The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s OPEN COURSE WARE (OCW) project provides access to the content of the school’s most popular courses. As challenges to the world’s health escalate daily, the school feels a moral imperative to provide equal and open access to information and knowledge about the obstacles to the public’s health and their potential solutions. The following courses taught by the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit (JH-IIRU) faculty are available for free access on OCW: Training and Education
Course: Confronting the Burden of Injuries: A Global Perspective
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Course instructors: Adnan Hyder
Course description: This class provides an understanding of approaches to measuring the burden of injuries around the world and familiarizes students with current estimates of the burden of injuries in the global and developing world. Students will develop basic skills for assessment of injury epidemiology and an appreciation of how to use these measures for planning interventions for injury prevention. The course also creates awareness of the economic implications of injuries in the developing world and promotes effective use of data for appropriate policy analysis for reduction of injury burden.
Course: Using Summary Measures of Population Health to Improve Health Systems
Course instructors: Adnan Hyder, Abdulgafoor M. Bachani, Prasanthi Puvanachandra, and Richard Morrow
Course description: This course explores the conceptual basis and application of summary measures of population health status. It presents approaches to measuring the burden of disease in populations and their use for guiding resource allocation and planning efficient (and equitable) health care systems. Lectures, discussions, and group exercises focus on composite indicators, exploring social and ethical value choices, and assessing the burden of disease at national level.
Course: Road Traffic Injury Prevention and Control in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
The Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit (JH-IIRU) is pleased to offer a free, online training certificate program on Road Traffic Injury Prevention and Control in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (RTIP), hosted via the platform TRAMS. Comprised of six required multimedia educational modules, and one optional advanced module, this comprehensive program covers a wide range of topics, from the basics of road traffic injury prevention to setting up injury surveillance systems, evaluating road safety interventions and influencing policy on road traffic injuries (RTIs). The lectures are taught by a variety of instructors, including JH-IIRU faculty as well as experts in the field of injury prevention control and trauma care from around the world.
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Road Safety Legislation Course
The World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit (JH-IIRU) is pleased to offer a free, online course developed to support capacity building in the field of road safety legislation. The course will allow participants to become familiar with how to develop evidence-based road safety laws and regulations and country-specific examples on how road safety is addressed in the legal sphere.
This free, self-paced course is open to anyone interested in road safety legislation.
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