电子游戏软件’s new program in 全球 Public 健康 and the Common Good, the first academic initiative of the University’s Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and 社会, 今年秋天会开设新的本科辅修课程吗, with an anticipated major in 2021 and an ambitious 电子游戏正规平台 agenda during the next five years, according to program director Professor of Biology Philip J. 兰德里根,M.D.
A 1963 alumnus and a respected authority on public and children’s health who joined the BC 教师 last summer, Landrigan has developed a five-year vision for the program focused on education, 服务, and 电子游戏正规平台 to support the next generation of public health leaders.
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“The program in 全球 Public 健康 and the Common Good at 电子游戏软件 will align closely with BC’s educational and spiritual missions because public health is deeply rooted in a philosophy of social justice and ethics, 努力消除卫生方面的不公平现象, 并体现了对穷人的优先选择,兰德里根说, 儿科医生和流行病学家.
The Schiller Institute will serve as the cornerstone of a new, $160-million integrated science teaching and 电子游戏正规平台 facility slated to break ground on campus later this year and open in 2021.
去年秋天，兰德里根推出了 全球公共卫生观察站 to study efforts to control pollution and prevent pollution-related diseases that account for an estimated nine million deaths worldwide each year. He and Vice Provost for 电子游戏正规平台 and Academic Planning and DeLuca Professor Thomas Chiles also signed a memorandum of understanding with United Nations Environment, establishing the observatory’s first partnership in advance of a study of pollution in India.
Landrigan says the newly established 全球 Public 健康 program will complement its predecessor, the highly regarded three-course sequence in public health that 教师 in the School of Social Work, 康奈尔护理学院, and the Lynch School of Education and Human Development established during the past four years. 全球 Public 健康 is also designed to align with BC’s renowned programs in medical humanities and pre-health.
已经, the 全球 Observatory has established a 电子游戏正规平台 collaboration with the Center for Climate, 健康, 以及哈佛大学的全球环境教授.H. 陈公共卫生学院. Landrigan says he expects to build additional connections with 电子游戏正规平台 and medical institutions in Boston.
“A source of great strength for the program in 全球 Public 健康 is BC’s proximity to Boston, the city with the world’s greatest concentration of biomedical and public health 电子游戏正规平台,兰德里根说. “Partnerships with our sister institutions in the Boston area offer the program unparalleled opportunities for collaboration in 电子游戏正规平台 and education.”
“The program in 全球 Public 健康 and the Common Good at 电子游戏软件 will align closely with BC’s educational and spiritual missions because public health is deeply rooted in a philosophy of social justice and ethics, 努力消除卫生方面的不公平现象, 并体现了对穷人的优先选择.”
除了在印度的电子游戏正规平台, 公元前本科, 还有电子游戏正规平台生, 教师, and staff will undertake a range of 电子游戏正规平台 projects during the next five years on topics slated to include:
•全球污染与儿童健康
•Loss of cognitive function caused by early-life exposure to fine particulate air pollution
•Impact of pollution on cardiovascular disease and death
•Impact of particulate air pollution on risks of diabetes and of chronic kidney disease
•汞在全球疾病总负担中的作用
The program will oversee international and domestic 服务 missions that give students the opportunity to encounter “first-hand the social, 政治, 经济, and environmental factors that powerfully shape health and disease” in an 经济ally diverse mix of countries, 根据兰德里根的设想. 这是该计划的第一次任务, 与教会和事工的同事合作, 去年夏天带了12名本科生去洪都拉斯.
Chiles says the 全球 Public 健康 and the Common Good program draws on the strengths of current 教师 and staff and sets the stage for the University’s expansion of teaching, 电子游戏正规平台, 以及在战场上的服务. “Phil’s vision for this new program charts an ambitious course for the University, 我们的教师, 和学生. Our 全球 Public 健康 and the Common Good program aligns with our strengths in 电子游戏正规平台 and teaching, 我们的耶稣, 天主教的使命, and the many critical issues the world faces when it comes to the health of the planet and the people who share it.”
Landrigan says establishing the academic programs and initiatives in 服务 and 电子游戏正规平台 will leave students thoroughly prepared to work in the global public health field.
“The intellectual foundation of public health lies in the rigorous study of patterns and causes of disease in populations, 使用流行病学和生物统计学的工具,兰德里根说, who spent many years with the Centers for Disease Control early in his career. “Mastery of the core skills requires therefore that students pursue a structured curriculum that covers these basics and then gives them opportunity to apply their newly acquired skills to study a diverse array of health problems ranging from the spread of measles among schoolchildren, 全球癌症模式的变化, to environmental causes of rising rates of cardiovascular disease.”
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