Week 3 MUSE (9/13 & 9/15) 

9/17//05 revision

  1. Logistics
    1. Addendum added to to Week 2 Outline (e.g., "How to Read" lecture outline included)
    2. Yahoo! Discussion Board update
    3. Midterm moved to scheduled for week of 10/2 by consensus only
    4. We will go to the MUSE Workshop What is Plagiarism on 9/20/05 from noon to 1 in Pacific Room in the Union 
  2. How to do research-- [click link] 
  3. Discussion of potential research topics [cryptic notes in table below]
  4. HW - Starting where we left off (on p. 107), read 20 pages every day (6 days a week) until you have complete the book.  We need this common background as a take off for our research projects.

Notes --  initial discussion for generating research ideas; over the next three weeks, you will be reading the text and ideas will mature. Some concept introduced in discussion: epidemic, endemic, pandemic, sporadic, reportable disease, epidemiologic transition -- also see comments for students

Alvey, Trish rabies as an example of a zoonosis, consider vector control, tropical diseases
An, Jin dermatomes, maybe starting with with occupational skin problems
Black, Laura  Alzheimer's as an example of chronic mental conditions, epidemiologic transition, aging of the population (demographic transmission)
Carino, Kelly leprosy, history and pathogenesis, public health history (altered 9/19/05)
Dimaano, Richard  survey, nutritional epidemiology, Lind's experiments, medical trials, social contributors
Espinozaramos, Griselda Rickets as an example of a nutritional diseases, coordinate with Richard
Huang, Amanda English "sweats," epidemic, pandemic, endemic, sporadic occurrence, surveillance and reporting systems
Johnson, Stephanie  disease classification and nomenclature, William Farr, the history of the ICD
Lam, Jen interest in topic similar to Richard, coordinate research focus
Mendonca, Jessica scurvy and long distance transportation, social contributors to epidemics and public health problems
Mendoza-Porras, Catalina  STDs, control measures, coordinate with Josef
Michlelet, Sarah  Petty, relation between econometrics and public health; wars and spread of disease
Moody, Liz vaccine induced injury, history of vaccination (Jenner), food and drug safety, agencies that ensure safety (like the FDA)
Poso, Jon  
Van, Johnson  smallpox, control, transmission, level in the population
Wright, Josef syphilis and contagion in general, the microbiologic revolution, (Pasteur, Snow, Henle, Koch)