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Global Disease Masterclass: Non-communicable Diseases

Welcome to this course on the aetiology, epidemiology and interventions for non-communicable diseases of the Global Diseases Masterclass. We’ve selected four disease areas and will go through each in turn. The diseases we’ve chosen are: Colorectal Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease (CVD), Dementia, and Diabetes. We have selected these non-communicable diseases because they span a range of different types of disease process and because of the expertise and experience that our School of Public Health has in these areas.

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• 17 hours
• English

Tobacco & Nicotine: Public Health, Science, Policy, and Law

This course provides a strong foundation in the history of smoking and other tobacco and nicotine use; the individual and public health impact; tobacco use prevalence trends in adults, youth and key subpopulations; and how cigarette smoking came to be, and remains to this day, the leading preventable cause of death in the U.S.

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• 23 hours
• English

Cáncer de próstata

El profesional de la salud que lleve a cabo este curso tendrá presente la importancia de conocer el tema de cáncer de próstata, esto por ser el tumor maligno más frecuente en los hombres; además de identificar los factores de riesgo asociados a la presentación de la enfermedad y por tanto conocerá cómo se lleva a cabo el tamizaje en cáncer de próstata. Podrá sugerir la manera en cómo se diagnostica, clasifica y etapifica esta enfermedad, así como el tratamiento por etapas clínicas.

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• Spanish

一堂課讓你認識肺癌（Basic Concepts of Lung Cancer: Diagnosis and Treatment）

本課程共有四周，介紹肺的功能、肺癌形成的原因、以及肺癌的分期與治療，完成課程後將對肺癌有初步的認識。 根據衛生福利部統計，民國105年台灣死於肺癌的人數高達9372人，這其中有許多是不吸煙，也沒有家族病史的病患，這些病患對本身如何得到肺癌往往得不到答案。但抬頭看看我們的天空，不論是大陸吹來的沙塵暴，或是我們台灣本島製造的空污，早已將天空蒙上一層灰，因此空污對於肺癌，實在有著密不可分的關聯。其實對於肺癌，有個早期篩檢的利器—低劑量電腦斷層篩檢，這項篩檢無需禁食，也不用打顯影劑，只要五分鐘左右即可完成，只可惜因為需要自費，因此許多人望之卻步，也讓許多人失去了早期篩檢出肺癌的機會。希望藉由這門課可以讓大家對台灣新國病—肺癌有不同的認識，也希望大家能更重視呼吸的健康。

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• Chinese

Introduction to Reproducibility in Cancer Informatics

The course is intended for students in the biomedical sciences and researchers who use informatics tools in their research and have not had training in reproducibility tools and methods. This course is written for individuals who: - Have some familiarity with R or Python - have written some scripts. - Have not had formal training in computational methods.

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• 8 hours
• English

Visualizing the Living Body: Diagnostic Imaging

This course teaches learners the underlying principles behind conventional radiography, computerized axial tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and ultrasound. The radiology of chest, abdomen, pelvis, extremities, spine and brain are taught in this course using a combination of lectures and extensive practical activities and assessments.

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• 9 hours
• English

Statistical Analysis with R for Public Health

Statistics are everywhere. The probability it will rain today. Trends over time in unemployment rates. The odds that India will win the next cricket world cup. In sports like football, they started out as a bit of fun but have grown into big business. Statistical analysis also has a key role in medicine, not least in the broad and core discipline of public health. In this specialisation, you’ll take a peek at what medical research is and how – and indeed why – you turn a vague notion into a scientifically testable hypothesis.

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Cancer Prevention Web-Based Activity

This web-based video course focuses on the importance of prevention and risk reduction in decreasing cancer occurrences. All learners will need to watch the video modules, read associated articles, and achieve a passing …

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Medical Cannabis: The Health Effects of THC and CBD

If you want to learn more about medical cannabis (i.e., marijuana) and hemp-derived CBD, then this specialization is for you! A person who wants to know more about cannabis and CBD might be: A patient or their loved one who wants to understand the potential risks and benefits. A health care provider who wants to communicate with patients about cannabis. Someone who wants to work in the cannabis industry. Why do people want to know more about cannabis?

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Thoracic Oncology

Thoracic malignancies are major, global health problems. Lung cancer is the most common cancer and cause of cancer death in the world, with more than 1.5 million deaths per year. More Americans will die from lung cance…

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Cancer Biology

The healthcare system is a rapidly evolving field with new research leading to advancements in medicine. Developed at Johns Hopkins University and led by top-ranked Hopkins faculty and cancer experts, this specialization on Cancer Biology focuses on the basics of cancer biology, how cancer metastasis occurs, and specifically, screening guidelines for prostate cancer, the most common cancer in American men. This specialization starts with an Introduction to the Biology of Cancer, introduces the molecular biology of cancer and the biologic hallmarks of cancer.

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Non-Communicable Diseases in Humanitarian Settings

NCDs are the leading cause of death in almost every region of the world, and place a huge burden on individuals, families and societies. Humanitarian settings have a negative effect on the levels of disease, and the possibility of treatment. The importance of NCDs in global health is acknowledged by their inclusion in the Sustainable Development Goals, which call for a reduction of a third in premature mortality from NCDs by 2030.

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• 15 hours
• English

2022 Cancer Prevention Web-Based Activity

This web-based video course focuses on the importance of prevention and risk reduction in decreasing cancer occurrences. All learners will need to watch the video modules, read associated articles, and achieve a passing …

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Easing the burden of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease

This course is multidisciplinary in nature, and aims to equip the global audience of interested lay people, people with chronic disease, public health researchers, health clinicians, students, administrators, and researchers to reflect on the overall impact of the burden of chronic disease . It shows how all chronic diseases (obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cancer) are related by a set of common causes, and that such diseases should be tackled, not individually, but as part of a complex system, with interrelated contributing factors.

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• 16 hours
• English

Precision Medicine

This course will provide you with the key knowledge and tools to understand the fundamentals and practical implications of precision medicine, its opportunities and challenges. It will address precision-medicine era diagnostics, treatment selection, genetic counseling, public health interventions, and biomedical research.

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• 29 hours
• English

2021 Cancer Prevention Web-Based Activity (CE eligible)

This web-based video course focuses on the importance of prevention and risk reduction in decreasing cancer occurrences. All learners will need to watch the video modules, read associated articles, and achieve a passing …

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Immunology: Immune Failures and Cancer Immunology

Our immune system is a powerful network. It protects us from external threats, such as harmful substances and pathogenic agents, as well as cellular changes which could lead to diseases. Complications emerge when our natural defences do not function properly, which can result in immune disorders. These can take the form of less severe issues such as insect allergy. Others are more harmful, such as auto aggressive immune reactions, that lead to localised or systemic tissue damage.

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• 6 hours
• English

Computing for Cancer Informatics

One of the key cancer informatics challenges is dealing with and managing the explosion of large data from multiple sources that are often too large to work with on typical personal computers. This course is designed to help researchers and investigators to understand the basics of computing and to familiarize them with various computing options to ultimately help guide their decisions on the topic.

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• 12 hours
• English

Basic Principles of Cell Signaling

The coordination of life in multicellular organisms is precisely controlled by cells via various internal and external signals. Cells depend on different types of signals to regulate their growth, division, metabolism as well as death. Signals are growth factors or hormones produced and secreted by other cells. Some signals such as nutrients are in the form of molecules from the environment. Signaling molecules are sensed by direct binding to specific receptor molecules.

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• 9 hours
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Big Data Science with the BD2K-LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center

The Library of Integrative Network-based Cellular Signatures (LINCS) was an NIH Common Fund program that lasted for 10 years from 2012-2021. The idea behind the LINCS program was to perturb different types of human cells with many different types of perturbations such as drugs and other small molecules, genetic manipulations such as single gene knockdown, knockout, or overexpression, manipulation of the extracellular microenvironment conditions, for example, growing cells on different surfaces, and more.

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• 9 hours
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Opioid Epidemic: From Evidence to Impact

While prescription opioids serve an invaluable role for the treatment of cancer pain and pain at the end of life, their overuse for acute and chronic non-cancer pain as well as the increasing availability of heroin and illicit fentanyl, have contributed to the highest rates of overdose and opioid addiction in U.S. history. Evidence-informed solutions are urgently needed to address these issues and to promote high-quality care for those with pain. This course and the report it is based on are a response to that need.

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• 7 hours
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Breast Cancer Prediction Using Machine Learning

In this 2 hours long project-based course, you will learn to build a Logistic regression model using Scikit-learn to classify breast cancer as either Malignant or Benign. We will use the Breast Cancer Wisconsin (Diagnostic) Data Set from Kaggle. Our goal is to use a simple logistic regression classifier for cancer classification. We will be carrying out the entire project on the Google Colab environment. You will need a free Gmail account to complete this project. Please be aware of the fact that the dataset and the model in this project, can not be used in real-life.

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• 2 hours
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Nutrition and Cancer

Cancer has overtaken cardiovascular disease (CVD) as the leading cause of death in many parts of the world. It causes one in eight deaths worldwide. Global trends show that the majority of all cancer deaths occur in the low- and middle-income countries. Yet, cancer can be partly prevented and many of these deaths can be avoided.

Discover the latest insights on the role of diet, nutrition and lifestyle in the prevention, occurrence and progression of cancer in the open and online course Nutrition and Cancer.

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Epigenetic Control of Gene Expression

While the human genome sequence has transformed our understanding of human biology, it isn’t just the sequence of your DNA that matters, but also how you use it! How are some genes activated and others are silenced? How is this controlled? The answer is epigenetics. Epigenetics has been a hot topic for research over the past decade as it has become clear that aberrant epigenetic control contributes to disease (particularly to cancer). Epigenetic alterations are heritable through cell division, and in some instances are able to behave similarly to mutations in terms of their stability.

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• 17 hours
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Design and Interpretation of Clinical Trials

Clinical trials are experiments designed to evaluate new interventions to prevent or treat disease in humans. The interventions evaluated can be drugs, devices (e.g., hearing aid), surgeries, behavioral interventions (e.g., smoking cessation program), community health programs (e.g. cancer screening programs) or health delivery systems (e.g., special care units for hospital admissions). We consider clinical trials experiments because the investigators rather than the patients or their doctors select the treatment the patients receive.

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• 10 hours
• English