Diseases of Public Health Importance and Strategies for Their Control

Instructors: Marilyn Parsons and Sheila Lukehart

Telephone: 256 7315 (Parsons) or 897 5362 (Lukehart)

email: marilyn.parsons@sbri.org and lukehart@u.washington.edu

Meeting times and location
Tues/Thurs 8:30-9:50 HSE E216

TA: Jenn Maroa. Phone: 667 4510 email jmaroa@fhcrc.org. Please contact Jenn with questions about reading assignments. *email will garner a faster response*

Course Description:This course provides an introduction to major diseases of national and global importance, and strategies for their control. We use both biological and public health perspectives to understand issues that are important in disease control. We hold discussions on the origins, establishment, progression, and pathogenesis of existing, emerging and re-emerging diseases while considering the host, social, and immunological factors that allow their existence and spread. Further, we introduce and evaluate current strategies for disease prevention and control and emphasize ethical issues relevant in biomedical research and the influence of politics on disease control. This course requires a background in cellular and molecular biology, microbiology and immunology. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.

Welcome to Pathobiology 550/Global Health 565! Watch here for announcements regarding the course. Our TA, Jenn, will be posting lecture notes and reading. For now, just look at the readings for the first lecture (the others will be updated). Lecture notes are password-protected. If you forget the password, please email Jenn.

The website will be updated frequently, so it is your responsibility to check back weekly in case changes have been made.

If you have trouble accessing an article through the link provided in the reading list, please click here. 

November 22 2008, 11:30 PM

Tuskegee films

Required film is "Deadly Deception"-it is a Nova special. 

The other films are "Miss Evers' Boys" which is a dramatic account of the Tuskegee Study and a CBS Primetime Interview with one of the physicians who was involved in the study.

November 17 2008, 5:37 PM

Food Politics Discussion

For Nov. 25, you will be in a group to research one of these areas and be ready to discuss the points outlined.   

1) •Eat a variety of fruits daily
2) •Aim for a healthy weight
3) •Moderate your intake of sugar

October 30 2008, 4:04 PM

AIDS: a global view

11/06/08

Discussion questions;

1. Would you advocate for more money to be allocated for HIV prevention as compared to provision of life prolonging ARV drugs?
2. Despite a lot of emphasis on HIV prevention programs, we had an estimated 2.7 million new infections in 2007. Why do you think this is so? As a public health policy maker what changes targeting the current strategies would you advocate for.

October 30 2008, 3:58 PM

Research paper outlines

Your due date for research paper outlines has been extended to 11/13. Please make sure that you have discussed your research topic  before then with either Marylin or Jenn (Sheila has grants due the week preceding this so she might not be available).