Courses Taught by Sharon Kardia

PUBHLTH555: Chatgpt/AI And Public Health

• Graduate level
• Residential
• Fall, Winter term(s) for residential students;
• 1-2 credit hour(s) for residential students;
• Instructor(s): Sharon Kardia (Residential);
• Prerequisites: none
• Advisory Prerequisites: NA
• Undergraduates are allowed to enroll in this course.
• Description: In this seminar course, we will explore the challenges and opportunities for advancing public health values and goals through artificial general intelligence (AGI) platforms, such as chatGPT. Students will select a key area of interest, develop a plan, document their exploration/results, and present their findings in a collective public forum.
• Learning Objectives: -Articulate human values that drive public health mission and describe the ways in which AI tools could undermine them -Identify the unique challenges and opportunities GAI technology poses -Apply critical AI literacy, critical thinking, and systems thinking to a public issue -Use critical AI literacy to develop best practices for incorporating AI into public health work

PUBHLTH680: Applied Practice and Integrative Experience I

• Graduate level
• Online MPH only
• This is a second year course for Online students
• Fall term(s) for online MPH students;
• 2 credit hour(s) for online MPH students;
• Instructor(s): Elizabeth Levin-Sparenberg, Melissa Beck, (Online MPH);
• Prerequisites: PubHlth 512, Biostats 501
• Description: Students will launch their integrated learning experience, which involves addressing an applied health problem and presenting their work in a professional communication format, synthesizing competencies they achieved throughout the program. Students will partner with community organizations in the Real-World Writing Project to develop two products, fulfilling the program’s APEx requirements.
• Learning Objectives: At the end of this fall-semester course, students should: - have started their integrated learning experience and capstone product, the culmination of their experiences and learning in the MPH program. - have written something for the real world of public health that achieves a specific purpose and that is appropriate for a specific audience, and is written in a particular style. - have further developed their composing process through reflection, discussion and trying new approaches. - have gained experience collaborating with their peers and have connected these collaborative activities to public health practices. - be able to identify and/or create effective written and oral arguments within each of the communication formats we cover in the course. - explain the critical importance of evidence in advancing public health knowledge.
• Residential Syllabus for PUBHLTH680