19 May 2006 //
Hopkins Public Health Launches Six New Courses

BALTIMORE (MD) — The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has recently posted the content of six new courses on its OpenCourseWare Web OCW site at http://ocw.jhsph.edu, bringing the total number of offerings to 31. The School's OCW program was launched one year ago and currently receives over 70,000 page views a month from more than 110 countries, with 38% of the site's visitors coming from outside of the United States.

Course content on JHSPH's OCW site is grouped under the following topics:

• Adolescent Health
• Behavior and Health
• Biostatistics
• Environment
• General Public Health
• Global Health
• Health Policy
• Injury Prevention
• Maternal and Child Health
• Mental Health
• Nutrition
• Population Science
• Public Health Preparedness
• Refugee Health

New course content added in April 2006 covers public health biology, water sanitation, bioinformatics, global tobacco control, probability and statistical inference, and infant mortality.