Health: Science, Society, and Policy (RMI)

描述（由申请人提供）：我们的生活方式一直影响着健康。这一点在21世纪尤为明显。然而，对健康的研究通常侧重于疾病的生物学，而不是社会、经济、政治和健康的生物学决定因素之间复杂的相互作用或卫生保健服务的提供。布兰迪斯大学新开设的本科专业“健康：科学、社会和政策”（HSSP）改变了这一点。这门独特的、基本上是跨学科的专业和辅修课程将利用生物和社会科学、人文科学、政策和管理研究来调查一项基本人权——“享有可达到的最高标准的健康……”不分种族、宗教、政治信仰、经济或社会条件。”（1946年，世界卫生组织组织法）。HSSP课程侧重于一系列广泛的问题，包括美国和世界各地健康和医疗保健的社会、文化、经济和生物决定因素。它的学生将学习蛋白质合成的过程，并努力理解多样性、社会排斥、权利和社会契约的概念。我们相信，与传统的院系赞助专业相比，这个项目将为学生准备更广泛的健康相关专业。本申请要求资金支持与HSSP计划的发展和实施有关的三个具体目标。这些都是:1)创建HSSP项目的核心组成部分之一——一个关于健康的综合研讨会，作为HSSP项目中老年人的顶点课程；2)支持HSSP提供的关键流行病学课程在未来几年的课程开发和完善；3)发展和协调必要的“实践”经验的机会，使学生能够应用他们通过在健康导向组织实习或与教师合作开展原创性健康相关研究项目而获得的知识。Elizabeth Goodman医学博士，布兰代斯大学儿童和青少年健康教授，将领导这一课程建设工作，并与来自艺术与科学学院和海勒社会政策与管理学院的高度跨学科合作教师小组合作。代表系包括生物学、神经科学、心理学、人类学、社会学、卫生政策和国际可持续发展。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): How we live has always influenced health. This has never been truer than in the 21st century. Yet the study of health usually focuses on the biology of disease, not on the complex interplay of the social, economic and political, and biological determinants of health or delivery of heath care services. Brandeis University's new undergraduate Program, Health: Science, Society and Policy (HSSP), changes that. This distinctive and fundamentally interdisciplinary major and minor will draw on the biological and social sciences, the humanities, and policy and management studies, to investigate a basic human right--"the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health...without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition." (1946, Constitution of the World Health Organization). The HSSP curriculum focuses on a broad array of issues, including the social, cultural, economic, and biological determinants of health and health care in the United States and throughout the world. Its students will study the process of protein synthesis and grapple with the concepts of diversity, social exclusion, entitlements, and social contracts. We believe this program will prepare students for a wider range of health-related professions than traditional departmentally sponsored majors. This application requests funds to support three specific aims related to the development and implementation of the HSSP Program. These are: 1) To create one of the core components of the HSSP Program--an integrative seminar on health which will serve as a capstone course for Seniors in the HSSP program, 2) To support course development and refinement over the coming years for the pivotal epidemiology course offered by HSSP, and 3) To develop and coordinate opportunities for a required "hands on" experience in which students can apply the knowledge they have gained either through an internship in a health-oriented organization or working with faculty to conduct an original health-related research project. Elizabeth Goodman, MD, Professor of Child and Adolescent Health at Brandeis, will lead this curriculum building effort with input from a highly interdisciplinary group of collaborating faculty from the College of Arts and Sciences and the Heller School for Social Policy and Management. Represented departments include biology, neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, sociology, health policy, and sustainable international development.