PH 181 Syllabus (Fall 2021)

PH181, Fall 2021 Course Syllabus SYLLABUS SUBJECT TO CHANGE Ndola Prata, MD, MSc PH181: Poverty and Population Course Syllabus (2021) Table of Contents Course Information 2 Course Description 2 Prerequisites 3 Methods of Instruction 3 Instructor Information 4 Course Format 6 Course Schedule 6 Course Grading 6 Course Materials 7 bCourses website 7 Required Materials 7 Course Requirements 7 Participation 7 Group Project 8 Individual Paper & Communications Assignment 8 Final Exam 8 Course Communication 8 Announcements 8 Course Mail 8 Policies 9 Due Dates 9 Late Assignments 9 Attendance 9 Technology 9 Correspondence 9 1

PH181, Fall 2021 Course Syllabus SYLLABUS SUBJECT TO CHANGE Ndola Prata, MD, MSc SPH Course Policies 10 Course Information Course Meeting Dates/Times: Lecture: Monday, 2 - 4 pm, PST Discussion: Wednesday, 10 am, 11 am, 12 pm, 1 pm Office hours: see bCourses Course Location: Online Course Canvas/bCourses link: https://bcourses.berkeley.edu/courses/1504983 Course Unit: 3 Instructor Ndola Prata MD, MSc ndola@berkeley.edu Office hours: see bCourses GSIs Chris Rubeo, MPH chris.rubeo@berkeley.edu Office hours: Mondays 12pm - 1pm (over zoom) https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/95171310872 Blake Erhardt-Ohren, MPH berhardt-ohren@berkeley.edu Office hours: see bCourses Course Description This course is sponsored by the Bixby Center for Population, Health & Sustainability, School of Public Health, which works to help achieve slower population growth within a human rights framework by addressing the unmet need for family planning. This class seeks to provide a rigorous understanding of the relationship between population growth, poverty, women’s autonomy, and health. The faculty have firsthand experience of the suffering of women struggling to control family size and they are, or have been, 2

PH181, Fall 2021 Course Syllabus SYLLABUS SUBJECT TO CHANGE Ndola Prata, MD, MSc Instructor Information Ndola Prata, MD, MSc ndola@berkeley.edu Ndola Prata is a public health physician and medical demographer from Angola. She earned her medical degree from the University of Angola and an MSc in medical demography from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She began her career practicing medicine in Angola for 10 years and served as Head of the Social Statistics Department at the National Institute of Statistics of Angola. Shortly after moving to the US, while beginning her tenure as a researcher and lecturer at UC Berkeley, she served as a Demographer/Analyst for CDC’s Division of Reproductive Health for six years, a role she resumed briefly from 2010 to 2011. Prata’s current research is based in sub-Saharan Africa, she is especially interested in family planning, abortion, reproductive health, women’s health and empowerment and maternal mortality. Her research focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation of family planning and maternal health interventions that maximize distribution and financing mechanisms to increase access to contraceptives in developing countries, particularly for the underserved populations. Her projects investigate strategies for harnessing existing resources, including human capacity and health care infrastructure while also gathering evidence for setting priorities on national health agendas. Dr. Prata teaches courses and has published extensively on topics related to family planning, financing and ability to pay for reproductive health programs, the role of the private sector in health care, adolescent sexual behavior in developing countries, priorities for maternal health, the use of misoprostol in obstetrics and women’s empowerment, fertility and family planning. 4

PH181, Fall 2021 Course Syllabus SYLLABUS SUBJECT TO CHANGE Ndola Prata, MD, MSc Course Format Course Schedule See bCourses for readings. Week Date Topic Assignment (due date) 1 8/26 First discussion section 2 8/31 Introduction to Global Poverty and Population 3 9/7 No class (Labor Day) 4 9/14 Understanding Fertility Decline 5 9/21 The Demographic Dividend 6 9/28 Designing Population-Level Interventions Individual paper (by midnight on 09/30) 7 10/5 Climate Change and Poverty 8 10/12 Poverty, Population and Sustainability 9 10/19 Abortion and Poverty Communication Assignment (by midnight on 10/21 ) 10 10/26 Poverty and Subsistence Farming 11 11/2 Interventions to Decrease Poverty Group Program Plan (by midnight on 11/4) 12 11/9 Solutions to Increase Young People's Access to Reproductive Health Info and Services 13 11/16 Poverty and Disease Outbreak (panel) Pre-recorded Presentation Due (11/18) Final Exam (11/16 - 11/17) 14 11/23 Population and a Sustainable World Peer feedback due (11/22) 15 11/30 Final Presentations 16 12/7 No class (R&R Week) 5

PH181, Fall 2021 Course Syllabus SYLLABUS SUBJECT TO CHANGE Ndola Prata, MD, MSc Participation Participation in both lecture and discussion is required unless you have received an exemption based on some hardship due to COVID. If you are unable to attend either discussion or lecture due to some reasonable circumstance such as time zone, broadband access, illness, please let us know. Participation in lecture will be evaluated based on your contribution to weekly activities as well as your engagement with our guest speakers (e.g., asking questions or contributing your perspective). Participation in discussion will be evaluated based on your attendance and contributions to workbook activities. Group Project Over the course of the semester, students will work in a small group to plan an intervention to accelerate progress on one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in the country of their choosing. A detailed project description is available on bCourses. Individual Paper & Communications Assignment Students will complete two short papers over the course of the semester. The first paper is a profile of an existing program that already seeks to address the development goal your group picked for your final project. The second paper, the communication assignment, is an opportunity for you to write an op-ed or public statement on the course topic of your choice. Detailed project descriptions for each paper are available on bCourses. Final Exam The final exam will cover content from the lectures and readings and will be a combination of question types including fill-in-the-blank and short answer. Course Communication As we move through the course, we would like to hear about your experience with the course materials, questions you may have, and how your personal and professional experiences relate to our conversation. We also encourage students to learn from one another by taking advantage of the interactive components of the class. 7

PH181, Fall 2021 Course Syllabus SYLLABUS SUBJECT TO CHANGE Ndola Prata, MD, MSc Announcements Announcements will be posted on the home page of the bCourses website. Please check regularly for updates. Course Mail Course announcements will also be sent out through Canvas’ notification system. The default is to receive announcements via the Course Mail system, so make sure to check your Course Mailbox for messages or the email you’ve chosen to receive notifications. Policies Due Dates Please communicate with instructors using Canvas Course Mail if you will not be able to meet a course deadline. Late Assignments If an emergency prevents you from submitting an assignment by the deadline, please contact your instructor as soon as possible. We expect students to include documentation with their request for extension (i.e. doctors note). Any request for an extension on an assignment or an exam must be made in advance of the posted due date. Attendance Attendance and participation in both lecture and discussion is required unless you have received an exemption based on some hardship due to COVID. If you are unable to attend either discussion due to some reasonable circumstance such as time zone, broadband access, illness, please let us know. To track attendance and engagement with lecure activities, we will ask each student to take a screenshot of their group’s activity and to submit it on bCourses in the assignments section. Attendance will be evaluated as part of your participation grade. Technology You may use laptops in class for note-taking. However, once class is convened, it is respectful to the instructor, guest lecturers, and your colleagues to cease use of 8