PubH 6299
PubH 6299 Public Health is a Team Sport: The Power of CollaborationSaturday, May 31 and Sunday, June 1, 2008
A required course for Executive Program in Public Health Practice, Veterinary Public Health, Public Health Medicine, and Maternal and Child Health distance program students.
GET STARTED!
1) Register for the course via the One Stop online registration system. Use class number: 89466
2) Read the course syllabus and the below information carefully.
REQUIRED PRE-ASSIGNMENTS
ASSIGNMENT ONE: Select a book to read from a list of seven (see list below). Because we want to make sure a group of students reads each of the books, we are asking you to okay your book selection with Anne Ehrenberg.
The titles listed at the bottom of the page are linked to the Barnes & Noble description of the book for your convenience but these books are available at your local bookstore, library or online at sites such as amazon.com or barnesandnoble.com.
Please review the list of books and e-mail Anne with your decision. Depending on the size of the class, there will probably be about 5 people per book. Of course you are welcome to read more than one book! We just want to make sure that approximately the same number of people read each book. Feel free to e-mail your book selection request before you register if you are worried about having enough time to read.
ASSIGNMENT TWO: Take the online “What is Public Health?” module. Click on "Online Registration System" near the bottom of the page. You will be asked for your e-mail and password – BUT FIRST you will need to click on the bottom sentence that reads “New to this site? Register with us for access to training modules.” You will be asked for your e-mail and to select a password. A confirmation will be sent to the e-mail you provided. When you get that e-mail (about 30 seconds after you hit submit) follow the link within the e-mail to activate your account. Then you will be asked (again!) to put in your e-mail address and password. It will take you to a participant data form, complete that and hit "submit." THEN (phew!) you will be at the course. Of course, you'll only have to do all this once. If you want to go back to the module, just click on the above link and then enter your e-mail and password and you'll get right into the module.
ASSIGNMENT THREE: Read this article: Read Gardner, D (January 31, 2005) "Ten Lessons in Collaboration" Online Journal of Issues in Nursing. Vol #10, Manuscript1. Available free of charge at OJIN.
- Read Article (website)
- Read Article (pdf)
COURSE DETAILS:
Saturday, May 31, the class will be held in the Mississippi Room of Coffman Memorial Union on the East Bank Campus of the University of Minnesota. Class will begin on Saturday at 1:00pm and will end at about 8:00pm, after a group dinner.
Sunday, June 1, class will be held from 1:00pm-6:00pm in the Johnson Great Room of the McNamara Alumni Center.
East Bank Map (pdf)
Coffman Memorial Union
McNamara Alumni Center
Parking Information
CASE STUDIES:
Students will be assigned to one of four cases for discussion on day two of the class. Cases will be posted here for review closer to the start of the course.
Case Study #1 Foodborne Disease Outbreak Investigation
Case Study #2 MRSA
Case Study #3 I-35W Bridge Collapse
Case Study #4 Vaccine Controversy
HOUSING:
If you are planning to stay in the dorms during the three-week Public Health Institute let the housing office know, via your application form, that you are attending the Public Health Institute so they can try and place you with a roommate that is also attending the Institute!
Hotels within walking/busing distance (not an all-inclusive list)
SEE YOU IN MAY!
We are looking forward to seeing you all at this fun class. It will be a great chance to meet other Public Health Practice major students and learn about the interdisciplinary collaborations amongst the various professions.
Please let Anne Ehrenberg know if you have any questions!
1. Random Family : Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx. Author: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, published 2003, Scribner.
2. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies. Author: Jared Diamond, published 1999, WW Norton & Co, NY.
3. Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America. Author: Laurie Kaye Abraham, published 1993, U of Chicago Press, Chicago.
4. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer. A Man who Would Cure the World. Author: Tracy Kidder, published 2003, Random House.
5. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures. Author: Annie Fadiman, published 1997, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York.
6. Triangle: The Fire That Changed America. Author: David Con Drehle, published 2003, Grove/Atlantic Inc, NY.
7. When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution. Author: Devra Davis, Foreword by Mitchell Gaynor, published 2003, Basic Books.
