Health: Science, Society, and Policy (RMI)

描述(申请人提供)：我们的生活方式一直影响着健康。在21世纪，这一点比以往任何时候都更加真实。然而，对健康的研究通常侧重于疾病的生物学，而不是健康或卫生保健服务的提供的社会、经济和政治以及生物决定因素之间的复杂相互作用。布兰迪斯大学新的本科课程《健康：科学、社会与政策》(HSSP)改变了这一局面。这一独特的、基本上跨学科的主修和辅修学科将利用生物和社会科学、人文科学以及政策和管理研究来调查一项基本人权--“不分种族、宗教、政治信仰、经济或社会条件……享有可达到的最高标准的健康。”(1946年，“世界卫生组织章程”)。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，并与多样性、社会排斥、权利和社会契约的概念作斗争。我们相信，与传统的系级资助专业相比，这个项目将为学生准备更广泛的与健康相关的专业。本申请申请资金用于支持与HSSP计划的发展和实施有关的三个具体目标。它们是：1)创建HSSP计划的核心组成部分之一--健康综合研讨会，该研讨会将作为HSSP计划中高年级学生的顶峰课程；2)支持HSSP提供的关键流行病学课程在未来几年的课程发展和完善；3)开发和协调必要的“动手”体验机会，在此过程中，学生可以应用他们通过在以健康为导向的组织实习或与教师合作进行原创的健康相关研究项目所获得的知识。布兰迪斯大学儿童和青少年健康教授、医学博士伊丽莎白·古德曼将领导这项课程建设工作，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协作教员小组将提供意见。代表部门包括生物学、神经科学、心理学、人类学、社会学、卫生政策和可持续国际发展。

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.