CPH 540 – Systems Thinking for Public Health
Biography
Persistent challenges in public health—such as health disparities, disease prevention, and implementation of evidence-based interventions—often resist change. Factors at multiple levels interact in complex ways to produce outcomes that impact health and wellbeing. Systems thinking is an approach that uses strategies and tools for better understanding complex problems. In this course, students learn to apply practical approaches for identifying feedback dynamics driving outcomes and interventions tailored to context.
¹ CEPH Primary Instructional Faculty
² CEPH Non-Primary Instructional Faculty
Experienced Faculty With Diverse Backgrounds
More than 150 faculty members work within the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health. They have a wide range of expertise, from monitoring and assessing health risks and opportunities in populations, to helping build health-supporting social environments through policy, advocacy, and programs. They are educators, advisors, researchers, practitioners and community leaders. They come from backgrounds in quantitative, behavioral, environmental and social sciences, policy and government, exercise and health sciences and anthropology, among many other areas. They all work in collaboration with each other and with community partners, and are especially focused on the training and education of future leaders and practitioners in the public health fields.
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