icon
Quality Score

Content Quality
/
Video Quality
/
Qualified Instructor
/
Course Pace
/
Course Depth & Coverage
/

Overall Score : 94 / 100

icon
Live Chat with CourseDuck's Co-Founder for Help

Need help deciding on a redux course? Or looking for more detail on Michele Decker's Confronting Gender Based Violence: Global Lessons for Healthcare Workers? Feel free to chat below.
Join CourseDuck's Online Learning Discord Community

icon
Course Description

This course introduces participants from the healthcare sector to gender based violence (GBV), including global epidemiology of GBV; health outcomes; seminal research; and clinical best practices for GBV prevention, support, and management. A core curriculum is supplemented by lectures that contextualize the content with specific examples and programs from around the world. The core curriculum introduces learners to a global perspective on gender based violence (GBV), and includes a review with Dr. Claudia Garcia-Moreno of the new WHO guidelines on responding to violence. Students who wish to receive Honors Recognition will complete the honors module, which expands on the core material and highlights special circumstances and programs. This is an in-depth course with 2 components: 1) Core curriculum introduces GBV from a global perspective, with an emphasis on ensuring a strong health sector response to GBV and teaching key competencies for social workers, physicians, nurses, midwives, community health workers, counselors, and other healthcare workers. Completion of the core content is required for students to pass the course. 2) Honors curriculum offered by experts from around the world helps students dive deeper into certain issues, and touches on unique populations and specialized topics. Completion of Honors curriculum is required for those students who wish to receive a Certificate of Accomplishment with Honors.After taking the course, students will be able to:-Describe the global epidemiology of leading forms of GBV and the evidence linking GBV to poor health.-Articulate the challenges, strategies, and WHO guidelines for integrating GBV response within the health sector. -Describe the components of a comprehensive clinical assessment, treatment, and management of a GBV survivor.-Describe the appropriate psychosocial support and management of a GBV survivor.Module 1 - Introduction to GBV- Epidemiology and Health ImpactGBV comes in a variety of forms, each with health consequences for the survivor. An understanding of these issues helps inform a comprehensive and multi-sectorial response for preventing and responding to GBV. Module 2 - Health Care Response, Screening, and Psychosocial SupportRecognition of health impacts of GBV has led to calls to address GBV within the health sector. Support for GBV survivors extends beyond clinical exam and assessment. Safety planning, harm reduction, and access to psychosocial support must be ensured. Module 3 - Clinical Care for GBV SurvivorsCaring for GBV survivors requires compassionate, confidential, and nondiscriminatory clinical assessment. Competent medical and forensic examination, along with appropriate documentation, is essential.Honors Module - In-Depth Information and Special TopicsThis module provides additional materials for those who wish to explore specialized topics and gain a more advanced grasp of the complexities of addressing gender-based violence. Core course topics are expanded upon, and special populations and programs are highlighted. Special topics include violence in humanitarian settings, against adolescents and sex workers, and human trafficking. Further information is provided on epidemiology, policy, and ethical guidelines, as well as the use of mHealth in GBV screening and care. We'll cover the unique challenges of GBV research, and explore programs that encourage men and boys to be engaged in the prevention of violence against women. AcknowledgmentsThis course is a project of the Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education. We would like to gratefully acknowledge the following collaborators:-Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes (CEHAT)-International Center for Research on Women's (ICRW) Asia Regional Office-Center on Gender Equity and Health at University of California, San Diego-Division of Global Public Health at University of California, San Diego-World Health Organization-RTI International-Swayam-Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Public Health and Human Rights-Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Population, Family & Reproductive Health-Johns Hopkins School of NursingThis course is made possible through the generosity of the Ujala Foundation, the Vijay & Marie Goradia Charitable Foundation, and the Wyncote Foundation.

icon
Instructor Details

Michele Decker

Michele R. Decker, ScD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. A social epidemiologist by training, her research focuses on gender-based violence (e.g., sexual assault, intimate partner violence, sex trafficking), its prevention, and its implications for sexual and reproductive health (e.g., STI/HIV, unintended pregnancy). Much of this work involves marginalized populations including urban women, adolescents and those involved in transactional sex or sex work. Her work includes clinic-based intervention efforts to mitigate the health consequences of violence, as well as primary research to understand the mechanisms by which violence influences sexual health and HIV risk. She blends large-scale quantitative investigations with qualitative methods. She works domestically as well as in South and Southeast Asia, and Eastern Europe/Central Asia.

icon
Reviews

4.7

31 total reviews

5 star 4 star 3 star 2 star 1 star
% Complete
% Complete
% Complete
% Complete
% Complete

By Riane d H on 23-Jun-19

Highly educative

By Manuel E L d S A on 7-Apr-19

Great course that so relevant to context of turbulent gender-based violence in Vietnam, my country.

By Dennis H on 11-Jul-18

A great course providing valuable international resources and examples of key concepts and measures for confronting gender based violence irrespective of ones specialization in development work. The lectures were well prepared and included good PP's and further references which enable one to extend learning.

By CARL H M on 3-Aug-17

It's a complete and useful course about Gender Based Violence centered in the health context, with many exhaustive examples from India and Africa, good references and a serious well didactic planning. The exercised are well designed for maximize the learning process and evaluate it. The graded peer review is quite demanding, but finally I was grateful to learn from other students. This course has give me a boost in my professional career, now I feel more confident to work with GBV, and I detect the gaps in my formation and know how to fill it.

By Wei G on 16-Apr-18

Course is very informative and practical, full of interesting and useful information. Quality of some presentations, especially audios could bit a little bit better.

By Maira B on 8-Nov-16

Very interesting course if upgraded will love to be notified for furthering.

By Sue C on 31-Oct-16

great!

By Rabia A S on 23-Jun-17

Exposure to GBV with best practices in the light of global lessons really makes you realize the critical & complicated nature of the problem, adverse affects on women, men and children and urgent need for our collective actions - both as health care professionals as well as human beings. Hats off to the team of Johns Hopkins and Coursera for putting together such a meaningful course. Thank you for your services Madam & Sirs!!! GOD may bless you more...

By John D B on 12-Oct-17

Great course! Learned a lot about trends, risks and approaches to confronting GBV. Useful for me even though I am not a health worker.

By Riana B on 9-Aug-16

I loved to attend this course! Congratulations to all the people who made it possible.

By Noaldo M D F on 24-Aug-17

Well thought out course that touches on key aspects of a comprehensive healthcare response to GBV in a variety of international settings.

By Madelene S on 21-Aug-17

It's easy to understand and very practical. References are very relevant with what I have been working for. Thank you!