Graduate Courses
One of our greatest strengths is our base in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health – the world’s leading and largest school of public health. Through our home, we have the opportunity to design and offer formal coursework on a variety of injury prevention topics.
The following are recent graduate-level courses at the Johns Hopkins University, taught by faculty within JH-IIRU:
Introduction to Global Health Economics
First term
Andres Vecino-Ortiz
Students who want to understand the fundamental economic principles and concepts that drive health systems and health services around the world are welcome to this course. During this course, students will acquire the required knowledge to critically assess and address the challenges and opportunities that will need in their future positions either as researchers or decision-makers.
IH Interprofessional Seminar Series Part 1: Cross-disciplinary Connecting and Communicating with Clarity
First term
Nukhba Zia
Making connections across disciplines is an essential strategy for public health work to succeed. This course sheds light on the importance of those connections, as well as builds skills for communicating effectively in a variety of modes.
Confronting the Burden of Injuries: A Global Perspective
Second term
Nukhba Zia and Abdulgafoor Bachani
Provides an understanding of approaches to measuring the burden of injuries around the world and familiarizes students with current estimates of the burden of injuries in the global and developing world.
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Applying Summary Measures of Population Health to Improve Health Systems
Second term/Summer Institute
Abdulgafoor Bachani and Andres Vecino-Ortiz
Explores the conceptual basis and application of summary measures of population health status. Presents approaches to measuring the burden of disease in populations and their use for guiding resource allocation and planning efficient and equitable health care systems.
Health Systems Research and Evaluation in Developing Countries
Third term
Qingfeng Li and Nukhba Zia
Builds an understanding of the purpose and nature of health systems research and evaluation (HSRE) as a multi-disciplinary endeavor with scope for diverse inferences.
Hospital-Based Injury/Trauma Surveillance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Fourth term/Summer Institute
Abdulgafoor Bachani and Kent Stevens
Examines the high, and growing, global injury burden with a focus on low- and middle-income countries. Establishes the need for and complexities of establishing and maintaining reliable injury surveillance systems in low- and middle-income countries.
Communicating Research in Global Health: From Evidence to Practice
Summer Institute
Nukhba Zia
Addresses the critical gap in effectively communicating research into actionable messages geared towards a diverse audience.
Globalization and Health: Framework for Analysis
Summer Institute
Andres Vecino-Ortiz
Evaluates in depth the influence of globalization on population health across the four main dimensions of globalization (economic, political, cultural and environmental) through theory and case studies.