2011 News and Events

Public Health Issues of Disability

What can you do to promote the positive contributions of people with disabilities?

The Center and the Department of Community Medicine will be offering a course in “Public Health Issues of Disability” (PUBH 472) that will give you a chance to learn about, and discuss, the questions of disability and the impact on public health of this often controversial and confusing issue.

The course will be taught by Peter Love, M.P.H., Ph.D., faculty at the Center and adjunct faculty in the Department of Community Medicine. Dr. Love has over thirty years experience in the disability field in roles ranging from recreational therapist in boarding homes in the backwoods of Maine to Director of the nation’s largest and most comprehensive academic support program for college students with learning disabilities. For more information about the course please contact Dr. Love at love@uchc.edu.

If you answer yes to any of the below, then this course for you:

  • Have ever picked up the daily newspaper and wondered, “What is going on with all this disability stuff? Isn’t that just about kids in wheelchairs? Seems like everybody’s disabled now!”
  • Have you ever wondered what the impact of disability is on the serious public health questions facing our nation?
  • Have you ever wondered about how people with disabilities fare in the health care system and the potential for serious health disparities across the lifespan?
  • Have you ever wondered what the “truth” behind these headlines might be?
    • “Steve Jobs: Aspergers or Not?”
    • “Blind Football Player Catching the Eyes of Fans”
    • “One in Five Americans Has a Disability”
    • “Blind Lexington Athlete Making History with Dog”

“No such thing as ADHD and Autism, kids just need discipline”, says Michael Savage.

To register please contact: Barbara Case bcase@nso.uchc.edu.