Course Schedule IMPORTANT: ALL TIMES EASTERN - Please see the University Policies section of your Syllabus for details. Week Time Monday, August 14, 2017 Tuesday, August 15, 2017 Wednesday, August 16, 2017 Thursday, August 17, 2017 Friday, August 18, 2017 Week 1 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM 8:30 AM Introduction to MPH Program (John Garcia) 9:30 AM Public Health Ethics and Writing Assignments (John Garcia) 10:30 AM Groups on Provincial Public Health Systems (John Garcia) 11:00 AM Introduction to Faculty Contacts /Courses 8:30 - 11:00 AM Graduate Writing Services (Nadine Fladd) 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM Centre for Career Action (Erica Refling) 8:30 - 10:00 AM Listening to the Voice of the Population: Surveillance in Action (Patrick Seliske) Presentation Evaluation 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Future of Public Health (Heather Manson, Hsiu-Li Wang) Presentation Evaluation Environmental Health (Shannon Majowicz) Presentation Evaluation 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Historical Developments and Public Health Concepts (John Garcia) Presentation Evaluation The Organization of Public Health (David Williams) Presentation Evaluation Panel of students (representatives from each group) Lunch WATCard office WATCard office Visit Book Store 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Student Introductions Online Graduate Studies (Darcy White) Waterloo LEARN Orientation (Tammy Marcinko) AHS 1689 Public Health Systems, Leadership and Enabling Change (Heather Manson, Hsui-Li Wang) Presentation Evaluation Priority-Setting in International Public Health (Sue Horton) Presentation Evaluation MPH Student Participation in: SPHHS GSA (Emily Rutter, Somekene Igboanugo) Ontario Public Health Association (Melanie Sanderson, Michelle Suarly) Canadian Public Health Association (Matt Laird, Meghan Gilfoyle) Fall 2017 PHS 601 Online University of Waterloo Generated by Centre for Extended Learning Created 25/09/2017
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Course ScheduleIMPORTANT: ALL TIMES EASTERN - Please see the University Policies section of your Syllabus for details.
Week Time Monday, August 14,2017
Tuesday,August 15,2017
Wednesday,August 16,2017
Thursday, August17, 2017
Friday, August18, 2017
Week1
8:30 AM- 12:00PM
8:30 AM Introduction toMPH Program (JohnGarcia)
9:30 AM Public HealthEthics and WritingAssignments (JohnGarcia)
10:30 AM Groups onProvincial Public HealthSystems (John Garcia)
Online Monday - Module 1: Ethics and Public Health, Introduce Yourself, and Further Introduction ofYourself using the DropboxMonday to Thursday - Group Discussion on Ethics and Public Health Systems, ReadingThursday - Reading, Ethics and Public Health Quiz, and Is this Plagiarism? QuizMonday to October 2, 2017 - MPH and Your Personal Professional Development - WritingAssignment
Week2
Time Monday, August 21,2017
Tuesday,August 22,2017
Wednesday,August 23,2017
Thursday, August24, 2017
Friday, August25, 2017
8:30 AM- 12:00PM
8:30-10:00 AM, 10:30-11:00 AM Career inPublic Health andInfluenza Control (BrynaWarshawsky)Presentation Evaluation
Public HealthAlumni Panel(KalpitaGaitonde,PemmaMuzumdar,Wajma QaderiAttayi, ShelleyRussell)PresentationEvaluation
3:00 PM- 4:00PM
Group reflection and/ormeeting with WritingServices
Groupreflection
Groupreflection
Group reflection
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Courseevaluation/wrap-up
Evening 4:30 - 5:30 PM Advisormeeting with John Garcia(if needed, otherwise byappointment)
Farewell event
Online Group discussion Groupdiscussion
All online tasks dueby 1:00 PM with theexception of theMPH and YourProfessionalDevelopment -Writing Assignmentwhich is due byOctober 2, 2017 at11:55 PM
Complete Evaluationof OrientationActivities
Courseevaluation
Official Grades and Course Access
Official Grades and Academic Standings are available through Quest.
Your access to this course will continue for the duration of the current term. You will not have access to this courseonce the next term begins.
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Contact Information
Announcements
Your instructor will make announcements during the Foundations course as needed. Critical announcements will bemade both in class and on the Course Home page. Please check the Announcements section of the CourseHome page regularly in case you miss announcements that are made in class.
To ensure you are viewing the complete list of announcements, you may need to click Show All Announcements.
Discussions
A General Discussion topic* has also been made available to allow students to communicate with peers in thecourse. Your instructor may drop in at this discussion topic.
Since you will be seeing your instructor many days while you are on campus, please askyour questions in class as much as possible so that everyone can benefit from theanswers. You may also post your course-related questions to the Ask theInstructor discussion topic* to allow other students to benefit from your questions.
Questions of a personal nature can be directed to your instructor.
Your instructor checks email and the Ask the Instructor discussion topic* frequently andwill make every effort to reply to your questions within 24–48 hours, Monday to Friday.
ProfessionalGraduate ProgramsCoordinator,School of PublicHealth & HealthSystems
Questions regarding logistics, whether to do with the course or the program, should beaddressed to the Professional Graduate Programs Coordinator.
Professional Graduate Programs Coordinator: Michelle [email protected]
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Include your full name, WatIAM user ID, student number, and course name and number.
*Discussion topics may be accessed by clicking Connect and then Discussions on the course navigation barabove.
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Course Description and Objectives
Description
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness andall their powers as a state depend.” —Benjamin Disraeli
What is public health anyway? Why should the taxpayer pay for it? How does it work? What values underlie it? Howdoes it relate to the health care system and to other big issues like social justice and health equity?
The next two weeks will be a veritable feast of learning, as this course provides an opportunity for you to learn aboutthe broad philosophical, conceptual, historical, legislative and ethical context of public health practice in Canada.You will have conversations with eminent public health practitioners and researchers, people who have beendecisive in shaping our public health system and who will stimulate, move and challenge you – and who areprepared to be stimulated, moved and challenged by you.
You will also initiate an ongoing conversation with classmates from a wide variety of disciplinary, cultural andprofessional backgrounds, a conversation that will carry over into your distance courses, and, I hope, into youreventual practice as a public health professional. You will, effectively, begin to build your community of public healthpractice.
Objectives
By the end of the course:
you will understand the teaching approach of the MPH program and be able to use the basic tools continuingby online education;
you will have a shared language with which to talk about public health with your community of practice;
you will appreciate the scope, complexity and grandeur of public health as a social endeavour;
you will have started the path towards being a reflective public health practitioner and continuously improving,life-long learner; and,
you will begin to envision yourself as a part of the public health community of practice.
HOW WILL THIS COME ABOUT?
We have arranged for a variety of activities to help you reach these objectives.
1. Orientation sessions (to the program, the distance education environment, library resources, etc.).
2. Large group sessions featuring invited speakers.
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3. Selected readings from scientific and other literature*.
4. Face-to-face small group discussions.
5. Online group discussions*.
NOTE: Because the hours between 8:30 AM and 4:30 PM will be taken up with classroom work, you shouldallow 1-2 hours each evening in order to complete your readings and online work.
WHAT'S YOUR PART IN ALL THIS?
This course has been designed knowing that you are an adult with a sincere interest in learning and in contributingto the learning of others. You are responsible for your own learning in this course and throughout your MPH studiesin general. To do that effectively, you must be willing to read, to listen and to reflect on what you read and hear. Youmust also be willing to take the risk of expressing your opinions and participating in discussions with yourclassmates, identifying your differences respectfully and being open to the different opinions of others.
During the course there will be opportunities for self- and peer-assessment but, other than the various exercises,there will be no quizzes or exams. There is one writing assignment that must be completed by the date in theCourse Schedule. However, you may choose to finish it while on campus. To the extent that you participateconscientiously, thoughtfully and with active curiosity and engagement, you will leave this course ready and able totackle the remainder of the MPH program.
Bon appetit!
This online course was developed initially by Dr. Christina Mills, and subsequently revised by Dr. John Garcia,
with instructional design and multimedia development support provided by the Centre for Extended Learning.
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About the Course Instructor and Author
Course Instructor and Author — John Garcia
John Garcia is the instructor for the course.
John Garcia is a Professor of Practice and the Associate Director of ProfessionalGraduate Programs in the School of Public Health and Health Systems, Faculty ofApplied Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo. Since 2010, he has been theprogram leader for the Master of Public Health (MPH) program and serves as theGraduate Officer for all professional graduate programs in the School. He has morethan 35 years of public health practice experience in various public health, tobaccocontrol, and chronic disease prevention roles. John has worked at local, provincialand national levels in Canada and the United States; in leadership, policy advisory,advocacy and senior management roles; for and with public, private and voluntarysector public health organizations. He has three degrees from the University ofWaterloo in Health Studies and Gerontology, including a PhD in 2008. His research interests include capacitybuilding and community organization, knowledge exchange and organizational learning, and evidence-informedpublic health practice — particularly with respect to public health strategy and policy for tobacco control and chronicdisease prevention in diverse public health contexts. Currently, John is a Board Member of Public Health Ontario.
Course Author — Chris Mills
Christina Mills is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health and HealthSystems at University of Waterloo, and former Program Leader of the University’sMaster’s degree program in public health. She obtained her undergraduate degreesin political science and medicine at York University and McMaster University,respectively, and her specialty training in Community Medicine at the University ofOttawa. She has lived and worked in Latin America and Canada as a teacher, youthworker, translator, health educator, physician and public health practitioner. Duringmost of her public health career, she worked for Health Canada, where most recentlyshe was the founding Director General of the Centre for Chronic Disease Preventionand Control (now part of the Public Health Agency of Canada). She is President ofthe Board of Directors of Action for Health in the Americas, was a member of theBoard of the Ontario Public Health Association and a past president of the CanadianPublic Health Association. She has now retired from the Public Health Agency of Canada and assumed the role ofmanaging editor of MEDICC Review in Havana Cuba commencing in September 2010. Dr. Mills also currentlyteaches a selected topics course for students fluent in Spanish and interested in an onsite experiential learningopportunity in participatory and community-based strategies for health.
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Materials and Resources
Textbook
There is no required textbook for this course. You may wish to purchase or borrow several of the resourcesnoted below following the course.
Please review the course book for important course information.
Course Reserves
Course Reserves can be accessed using the Library Resources widget on the Course Home page.
1. Verity, C., Nicoll, A. (2002) Consent Confidentiality, and the threat to public health surveillance. BMJ; 324(7374):1210-13.
2. Leeder, S. R. (2004) Ethics and Public Health. Internal Medicine Journal; 34(7):435-439.
3. Public Health Leadership Society. (2002) Principles of the Ethical Practice of Public Health.
4. Tannahill, A. (2008) Beyond evidence – to ethics: a decision-making framework for health promotion, publichealth, and health improvement. Health Promotion International. 23(4): 380-390.
5. Verweij, M. and Dawson, A. (2012) Risk, Risk Groups and Population Health. Public Health Ethics 5 (3):213-215.
Highly Recommended Reading on Public Health History1. Last, J. (n.d.) Lessons from the history of public health. Monograph. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
Readings Related to Professional and Academic Ethics1. Principles of the Ethical Practice of Public Health Version 2.2, Public Health Leadership Society, 2002.
2. National Collaborating Centre on Health Public Policy -- Project on Public Health Ethics, including trainingmodules.
Websites Worth Bookmarking
AGENCIES AND ORGANIZATIONS:
1. BC Centre for Disease Control
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2. Canadian Institute for Health Information
3. CIHR Institute of Population and Public Health
4. Canadian Public Health Association
5. Canadian Society for International Health
6. Institute for Work and Health
7. Institut national de santé publique
8. Public Health Agency of Canada
9. Public Health Ontario
10. Health Canada
11. US Centers for Disease Control
12. UK Department of Health
13. World Health Organization
JOURNALS:
1. American Journal of Public Health
2. Canada Communicable Disease Report
3. Can J Public Health
4. Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: Research, Policy and Practice
5. Health Reports
6. Public Health Ethics
7. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
OTHER RESOURCES:
1. Community Tool Box
2. Healthy People
ResourcesLibrary services for co-op students on work term and distance education students
MPH Student Information Site
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Grade BreakdownNOTE: Numeric "grades" or "points" will not be assigned for these online activities. The activities will be markedfor completion only. A grade of pass or fail will be awarded upon completion of this course, and a course creditwill be placed on your transcript, based on your participation in the live classroom sessions, the online moduleand the writing assignment.
The following table represents the activities and assignments that must be completed as part of this course.
Activities and Assignments
Set Up Your Profile
Introduce Yourself
Further Introduction of Yourself Using the Dropbox
Ethics and Public Health Quiz
Group Discussion on Ethics and Public Health
MPH and Your Personal Professional Development - Writing Assignment
Evils of Plagiarism Quiz
There is no final examination in this course.
The online module consists of one online lecture (Module 1: Ethics and Public Health Outline), with links toresources made available by the National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy and optional discussionquestions,and various online Course Requirements - See above table.
Please note that the University of Waterloo also requires that you complete an Academic Integrity "milestone". Thisrequirement for all University of Waterloo graduate students will be explained to you by Dr. Rhona Hanning,Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences. Dr. Hanning will also outline Faculty ofApplied Health Sciences training and certification requirements. A special session is scheduled to take place duringthe second week of the Foundations course that will enable you to complete the Applied Health Sciencesrequirements while on campus.
To find your grades in this course, and in future courses that post online grades, please click Grades on the coursenavigation bar.
The online portion of this course is available during the entire two-week period that the live sessions are given andwill remain available for the duration of the current term. You will not have access to this course once the next termbegins.
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Course and Department Policies
School of Public Health and Health Systems PracticeRegarding Course Assignments and Examinations
For detailed information regarding late assignments, missed tests/examinations, and other department policiesapplicable to this course, please refer to the Practice Regarding Course Assignments and Examinations (PDF)document.
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University Policies
Submission Times
Please be aware that the University of Waterloo is located in the Eastern Time Zone (GMT or UTC-5 duringstandard time and UTC-4 during daylight saving time) and, as such, the time that your activities and/or assignmentsare due is based on this zone. If you are outside the Eastern Time Zone and require assistance with converting yourtime, please try the Ontario, Canada Time Converter.
Accommodation Due to Illness
If your instructor has provided specific procedures for you to follow if you miss assignment due dates, termtests, or a final examination, adhere to those instructions. Otherwise:
MISSED ASSIGNMENTS/TESTS/QUIZZES
Contact the instructor as soon as you realize there will be a problem, and preferably within 48 hours, but no morethan 72 hours, have a medical practitioner complete a Verification of Illness Form.
Email a scanned copy of the Verification of Illness Form to your instructor. In your email to the instructor, provideyour name, student ID number, and exactly what course activity you missed.
Further information regarding Management of Requests for Accommodation Due to Illness can be found on theAccommodation due to illness page.
MISSED FINAL EXAMINATIONS
If this course has a final exam and if you are unable to write a final examination due to illness, seek medicaltreatment and have a medical practitioner complete a Verification of Illness Form. Email a scanned copy to theCentre for Extended Learning (CEL) at [email protected] within 48 hours of your missed exam. Makesure you include your name, student ID number, and the exam(s) missed. You will be REQUIRED to hand in theoriginal completed form before you write the make-up examination.
After your completed Verification of Illness Form has been received and processed, you will be emailed youralternate exam date and time. This can take up to 2 business days. If you are within 150 km of Waterloo you shouldbe prepared to write in Waterloo on the additional CEL exam dates. If you live outside the 150 km radius, CEL willwork with you to make suitable arrangements.
Further information about Examination Accommodation Due to Illness regulations is available in the UndergraduateCalendar.
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Academic Integrity
In order to maintain a culture of academic integrity, members of the University of Waterloo community are expectedto promote honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility. If you have not already completed the onlinetutorial regarding academic integrity you should do so as soon as possible. Undergraduate students shouldsee the Academic Integrity Tutorial and graduate students should see the Graduate Students and AcademicIntegrity website.
Proper citations are part of academic integrity. Citations in CEL course materials usually follow CEL style, which isbased on APA style. Your course may follow a different style. If you are uncertain which style to use for anassignment, please confirm with your instructor or TA.
For further information on academic integrity, please visit the Office of Academic Integrity.
Discipline
A student is expected to know what constitutes academic integrity to avoid committing an academic offence, and totake responsibility for his/her actions. A student who is unsure whether an action constitutes an offence, or whoneeds help in learning how to avoid offences (e.g., plagiarism, cheating) or about “rules” for groupwork/collaboration, should seek guidance from the course instructor, academic advisor, or the undergraduateAssociate Dean. For information on categories of offences and types of penalties, students should refer to Policy 71- Student Discipline. For typical penalties, check Guidelines for the Assessment of Penalties.
Appeals
A decision made or penalty imposed under Policy 70 - Student Petitions and Grievances, (other than a petition) orPolicy 71 - Student Discipline, may be appealed if there is a ground. A student who believes he/she has a ground foran appeal should refer to Policy 72 - Student Appeals.
Grievance
A student who believes that a decision affecting some aspect of his/her university life has been unfair orunreasonable may have grounds for initiating a grievance. Read Policy 70 - Student Petitions and Grievances,Section 4. When in doubt please be certain to contact the department’s administrative assistant who will providefurther assistance.
Final Grades
In accordance with Policy 46 - Information Management, Appendix A - Access to and Release of StudentInformation, the Centre for Extended Learning does not release final examination grades or final course grades tostudents. Students must go to Quest to see all final grades. Any grades posted in Waterloo LEARN are unofficial.
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AccessAbility Services
AccessAbility Services, located in Needles Hall, collaborates with all academic departments to arrange appropriateaccommodations for students with disabilities without compromising the academic integrity of the curriculum. If yourequire academic accommodation to lessen the impact of your disability, please register with AccessAbility Servicesat the beginning of each academic term and for each course.
Accessibility Statement
The Centre for Extended Learning strives to meet the needs of all our online learners. Our ongoing efforts tobecome aligned with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) are guided by University ofWaterloo accessibility Legislation and policy and the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web ContentAccessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. The majority of our online courses are currently delivered via theDesire2Learn Learning Environment. Learn more about Desire2Learn’s Accessibility Standards Compliance.
Use of Computing and Network Resources
Please see the Guidelines on Use of Waterloo Computing and Network Resources.
Copyright Information
UWaterloo’s Web Pages
All rights, including copyright, images, slides, audio, and video components, of the content of this course are ownedby the course author, unless otherwise stated. These web pages are owned or controlled by the University ofWaterloo, Centre for Extended Learning. By accessing the web pages, you agree that you may only download thecontent for your own personal, non-commercial use. You are not permitted to copy, broadcast, download, store (inany medium), transmit, show or play in public, adapt, or change in any way the content of these web pages for anyother purpose whatsoever without the prior written permission of the course author and the University of Waterloo,Centre for Extended Learning.
Other Sources
Respect the copyright of others and abide by all copyright notices and regulations when using the computingfacilities provided for your course of study by the University of Waterloo. No material on the Internet or World WideWeb may be reproduced or distributed in any material form or in any medium, without permission from copyrightholders or their assignees. To support your course of study, the University of Waterloo has provided hypertext linksto relevant websites, resources, and services on the web. These resources must be used in accordance with anyregistration requirements or conditions which may be specified. You must be aware that in providing such hypertextlinks, the University of Waterloo has not authorized any acts (including reproduction or distribution) which, ifundertaken without permission of copyright owners or their assignees, may be infringement of copyright. Permissionfor such acts can only be granted by copyright owners or their assignees.
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