Focuses on developing transdisciplinary Public Health solutions to some of our planet's greatest threats. Introduce Public Health students to these threats, and using a case-based approach, delve into why they are the direct result of our actions. Understanding humans' role in causing these threats is the first step to developing a plan to preserve our planet for future generations. Prerequisites: Minimum Junior standing, Graduate student, or Honors College Sophomore standing with Instructor permission.
Course focuses on current public health issues, barriers to improving population health, and policy tensions between science, economics, education, politics, government, media, and public health.
Epidemiology is the study of disease distribution and determinants in populations; we will define populations and estimate the distribution of health-related conditions and their determinants. Pre/co-requisites: College-level Mathematics course; Bachelor's degree.
Biostatistics I (Applied Research Methods in Public Health) includes biostatistics, research designs, and qualitative approaches, and includes emphasis on evaluating research articles in public health. Pre/co-requisites: College-level Mathematics course; Bachelor's degree.
Explores major areas of environmental public health (EPH), including environmental hazards, exposures, and related health outcomes, including emerging topics in environmental public health.
This course addresses the behavioral, social and cultural factors related to individual and population health, and health disparities over the life course.
Exposure to advanced epidemiological concepts, such as effect modifications and modeling using multiple variables, related to establishing causal relationships from observational data. Prerequisites: PH 6020, PH 6030.
Public health law examines the government's authority, at various jurisdictional levels, to improve the health of the general population within societal limits and norms. Prerequisite: Bachelor's degree.
Seminar emphasizing the skills for designing and executing clinical and translational research.
This course explores food systems' influence on public health, and how technology, policy, biology, epidemiology, and historical knowledge can support a healthier food system. Prerequisite: Bachelor's degree.
Addresses major issues and challenges faced by health services managers relating to established and evolving social, economic, and professional policies in a context of practical problem assessment and appropriate resolution.
Prepares students for leadership roles in global public health organizations. After identifying governance and financing structures, students apply management and leadership principles through case studies, emphasizing application of relevant analytical skills. Topics include leadership principles, human resources management, global health ethics, social marketing, global health financing, and future trends in global health.
Global climate change is increasing extreme weather events, influencing air and water quality, and shifting vector habitats. Students will explore basic climate science, health, consequences of climate change, and public health approaches to assessment, communication, projection, mitigation, and adaptation.
Students will develop skills essential for success in public health doctoral study, including research, practice, and teaching for your career; and the rationale for doctoral education, need for, and trajectory of public health challenges and workforce needs. Examples of skills: citations/information management tools, ethics and research protections history and training, skills for public health research and practice projects, and exploration of potential funding sources. Course materials emphasize skill development, discussions and application of learned materials.
Focuses on developing skills for strategic public health leadership, with an emphasis on interprofessional collaboration and systems thinking. Students will design and implement effective public health initiatives, including strategic planning, data-driven decision-making, community engagement, and social entrepreneurship. Prepares students to lead impactful and sustainable improvements in public health organizations and systems.
Covers a series of advanced topics in research design and quantitative data analysis encountered in public health. Framed around quantitative analysis of survey data, which is a common data source for understanding population health, although analysis of other types of data will be explored. Uses real-world research questions and datasets to reinforce research design and statistical analysis concepts, emphasizing correct use of data analytic methods for a given question and dataset. Prerequisite: Doctor of Public health or PhD student.
Prepares students to apply knowledge and skills in a culminating project experience that reflects research and practice needs of actual populations. Prerequisites: PH 6010, PH 6020, PH 6030, PH 6070.