Course Postponed - Certificate in Population Health and Well-being

Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar

In-person unit schedule (40 hours)


All times noted are in Doha, Qatar time

Module 1: Health and disease paradigm, population health and preventive medicine

Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss commonly used terms in population health and healthcare.
  • Discuss population health, its concepts, and challenges.
  • Examine determinants of health and disease: biological, social, environmental, occupational, and behavioral.
  • Outline steps to improve population health worldwide.
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Course Introduction
Introduction to population health, healthcare, and disease prevention
  • Define and explain commonly used population health and health care related terms.
  • Discuss natural history of disease and levels of prevention.
  • Describe briefly the complexity surrounding population health and health care.
Speakers:
Dr. Ravinder Mamtani
Dr. Sohaila Cheema
Population health and healthcare challenges
  • Discuss public health and healthcare changes and challenges surrounding them.
Speaker:
Dr. Ravinder Mamtani
Coffee Break
Health determinants
  • Explain the emerging, newer paradigm of health and disease.
  • Outline the major determinants of health and disease.
Speaker:
Dr. Ravinder Mamtani
Lunch
Unintentional injuries – Focus on road traffic crashes
  • Discuss injury and the burden of road traffic crashes.
  • Outline the science of road traffic injury prevention.
  • Examine the consequences and challenges associated with road traffic injuries.
Speaker:
Dr. Sohaila Cheema
Strategies to improve population health
  • Outline the evidence for the approaches that are effective.
  • Summarize principles of suitable, cost-effective population health strategies.
Speaker:
Dr. Ravinder Mamtani
Coffee Break
Social media and community engagement
  • Outline social media use in community engagement.
  • Summarize challenges associated with social media use.
  • Discuss best practices to utilize social media for community engagement.
Speakers:
Dr. Sohaila Cheema
Ms. Raji Anand
Module 2: Health quantitative sciences and evidence

Learning Objectives:

  • Recognize basic epidemiological, biostatistical and research concepts.
  • Discuss evidence-based approach to healthcare and medical practice.
  • Interpret published research findings.
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Basic concepts in research: measures of health and disease, research protocol
  • Discuss basic concepts of health research.
  • Outline steps in conducting research.
  • Describe briefly measures of health and disease.
Speaker:
Dr. Ravinder Mamtani
Central measures of tendency and their significance
  • Outline different types of variables used in research studies
  • Describe central measures of tendency
  • Interpret results from peer-reviewed journal articles
Speaker:
Dr. Karima Chaabna
Coffee Break
Study designs: descriptive and analytical studies
  • Discuss descriptive and analytical studies.
  • Summarize steps involved in conducting randomized trials.
Speaker:
Dr. Ravinder Mamtani
Lunch
Sampling, data collection, tabulation, presentation, and interpretation
  • Discuss sampling.
  • Summarize data collection methods.
  • Describe data tabulation and presentation.
Speakers:
Dr. Karima Chaabna
Dr. Sonia Chabaane
Tests of significance, correlation, and regression
  • Discuss tests of significance.
  • Explain p-value and confidence intervals.
  • Interpret tests of significance.
Speakers:
Dr. Karima Chaabna
Dr. Sonia Chabaane
Coffee Break
Screening in healthcare
  • Explain screening in healthcare.
  • Discuss criteria of screening tests.
  • Describe commonly used screening tests.
Speaker:
Dr. Ravinder Mamtani
Evidence based approach in healthcare
  • Discuss evidence-based practice in healthcare.
  • Describe the methodology of conducting systematic review and meta-analysis.
Speaker:
Dr. Karima Chaabna
Module 3: Health care systems and delivery

Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss healthcare delivery, and its opportunities and challenges. 
  • Summarize various traditional systems of medicine practiced around the world.
  • Review healthcare for people in disadvantaged situations.
  • Discuss cultural competence in healthcare systems.
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Introduction to health care delivery
  • Discuss health systems and their components.
  • Outline recent challenging trends in healthcare.
Speaker:
Dr. Ravinder Mamtani
Global health
  • Discuss the global burden of disease.
  • Examine the role of global health organizations in promoting health.
Speaker:
Dr. Ravinder Mamtani
Coffee Break
Social determinants of health with a special focus on health inequities
  • Review social determinants of health.
  • Explain health inequalities and inequities.
Speaker:
Dr. Amit Abraham
Lunch
Traditional (complementary and alternative medicine) systems of medicine
  • Define complementary and alternative medicine.
  • Discuss the role of complementary and alternative medicine in population health.
Speaker:
Dr. Sohaila Cheema
Legal aspects of healthcare
  • List various legal aspects relevant to medical/health practice.
  • Discuss medical malpractice and professional misconduct.
Speaker:
Dr. Ravinder Mamtani
Cultural competency and emotional intelligence in healthcare
  • Recognize the role of culture in health and healthcare decisions.
  • Define Emotional Intelligence and its four core skills.
  • Identify the impact of bias in healthcare disparities.  
Speakers:
Ms. Maha Elnashar
Ms. Huda Abdelrahim
Module 4: Burden of disease (Communicable and non-communicable disease)

Learning Objectives:

  • Outline the basic concepts of communicable diseases.
  • Summarize the epidemiology, causation, and control of commonly occurring communicable diseases including pandemics.
  • Discuss the epidemiology, causes and the disease paradigm of chronic (non-communicable) illnesses.
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Basic concepts of communicable (infectious) diseases
  • Explain basic concepts surrounding infectious diseases.
  • Describe salient features of emerging/persistent infectious diseases.
Speaker:
Dr. Ravinder Mamtani
Communicable diseases, their prevention and control
  • Describe the epidemiology of communicable disease.
  • Examine public health actions to prevent and manage communicable disease.
Speaker:
Dr. Amit Abraham
Coffee Break
Chronic diseases (non-communicable diseases - NCDs): epidemiology, prevention, and control
  • Identify major NCDs that contribute to the global burden of disease.
  • Describe key drivers of NCDs.
  • Summarize strategies for prevention and control of NCDs.
Speaker:
Dr. Amit Abraham
Mental Health
  • Discuss the epidemiology of mental health.
  • Summarize strategies to improve mental health.
Speaker:
Dr. Sohaila Cheema
Lunch
Lifestyle Medicine: An inspirational approach to healthcare
  • Review the evidence for lifestyle medicine in chronic disease management.
  • Summarize a practical approach to improving lifestyle health.
Speaker:
Dr. Ravinder Mamtani
Coffee Break
Building therapeutic bond with patients and communities
  • Summarize concepts of healing, cure, placebo, and context and meaning effects.
  • Discuss a practical approach on how best to establish healing alliance with communities and patients.
Speaker:
Dr. Ravinder Mamtani
Health literacy
  • Define health literacy and its role in health behaviors and decision-making.
  • Summarize the impact of social determinants on health literacy.
  • Explain the need for policies that support health literacy at the population level.
Speaker:
Ms. Jamie Gray
Module 5: Optimizing health and wellbeing: what more can we do?

Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss future of healthcare and population health.
  • Describe emerging concepts to improve health.
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Future of healthcare
  • Discuss the drivers of healthcare in the future.
Speakers:
Dr. Ravinder Mamtani
Dr. Sohaila Cheema
Public health crises
  • Discuss characteristics and types of crises.
  • Outline steps to manage and control crises.
Speaker:
Dr. Sohaila Cheema
Coffee Break
Misinformation and disinformation
  • Define misinformation and disinformation.
  • Outline steps to manage misinformation in community settings.
Speakers:
Dr. Ravinder Mamtani
Dr. Sohaila Cheema
Digital health, precision health, and artificial intelligence
  • Define digital health, precision health, and artificial intelligence.
  • Describe the concepts and methods that differentiate as well as integrate these fields.
  • Demonstrate practical applications of these fields with special relevance to Qatar and the region.
Speaker:
Dr. Puthen Veettil Jithesh
Module 5: Optimizing healthcare: what more can we do?

Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss the future of healthcare.
  • Describe emerging concepts to improve health.
Registration
  • Sign-in
Leadership in healthcare
  • Discuss leadership in healthcare environments and challenges associated with it. 
Speaker:
Dr. Javaid I. Sheikh
Coffee Break
Introduction to planetary health & sustainability
  • Define planetary health and sustainability.
  • Discuss the effect of climate and environmental change on human health.
  • Summarize solutions addressing climate and environmental change.
Speakers:
Dr. Sohaila Cheema
Dr. Amit Abraham
Lunch
Migrant health - Policy perspective
  • Describe migrant workers' healthcare access within Qatar.
  • Identify health constraints for migrants within the broader social and economic context.
  • Outline policy measures to improve labor migrants' health.
Speaker:
Dr. Zahra Babar
Health diplomacy
  • Describe health diplomacy.
  • Outline how countries engage in health diplomacy, and which countries are most likely to employ it.
  • Discuss successes and challenges that countries face in engaging in health diplomacy.
Speaker:
Dr. Mehran Kamrava
Coffee Break
Perspective at the confluence of pandemics: Of elephants overlooked in every room
  • Explain how COVID, planetary health, and chronic cardiometabolic diseases create a 'confluence' of interactive pandemics.
  • Discuss how the prior chronic disease pandemic greatly compounded the toll of COVID19.
  • Recognize the importance of clearly articulated comprehensive objectives to guide policy and practice through pandemic response.
  • Outline how in both clinical and public health practice, an ability to see the 'big picture' (i.e., the elephant in the room) is of ineluctable value.
Speaker:
Dr. David Katz
Reexamining public health priorities in the region
  • Describe health indicators across the region, including indicators of public health capacity.
  • Analyze the most salient social and economic determinants of health in the region.
  • Identify priority areas for investment and strengthening of public health systems.
Speaker:
Dr. Hanan Abdul Rahim
Sustainability of the global lifestyle medicine movement
  • Examine approaches to the institutionalization of lifestyle medicine in multiple countries around the globe.
  • Evaluate economic models to implement lifestyle medicine in various health care systems.
  • Discuss future opportunities for the growth of lifestyle medicine at a global level.
Speaker:
Dr. Wayne Dysinger
Coffee Break
Panel: Future of healthcare
  • Discuss public health in Qatar.
  • Describe the future of healthcare.
  • Discuss health policy and its challenges.
  • Outline the role of required health curriculum in schools to improve health of the people in the years ahead.
  • Review lifestyle health: A policy perspective on equity.
Moderator:
Dr. Sohaila Cheema
Speakers:
Sheikh Dr. Mohamed Bin Hamad Al-Thani
Dr. David Katz
Dr. Ravinder Mamtani
Dr. Hanan Abdul Rahim
Dr. Wayne Dysinger