HIV/AIDS Courses Offered at Yale
The following courses have been recently offered at Yale. Please note that this is a list of selected courses offered as a guideline only; courses may not be offered in a given year. Current course content and titles may vary from those listed below. Fall courses are indicated by a letter 'a' in the course title (e.g. EMD 557a); Spring courses are indicated by a letter 'b'.
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Courses
EMD557/NURS713 Public Health Issues in HIV/AIDS
An introductory, broad-based survey course for students of all levels interested in the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS. The course covers virology, clinical issues, natural history of infection, laboratory testing, transmission, and prevention of HIV/AIDS. The course, designed to give students a general, comprehensive understanding of HIV/AIDS issues, is targeted to students beginning work in public health or HIV/AIDS, or for those who wish to expand their specialized knowledge base regarding HIV/AIDS. Regular attendance at the Yale AIDS Colloquium Series (YACS) and written synopses are required. Permission of instructor required for Yale College students.
Instructor(s): Kaveh Khoshnood, Ph.D.
AFST 618 Communication and Healing
This course deals with practical issues of communication about health and healing in South Africa. It focuses on the Nguni language environment (Zulu/Xhosa/Swati/Ndebele) but also addresses some issues relating to other South African languages. The course offers an introduction to Zulu language in the context of health, and to social and cultural issues surrounding the origins of suffering, the articulation of symptoms, and the role of the family, traditional healers, and Western medical practitioners. Particular attention is given to HIV/AIDS in the community and to the status and attitudes of young people.
Instructor(s): Sandra Sanneh
CDE 574 Developing a Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Intervention
This course is intended to be a practical “how to” application of concepts and methods learned in CDE 572a. The primary objective of this course is to gain experience in intervention research by developing a health promotion and disease prevention intervention. Students choose a health problem (e.g., physical inactivity, smoking, HIV risk) and develop an intervention focused on favorably changing the determinants and behavior that in?uence the health problem. The course emphasizes transferring concepts from the abstract to the concrete. Students develop an intervention manual consisting of actual intervention materials, and methods that speci?cally outline how the intervention will be designed, conducted, evaluated, and disseminated. Throughout the course, students participate in a peer review process to evaluate and give feedback for each section of the intervention manual. Prerequisite: CDE 572a.
Instructor(s): Trace Kershaw, Ph.D.
EMD 560 Epidemiologic Methods in STD/HIV Research
The purpose of this course is to explore epidemiologic concepts and methods in the design, implementation, and interpretation of studies focused on sexually transmitted infections including the human immunode?ciency virus. Students learn how to address analytical research challenges including, but not limited to, choice of study design; sample selection; data collection; minimizing bias, and confounding; generalizability. This course utilizes a combination of lectures and case studies. Through this course, students learn to critically read the published literature as well as to design a methodologically rigorous research study. Prerequisite: CDE/EMD 508a.
Instructor(s): Linda Niccolai, Ph.D.
PLSC417/INTS347/AFST560/AFST360 The Political Economy of AIDS in Sub-Sarahan Africa
Consideration of the impact of, and responses to, the AIDS pandemic in Africa. A comparative perspective is used, with a focus on South Africa and other countries in southern Africa.
Instructor(s): Nicoli Nattrass
HIST 234/HSHM235 Epidemics and Society in the West since 1600
A study of the impact of epidemic diseases such as bubonic plague, cholera, malaria, and AIDS on society, public health, and the medical profession in comparative and international perspective. Topics include popular culture and mass hysteria, the mortality revolution, urban renewal and rebuilding, sanitation, the germ theory of disease, the emergence of scientific medicine, and debates over the biomedical model of disease.
Instructor(s): Frank Snowden
ANTH381 Sexual Meanings
Human sexuality in historical and cross-cultural perspective: the social and cultural construction of human sexuality; its variability; its relation to constructions of gender. Topics include biological bases of sexual behavior and their evolution; relations between sex and gender; homosexuality; rape; and AIDS.
Instructor(s): Harold Scheffler
AMST135/HIST127/WGSS200 U.S. Lesbian and Gay History
Introduction to the social, cultural, and political history of lesbians, gay men, and other socially constituted sexual minorities. Focus on understanding categories of sexuality in relation to shifting normative regimes and broad developments in U.S. history, primarily in the twentieth century. Topics include the emergence of homosexuality and heterosexuality as categories of experience and identity; the changing relationship between homosexuality and transgenderism; the development of diverse lesbian and gay subcultures and their representation in popular culture; the sources of antigay hostility; religion and sexual science; generational change and everyday life; AIDS; and gay, antigay, feminist, and queer movements.
Instructor(s): George Chauncey
CDE572 Preventive Interventions: Theory, Methods, and Evaluation
This course reviews the theory, methods, and evaluation of health promotion and disease prevention interventions conducted in multiple settings. Topics of promotion and prevention include physical activity, nutrition, obesity, cancer, cancer screening, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, smoking, alcohol and substance abuse, HIV and STDs, condom and contraception use, adolescent pregnancy, and psychiatric and mental health problems. The course combines didactic presentations, discussion, and critiques of health promotion and disease prevention interventions by students. This course is intended to increase the student’s skills in evaluating health promotion and disease prevention interventions, at both the individual and community levels. Prerequisite: CDE 505a.
Instructor(s): Melinda Irwin
EMD541 Infectious Diseases: Epidemiology, Prevention, and Control
Students learn epidemiologic methods and concepts in infectious diseases, specifc viral and bacterial infections, and problems illustrative of the methods and/or disease. Methods include surveillance, seroepidemiology, case/control and cohort studies, vaccine trials, epidemic investigation, principles of causation, immunization policies and their implementation, and evaluation in developed and developing countries. Speci?c viral and bacterial infections of the central nervous, respiratory, and intestinal tracts; the herpes viruses; slow and persistent viral infections; retroviruses, including AIDS; the exanthems; nosocomial infections; and the relation between viruses and cancer are discussed. The use of epidemiological concepts in the prevention of disease is emphasized. Prerequisite: microbiology.
Instructor(s): Kaveh Khoshnood
HIST006/HSHM005 Medicine and Society in American History
Consideration of disease and healing in American history from colonial times to the present. Topics include the changing role of the physician, alternative healers and therapies, and the social impact of epidemics from smallpox to AIDS.
Enrollment limited to freshmen.
Instructor(s): Rebecca Tannenbaum
HSHM732/HIST928 Infection, Public Health, and the State
This course is a comparative examination of public health strategies adopted by Western nations since 1800 with regard to high-impact infectious diseases—cholera, smallpox, tuberculosis, syphilis, malaria, polio, and HIV/AIDS. The course begins with “plague regulations” and then explores such alternative policies as vaccination, the sanatorium, the sanitation idea, the regulation of prostitution, health education, and the reporting and tracing of cases. Attention is also given to state planning to confront the threat of bioterrorism and to the present emergency in sub-Saharan Africa of malaria, TB, and HIV/AIDS. The class considers the strategies of the World Health Organization and of national governments to confront the crisis. This is a reading and discussion class, but it can be taken as a research seminar with the permission of the instructor. There are no prerequisites, and no prior knowledge is assumed.
Instructor(s): Frank Snowden
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Speaker: Nabila El-Bassel, Columbia University
Title: HIV Among Drug Users in Kazakhstan: Driving Forces and Implications for HIV Prevention & Treatment
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