This is the reflective assignment for the University of Manchester's MOOC on Population Health.

1. An Introduction to
Population Health
MOOC Study Guide for Public Health
Reflective Assignment by Dr. Carsten Weerth
University of Manchester MOOC

2. Introduction to Population Health
- This six week course consisted of six topics:
- An Introduction to Population Health
- An Introduction to Epidemiology
- The State of World‘s Health
- Global Influences on Population Health
- Population Health Interventions
- Reflection

3. New insights on Population Health…
- New to me was the clear definition of
population.
- Amazing new facts were that
- globally most road accidents occur in less
developed countries
- economic migrants tend to be equally or more
healthy than the population of their new
destination

4. Population Health is about…
- Diseases (non-communicable and
communicable).
- Developed and developing economies.
- Neighborhoods and health status.
- Cohorts but not single cases.
- Ways to improve global health (Interventions).
- The Millennium Development Goals (UN, WHO)
- Population Health is rather well defined in
Wikipedia, see URL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_health

5. Guide to MOOCs on Public Health
- OK, I am NOT a novice to this topic. Over the
last two years I have done many classes
concerning PH issues that were overlapping so
the contents of this course have NOT been
new to me.
- Here I am listing the MOOCs completed as a
guide for your free learning – sort of an
unofficial guide to a free Diploma or Master
of Public Health …

6. List of MOOCs on Public Health I
• Stanford University: Mobile Health without
Borders through venture-lab.org (7 Weeks
05/2013 – 06/2013) by Dr. Eric Leroux and Prof.
Dr. Homero Rivas
• Harvard University: Human Health and Global
Environmental Change through edx.org (12
Weeks 05/2013 – 08/2013) by Prof. Dr. Aaron
Bernstein and Prof. Dr. Jack Sprengler
• Harvard University: Fundamentals of Clincal
Trials through edx.org (10 weeks 10/2013 –
02/2014) by a team of professors

7. List of MOOCs on Public Health II
• Harvard University: Health and Society
through edx.org (8 weeks 11/2013 – 02/2014)
by Prof. Dr. Ichiro Kawachi
• Harvard University: Global Health - a Biosocial
Perspective through edx.org (10 weeks
02/2014 – 05/2014) by a team of professors
• Johns Hopkins University: Health for All
through Primary Care through coursera.org (5
Weeks 01/2013 – 02/2013) by Dr. Henry Perry

8. List of MOOCs on Public Health III
• Johns Hopkins University: Vaccine Trials: Methods and
Best Practices through coursera.org (7 weeks 06/2013
– 07/2013) by Karen R. Charron, Amber Bickford Cox
• Johns Hopkins University: Global Tuberculosis (TB)
Clinical Management and Research through
coursera.org (9 weeks 10/2013 – 11/2013) by Dr. Jason
Farley and Dr. Richard E. Chaisson
• Johns Hopkins University: The Science of Safety in
Health Care through coursera.org (7 weeks 06/2013 –
07/2013) by Prof. Dr. Cheryl Dennison Himmelfarb and
Prof. Dr. Peter J. Pronovost

9. List of MOOCs on Public Health IV
• Johns Hopkins University: Major Depression in
the Population: A Public Health Approach
through coursera.org (6 weeks 11/2013 –
12/2013) by a team of professors
• Johns Hopkins University: Design and
Interpretation of Clinical Trials through
coursera.org (6 weeks 02/2014 – 03/2014) by
Dr. Janet Holbrook, MPH und Dr. Lea T. Drye

10. List of MOOCs on Public Health V
• University of Pennsylvania (Penn): Vaccines
(9 Weeks 09/2013 – 11/2013) through
coursera.org by Prof. Dr. Paul Offit
• University of Minnesota: Social Epidemiology
through coursera.org (7 weeks 06/2013 –
07/2013) by Prof. Dr. Michael Oakes
• University of Texas, Austin: Age of Globali-
zation through edx.org (14 Weeks 09/2013 –
12/2013) by Prof. Dr. John Hoberman

11. List of MOOCs on Public Health VI
• University of North Carolina: Epidemiology - The
Basic Science of Public Health through coursera.
org (6 Weeks 02/2014 – 03/2014) by Dr. Karin
Yeatts, Dr. Lorraine Alexander
• Columbia University: Virology I through coursera.
org (11 Weeks 08/2013–10/2013) by Prof. Dr.
Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D.
• Columbia University: Virology II: How Viruses
Cause Disease through coursera.org (12 Weeks
01/2014–04/2014) by Prof. Dr. Vincent Racaniello

12. List of MOOCs on Public Health VII
• Columbia University: The Age of Sustainable
Development through coursera.org (12 Weeks
01/2014 – 04/2014) by Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Sachs
• University of Copenhagen: An Introduction to
Global Health through coursera.org (8 Weeks
09/2013 – 10/2013) by a team of professors
• University of Geneva: Global Health: An
Interdisciplinary Introduction through
coursera.org (8 Weeks 10/2013 – 11/2013) by a
team of professors

13. Acknowledgements...
This presentation was made as ‘Reflective
Assignment‘ - the final assignment for the
University of Manchester‘s MOOC
An Introduction in Public Health.
The MOOC has been taught by
Professor Dr. Aneez Esmail an Dr. Katie Reed
and was hosted on www.courersa.org.

14. About the author
The author has studied Biology at the Universities Bremen,
Glasgow, Konstanz and Bremen and holds degrees in Cell
Biology (BSc, University of Glasgow), Finance (University of
Applied Sciences of the Federal Republic of Germany),
Economics (PhD, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg),
Economic Law (LL.M. Com., Universität des Saarlandes) and
Adult Education (M.A., Technische Universität Kaiserslautern).
He has written more than 10 books and published over 100
articles in scientific journals. Currently he is doing his mid-
career studies with the MOOCs of world class Universities
such as Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Caltech, MIT,
Wesleyan, UCSF, Emory, Edinburgh and others.
He is very much interested in public health issues.