title: Global cardiovascular disease and the academic public health curriculum.
abstract: The epidemic of cardiac risk factors and cardiovascular disease in developing regions has reached sub-Sahara Africa. This global reality needs to energize the academic public health establishment to incorporate this phenomenon in its curriculum. The focus for control of these risk factors and illnesses will need to be on their cultural, political, and economic upstream drivers. The schools of public health will need to collaborate with a broad array of university disciplines to craft a focused and appropriate curriculum with which to train the next generation of global health professionals.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY; Department of Medicine and Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University, New York, NY; Division of Cardiology, St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals, New York, NY. Electronic address: hmg1@columbia.edu.
authors.forename: Henry
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Greenberg
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003479:Curriculum; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D015995:Prevalence; D011634:Public Health / Q000639:trends*; D012307:Risk Factors
keywords: CVD; NCD; Non-communicable diseases; Public health curriculum; SSA; Sub-Sahara Africa; cardiovascular disease; non-communicable diseases; sub-Sahara Africa