Courses and schedules

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Course descriptions and schedules offered below are helpful guides to find courses offered by the College of Public Health. These tools are not meant to replace the official course catalog maintained by the University Registrar.

Undergraduate level courses are numbered 4000 and below, undergraduate/graduate level courses are numbered 5000, and all graduate level courses are numbered 6000 and higher.

Public Health course catalog

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PUBHLTH 6000
Introduction to Global Health

Overview of current and emerging global health issues, their determinants, actions and interventions.

Prerequisite(s): Open to graduate students. Registration priority for students enrolled in the Interdisciplinary Global Health specialization. Not open to students with credit for 600.

2 Credits PUBHLTH

PUBHLTH 6001
Methods in Quantitative Data Analysis

Fundamentals of biostatistics and epidemiology. Will cover core knowledge areas in quantitative data analysis, morbidity, mortality and risk assessment to understand population health.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate student standing in Master of Public Health or Master of Health Administration Program or permission of instructor. Co-requisite: PUBHLTH 6002.

4 Credits PUBHLTH

PUBHLTH 6002
History, Values and Essential Services of the U.S. Public Health System

Health outcomes for individuals and populations are impacted by a variety of social, economic and environmental factors. To understand how these social determinants create or reduce opportunities for health, it is critical to understand how both the public health and health care systems have been developed, have evolved and are now organized to either contribute to or reduce disparities between the outcomes of different populations. This course, the first of two foundations courses, will cover the values, history and essential services of the U.S. public health system and the foundations of the social and environmental determinants of health, including the impact of racism, poverty and other structural inequities. Modules will concentrate on how the public health system has addressed communicable and non-communicable diseases through progress in environmental, social and economic policies and practices, impacting health throughout the 20th and 21st Centuries and accounting for more than two-thirds of the gains in life expectancy over the past 100 plus years.

Prerequisite(s): Prerequisites: Graduate student standing in Master of Public Health, Master of Health Administration or permission of instructor. Corequisite: Enrollment in PUBHLTH 6001

2 Credits PUBHLTH

PUBHLTH 6003
Methods in Public Health Planning and Evaluation

This course will address the methodology, conceptual frameworks and strategies for planning and evaluating public health programs.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate student standing in Master of Public Health or permission of instructor. Completion of PUBHLTH 6001 and 6002.
Corequisite: Enrollment in PUBHLTH 6004

2 Credits PUBHLTH

PUBHLTH 6004
Essentials of Population Health

This is the second of two foundational courses describing how policies, systems and communities interact to either contribute to or reduce disparities between the health outcomes of different populations. This course will cover organization, delivery and payment of health care services in the United States and across the world, the framework for organizing the presentation and use of information concerning the effect of environmental conditions on health status.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate student standing in Master of Public Health or permission of instructor. Completion of PUBHLTH 6001 and 6002. Corequisite: PUBHLTH 6003

4 Credits PUBHLTH

PUBHLTH 6010
Essentials of Public Health

A comprehensive overview of the history and philosophy of public health, and the core principles, concepts and tools used in promoting the health of populations. The course focuses on the breadth of the field and the cross-specialization perspectives on major issues in public health.

Prerequisite(s): Enrollment in Master of Science in Public Health (PUBHLTH‐MS) or Doctor of Philosophy in Public Health programs (PUBHLTH‐PH), Doctor of Philosophy in Biostatistics (BIOSTAT-PH), Master of Science in Environmental Sciences (ENVSCI-MS) or Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Sciences (ENVSCI-PH) or permission of instructor.

3 Credits PUBHLTH

PUBHLTH 6012
Applied Quantitative Methods in Population Health

This course introduces the fundamental principles of biostatistics, focusing on their application and interpretation within the context of public health research. The primary objective is to equip students with the skills to critically read understand and interpret statistical data and findings presented in professional and scientific literature.