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3 CMED6913 Measuring the spatial built environment for public health Coordinator: Dr Chinmoy Sarkar Credit Units: 3 Pre-requisite: No Built environment, the communities they support and human health are intrinsically interlinked. This course will introduce the science and practice of Healthy Cities through a holistic overview of the linkages between urban built environment and public health and introduce objective GIS-based methodologies to spatially measure the built environment to study their impacts on health. Close

CMED6216 Personalised public health Coordinator: Dr Dennis Ip Credit Units: 3 Pre-requisite: No Genetics is the study of variation in the genome, its inheritance, and its contribution to health and disease. Public health genetics focuses on the public health implications of advances in genetic and molecular science for preventing disease and for protecting and improving the health of the population. The curriculum will be centred on an understanding how genetic and environmental factors work together in determining disease susceptibility in individuals and populations. The course addresses the implications of these developments for health services, and the ethical, legal, cultural, economic and policy issues involved in applying genomics to public health. Close

CMED6109 Accounting and financial management in health care Coordinator: Dr Sammy Fung Credit Units: 3 Pre-requisite: No This course is designed to introduce students to financial accounting, management control and financial management concepts in the healthcare industry. Topics include (1) understanding of financial statements, management of working capital, and financial statement analysis, (2) cost behavior and analysis, cost allocation, activity-based costing, departmental cost allocation, budgeting, responsibility accounting, and variance analysis, (3) time value of money, financing, cost of capital, and capital budgeting. This course uses a number of cases to demonstrate the applications of concepts in healthcare environment. The course will be taught via lectures and case-based approach, which requires student’s commitment to read and prepare ahead of each lecture, and to participate in the discussion during the lecture. Close

3 CMED6704 Health behaviour and communication Coordinator: Dr W Lam Credit Units: 3 Pre-requisite: No This course provides a comprehensive review of the social and behavioural science theories commonly used in public health. The utility of these theories in planning, implementing, and evaluating public health interventions and programs will be critically examined. The theories addressed in this course are not limited to the individual-level, but also that take a broader perspective and examine the role of health communication in influencing health behaviours. Close

CMED6106 Advanced virology Coordinator: Credit Units: 3 Pre-requisite: A Bachelor of Science degree in biology or immunology or equivalent. Prior approval of the HKU-Pasteur Research Pole. Each year the course focuses on a different set of viruses/diseases that are relevant for public health in Asia and worldwide. Topics include: epidemiology, molecular and cellular biology of viruses; virus/host molecular interactions; pathogenetic mechanisms, prevention strategies against viral diseases and therapeutical approaches. Lectures are given by internationally renowned scientists, workshops/round tables are supervised by junior faculty members, and practical sessions organized together with local and/or invited faculty members. Close

CMED6100 Introduction to biostatistics Coordinator: Dr E Lau Credit Units: 3 Pre-requisite: No Biostatistics concerns the collection, analysis, interpretation and presentation of biological data. Specific applications include epidemiology, clinical trials and public health. This course covers descriptive statistics and elementary probability, and introduces basic topics in inferential biostatistics, including regression, confidence intervals and hypothesis tests. The course provides students with introductory skills in biostatistics to complete their capstone reports; therefore its primary focus is on the practical use and interpretation of statistical methods. Close

CMED6020 Advanced statistical methods I Coordinator: Dr EHY Lau Credit Units: 3 Pre-requisite: CMED6100 Introduction to biostatistics This course covers generalized linear models, meta-analysis, and instrumental variable analysis. This course will provide a practical overview of commonly used biostatistical methods, building on the basic methods introduced in CMED6100. Close

CMED6218 Human health: futures in a globalized world Coordinator: Prof R Fielding Credit Units: 3 Pre-requisite: No This “big picture” course has as its focus the implications of environmental degradation and global warming for the next 25 years. Globalization, economics, resource depletion, food and agricultural issues, population change and societal reactions, and climatological impacts from current patterns of human population behaviour within an ecological systems-based perspective to infer likely futures and their health implications are explored. In particular, students examine current trends and models to attempt to estimate emerging public health issues and hazards linked to these. Close

CMED6104 Emerging infectious diseases and "one health" Coordinator: Prof JSM Peiris / Dr H Yen Credit Units: 3 Pre-requisite: No Emerging infectious diseases continue to pose major threats to global public health, SARS, MERS, pandemic influenza, Ebola and Zika being recent examples. Many of these emerge through inter-species transmission from animals. The factors that contribute to emergence of such diseases and of other zoonotic diseases include environmental, ecological, societal, microbial and host factors. A “One Health” approach that envisions an integrated approach to enhancing the health of humans, animals and the environment is a paradigm relevant to responding emerging infections. This interactive course is designed for postgraduate students who are interested in understanding the factors that contribute to infectious disease emergence, their prevention, and control. Close

CMED6220 Health informatics Coordinator: Dr Ashish Joshi Credit Units: 3 Pre-requisite: CMED6901 Health leadership and management This course will provide students with an introduction to the fundamentals of population health informatics, its history, relevant concepts and related informatics domains. The course will further describe the fundamentals of computing, data, information and knowledge principles, information architecture of population health systems and role of data standards in the development of population health information systems. Students will be introduced to some of the examples of applications of health informatics such as personal health record, electronic health record, telehealth, decision support system, mobile health and other emerging technological innovations that can contribute to the improvement of population health. The course will also provide students with a knowledge of issues related to privacy, security and confidentiality related to health data collection, storage, and its processing. Students will also be introduced to concepts of evaluating quality of health information on the internet and design principles that need to be taken into consideration when developing human centered health information systems. Close

CMED6204 Health and society Coordinator: TBC Credit Units: 3 Pre-requisite: No This course provides an overview of the field of social determinants of health, and will focus on the theories, measurement tools, and analytical methods for investigating the causal influence of social contexts and social variables on population health. ​ By the end of the course, students will be familiar with basic concepts in the field, including the prevention paradox and the two strategies to prevention; the measurement of socio-economic (SES) status and the mechanism of its association with health outcomes; absolute vs. relative concepts of poverty; compositional vs. contextual influences of neighborhood environments on health; the measurement of social networks, social support, and social capital, and how each concept is related to health; the demand/control model of job stress; and policies to tackle social inequalities in health. Close

3 CMED6912 Environmental health hazards and interventions Coordinator: Dr Linwei Tian Credit Units: 3 Pre-requisite: No This is a foundation course in environmental health which addresses how the environmental factors may adversely affect human health and what can done to prevent or minimize the negative impact of environmental health hazards. Whereas environmental science tends to address how human beings affect the environment, this public health oriented course focuses on how the environment may adversely affect human health. Topics include: exposure and dose; hazard and risk; natural and anthropogenic factors; physical, chemical and biological hazards in the air, water, soil and food; local and global environmental health issues. Close