Interested in Health and Human Services?
Interested in Population or Public Health?
Interested in Research and/or Ethics as they apply to Public Health and Health Services?
The School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) is proud to announce the launch of two brand new undergraduate courses starting in January 2016. If you haven’t filled your timetable yet, please give them consideration.
SPPH 481a – Distributed Health Research Methods — ONLINE
This is introductory overview of approaches to conducting health research. Students incrementally develop a Research Proposal. Hosted on UBC on-line Edge EdX for distance learning. Intended for students planning a career in medical/health professions, and/or those applying to graduate programs.
No pre-requisites
For more information and a draft syllabus, please visit our website at http://spph.ubc.ca/courses/undergraduate-courses/ or you can contact the instructor, Dr. Ruth Elwood Martin at Ruth.martin@ubc.ca.
SPPH 481b – Public Health Ethics
This course addresses ethical issues related to interventions by governments at local, provincial or national levels aimed at promoting public health. Central issues include ethical presuppositions embedded in the concept of public health itself, the extent to which governments may restrict individual liberties in order to promote public health, and ethical dimensions of the concept of public health risk. No philosophical background is required.
No pre-requisites
Tues/Thurs 11:00 a.m. To 12:30 p.m.
For more information and a draft syllabus, please visit our website at http://spph.ubc.ca/courses/undergraduate-courses/ or you can contact the instructor, Dr. Daniel Steel at Daniel.steel@ubc.ca.
We are also pleased to announce that the popular IHHS 408 is now SPPH 408 – Topics in Indigenous Health: A community based experience, and is scheduled to run Summer 2016. Enrolment is limited and competitive.
Applications are due February 19.
If interested, please visit our website at http://spph.ubc.ca/courses/undergraduate-courses/ where you will find a course outline, an informational poster, and instructions for application.
Finally, we would like to remind students that SPPH now offers several of the IHHS courses previously offered by the College of Health Disciplines. They are open to all undergraduate students and qualify for the Interprofessional Passport Program. The courses that are being offered in January 2016 are:
SPPH 200 – Social determinants of health (formerly IHHS 200)
SPPH 406 – Aging from an Interprofessional perspective (formerly IHHS 406)
SPPH 410 – Designing health interventions (formerly IHHS 410)
SPPH 411 – Violence across the lifespan (formerly IHHS 411)
For descriptions, schedules and syllabi, click on the course on our website here. You can save these courses to your worklist or register for them here.
For summer 2016, we are also planning on offering another (larger) section of the popular
SPPH 200 – Social determinants of health (formerly IHHS 200)
And
SPPH 411 – Violence across the lifespan (formerly IHHS 411)
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