The History of Public Health

Instructor: Graham Mooney, PhD

Organization: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Delivery Mode: Online – self study

When offered: Ongoing

Cost: None

Prerequisites: None

Description: This course examines the historical experience of health and illness from a population perspective. The content provides an historical interpretation of how the theory and practice of public health in today's world has come to be what it is. It concentrates primarily on the modern world (i.e., 1750 onwards) and omits detailed examination of public health in antiquity and the middle ages, although these time periods are alluded to frequently. A thematic rather than chronological structure is adopted so that comparisons can be made across the centuries and between different parts of the globe.

Main course objectives are:

• To examine public health through its historical context 
• To use this information in the evaluation of current public health issues