EPID-600 Introduction to Public Health
Fall - 2008

Course Syllabus
Classroom, Sanger Hall 4-026

 
Kim Buttery MD
Bill Nelson MD
Kim Buttery

 

August 25
5 - 5.50 pm
6 - 6.50 pm
7 - 7.50 pm

INTRODUCTORY Session
Administration - Course Requirements
Goal Setting
Introduction

NO Session
  Labour Day VCU Closed

Joy Zeh , RN MS FNP
Margaret Tipple MD
Kim Buttery

 

September 8
5 - 5.50 pm
6 - 6.50 pm
7 - 7.50 pm

Communicable Disease
HIV-AIDS-STDS
TB
Immunization Issues

Kim Buttery
Jeff Stover
Judy Bradford Ph.D.
 

September 15
5 - 5.50 pm
6 - 6.50 pm
7 - 7.50 pm

Community Assessment
Geographic Communities
Intro to GIS
Defined Populations as communities


Daniel "Duke" Price EdD, REHS

Joann Bodurtha Ph.D.
John Quillin Ph.D. 

 

September 22
5 - 5.50 pm

6 - 6.50 pm
7 - 7.50 pm

Home environment; Introduction to Genetics
Home water objectives
OnSite Handouts
Introduction to
Genetics & Public Health

 Dianne Woolard Ph.D..

 

September 29
5 - 5.50 pm
6 - 6.50 pm
7 - 7.50 pm 

Surveillance
Why Surveillance
Types of Surveillance
Surveillance Examples

James Cotter Ph.D. 

 

October 6
5 - 5.50 pm
6 - 6.50 pm
7 - 7.50 pm

Introduction to Aging
Cultural effects
Behavioral Effects
Prevention Issues


James May Ph.D. 

October 13
5 - 5.50 pm
6 - 6.50 pm
7 - 7.50 pm

Mental Health Issues
Mental Health
Mental Retardation
Substance Abuse

Mid Term Exam

David Compton MD MPH
Leonard Vance Ph.D. CIH

 

October 20
5 - 5.50 pm
6 - 6.50 pm
7 - 7.50 pm 

Occupational Health/Industrial Hygiene
Occupational Medicine
Industrial Hygiene
Introduction to Carcinogenesis

Mid Term Exam due October 21

 
Julia Murphy DVM, MS, DACVPM

Kim Buttery

 

October 27
5 - 5.50 pm
6 - 6.50 pm
7 - 7.50 pm

Zoonoses & Animal Control
Zoonotic Diseases
Zoonoses Examples
Animal Control


Horace Parham
Kim Buttery

 

November 3
5 - 5.50 pm
6 - 6.50 pm
7 - 7.50 pm


Food Service
State Health Laws
State Health Laws (Overview)

 Stephen Rothemich MD
Michael Evans MSW
Kim Buttery MD

 

November 10
5 - 5.50 pm
6 - 6.50 pm
7 - 7.50 pm

Primary Care
The Physician
Case Management
Epidemiology of Primary Care


Bethany Geldmaker Ph.D.
Joan Corder-MAbe RN MPH
Joan Corder-MAbe RN MPH
 

November17
5 - 5.50 pm
6 - 6.50 pm
7 - 7.50 pm

Women’s & Children’s Programs
Children’s Services
Women’s Health Care
Perinatal Programs


Jack O. Lanier Dr.PH

 

November 24
5 - 5.50 pm
6 - 6.50 pm
7 - 7.50 pm 

Underserved Populations
 or
Health Care Reform


Sheryl Garland MHA
Michelle Chesser Ph.D.
Judith Cash

 

 

December 1
5 - 5.50 pm
6 - 6.50 pm
7 - 7.50 pm 

Community Programs
Medical Center Hospitals (ambulatory care)
Joint Commission on Health Care
Virginia Health Care Foundation.

Click for FINAL EXAM

Kim Buttery

 

December 7

Submit Final Exam by 11.59 p.m. .

The above lectures are supported by this
Set of Essays focusing on a Local Health Department's Functions
You may find this set of bookmarks useful for searching the web to support this course
PowerPoint Support Files
Each lecture reading may be supplemented by v
isits to the Internet