Western Public Health Casebook 2020: Cases from the Schulich Interfaculty Program in Public Health

Authors

Gerald McKinley (ed)
Western University
Mark Speechley (ed)
Western University

Synopsis

The Master of Public Health Program (MPH) at Western University is a 12-month full-time program that incorporates a 12-week practicum. The MPH Program curriculum includes innovations such as case-method learning, Brown Bag seminars, Integrative Workshops, field trips and career counselling. The Brown Bag seminars allow the students to hear from and interact and network with practitioners from the field. The faculty of the MPH Program are drawn from various Faculties across campus, and represent a broad range of disciplines pertinent to public health.
Western’s MPH Program relies extensively on the case-based/experiential method of learning. The Program aims to deliver 60% of pedagogic material using the case-based approach – a unique feature not found to a similar extent in other MPH Programs worldwide. The case method of learning is not about the traditional lecture-style classroom setting, but is about the
student being an active part of the learning experience, which means learning by doing. It introduces complex and often ambiguous real-world scenarios into the classroom, forcing students to think and make decisions, often with incomplete and inaccurate data.

Chapters

  • Preface
    Amardeep Thind
    PDF
  • Acknowledgements
    Gerald McKinley, Mark Speechley
    PDF
  • Introduction
    Public Health in the Midst of a Pandemic
    Gerald McKinley, Mark Speechley
    PDF
  • CASE 1
    Policy Change and Public Health: Obstacles to Advocating for Public Health Interventions
    Mark Speechley, Sulaiman Alhalbouni, Erin Courtney
    PDF
  • CASE 2
    The Double Burden of Malnutrition: Challenges and Opportunities in Thailand
    Gerald McKinley, Leshawn Benedict, Phudit Tejativaddhana, Vijj Kasemsup, Seo Ah Hong
    PDF
  • CASE 3
    Coming Together to Promote Change: Best Practices to Prevent, Treat, and Manage Type 2 Diabetes in Indigenous Communities in Canada
    Sacha Bragg, Harsh Zaran, Regna Darnell
    PDF
  • CASE 4
    Opioid Crisis in the Windsor-Essex Community: Time for Responsible Opioid Prescribing?
    Mark Speechley, Debasree Deb, Nicole Dupuis, Eric Nadalin
    PDF
  • CASE 5
    The Precision of Aid: Remembering the Forgotten Disease in the Horn of Africa
    Janel Dhooma, Haytham Qosa, Ava John-Baptiste
    PDF
  • CASE 6
    No Fixed Address: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of a Program to Prevent Psychiatric Discharge to Homelessness
    Ava John-Baptiste, Marie Fiedler, Bryanna Lucyk, Cheryl Forchuk
    PDF
  • CASE 7
    Going Beyond Bike Racks and Pedestrian Crossovers: Achieving Health Equity in School Travel Planning
    Megan Graat, Andrew Clark, Jason Gilliland, Lloy Wylie
    PDF
  • CASE 8
    Is it too Late to Re-evaluate? Creating Client-centered Changes within Canada’s Medical Surveillance System
    Amardeep Thind, Fatema Jamaly, Monique St-Laurent
    PDF
  • CASE 9
    A Knot of Contradictions: Systems of Intersectionality and Muslim LGBTQ+ Mental Health Programs
    Amardeep Thind, Nour Kachouh, Harvir Sandhu
    PDF
  • CASE 10
    Changing the Service Delivery Model: How to Make it Happen?
    Mark Speechley, Shradha Pandey, Yoshith Perera
    PDF
  • CASE 11
    Going Beyond the Virus: Understanding the Drivers of the Ebola Virus Outbreak
    Ava John-Baptiste, Reshel Perera, Michel Deilgat, Suzanne Boucher
    PDF
  • CASE 12
    Prioritizing Emerging and Re-Emerging Non-enteric Zoonotic Infectious Diseases: What Should we be Afraid of Next?
    Jessica Schill, Michel P. Deilgat, Julie Thériault, Rukshanda Ahmad, Amanda Terry
    PDF
  • CASE 13
    Preparing for the Tickpocalypse
    Mark Speechley, Rayda Sheikh, Fatih Sekercioglu
    PDF
  • CASE 14
    A Sticky Situation: A Medical Problem with a Social Solution
    Amardeep Thind, Stephanie Susman, Natasha Crowcroft
    PDF
  • CASE 15
    Recovery Through Education: An Integrative Approach to Mental Health for the People, by the People
    Qi (Che) Xue, Andrew Johnson, Gerald McKinley
    PDF
  • CASE 16
    When the Midnight Train is the first of many: Dealing with Irregular and Unsafe Railway Crossings in the City of London
    Shannon L. Sibbald
    PDF

Author Biographies

Gerald McKinley, Western University

Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Schulich Interfaculty Program in Public Health
Western University
London, Canada

Mark Speechley, Western University

Professor
Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Schulich Interfaculty Program in Public Health
Western University
London, Canada

Sulaiman Alhalbouni, Western University

BMSc (Hons), MPH (Class of 2019)

Erin Courtney, Lambton College

EdD, RN (Professor, Lambton College)

Amardeep Thind, Western University

Director
Schulich Interfaculty Program in Public Health

Leshawn Benedict, Western University

HBSc, MPH (Class of 2019)

Phudit Tejativaddhana, ASEAN Institute for Health Development

MD, DHSM, MPA (Director, ASEAN Institute for Health Development)

Vijj Kasemsup, ASEAN Institute for Health Development

MD, PhD (Deputy Director, ASEAN Institute for Health Development)

Seo Ah Hong, ASEAN Institute for Health Development

PhD (Assistant Director for Education Affairs, ASEAN Institute for Health Development)

Sacha Bragg, Western University

BA, MPH (Class of 2019)

Harsh Zaran, Diabetes Alliance

Program Coordinator, Diabetes Alliance

Regna Darnell, Western University

PhD (Professor, Western University)

Debasree Deb, Western University

BSc, MSc, MPH (Class of 2019)

Nicole Dupuis, Windsor Essex County Health Unit

MPH (Director of Health Promotion, Windsor Essex County Health Unit)

Eric Nadalin, Windsor Essex County Health Unit

M.Sc. (Kin.) (Manager, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention, Windsor Essex County Health Unit)

Janel Dhooma, Western University

HBASc, R.Kin, MPH (Class of 2019)

Haytham Qosa, Canadian Red Cross

MD, MMedSciME, MPH (Health Advisor, Global Health Unit, Canadian Red Cross)

Ava John-Baptiste, Western University

PhD (Associate Professor, Western University)

Marie Fiedler, Western University

BHSc (Hons), MPH (Class of 2019)

Bryanna Lucyk, Lawson Health Research Institute

BA (Hons), Research Coordinator, Lawson Health Research Institute

Cheryl Forchuk, Western University

RN, PhD (Professor, Western University)

Megan Graat, Western University

BA (Hons), RKin, MPH (Class of 2019)

Andrew Clark, Human Environments Analysis Laboratory

PhD (Senior Project Coordinator, Human Environments Analysis Laboratory)

Jason Gilliland, Human Environments Analysis Laboratory

PhD (Director, Human Environments Analysis Laboratory)

Lloy Wylie, Western University

PhD (Associate Professor, Western University)

Fatema Jamaly, Western University

BA, RDH, MPH (Class of 2019)

Monique St-Laurent, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada

Assistant Director, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, Public
Health Liaison Unit, Migrant Health Branch

Nour Kachouh, Western University

BSc, MPH (Class of 2019)

Harvir Sandhu, Western University

BA, MPH (MPH Class of 2019)

Shradha Pandey, Western University

MBBS, MPH (Class of 2019)

Yoshith Perera, Moyo Health & Community Services

MBBS, MPH (2SLGBTQ+ Programs Manager, Moyo Health & Community Services)

Reshel Perera, Western University

BSc, MMASc, MPH (Class of 2019)

Michel Deilgat, Public Health Agency of Canada

CD, BA, MD, MPA, MEd, MIS (candidate). CCPE (Senior Medical Advisor and Editor-in-Chief, Public Health Agency of Canada)

Suzanne Boucher, Public Health Agency of Canada

BSocSc., BScN, RN (Senior Policy Analyst, Public Health Agency of Canada)

Jessica Schill, Western University

BScN, RN, MPH (Class of 2019)

Michel P. Deilgat, Public Health Agency of Canada

CD, BA, MD, MPA, MEd, MIS (candidate), CCPE (Senior Medical Advisor and Editor-in-Chief, Public Health Agency of Canada)

Julie Thériault, Public Health Agency of Canada

RN, BScN, MScPH (Nurse Consultant, Public Health Agency of Canada)

Rukshanda Ahmad, Public Health Agency of Canada

MBBS, MHA (Medical Advisor, Public Health Agency of Canada)

Amanda Terry, Western University

PhD (Associate Professor, Western University)

Rayda Sheikh, Western University

BSc, MPH (Class of 2019)

Fatih Sekercioglu, Safe Water, Rabies Prevention & Control, and Vector-Borne Disease

MSc, MBA, PhD, CPHI(C). Manager, Safe Water, Rabies Prevention & Control, and Vector-Borne Disease

Natasha Crowcroft, Dalla Lana School of Public Health

MSc, MD(PhD) (Director, Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto)

Qi (Che) Xue, Western University

BCR, MPH (Class of 2019)

Andrew Johnson, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

BA (Manager, Client and Family Education, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health)

Gerald McKinley, Western University

PhD (Assistant Professor, Western University)

Shannon L. Sibbald, Western University

PhD (Assistant Professor, Western University)

Book cover titled “Western Public Health Casebook 2020.” The cover has a dark gradient background with a central rectangular panel showing a collage of small photos of people in study or work settings. Above the collage is the subtitle “A collection of student case studies from MPH Graduates, Class of 2019.” The Western University logo appears at the bottom, along with the word “Western” in white text.

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Published

January 1, 2020

Series

Western Public Health Casebook
Copyright (c) 2020 Gerald McKinley, Mark Speechley; Sulaiman Alhalbouni, Erin Courtney, Amardeep Thind, Leshawn Benedict, Phudit Tejativaddhana, Vijj Kasemsup, Seo Ah Hong, Sacha Bragg, Harsh Zaran, Regna Darnell, Debasree Deb, Nicole Dupuis, Eric Nadalin, Janel Dhooma, Haytham Qosa, Ava John-Baptiste, Marie Fiedler, Bryanna Lucyk, Cheryl Forchuk, Megan Graat, Andrew Clark, Jason Gilliland, Lloy Wylie, Fatema Jamaly, Monique St-Laurent, Nour Kachouh, Harvir Sandhu, Shradha Pandey, Yoshith Perera, Reshel Perera, Michel Deilgat, Suzanne Boucher, Jessica Schill, Michel P. Deilgat, Julie Thériault, Rukshanda Ahmad, Amanda Terry, Rayda Sheikh, Fatih Sekercioglu, Stephanie Susman, Natasha Crowcroft, Qi (Che) Xue, Andrew Johnson, Gerald McKinley, Shannon L. Sibbald

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