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Global Health Program

Lecture List

Module 1 Lectures
  • Course Overview/Introduction to Global Health
  • Introduction to Epidemiology
  • Role of International Health Organizations & Volunteer Organizations in Global Health
  • Primary Care and the Health Care Worker
  • Essential Drug List
  • Family Planning
  • Role of Women in Health
  • Famine-Displaced and Refugee Populations
  • Nutrition & Growth Monitoring
  • Geographic Distribution of Infectious Diseases
  • Global Disease Eradication
  • EPI Vaccine & Preventable Diseases
  • Emerging Infections
  • HIV Epidemiology & Control
  • Global Burden of Psychological Diseases
  • Antimicrobial Resistance       
  • Protein-energy Malnutrition
  • Key Micronutrient Deficiencies & Their Prevention                                                             
  • Community & National Responses to Malnutrition
  • Vector Control
  • Tropical Water Supply & Sanitation
  • Rural Development
  • Ethical Issues in Global Health
  • Occupational Health
  • Cultural Issues in Global Health
  • Medical Management of Bioterrorism
  • Study Design I, II, III – Descriptive Studies, Analytical Studies, Clinical Trials & Meta-analysis
  • Screening Programs
  • Population & Health Transitions
  • Module Review/Jeopardy
  • Causal Inference
  • Epidemiology of Tests
  • Measures of Morbidity
  • Measures of Mortality & Survival Analysis
  • Epidemiology of Communicable Disease & Epidemic Investigation
  • Case Study I – Outbreak of Malaria in Florida
  • Case Study II – Paralytic Illness in Ababo
  • Case Studies III – Cigarette Smoking & Lung Cancer
  • Disaster Planning
  • Air Pollution & Climate Change
  • Community-based Primary Care in Honduras
  • Occupational Health of Carpet Weavers in Pakistan
Module 2 Lectures
  • Module Overview
  • Travel Medicine I - Advice to Travelers
  • High Altitude Sickness
  • Respiratory Diseases in the Tropics
  • Poisonous Plants and Fish
  • GI Diseases in the Tropics
  • Tropical Ophthalmology Made Easy
  • Cardiovascular Diseases in the Tropics
  • Surgery in the Tropics
  • Urology in the Tropics
  • Suture Lab
  • Dermatology in the Tropics/Infectious Skin Diseases
  • Infective Endocarditis
  • Viral Encephalitis
  • Pediatric Respiratory Illness
  • Eosinophilia
  • Hepatosplenomegaly
  • Neurologic Diseases in the Tropics
  • Travel Clinic
  • Tropical Medicine Cases
  • Web-based Resources for Travel Medicine         
  • Infectious Diarrhea & Fluid Management
  • Enteric Fever (Typhoid)
  • Bone & Joint Infections
  • Skin & Soft Tissue Infections
  • Venomous Insects & Animals
  • The Ill-returning Traveler
  • Prolonged Fever & FUO
  • Heat-Associated Illness
  • Travel Medicine II
  • Dentistry in the Tropics
  • Hypothermia
  • Aviation and Diving Medicine
  • Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Tropics
  • Animal Bites & Rabies
  • Cross Cultural Medicine
  • Module Review/Jeopardy
  • Dermatology Cases
  • Dermatology for Dark Skinned Peoples
  • Pediatric Travel
  • Immigrant & Refugee Health
  • Improvised Splints Lab
  • Burn Care in Developing Nations
  • Culture Shock & Re-entry Shock
  • Introduction to Clinical Malaria
Module 3 Lectures
  • Module Overview
  • Introduction to Parasitology
  • Intestinal Protozoa, Tissue Amoeba
  • Intestinal Protozoa Lab/Film
  • Blood & Tissue Protozoa I (Leishmania, Toxoplasma)
  • Blood & Tissue Protozoa II (Trypanosomiasis)
  • Blood & Tissue Protozoa Lab/Film
  • Malaria
  • Malaria Lab
  • Schistosomiasis
  • Other Trematodes
  • Stool Exam for Ova & Parasitology Lab/Film
  • Intestinal Nematodes
  • Cestodes/Larval Cestodes
  • Parasite Tutor
  • Filariasis & Tissue Nematodes
  • Parasitology Case Studies (Protozoa, Trematodes, Ectoparasites, Cestodes, Nematodes)
  • Nematode Lab/Film
  • Trematode Lab/Film
  • Parasitology Practicum I-II
  • Medical Entomology I- Arthropods
  • Medical Entomology II- Ticks/Mites
  • Medical Entomology III- Lice, Bugs, Fleas
  • Medical Entomology IV- Mosquitoes
  • Medical Entomology V- Flies, Myasis
  • Medical Entomology Lab/Film
  • Cestodes Lab
  • Module Review         
  • Clinical Parasitology by Organ System I-II
  • Entomology Case Studies (Participants)
  • Parasitology Review
  • Drugs for Parasitic Infections
  • Control of Parasitic Infections
  • Jeopardy Competition
Module 4 Lectures
  • Module Overview
  • Hansen’s Disease
  • Diphtheria/Pertussis/Tetanus
  • TB in the Tropics
  • Extra Pulmonary Tuberculosis
  • Cutaneous/SQ Fungi
  • Systemic Mycoses/Opportunistic Fungi
  • Antifungals
  • Lymphadenitis
  • Zoonoses
  • Syphilis & Other Treponematoses
  • Non-tuberculous Mycobacteria
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections in the Tropics (STI) - I & II
  • Hematology in the Tropics
  • Serologic Diagnosis/Case Presentations
  • Molecular Techniques
  • Viral Hepatitis
  • Blood Smear Lab
  • Case Studies
  • Rickettsial Diseases
  • Oncology in the Tropics
  • HIV Global Overview
  • HIV Presentation & Management
  • HIV Management– Opportunistic Infections (Cases), HTLV I-II
  • Microbiology Lab
  • Peds Procedural Pearls
  • Cases - TB
  • Typhoid
  • Rheumatic Fever and Other Strep
  • Acute Lower Respiratory Infections
  • Dengue
  • Shigella & Amebiasis
  • Nondengue Hemorrhagic Fever & Arboviral Illnesses
  • Module Review
  • Meningococcemia & Other Bacterial Sepsis
  • Measles
  • Peds HIV
  • Practical Aspects of Microbiology Lab in Developing Countries
  • Leptospirosis
  • Neonatal Resuscitation in the Developing World
  • Peds TB Cases
  • Neurologic Cases
  • Diarrhea/ORS
  • Case Studies
  • Cases
  • Influenza & Avian Flu
  • Urinary Tract Infections
  • Prevention of Pneumonia Globally with Vaccines