Engaged Scholarship in Maternal and Child Health

Catalog description

This overall goal of this course is to help students develop the knowledge, skills and perspectives necessary to make contributions in the field of maternal and child health, with a particular focus on community-based or community serving interventions, research and evaluation. This includes the short-term goal of helping students prepare for internship, thesis or capstone work and the long-term goal of providing training for students’ future career in the field of maternal and child health. In the course students will: •expand their knowledge of current research in maternal and child health and explore the community context of the research. •develop or refine a skill set that has applications in community-based interventions, research or evaluation. •complete a community-based or community serving project as part of the Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute ‘s Community of Learners.