Introduction to Health Sciences
Información académica
Code:
51311
Créditos:
4 ECTS
Language:
English
Description
This is an introductory course to the field of health sciences in the areas of both preventive and clinical therapeutic health practices, with a focus on subjects related to critical thinking and problem solving. Research models and trends in the health sciences. The course will go over basic concepts in the health sciences and their relationship with the causation and prevention of disease.
2019-2020 teaching plan subject (in extinction).
Olga Valverde
Lecturer
Introduction to Health Sciences
PhD in Medicine
Olga Valverde graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Cádiz, where she later earned a PhD in Neuroscience (1992). She also has a PhD in Pharmacy from the Paris Descartes University in Paris (1996). In 1998 she joined the Department of Health and Life Sciences at UPF as a lecturer in human biology. She is currently Professor in Psychobiology at UPF, where she teaches on several courses. As a researcher she heads the Neurobiology of Behaviour Research Group (GReNeC) at the Department of Experimental and Health Sciences at UPF. The group’s main lines of research include studying the neurological bases of affective disorders, drug addiction and pain.
Dr Mònica Ubalde
Lecturer
Introduction to Health Sciences
PhD in Biomedicine (Epidemiology and Public Health)(UPF)
Master’s Degree in Occupational Health (UPF)
Bachelor’s Degree in Biology (UAB)
Mònica Ubalde is a researcher in epidemiology and public health. She is currently working in environmental epidemiology (urban, environmental and health planning) and has considerable experience in occupational epidemiology. Her research has included how multimorbidity affects the inability to work and how workers’ employment history affects their health. She has worked as a postdoc at the University of Texas, the University Medical Center Groningen-UMCG and the University of Stockholm. She has taught master’s degree courses at UPF and UPC and supervised nine master’s dissertations and one PhD thesis.