Overview
Classroom Chats and Responses are a place for you to share your personal experiences as it relates to the course content. You are expected to write at least one well- developed paragraph (6 sentences) that refers to the course content for the assignment module. In other words, you are expected to discuss the course content (i.e., videos, readings, presentations/lectures, course concepts) from each week in your chat. While we will not be grading on grammar, spelling, APA etc. in this discussion board, you are expected to write well and in your own words. Copy and pasted material from other sources will not be accepted.
You will be expected to have a total of 2 classroom chat posts in a week; both are due on Fridays. We encourage you to question your classmates and push them to think of issues in depth and with complexity. We will be doing this too. With that said, make sure you post in a way that is respectful of others. While this is more causal writing, you should still have a well-developed theme in each post, rather than a collection of random thoughts.
Original CC Post: To get full credit, your classroom chat post should 1) be at least 6 sentences, 2) discuss at least one of the course materials in relation to either a) a personal or clinical experience, b) another course resource or c) a resource outside the class, 3) provides a reflection on what you have learned.
Reflective writing is a response to new information you gained through learning. It is not summarizing or regurgitating information; rather it is reflecting on what you learned from the information. Reflective writing is an activity that includes description (what, when, who) and analysis (how, why, what if). It is an explorative tool often resulting in more questions than answers.
Response CC Post: Your response should 1) respond to one of your peer’s Original CC post 2) be at least 5 sentences, 3) be about a different topic than your Original CC post 3) compare or contrast your peer’s Original post to a) personal or clinical experience, b) another course resource, or c) a resource outside the class.
Global health: During this course you have learned about a variety of health issues and diseases that affect individuals, populations and the global community. If you were asked to develop a plan to address Global Health, you might quickly become overwhelmed with the many directions you could go. Should you focus on eradicating communicable diseases or would addressing humanitarian emergencies be more important? Which direction might have the most impact on human health, economies, equity and the planet? The goal of this assignment is to get you thinking about all the concepts and issues discussed in the course and how you might use this information to identify not only the most pressing issues, but how these issues might be viably and realistically addressed.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a private foundation (the largest in the world) that works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. They work both in low income countries and the United States. Each year, the foundation has to determine their priorities so they can select the projects that will receive their funding. They do this by using research and data, such as health outcomes, to justify the use of their funds. In their annual letter they report on their progress.
For this assignment go to https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Who-We-Are/Resources-and-Media/Annual-Letters-ListLinks to an external site. and select either the 2020 or 2017 Gates Foundation annual letter.