Public / Ocupational Health

Free Public and Ocupational Health training courses online

Catastrophic & Routine Public Health Interventions:  Its Ethical Challenges In this free course offered by the University of California, Berkeley; Prof Harvey Kayman presents a the course lecture in form of video recordings of his previous lectures with his students as he shared his thoughts with them.

Infectious Diseases: Epidemiology and Control Here Prof. Tomas Aragon presents this course to students online in a video that shows how he was discussing the course with his students at the University of California, Berkeley. This course is clearly a large topic that can be attacked from a lot of different perspectives.

Applied Epidemiology Using R This course is offered free by University of California, Berkeley and presented by Prof. Tomas Aragon The course involves a set of videos that were presented by him in his previous lectures to his students.

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Developing Countries: Urban Health This is a free course offered by Johns Hopkins University that enable students to explore the emerging public health issues associated with rapid growth of urban population in developing countries. The topics taught include physical and social changes, health care systems, public health repercussions, urban demographics, epidemiology and nutrition.

Impacts of the Environment on Public Health & Food Production. Johns Hopkins University offers this course free of charge to all interested students. The course will enable students have an clear understanding of the complex and dynamic public health issues of food security in a world of under-nourished and overweight population.

Public Health: A Social and Behavioral Aspect The course is a free one offered by Johns Hopkins University to students online. The course enables students develop basic literacy of social concepts and processes that influence health status and public health.

Toxicology: A Public Health Approach This course examines basic concepts of the environmental toxicology. The course is a free one from Johns Hopkins University to students online.

Public Health: Ethical Issues The course is another free course by Johns Hopkins University to online students. The course focuses on the ethical theories and current ethical issues in public health and health policy.  There are assignments that are available for download by the students.

Biological Public Health Johns Hopkins University offers this course freely to any interested student online. The course explores population biology and ecological principles underlying public health and reviews molecular biology.

Public Heath: The Impacts of Population Change The students in this course will discuss the elements of population studies and their cause and consequences of change in regard to public health. The course is offered free of charge to students online by Johns Hopkins University.

Impacts of Chemicals in the Environment on Toxicology and Public Health This is a free course offered at Massachusetts Institute of Technology that together with interested students focuses on solving the problems of defining a relationship between chemicals exposed to the environment and human diseases.

A course on Oral Public Health & Community Service The course is a free one by Tufts University to students online. The course looks at the impacts of health beliefs and risk behaviors on oral public health. The lecture notes and assignment notes are available online for download by students who take the course.

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Public Health: The History Johns Hopkins University offers this course freely to any interested student online. The course examines the historical experience of health and illness from a population perspective. The course includes downloadable audio and lecture notes.

Foundations of Primary Health Care: Social and Behavioral Approach This is a free course at Johns Hopkins University in which students are given the knowledge and skills needed to understand community, individual and organizational behaviors and change.

Personal preparedness planning for Public Health Workers This is a course by Johns Hopkins University that teaches public health workers how to understand and implement basic concepts of personal preparedness planning. The course provides free downloadable audio course and lecture notes.

Industrial Hygiene: Principles  The course is another free one offered by Johns Hopkins University to students online. The course introduces concepts, terminologies and methodology in the practice of industrial hygiene and identifies resource materials.