Western Public Health Casebook 2015: Cases from the Schulich Interfaculty Program in Public Health

Authors

Mark Speechley (ed)
Western University
Amanda Terry (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

  • Dedication
    To the memory of Dr. M. Abdur Rab
    PDF
  • Foreword
    Mark Speechley, Amanda Terry, Amit Chakma, Michael Strong, Amardeep Thind
    PDF
  • Acknowledgements
    Mark Speechley, Amanda Terry
    PDF
  • Introduction
    What is case teaching in public health?
    Mark Speechley, Amardeep Thind, Ava John-Baptiste
    PDF
  • CASE 1
    Deciding Value for Money: Improving Prenatal Genetic Screening in Ontario
    Ava John-Baptiste, Dawn Beck, Julie Toole
    PDF
  • CASE 2
    Understanding and Developing Conceptual Frameworks and Causal Models in Maternal and Child Health Programming
    Amardeep Thind, Rupinder Chera, Stanley Zlotkin
    PDF
  • CASE 3
    Hospitals Don’t Burn: Caribbean Island Regional Hospital
    Jyllian Lippmann, Marlene Janzen Le Ber
    PDF
  • CASE 4
    Returning to Our Roots: Building Capacity in Public Health for Action on the Social Determinants of Health
    Giovanna Longo, Kevin Churchill, Lloy Wylie
    PDF
  • CASE 5
    Let’s Agree To Agree: Management Techniques in Calibrating Oral Health Screening Systems
    Sabrina Lopresti, Chimere Okoronkwo, Amanda Terry
    PDF
  • CASE 6
    Reducing Poverty in Canada: Public Policies & Population Health
    Amardeep Thind, Gracia Mabaya, Val Morrison
    PDF
  • CASE 7
    Integration of FP-MNCH Services to Accelerate Reduction of Maternal & Child Deaths: Bangladesh Experience
    Lloy Wylie, Umme Meena, Megan Rhodes
    PDF
  • CASE 8
    Mentor Mothers: Preventing Mother-To-Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS in Jinja
    Amardeep Thind, Safiyya Nazarali, Esther Buregyeya, Dyogo Nantamu
    PDF
  • CASE 9
    Combating Food Borne Illnesses Through Safe Food Handling Practices in the United Nations/African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), Sudan (A)
    Marlene Janzen Le Ber, Babajide Ogunjimi
    PDF
  • CASE 9
    Combating Food Borne Illnesses Through Safe Food Handling Practices in the United Nations/African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), Sudan (B)
    Dyogo Nantamu, Babajide Ogunjimi
  • CASE 10
    Youth as Change Agents
    Jenna Paulson, Thriveni S. Beerenahally, Shannon L Sibbald
    PDF
  • CASE 11
    Knowledge Dissemination and Private Well Water Testing in Middlesex County, Ontario
    Amanda Terry, Amanda Pellecchia, Fatih Sekercioglu
    PDF
  • CASE 12
    Health Operations in Emergencies (HOPE)
    Ava John-Baptiste, Yoshith Perera, Leonardo Hernandez, Ciro Ugarte
    PDF
  • CASE 13
    Chikungunya in the Americas: Estimating the Burden of Disease and the Cost of Illness
    Amardeep Thind, Ava John-Baptiste, Ciro Ugarte, Sydney Todorovich
    PDF
  • Integrative Workshops
    Mark Speechley, Amanda Terry, Amardeep Thind, Marlene Janzen Le Ber, Lloy Wylie, Shannon L Sibbald, Gerald P. McKinley
    PDF

Author Biographies

Mark Speechley, Western University

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

Amanda Terry, Western University

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

Amit Chakma, Western University

President, Western University

Michael Strong, Western University

MD, FRCPC, Dean, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry

Amardeep Thind, Western University

MD, PhD, Director, Schulich Interfaculty Program in Public Health

Ava John-Baptiste, Western University

PhD, Gerald P. McKinley, PhD, Shannon L. Sibbald, PhD

Dawn Beck, Western University

RN, MPH (MPH Class of 2014)

Julie Toole, Association of Ontario Midwives

RM, MHSc (Risk Management Specialist, Association of Ontario Midwives)

Rupinder Chera, Western University

MD, MPH (MPH Class of 2014)

Stanley Zlotkin, University of Toronto

MD, PhD (Chief, Global Child Health Hospital for Sick Children and Professor, University of Toronto)

Jyllian Lippmann, Western University

MPH (MPH Class of 2014)

Marlene Janzen Le Ber, Brescia University College

PhD (Assistant Professor, Brescia University College)

Giovanna Longo, Western University

RN, BScN, MPH (MPH Class of 2014)

Kevin Churchill, Lambton Public Health

MPH (Manager, Health Promotion, Lambton Public Health)

Lloy Wylie, Western University

PhD (Assistant Professor, Western University)

Sabrina Lopresti, Western University

RDH, Dip DH, BDSc, MPH (MPH Class of 2014)

Chimere Okoronkwo, Oral Health, Middlesex-London Health Unit

BDS, MPH, MSc (Manager, Oral Health, Middlesex-London Health Unit)

Gracia Mabaya, Western University

BHSc, MSc, MPH (MPH Class of 2014)

Val Morrison, National Collaborating Centre for Health Public Policy

BA, MA (Research Officer, National Collaborating Centre for Health Public Policy)

Umme Meena, Western University

MBBS, DRH, MPH (MPH Class of 2014)

Megan Rhodes, Maternal and Child Health Division, USAID

Deputy Division Chief, Maternal and Child Health Division, USAID

Safiyya Nazarali, Western University

BScN, CIC, MPH (MPH Class of 2014)

Esther Buregyeya, Makerere University School of Public Health

MBChB, MPhilHScOT, PhD (Senior Lecturer, Makerere University School of Public Health)

Dyogo Nantamu, Jinja District Local Government

MBChB, MPH, PGD M&E (District Health Officer, Jinja District Local Government)

Babajide Ogunjimi, Western University

MSc, MPH (MPH Class of 2014)

Jenna Paulson, Western University

MPH (MPH Class of 2014)

Thriveni S. Beerenahally, Institute of Public Health

MBBS, MPH (Faculty, Institute of Public Health)

Shannon L Sibbald, Western University

PhD (Assistant Professor, Western University)

Amanda Pellecchia, Western University

BHSc, MPH (MPH Class of 2014)

Fatih Sekercioglu, Middlesex-London Health Unit

MSc, MBA (Manager, Environmental Health Safe Water & Rabies Prevention and Control, Middlesex-London Health Unit)

Yoshith Perera, Western University

MBBS, MPH (MPH Class of 2014)

Leonardo Hernandez, Department of Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Relief

MD (Coordinator, Department of Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Relief, PAHO)

Ciro Ugarte, Department of Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Relief

MD (Director, Department of Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Relief, PAHO)

Sydney Todorovich, Western University

MPH (MPH Class of 2014)

Gerald P. McKinley, Western University

PhD, Associate Professor

Front cover of the Western Public Health Casebook 2015 features a purple background with the title in white text at the top. Below the title, a grid of small photos shows MPH students and graduates working on presentations, collaborating in group settings, and participating in classroom activities. White institutional logos are displayed along the bottom edge of the cover.

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Published

January 1, 2015

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Western Public Health Casebook
Copyright (c) 2015 Mark Speechley, Amanda Terry; Amit Chakma, Michael Strong, Amardeep Thind, Ava John-Baptiste, Dawn Beck, Julie Toole, Rupinder Chera, Stanley Zlotkin, Jyllian Lippmann, Marlene Janzen Le Ber, Giovanna Longo, Kevin Churchill, Lloy Wylie, Sabrina Lopresti, Chimere Okoronkwo, Amanda Terry, Gracia Mabaya, Val Morrison, Umme Meena, Megan Rhodes, Safiyya Nazarali, Esther Buregyeya, Dyogo Nantamu, Babajide Ogunjimi, Jenna Paulson, Thriveni S. Beerenahally, Shannon L Sibbald, Amanda Pellecchia, Fatih Sekercioglu, Yoshith Perera, Leonardo Hernandez, Ciro Ugarte, Sydney Todorovich, Gerald P. McKinley

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