This course is designed to increase learners’ capacities to: (1) identify potential health promotion opportunities and prevention problems in vulnerable communities; (2) create a partnership with community members; (3) formulate plans to identify potential health promotion opportunities and the deep roots of health problems; (4) and write proposals to obtain funding that will support activities for community-based health projects.
This course is offered as an interactive graduate seminar based on a social constructionist approach to adult education. In this course, the instructors and course participants are all learners who will teach each other. We invite learners to share information, experiences, skills, and insights so that together we can construct different approaches to understanding community public health. The course is characterized by an “active learning” approach in which learners engage themselves in seeking out what is important to them and listening actively to others ideas.
The course is designed to help learners become familiar with several approaches for planning health promotion and prevention projects with community members in low-and middle-income countries, and in the U.S. with immigrant, refugee and other marginalized communities. It is our hope that some of the work products that learners create in this course can be used concretely for the benefit of poor and underserved people.
- Instructor: Orlando Harris