Teaching Assistant for MPH Core Courses Fall 2020 - Graduates - PHI 511 & 512
Description:
Position Title: Teaching Assistant
Courses:
- PHI 511 Foundations of Public Health (3 credits)
- PHI 512 Analytic Skills for Public Health I (7 credits)
Supervising Faculty:
- PHI 511 Miruna Petrescu-Prahova and Jennifer Balkus
- PHI 512 Noah Simon and Brandon Guthrie
Hours per week: 20
Start Date: September 16, 2020
End Date: December 15, 2020
Application Deadline: June 12, 2020
Position Summary: The School of Public Health MPH Common Core is seeking two Teaching Assistants (TAs) for PHI 511 and three TAs for PHI 512. Each position is 20 hours per week during the 2020-2021 autumn quarters. Beginning with the academic year 2020-2021, the MPH program will include six courses, taken as a single cohort by all MPH degree students, in the first year of study. These TAs will support the teaching of 1 course, with anticipated course enrollment of approximately 140 students.
PHI 511: Foundations of Public Health Course Description
This interdisciplinary core course examines public health and healthcare in the US and globally using a social justice lens and emphasizing the interconnectedness of population and individual health. Using public health and healthcare delivery as the overarching framework, the course will cover foundational elements of public health, including, but not limited to, its history and impact, the importance of health equity and human rights, and how racism manifests and is perpetuated within public health and healthcare systems. The course will build a sense of community and instill a public health mindset among each entering MPH cohort by having all students learning together, and it will lay the foundation for students to work effectively as public health professionals on inter-professional teams.
PHI 512: Analytic Skills for Public Health I Course Description
This course is the first of a two course series focused on quantitative and qualitative methods in public health research and practice. PHI 512 focuses on principles and methods of epidemiology and biostatistics, including: descriptive epidemiology, data summaries and presentation, study design, measures of excess risk, causal inference, screening, measurement error, misclassification, effect modification, confounding, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, p-values, sample size calculation, and modeling approaches such as linear regression analysis. Includes hands-on data analysis. The material in this course will position students to continue with EPI 513 and BIOST 512 in the Winter Quarter should they seek more depth in their quantitative methods training.
Specific Job Functions:
- Assist in course coordination and implementation
- Attend class sessions
- Present lectures and facilitate discussions
- Grade assignments
- Update and maintain course canvas site
- Request or acquire necessary equipment
- Prepare and maintain course attendance records
- Review literature
- Other tasks, as necessary
Hours per week (approx.): 20
Required Qualifications: Minimum standing of current graduate student in the School of Public Health
Preferred Qualifications: Experience with Canvas; prior experience as teaching assistant
How to Apply:Application Procedure: Please submit application, CV or resume, cover letter, and transcript (unofficial copy is fine), via the MPH Core Application Google Form. The deadline for submission is Friday, June 12.
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