Fall - 2 Credits
The course is presented by means of lectures and videos on specific topic areas integrated with interactive discussions. The course topics provide students with knowledge and information necessary to understand the basic concepts related to health and disease, basic epidemiological concepts, disease causation and prevention, communicable and non-communicable diseases, contemporary topics in population health and medicine, global and public health, health care delivery and its challenges, health problems of low, middle and high income nations, and research and critical thinking in medicine and public health. Additionally, students explore a public health/population health related topic by producing a properly formatted research based presentation.