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Initially I thought that I would research a topic in Public Health – something that I want to study in graduate school- and I was beginning to narrow down my topic to harm reduction, but I diverged from my syllabus significantly. Creating a syllabus in the beginning weeks helped me realize that I could plan a concrete project on tobacco use and analyze successful and unsuccessful intervention programs that have a harm reduction approach to tobacco consumption. As I was researching, I began to broaden my topic more and more. However, after reading Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity For Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, I knew that I wanted to change my research topic to rape laws in Pakistan. Needless to say, I have not been following my syllabus and have not taken the time to create one for my new topic. I think I will carve out a better plan by examining research material as I progress. In fact, I will most likely diverge again if I begin making a syllabus/ mind map for this topic because the more relevant questions I think of answering, the further away I get from my original topic. Consider this analogy: When you are in a dark room and you cannot see anything, you should not focus on looking at the thing you cannot see. Instead, it’s better to look to the side for the rod cells are sensitive to light.

I have been researching my new topic for a month now. I have to catch up on writing research journals. Also, I have to begin crafting interview questions that I would be asking different people. I have found a lot of sources for background information and at this stage I am concentrating on what are some important aspects of Islamic law and how they were introduced into Pakistan’s legal system.

Syllabus

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Macaulay Springboard 2014 – 2015

I. Rationale:

This course constitutes of a capstone project that will explore themes of disparities in public health, social medicine, and preventive interventions. With both a reflective and critical component, the one-year plan will tie what I have learnt from service learning projects previously and integrate it with evidenced-based research.

II. Course Aims and Outcomes:

Aims

The goal of this project is to build a thoughtful and well-structured eportfolio, which will serve to spread awareness on public health issues.

Specific Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this course, student will be able to:

  1. Understand the main components of public health, that is, population-based health programs, surveillance, and social justice.
  2. Master research skills by using various modes, ranging from social media to peer-reviewed journals.
  3. Undergo critical analysis of tobacco use and its adverse effects on public health with statistics.
  4. Identify factors affecting health disparities and explore intervention programs.

III. Format and Procedures:

Class meetings constitute of presenting assigned material/ research journal entry and providing constructive criticism.

IV. Tentative Course Schedule (Documentaries, additional readings etc. will be added as I go along)

August 29 (Introductions) – Overview of the springboard class.

September 5 – Discuss timelines, most influential texts, syllabi, research methods, and critique last year’s capstone projects.

September 12 (What is public health? What are the principles, practices, and policies of contemporary public health?) –

1. An Evaluation of the GlobalNetwork of Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programmes: A Resource for Improving PublicHealth Capacity and Increasing the Number of Public Health Professionals Worldwide. (http://ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=91261331&site=ehost-live)

2. Attention to Local HealthBurden and the GlobalDisparity of Health (http://ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=95817714&site=ehost-live)

3. Global Health in the 21st Century. (http://ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=94991298&site=ehost-live

September 19 (What are some of the top health issues and leading causes of death?) –

1.  The top 10 causes of death (http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs310/en/)

2.  The 10 leading causes of death by country income group (2012) (http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs310/en/index1.html)

3. Explore fact sheets on WHO websites.

September 23 (Understand the tobacco epidemic and find out data and analysis on tobacco control.) –

1. WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic 2013. (http://www.who.int/tobacco/global_report/2013/en/)

2. Find out about successful intervention programs such as Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI).

October 10 (Explore the role of tobacco in increasing risk factors such as pulmonary diseases, coronary heart diseases etc.) –

1. Prevalence of oral mucosal lesions in dental patients with tobacco smoking, chewing, and mixed habits: A cross-sectional study in South India. (http://ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=89621040&site=ehost-live)

2. Is There Any Association between Use of Smokeless Tobacco Products and Coronary Heart Disease in Bangladesh? (http://ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=79911691&site=ehost-live)

October 17 (How do policies on tobacco control effect the use?) –

1. Sweden SimSmoke: the effect of tobaccocontrol policies on smoking and snus prevalence and attributable deaths. (http://ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=96236555&site=ehost-live)

October 24 – 

Bayesian Approach to Zero-Inflated Bivariate Ordered Probit Regression Model, with an Application to Tobacco Use. http://ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=87045747&site=ehost-live

October 31 (What are some interventions taken to lower rates of tobacco use?)

1. “I would do anything for my child, even quit tobacco”: Bonus effects from an intervention that targets adolescent tobacco use. (http://ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=43112606&site=ehost-live)

2. Preventing TobaccoUse Among Young People in India: Project MYTRI. (http://ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=39655718&site=ehost-live)

November 7 (What are some interventions taken to lower rates of tobacco use?) –

1. Pilot evaluation of a population-based health intervention for reducing use of smokeless tobacco. (http://ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=6366367&site=ehost-live

2. Community-based model for preventing tobacco use among disadvantaged adolescents in urban slums of India. (http://ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=50985787&site=ehost-live)

November 14 – TBA

November 21 – TBA

December 5 – TBA

December 12 – TBA