| Day |
Date |
Lecture Topic |
Instructor |
Reading |
Assignments Due in Class |
UNIT 1: What are the major health problems worldwide? |
| Mon |
6/04 |
L1: Course overview, Technology assessment, Intro to world health |
Dr. Rebecca Richards-Kortum/ David Javier |
Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 |
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| Mon |
6/04 |
L2: Health problems in developed and developing world: ages 0-4 |
Louise Organ |
Chapter 4 |
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| Tue |
6/05 |
L3: Health problems in developed and developing world: ages 15-44 |
Geoff Preidis |
Chapter 4 |
HW1
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| Fri |
6/07 |
L4: Health problems in developed and developing world: ages 45-60, Global health challenges |
Geoff Preidis |
Chapter 4 |
HW2 |
UNIT 2: Who pays to solve problems in healthcare? |
| Mon |
6/11 |
L5: Who pays for healthcare?, The need for healthcare reform |
Gwendolyn Hoben |
Chapter 5 |
Project Task 1
Project Guidelines
|
| Mon |
6/11 |
L6: How have health care costs changed over time?, What drives increases in health care costs?, Health care reform in Oregon |
Gwendolyn Hoben |
Chapter 6 |
|
| Tue |
6/12 |
Exam One |
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HW3 |
UNIT 3: How can technology solve healthcare problems? |
| Tue |
6/12 |
L7: How are new technologies developed? |
Louise Organ |
Chapter 7 |
|
| Tue |
6/12 |
L8: Pathogens and the Immune System |
Amit Mistry |
Chapter 8 |
|
| Wed |
6/13 |
L9: Vaccines, Impact on childhood diseases |
Amit Mistry |
Chapter 8 |
HW4 |
| Thu |
6/14 |
L10: HIV/AIDS vaccine development |
Mitali Banerjee |
Chapter 8 |
HW5 |
| Fri |
6/15 |
L11: Ethics of clinical research, Ethics of HIV/AIDS vaccine trials |
Mitali Banerjee |
Chapter 9 |
Project Task 2
Project Guidelines |
| Fri |
6/15 |
L12: Burden of cancer, how do cancers develop?, Importance of early detection, Se/Sp |
Anne van de Ven |
Chapter 10 |
|
| Mon |
6/18 |
L13: Cervical cancer, New screening technologies |
Dawn Nida |
Chapter 10 |
Project Task 3
Project Guidelines |
| Mon |
6/18 |
L14: Prostate cancer, PSA screening |
Nitin Nitin |
Chapter 10 |
HW6 & HW7 |
| Tue |
6/19 |
L14 ms/hs: Skin cancer |
Darren Roblyer |
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Project Task 4
Project Guidelines |
| Wed |
6/20 |
L15: Ovarian cancer, Cost-effectiveness of screening |
Nitin Nitin |
Chapter 11 |
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Project Task 5
Project Guidelines |
| Wed |
6/20 |
L15 ms/hs: Lung cancer |
Dawn Nida |
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| Thu |
6/21 |
Exam Two |
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HW8 |
| Thu |
6/21 |
L16: Burden of heart disease, Cardiovascular system, Heart attacks |
David Javier |
Chapter 12 |
|
| Thu |
6/21 |
L17: How do we treat coronary artery disease? |
Mohammed Yassen |
Chapter 12 |
|
| Fri |
6/22 |
L18: Heart failure |
Louise Organ |
Chapter 12 |
HW9
Project Task 6
Project Guidelines |
| Mon |
6/25 |
L19: Artificial heart, Clinical trials, Sample size calculation |
Anne van de Ven |
Chapter 13 |
Project Task 7
Project Guidelines |
UNIT 4: How are healthcare technologies managed? |
| Tue |
6/26 |
L20: Diffusion of technology |
Mike Cordray |
|
Project Task 8
Project Guidelines |
| Tue |
6/26 |
L21: Dietary Supplements, FDA approval and drugs and devices |
Lissett Bickford |
|
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| Wed |
6/27 |
L22: Future of Bioengineering & World Health I |
Richard Schwarz |
|
HW10 & HW11 |
| Wed |
6/27 |
L23: Future of Bioengineering & World Health II |
Dr. Rebecca Richards-Kortum |
|
Project Task 9
Project Guidelines |
| Thu |
6/28 |
Exam 3 @ 9AM |
|
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HW 12
|
| Thu |
6/28 |
Project Presentations |
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Project Task 10
Project Guidelines |
| Fri |
6/29 |
Final Exam @ 2PM |
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BIOE 301 - Bioengineering and World Health