Courses Taught by Darrell Hudson
HBHEQ823: Structural Influences on Health and Social Behavior
- Graduate level
- Residential
- Fall term(s) for residential students;
- 3 credit hour(s) for residential students;
- Instructor(s): Darrell Hudson (Residential);
- Prerequisites: permission of instructor
- Description: This doctoral seminar will draw on the public health and biomedical literature and also on constructs and literature from sociology, psychology, history, anthropology and demography to demonstrate how multi-disiciplinary theories and findings can be integrated to suggest a social-structural context for current public health problems. This structural understanding is designed to help HBHE doctoral students to reach candidacy with the ability to recognize the social patterning of health problems, and to discuss analytically the social structural influences, opportunities, and constraints affecting individual and social behavior, and, thereby, to develop research hypotheses and interventions or policies that take these into account. The course stresses the development of critical thinking skills, helps students recognize the social patterning of health problems, the historical influences on current health inequalities, and the ways that individual health knowledge and behavior can be reflexive, socially situated, and embedded within larger social, cultural, and historical contexts. The course also considers ways that structural forces may work through material, social psychological, and ultimately biological mechanisms to exert an impact on morbidity and mortality.
- Learning Objectives: By the end of the term, students should be able to : (1) explain what a structural perspective is and how a structural analysis differs from simply entering sociodemographic or economic variables into statistical models; (2) understand the importance of history, culture, pervasive ideology, social stratification, and institutionalization to current public health problems and proposed solutions; (3) be attuned to the social patterning of public health problems and their implications; (4) understand how structural dimensions of public health problems influence individual and social behavior;
| Department | Program | Degree | Competency | Specific course(s) that allow assessment | HBHE | PhD | Interpret results from empirical analyses within the context of conceptual frameworks relevant for health promotion, and describe their public health relevance | HBHEQ823, preliminary exam |
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PUBHLTH501: Developing Public Health Solutions
- Graduate level
- Residential
- Winter term(s) for residential students;
- 6 credit hour(s) for residential students;
- Instructor(s): Geila Rajaee, Leah Neubauer , Darrell Hudson, Deborah Watkins, (Residential);
- Prerequisites: NONE
- Advisory Prerequisites: NONE
- Description: How do we decide what form of intervention might best address a given public health issue? How do we develop a plan to advocate for a public health intervention? In this course, you will build on your investigation of your team's public health issue during the fall semester to consider how to develop a culturally-sensitive and effective solution to their team's problem, whether it be a behavioral, environmental, or policy-based intervention to promote health equity. You will additionally conduct formative research on the need for the intervention, consult key stakeholders and interprofessional experts, and create a plan to evaluate and advocate for their proposed intervention using theories and evidence-based strategies. Your learning will be supported by a series of formative assessments, including quizzes, reflections, case studies, and response papers. The semester's work will culminate in each team completing a program plan, an authentic summative assessment that showcases student's learning over the course of the semester.
- Learning Objectives: See syllabus
