Syllabus/achievement requirements

Human and microbial Ecology (August 24-28):

Required Literature

• Levinson Warren ¡°Review of medical microbiology and immunology ¨C 10^th edition. aLange medical book. ISBN 978-0-07-149620-9.
  • Part I, chapters 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12
  • Part II, chapters 14 to 21
  • Part III, chapters 28, 32, 33, 36
  • Part IV, chapter 45
  • Part VII, chapters 57 to 61

Recommended Literature

• Origins and evolution of antibiotic resistance. Davies J, Davies D. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev. 2010;74(3):417-33. Review.
• WHO fact sheet on antimicrobial resistance http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs194/en/
• WHO | Antimicrobial resistance: global report on surveillance 2014 http://www.who.int/drugresistance/documents/surveillancereport/en/
• WHO | Global action plan on antimicrobial resistance. http://www.who.int/antimicrobial-resistance/publications/global-action-plan/en/
• Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality: an updated systematic analysis for 2010 with time trends since 2000. Liu L, Johnson HL, Cousens S, Perin J, Scott S, Lawn JE, Rudan I, Campbell H, Cibulskis R, Li M, Mathers C, Black RE; Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group of WHO and UNICEF. Lancet. 2012;379(9832):2151-61.
• Emerging infectious diseases: threats to human health and global stability. Morens DM, Fauci AS. PLoS Pathog. 2013;9(7):e1003467.
• Eliminating the Neglected Tropical Diseases: Translational Science and New Technologies. Hotez PJ, Pecoul B, Rijal S, Boehme C, Aksoy S, Malecela M, Tapia-Conyer R, Reeder JC. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016 10(3):e0003895.
• WHO | Global tuberculosis report 2016 http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/250441/1/9789241565394-eng.pdf?ua=1
• Treatment outcomes in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Gunther G et al. New Engl J Med 2016; 375:11.
• Estimating the future burden of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in India, the Philippines, Russia, and South Africa: a mathematical modelling study. Lancet Infect Dis. 2017; 17:707-715.
• Achievements in Public Health, 1900-1999: Control of Infectious Diseases. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4829a1.htm
• Emerging arboviruses: why today? Gould E, Pettersson J, Higgs S, Charrel R, de Lamballerie X. One Health 2017; 4:1-13.
• Emerging bacterial pathogens: the past and beyond. Vouga M, Greub G. Clin Microbiol Infect 2016; 22:12-21.
• Ethier C and Jenssen PD. ¡°The human waist resource in developing countries¡± NHL/Noragric 1997.
• Ecological sanitation and reuse of wastewater: ecosan: a thinkpeace on ecological sanitation. PD Jenssen et al. http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/medisin/inthealth/INTHE4000/h07/undervisningsmateriale/Water%20and%20Health%20article.pdf

NCD (August 31-September 4):

• Global status report on noncommunicable diseases 2019
• https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/44579/9789240686458_eng.pdf;jsessionid=2F3D6D80E759272E32D027EB9C3D80BC?sequence=1
• Global report on diabetes. http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/204871/1/9789241565257_eng.pdf
• Lim S et al. A compartive risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in  21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analyses for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet 2012; 380: 2224-60.
• Bhopal RS. A four-stage model explaining the higher risk of Type 2 diabetes mellitus in South Asians compared with European populations. Diabet Med. 2013 Jan;30(1):35-42. doi: 10.1111/dme.12016.
• Popkin BM, Adair LS, Ng SW. Now and then: the Global Nutrition Transition The Pandemic of Obesity in Developing Countries. Nutrition Reviews 2012; 70(1): 3-21
• Barry M Popkin. Relationship between shifts in food system dynamics and acceleration of the global nutrition transition Nutrition Reviews 2017; 75(2): 73-82
• Boyd A Swinburn, et al. The global obesity pandemic: shaped by global drivers and local environments. Lancet 2011; 378: 804-14
• Marmot M. Health in an unequal world. Lancet 2006; 368: 2081-94
• Nordic Nutrition Recommendations 2012. Summary and Principles, page 19-64. http://norden.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:704251/FULLTEXT01.pdf
• Zimmermann, M.B.; Andersson, M. Assessment of iodine nutrition in populations: Past, present, and future. Nutr. Rev. 2012, 70, 553¨C570. [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• About NCDs. https://www.who.int/health-topics/noncommunicable-diseases?utm_source=WHO&utm_campaign=fc43ed09a3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_06_04_04_44&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_97229a6b9b-fc43ed09a3-203018434#tab=tab_1

Reproductive- and child health (September7- 11): 

Required readings:

• Franck Mauvais-Jarvis, MD et.al: Sex and gender: modifiers of health, disease, and medicine: The Lancet. Volume 396, ISSUE 10250, P565-582, August 22,2020: 

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31561-0/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email  

• Familiarize yourselves on the headlines of child health found here, in WHO website:

  https://www.who.int/maternal_child_adolescent/child/en/

Recommended readings:

Rights and RH

• Sofia Gruskin & T.K. Sundari Ravindran on behalf of the Rights-Oriented Research and Education (RORE) Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health (2014) Realising the ICPD 20 years later: Shifting the paradigms for research and education, Global Public Health, 9:6, 647-652, DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2014.923014. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=%22Rights-Oriented%20Research%20and%20Education%20(RORE)%20Network%20for%20Sexual%20and%20Reproductive%20Health%22%5BCorporate%20Author%5D.

Circumcision/FGM

• Berg RC, Denison E. A Tradition in Transition: Factors Perpetuating and Hindering the Continuance of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) Summarized in a Systematic Review. Health Care for Women International. 2013;34(10):837-895. doi:10.1080/07399332.2012.721417. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3783896/

Abortion

• Storeng, K. T., & Ouattara, F. (2014). The politics of unsafe abortion in Burkina Faso: The interface of local norms and global public health practice. Global Public Health, 9(8), 946¨C959. http://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2014.937828.
• Ou¨¦draogo, R., & Sundby, J. (2014). Social Determinants and Access to Induced Abortion in Burkina Faso: From Two Case Studies. Obstetrics and Gynecology International, 2014, 402456. http://doi.org/10.1155/2014/402456.

Maternal health

• Afr J Reprod Health. 2014 Mar;18(1):16-26. Components of maternal healthcare delivery system contributing to maternal deaths in Malawi: a descriptive cross-sectional study. Thorsen VC, Meguid T, Sundby J, Malata A.
• S?rbye, I. K., Vangen, S., Oneko, O., Sundby, J., & Bergsj?, P. (2011). Caesarean section among referred and self-referred birthing women: a cohort study from a tertiary hospital, northeastern Tanzania. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 11, 55. http://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2393-11-55.
• Cole-Ceesay, R., Cherian, M., Sonko, A., Shivute, N., Cham, M., Davis, M., ¡­ Southall, D. (2010). Strengthening the emergency healthcare system for mothers and children in The Gambia. Reproductive Health, 7, 21. http://doi.org/10.1186/1742-4755-7-21.
• Afr J Reprod Health. 2014 Mar;18(1):35-43. Barriers to skilled birth attendance: a survey among mothers in rural Gambia. Lerberg PM, Sundby J,