Title: Public Health Biology and Public Health GeneticsGenomics: How and what to incorporate into the curri
1Public Health Biology and Public Health
Genetics/GenomicsHow and what to incorporate
into the curriculum for public health
professionals and into public health practice
- James Yager Johns Hopkins University Timothy
Hoff University at Albany SUNY Melissa Austin
University of Washington Timothy Baker CDC
2Presentations
James Yager Overview of session
Incorporation of Public Health Biology into
the professional PH curriculum at
the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg SPH Timothy Hoff
PH Genetics Training at the U Albany
SPH Melissa Austin The Institute for Public
Health Genetics graduate training
program at the U Washington School of Public
Health and Community
Medicine Timothy Baker Challenges in
Integrating Genomics Knowledge and Tools
into Public Health Practice. Panel
Discussion with audience
3Principles of Public Health Biology for MPH
Curriculum at JHSPH
- Biological Basis of Public Health - content
- Inherited Diseases Genetics
- Cancer
- Immunology
- Measles
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- Parasitic Infections
- Diarrheal Diseases
- Disease Ecology
- Applied technology in Developing Countries
4Principles of Public Health Biology for MPH
Curriculum at JHSPH
- Expansion of list of courses approved to fulfill
requirement - Principles of Human Nutrition
- Biological Basis of Vaccine Development
- STDs Their Epidemiology Control
- Principles of PH Ecology
- Epidemiologic Basis of Tuberculosis
- Fundamentals of Reproductive Biology
- Molecular Aspects of Public Health
5Competencies in Public Health Biology
- Describe and integrate the biological principles,
e.g. genetic, molecular, cellular, and
physiological, for the major determinants of
human disease including infectious disease,
nutritional deficiencies, and exposure to toxic
environmental agents. - Demonstrate sufficient knowledge of these
biological principles, and when necessary know
how to seek more detailed information and
expertise, in order to apply this knowledge to
assessment of population risk and where
warranted, to the development of disease
prevention, control and management programs.
6Public Health Biology new course to replace
Biological Basis Molecular Aspects of PH
- Course Objectives
- Relate public health problems to their
biomolecular context - Develop an understanding of the advances in
biotechnology
genomics - Integrate biomolecular context with students
professional policy interests and training - Method of Evaluation
- Two short papers constructed to bring together
material from an assigned reading and students
own professional interests
7Public Health Biology
- Lectures
- Ecological principles of disease systems
- Measuring disease dynamics in populations
- Reviewing molecular techniques
- Pathogens Nature and transmission
- Host responses to infection, immune responses,
vaccination - The genomics of infectious disease
- Treatment Drugs and resistance
- Cancer as a genetic disease
- Breast cancer
- Prostate cancer
- Structure and Function of male female
reproductive tract - Fertilization, infertility, early development
- Controversial topics in reproduction
- Genetic environmental factors as determinates
of susceptibility - to disease initiated during development
- Nutrition and disease
8Competencies
1. Describe the biological bases, e.g.
molecular, cellular, and physiological, for the
major determinants of human disease including
infectious disease, nutritional
deficiencies, and exposure to toxic environmental
agents. 2. Describe the ecological principles
that determine the distribution of
infectious disease in human populations. 3.
Apply principles of human immune system function
to explain the rationale and mode of action
of existing and potential methods of
immunization. 4. Explain the role of genetic
determinants in human disease and disease
susceptibility caused by infectious agents,
nutritional deficiencies and exposure to toxic
agents, and in microbial virulence. 3.
Describe molecular, cellular and physiological
responses relevant to human disease that
result from exposure to environmental agents. 5.
Apply biological principles to development of
disease prevention, control, or management
programs. 6. Apply biological principles to
assessment of risk from potentially hazardous
agents and behaviors.