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Approximate time required for the required readings for the course is 45 hours at an average reading rate of 144 words/minute; in addition, there are required activities.

At the end of each module, there is a practice quiz. At the end of the course, you will take a final exam; a chance to evaluate the course will also be provided. 

In order to receive a certificate of completion, you will need to also complete the second component of the course, which includes four required peer activities. 

The results of your assessments will be provided to you, and we can report your testing information and share your work with anyone you request (school, employer, etc.). We hope that you will find this a rewarding learning experience, and we count on your assessment and feedback to help us improve this training for future students.

The course requires completion of all required peer activities. At the end of each lesson, there is a practice quiz. At the end of the course, after you’ve completed each lesson, quiz, and activity, you’ll have access to a final exam, and a chance to assess the training. Once you’ve passed that last test, you will be able to download a certificate of completion from NextGenU.org and our course’s co-sponsoring organizations (listed above). We keep all of your personal information confidential, never sell any of your information, and only use anonymized data for research purposes, and we are also happy to report your testing information and share your work with anyone (your school, employer, etc.) at your request. We hope that you will find this a rewarding learning experience, and we count on your assessment and feedback to help us improve this training for future students. 

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To obtain a certificate of completion

• Show in the registration fields that you have the appropriate prerequisites to be certified. This course requires a high school diploma.
• Complete all the reading requirements. 
• Complete all quizzes and pass with a 70% with unlimited attempts..
• Complete peer activities and associated certification quizzes.
• Successfully complete the final exam with a minimum of 70% and a maximum of 3 attempts.  
• Complete the self and course evaluation forms.

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• Complete all requirements listed above for the certificate 
• Your learning institution or workplace should approve the partner-university-sponsored NextGenU.org course for educational credit, as they would for their learner taking a course anywhere. 
•  NextGenU.org is happy to provide your institution with:
• a link to and description of the course training, so they can see all its components, including the cosponsoring universities and other professional organization cosponsors ;
• your grade on the final exam;
  
• your work products (e.g. peer and mentored activities), and any other required or optional shared materials that you produce and authorize to share with them;  
  
• your evaluations -- self-, peer-, and [for mentored courses] mentor assessments
  
• a copy of your certificate of completion, with the co-sponsoring universities and other organizations listed.

Module 1: Health Workers, Conflict, and Peace

Competencies covered in this module:

• Learn the basic terminology for public health issues in war and health 
• Describe the magnitude and impact of violence in a global context
• Know the types of interventions and policy responses that have been tried against violence
• Learn the potential and limitations of health workers in preventing and mitigating conflict 
• Consider the place of public health in humanitarian aid and peace-building 
• Understand human rights issues around war and health
• Develop skills required to teach emergency preparedness to students in the health care professions

Module 1: Lesson 1: Health Workers, Conflict, and Peace

Learning Objectives

• Learn about the different sources of violence and appropriate public health worker responses.
• Learn about the role of and constraints on health workers in preventing and/or mitigating destructiveness.
• Consider the place of public health in humanitarian aid and peace building.
• Become familiar with The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
• Learn a process and list competencies for the skills necessary for teaching emergency preparedness to students in the health care professions.

• MPW Course 1: Health workers, conflict and peace
• World report on violence and health
• Peace building through health initiatives

• World report on violence and health
• World report on violence and health
• Public health and complex emergencies: New issues, new conditions
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Preparing health professions students for terrorism, disaster, and public health emergencies: Core competencies
• Natural Disasters, Armed Conflict, and Public Health

• Quiz: Module 1: Lesson 1

Module 2: Medicine, Health and Human Rights

Competency covered in this module:

• Understand the relationships between health care, medicine, and human rights.

Module 2: Lesson 1: Medicine, Health and Human Rights

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the relationships between health care, medicine, and human rights.

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• The Right to Health: Fact Sheet No. 31
• MPW course 2: Medicine, health and human rights
• Health and Human Rights (in the Health and Human Rights Journal - Volume 1 Issue 1)
• Essential medicines and human rights: What can they learn from each other?

• Russia's War in Ukraine- The Devastation of Health and Human Rights

• Quiz: Module 2: Lesson 1

Module 3: War, Weapons and Conflict Strategies

Competencies covered in this module:

• Be able to describe how war, weapons, and strategies of violent conflicts impact health
• Gain knowledge of basic international humanitarian law, human rights, and the ethical codes that regulate health professions
• Examine the link between the different weapons used in war
• Learn about biological and chemical weapons and understand how governments prepare responses to such weapons
• Learn about the direct and indirect consequences of landmines on public health
• Learn about firearms as a public health concern

Module 3: Lesson 1: Weapons and Health

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the health effects of war as well as the weapons and strategies of violent conflict.
• Become familiar with the range of weapons used in modern warfare.
• Examine the wide-ranging social issues associated with war.
• Gain a basic understanding of international humanitarian law, human rights, and the ethical codes that regulate the health professions.
• Examine the link between different weapons used in modern wars and their potential to injure civilians.

• MPW Course 3: War, weapons and conflict strategies
• Effect of type and transfer of conventional weapons on civilian injuries: Retrospective analysis of prospective data from Red Cross hospitals
• Civil War Veterans and Opiate Addiction

• Mortality in Iraq Associated with the 2003–2011 War and Occupation: Findings from a National Cluster Sample Survey by the University Collaborative Iraq Mortality Study
• How has the war impacted Ukraine's environment

• Quiz: Module 3: Lesson 1

Module 3: Lesson 2: Biological and Chemical Weapons

Learning Objectives

• Learn about biological and chemical weapons, including why their development, production and use are problematic and hazardous to those who would seek to use them and their victims
• Understand how and why governments seek to prevent the use of biological and chemical weapons and prepare and develop response plans as an integral part of national emergency and public health plans

• Public health response to biological and chemical weapons: WHO guidance

• Quiz: Module 3: Lesson 2

Module 3: Lesson 3: Landmines

Learning Objective:

• Learn about the direct and indirect consequences of landmines on public health.

Module 3: Lesson 4: Firearms

Learning Objective

• Learn about the public health concerns regarding firearms

• Small arms and global health

• Quiz: Module 3: Lesson 4

Module 4: Nuclear Weapons and War

Competencies covered in this module:

• Learn about the history of nuclear weapons
• Understand the role of health care professionals in anti-nuclear weapon campaigns
• Consider the historical and contemporary perspectives on nuclear arms control from world leaders
• Learn about the public health issues caused by nuclear war
• Consider the risks involved if terrorists were to obtain nuclear weapons
• Learn about the major treaties regarding nuclear weapons
• Consider the aftermath of a nuclear attack on a major metropolitan area

Module 4: Lesson 1: Nuclear Weapons

Learning Objectives

• Learn about the history of nuclear weapons
• Learn about the impact of health care professionals in anti-nuclear weapon campaigns
• Learn about the major policy obstacles faced by nuclear-armed states that might wish to eliminate their weapons
• Learn about the real and lasting threats from nuclear war on public health

Module 4: Lesson 2: Nuclear Power and Health

Learning Objective

• Learn how nuclear power generation impacts the health of local populations

• Childhood leukemia and cancers near German nuclear reactors: Significance, context, and ramifications of recent studies

• Nuclear tipping point - Watch
• Unfurling the nuclear mystery after Fukushima

• Quiz: Module 4: Lesson 2

Module 5: Structural Violence and the Underlying Causes of Violent Conflict

Competencies covered in this module:

• Examine the relationships between poverty, development, and violent conflict
• Consider the underlying causes of structural violence
• Learn about the relationship between structural violence and clinical medicine

Module 5: Lesson 1: Structural Violence and the Underlying Causes of Violent Conflict

Learning Objectives

• Examine the relationships between poverty, development, and violent conflict
• Examine the underlying causes of structural violence at both the local and global levels
• Become familiar with the terminology of development and core issues such as poverty, inequality, and health as a basis for understanding the underlying causes of structural violence at both the local and global levels
• Learn about the relationship between structural and clinical medicine

• MPW Course 4: Structural violence and the underlying causes of violent conflict

• Structural violence and clinical medicine
• Organised violence as a never- ending story? Reflections in light of the Russian aggression against Ukraine
• Implication of the Russia - Ukraine war for global food security

• Quiz: Module 5: Lesson 1

Module 6: Peace through Health in Violent Conflict

Competencies covered in this module:

• Learn about the relationships between medicine, warfare, and militarization
• Understand how armed conflicts affect the provision of medical aid
• Consider peace-building through improving health care

Module 6: Lesson 1: Peace through Health in Violent Conflict

• Become familiar with the ways in which health professionals promote peace, prevent conflict, and decrease its effects in multiple ways
• Consider alternative approaches to peace-building through health care

• MPW Course 5: Peace through health in violent conflict

• Peace Through Health and Its Potential as a Transformative Lens (in The Meducator is McMaster University's undergraduate Health Sciences Journal)
• Neighbors and Enemies: Lessons to Be Learned from the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict Regarding Cooperation in Public Health

• Quiz: Module 6: Lesson 1

Module 7: Refugee and Migration Challenges

Competencies covered in this module:

• Understand the immediate public health needs of refugees and immigrants
• Develop skills for the provision of culturally sensitive health care
• Learn about the common mental health problems of immigrants and refugees

Module 7: Lesson 1: Refugee and Migration Challenges

Learning Objectives

• Learn about the health and well-being needs of refugees and immigrants
• Become aware of the psycho social impacts of violent conflicts and their aftermath, including the journey into exile
• Develop skills in the provision of culturally sensitive health care and address ethical dilemmas in relation to health and refugee work
• Learn how physicians in host countries can meet the complex medical needs of refugees
• Learn about the mental health problems common to immigrants and refugees and the associated primary care

• MPW Course 6: Refugee and migration challenges
• Healthcare challenges from the developing world: Post-immigration refugee medicine
• Mental Health, Alcohol and Substance Use of Refugee Youth

• Common mental health problems in immigrants and refugees: general approach in primary care

• Quiz: Module 7: Lesson 1

• Activity: Discussion Forum 1 (155 minutes)

Module 8: Violence and Human Health

Competencies covered in this module:

• Define the different types of conflict-related violence, including community violence, domestic violence, and suicide
• Describe the risk factors and prevention strategies for each type of violence
• Learn about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), specifically when it starts and how affected individuals can be helped
• Learn the best practices to address violence during and after a disaster
• Learn how to respond to violence through early and proactive action using a public health approach
• Become familiar with the terminology and best practices to prevent and respond to self-directed violence (SDV)

Module 8: Lesson 1: Prevention of Interpersonal & Self-Directed Violence

Learning Objectives

• Examine the origin and the extent of different types of violence, including community violence, domestic violence and suicide
• Identify the risk factors as well as the prevention strategies for each type of violence
• Learn what is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), when it starts, and how to help those who are affected by it
• Learn the best practices to address violence during and after a disaster 

• MPW Course 7: Prevention of interpersonal and self-directed violence
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Predictable, Preventable: Best Practices for Addressing Interpersonal and Self-Directed Violence During and After Disasters

• Self-directed Violence Surveillance: Uniform Definitions and Recommended Data Elements

• Quiz: Module 8: Lesson 1

Module 8: Lesson 2: Providing Psychosocial Support

Learning Objectives:

• Explain the negative ramifications of armed conflict on the psychosocial well-being of civilians.
  
• Break down issues of substance use among active-duty military personnel and veterans.
  
• Outline psychosocial and substance abuse support strategies and interventions for individuals affected by armed conflict.
  

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• Long-Term Impact of War, Civil War, and Persecution in Civilian Populations—Conflict and Post-Traumatic Stress in African Communities
• Substance Use and Military Life DrugFacts
• Substance Use and Military Life DrugFacts
• Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
• Mental Health Provider Podcast: Treating Substance Abuse amongst Veterans

• Substance use disorders in military veterans: prevalence and treatment challenges

• Quiz: Module 8: Lesson 2

Final Exam

• Final Exam

Course and Self Evaluation & Certificate

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• Course Evaluations
• Self Evaluations