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Floriano, Maureen

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Research

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  • My research involved understanding how patients of an Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution (OEND) clinic conceptualized their substance use disorder (SUD). My research was specifically designed to understand how individual beliefs about SUD etiology impacted OEND clinic patients' feelings of agency and subsequent health-seeking behaviors.

Teaching

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  • GEOG 2692 - Foundations in Public Health
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023
    This course provides a comprehensive overview of public health as well as an in-depth review of specific public health-related topics. Beginning with historical overview, students will explore major public health concepts such as the basic principles of epidemiology, the biomedical basis of disease, social and behavioral determinants of health, and systems thinking. Students will be introduced to the concepts of measuring and evaluating the health of the populations, principles of communicable and non-communicable diseases,environmental and occupational health, the economics of health, and the role of public health workers in society. Same as IPHY 2692.
  • GEOG 3692 - Introduction to Global Public Health
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023
    Introduces global health by putting its contemporary definition, determinants, development and direction as a field into a broad global context. The course is divided into four core topics: 1) the burden and distribution of disease and mortality; 2) the determinants of global health disparities; 3) the development of global health policies; and 4) the outcomes of global health interventions. Required for the Public Health Certificate.
  • IPHY 2692 - Foundations in Public Health
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023
    This course provides a comprehensive overview of public health as well as an in-depth review of specific public health-related topics. Beginning with historical overview, students will explore major public health concepts such as the basic principles of epidemiology, the biomedical basis of disease, social and behavioral determinants of health, and systems thinking. Students will be introduced to the concepts of measuring and evaluating the health of the populations, principles of communicable and non-communicable diseases,environmental and occupational health, the economics of health, and the role of public health workers in society. Same as GEOG 2692.
  • IPHY 3490 - Introduction to Epidemiology
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023
    Examines the history and uses of epidemiology, measures of disease frequency and occurrence, association and causality, analytic epidemiology, evidence-based screening and outbreak investigations. Recommended prerequisites: IPHY 2800 and SOCY 2061 and PSYC 3101.

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