USC summer school 2013: Global Health
The program will encompass 5 themes:
Challenges in global health
Health policy and public health
Tropical medicine
Vaccinology
International development and health
The aims and objectives of each theme are as follows:
Challenges in global health: The aim is to introduce students to the major diseases and risks to health in the developing world. The objectives are:
Overview the major public health challenges in developing countries
Understand the risk factors for premature death in these countries
Appreciate the major prevention strategies and challenges for control of these diseases
Health policy and public health: The aim is to examine policy issues and determinants of public health and health policy in international health. The objectives are:
Understand major principles of public health
Understand principles of health promotion and behaviour change in relation to health
Understand the role of values, ethics, culture with regards to health
Tropical medicine: The aim is to give students an introduction to tropical infectious diseases. The objectives are:
Understand the clinical aspects of the most common tropical diseases, with an emphasis on infectious diseases
Appreciate the strategies used to deliver diagnose and treat these diseases in resource-limited settings
Vaccinology: The aim is to give students an overview of the availability and use of vaccination in disease control in developed and developing countries. The objectives are:
Understand the current impact of vaccination programmes on global health and threats to current control measures
Understand the scientific basis of new vaccine development and both opportunities for and impediments to progress
Appreciate the process and financial requirements for vaccine development and deployment
International development and health: The aim is to situate health in its wider social, economic and political context and provide a basic understanding of the intimate, bi-directional relationship between health and development processes. The objectives are:
To understand the main theories relating health and development, and identify their strengths and weaknesses
To understand a range of paradigms and narratives in development studies
To appreciate the intended and unintended consequences of development interventions for health
To understand the role policy processes play in realising development objectives
Students will select one of the five themes on which to base their project.
Outline programme
All sessions at St Catherine’s College [Mary Sunley Building: Seminar Room]
except where indicated
Monday 15 July
9.30 – 10.30 Welcome and introduction to course: Dr Brian Angus
11:00 – 12:00 Malaria: Dr Brian Angus
12.00 – 1.00 Maternal and child health: Dr Manisha Nair
Tuesday 16 July
9.30 – 10.30Tuberculosis: Dr Andrew Brent
11.00 – 12.00 Social determinants of health: Dr Manisha Nair
Wednesday 17 July
9.30 – 10.30 Complementary & Alternative Medicine and malaria: Dr Merlin Willcox
11.00 – 12.00 CAM and malaria (cont): Dr Merlin Willcox
2.10 Meet Dr Willcox at Botanical Gardens
Thursday 18 July
9.30 –10.30 Health economics: Dr Anees Pari
11.00 – 12.00 Vaccination: Dr Susanne Sheehy
Friday 19 July
9.30 – 10.30 Public Health in practice: Dr Anees Pari
11:00 – 12:00 Meningitis: Dr Matt Scarborough
Monday 22 July
11.00 – 12.00 Typhoid: Dr Tom Dalton
12.00 – 1.00: Malaria vaccines: Prof Adrian Hill
Tuesday 23 July
9:30 – 10:30 Non-communicable diseases 1: Dr Kremlin Wickramasinghe
11:00 – 12:00 Key players in Health and Development: Dr Aneil Jaswal
Wednesday 24 July
8.05 depart Oxford station for London trip (Hunterian Museum, British Museum, Guys Old Operating Theatre and King Cholera Walking Tour)
Thursday 25 July
9:30 –10.30 Health promotion: Dr Paul Kelly
11.00 – 12.00 Global burden of tuberculosis: Dr Ruch Baxi
12.00 – 1.00 Snake bite: Dr Simon Fox
2.00 – 4.00 at 13 Norham GardensWilliam Osler; Integrated medicine in the developing world: Prof Terence Ryan
Friday 26 July
9:30 – 10:30 HIV vaccines: Prof Sarah Rowland-Jones
Monday 29 July
9:30 – 10:30 Pharmacy: Dr David Scott
11.00 – 12.00 Non-communicable diseases 2: Dr Kremlin Wickramasinghe
Tuesday 30 July
9.30 – 10.30 Sexually-transmitted infections: Dr Lucy Dorrell
11.00 – 12.00 Knowlesii: Dr Cyrus Daneshwar
Wednesday 31 July
9.00 St Cats car park for trip to Berkeley, Gloucestershire (Edward Jenner Museum)
Thursday 1 August
Dr Mary Thompson
9.30 – 4.30 Project presentations and evaluation
Friday 2 August
Dr Mary Thompson
9.30 – 4.30 Project presentations and evaluation