Foundations for Public Health
ID 100P
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Course Information
Description
This course will follow the exact same format as ID 100. It is the exact same course but a separate offering for PhD students only.
As future leaders and change agents of public health, this is a sobering and pivotal moment. Around the world today, the health gaps between the best and worst off have widened, and in no case is this more obvious than the United States. Intense changes in demographics, from population growth to urbanization, along with unprecedented shifts in patterns of disease and escalating transnational risks, are coupled with game-changing advances in technology and innovation. Superimposed on this already complex context, we are witnessing a mosaic of overlapping public health crises—from the domestic epidemics of structural racism, opioid addiction, and gun violence, and structural racism, to the global pandemic of COVID-19 and climate change. You have chosen to begin your journey at what can only be described as a historical moment for our field—the challenges never more sobering, the stakes never more consequential, and the possibilities never greater.
Class Notes
ID 100/ID100P is fully online and asynchronous. Incoming HSPH students will gain access to the course on Canvas in mid-July and are expected to complete all modules by August 26, 2025. Students will then register for the course in Fall 1. Grades will be posted at the end of the term.
ID 100P is for PhD students only. All other students should register for ID 100.
Please direct all questions about ID100 to Ying-Ju Lai, Educational Programs Project Manager, at ylai@hsph.harvard.edu.
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