The Biology of Water and Health: Sustainable Interventions from Tuft’s University in partnership with OEC and edX (OECx) premieres Tuesday, September 29th, 2015. This is the second MOOC in the popular series on Biology of Water and Health which over six thousand learners worldwide have already engaged.
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About the Course
Examine complex social, economic, political, and scientific factors that influence how we approach critical health and water challenges. Identify threats to our water supply, introduce water management techniques, and review the successes and failures of local and global 
interventions for safe water.
In addition to lectures hosted by Tufts Professors Dr. David M. Gute and Dr. Jeffrey K. Griffiths, the course features field trips, a module on water quality sampling and testing, case studies from developing and developed countries, and renowned water professionals and scientist guest speakers from the fields of public health, engineering, environmental science and health policy. Together, participants will explore how to create sustainable interventions geared towards improving population health.
What you’ll learn
- Multidimensional factors that threaten the availability of safe water locally and globally.
- Procedures for sampling, testing and analyzing water quality in your community
- Risk assessment calculations and risk management techniques for implementing regulations.
- Issues surrounding water privatization, social justice, and hydrofracturing.
- Anthropological determinants which influence future sustainability
- Various water treatment strategies in developing and developed countries, including point of use interventions and large scale treatment plants
- Interdisciplinary/interprofessional nature of water sustainability work
Prerequisites
None. However, reviewing material from The Biology of Water and Health – Fundamentals (PH241x) would be useful for terminology and introductory concepts
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Tufts University is proud to offer the two Biology of Water and Health courses (PH241x & PH242x) in partnership with the Open Education Consortium (OECx). All course content is openly licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license.