The Foundations in Public Health: Epidemiology, Ethics and Health Care Systems course is taught by multidisciplinary faculty from the School of Medicine, Bloomberg School of Public Health and Berman Institute for Bioethics. Faculty use a combination of lecture, readings, interactive panel presentations, reflective writing and small-group discussion in this course. Students elect two “selectives” to attend within the course to study topics in greater depth; selectives meet three weeks in a row.

Course Goals

The overall goals of the course are:

• To develop basic knowledge and understanding of:
  • epidemiologic methods and their application to clinical medicine,
  • ethical principles that apply to clinical medicine and research, &
  • fundamental aspects of the American health care system;
• To explore selected areas of interest at the interface between public health and clinical medicine; and
• To stimulate interest in being an effective advocate for improving health and health care for the populations of patients that you will serve.

Course Directors

Eric Biren Bass, M.D., M.P.H.

Director, Johns Hopkins Evidence-based Practice Center
Director of the Foundations of Public Health Course in the School of Medicine
Co-Director of the Scholarly Concentration in Public Health and Community Service in the School of Medicine
Vice Chair for Faculty Development and Promotions, Department of Medicine
Professor of Medicine

 

Amit Kumar Pahwa, M.D.

Director, Internal Medicine Sub-internship, Johns Hopkins Hospital
Director Topics in Interdisciplinary Medicine High Value Healthcare
Associate Director, Pediatric Core Clerkship
Director, Health System Science Core Theme
Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Professor of Pediatrics

 

Epidemiology

Stephen Martin Sozio, M.D.

Nathans Faculty Leader, Colleges Advisory Program
Associate Director, Nephrology Fellowship Program
Associate Director, TL1 Predoctoral Clinical Research Training Program
Co-Director, Clinical Research Scholarly Concentration
Co-Director, Epidemiology Course
Chair, Institute for Excellence in Education Small Grants Mentoring Committee
Associate Professor of Medicine

 

Ethics

Jacek L. Mostwin, M.D., D.Phil.

Director of the Division of Neurological and Reconstructive Urology
Professor of Urology

 

Contact

Natrell Miller Darden
Medical Training Program Administrator
Email: ndarden1@jhu.edu

Brenda Zacharko
Administrative Coordinator
Email: bzachar1@jhmi.edu

Time Commitment and Course Length

Course meets 11 weeks from October to December. For the first 10 weeks, meetings occur on Tuesday afternoons from 2 to 4 p.m. In the last week, Epidemiology meets for five days in a row.

Typical weekly schedule for Foundations in Public Health: Epidemiology, Ethics and Health Care Systems