLIC POLICY
PUB POL 210A The Economics of Public Policy Analysis
Instructor: Raphael
MW 8 – 10 am, 250 GSPP, 4 units
Theories of microeconomic behavior of consumers, producers, and bureaucrats are developed and applied to specific policy areas. Ability to analyze the effects of alternative policy actions in terms of 1) the efficiency of resource allocation and 2) equity is stressed. Policy areas are selected to show a broad range of actual applications of theory and a variety of policy strategies.
PUB POL C253International Economic Development Policy
Instructor: Dejanvry
Wednesday 10 – 12 pm, 289 Cory, 3 units
This course emphasizes the development and application of policy solutions to developing-world problems related to poverty, macroeconomic policy, and environmental sustainability. Methods of statistical, economic, and policy analysis are applied to a series of case studies. The course is designed to develop practical professional skills for application in the international arena. Also listed as Agricultural and Resource Economics C253.
Science and Technology Studies C200 Topics in Science and Technology Studies
Instructor: Mazzotti
Tu 4 – 6 pm, 470 Stephens, 3 units
This course provides a strong foundation for graduate work in STS, a multidisciplinary field with a signature capacity to rethink the relationship among science, technology, and political and social life. From climate change to population genomics, access to medicines and the impact of new media, the problems of our time are simultaneously scientific and social, technological and political, ethical and economic. Also listed as Environ Sci, Policy, and Management C252, Anthropology C254, and History C250.