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Title: Public Health Biology and Public Health GeneticsGenomics: How and what to incorporate into the curri


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Public 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

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Presentations
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
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Principles 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

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Principles 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

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Competencies 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.

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Public 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

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Public 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

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Competencies
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.
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