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‘Frontiers of Knowledge in Population Health’ will develop your understanding of new and emerging issues in population health; it will prioritize the presentation of academic work in progress rather than established knowledge. The aim is to teach you about emerging themes in population health. Further aims are to enable you to develop a deeper understanding of contemporary population health research and your capacity to critically appraise key issues and research findings in population health. Teaching will cover a variety of topics related to population health from developmental theory through to ageing.Ìý

At the end of the module, you will be able to:Ìý

1. Discuss and recognize emerging issues in population health research.Ìý

2. Access and appraise a wide range of population health research and resources for investigating those including academic journals, online data repositories and public health information.Ìý

3. Critically review ways of generating knowledge in population health.Ìý

4. Evaluate different ways of dealing with uncertainty in responding to emerging population health problems.Ìý

This is an intermediate module open to Year 2 students on the BSc Population Health Sciences programme. There is availability for UCL elective students from other departments, however, spaces are limited and are allocated on a ‘first come, first served’ basis on Portico.Ìý

You will attend weekly lectures and practical seminars provided by lecturers across UCL and beyond.

Selected Reading ListÌýÌý

• Hemingway H, Asselbergs FW, Danesh J, et al. Big data from electronic health records for early and late translational cardiovascular research: challenges and potential. Eur Heart J. 2018;39(16):1481-1495. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehx487 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29370377/
• Hildebrandt, F. (2001). Genetics for beginners. Trends in Molecular Medicine, 7(9), 425. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1471-4914(01)02068-8 https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/cardiovascular-diseases-(cvds)Ìý
• Climate change: Health impacts and opportunities a summary and discussion of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 2 report – April 2014 (free download at: )
• WHO Dementia Fact File:https://www.who.int/features/factfiles/dementia/dementia_facts/en/
• Sabia, S., Fayosse, A., Dumurgier, J. et al. Association of sleep duration in middle and old age with incidence of dementia. Nat Commun 12, 2289 (2021).
• Mauvais-Jarvis, F., Merz, N. B., Barnes, P. J., Brinton, R. D., Carrero, J. J., DeMeo, D. L., ... & Suzuki, A. (2020). Sex and gender: modifiers of health, disease, and medicine. The Lancet, 396(10250), 565-582.
• Lockwood, K., Walsh, C., Marsland, A., & Bachen, E. (2019). Psychoneuroimmunology. In C. Llewellyn, S. Ayers, C. McManus, S. Newman, K. Petrie, T. Revenson, et al. (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology, pp. 136-140). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Theis DRZ, White M. Is Obesity Policy in England Fit for Purpose? Analysis of Government Strategies and Policies, 1992–2020. Milbank Q. 2021; 99(1):126–70