Graduate Course Directory and Schedules

This course introduces students to the history and mission of public health. Using a multilevel framework, the course will cover the ways in which a range of structural and social determinants and behavioral, biological, and genetic factors affect population health for health equity. Students will think critically about the foundational principles of public health, theoretical concepts, and values and ethics to develop their own intersectional social justice and antiracist orientation to apply in the field.​

This course introduces students to foundational public health methods for appraising evidence and collecting data using qualitative and quantitative approaches. Students critically review and interpret existing literature, formulate research questions, and design data collection tools within a practice-oriented, equity-driven framework. Through a scaffolded research project, students develop skills in data collection, analysis, and communication that translate directly to applied public health settings. Emphasis is placed on reflexivity, community engagement, and understanding how public health knowledge is produced and used within systems of power.

This course introduces students to foundational public health methods for appraising evidence and collecting data using qualitative and quantitative approaches. Students critically review and interpret existing literature, formulate research questions, and design data collection tools within a practice-oriented, equity-driven framework. Through a scaffolded research project, students develop skills in data collection, analysis, and communication that translate directly to applied public health settings. Emphasis is placed on reflexivity, community engagement, and understanding how public health knowledge is produced and used within systems of power.

Analytic Methods II builds on the skills taught in Analytic Methods I and covers quantitative and qualitative methods used in public health studies. Topics include qualitative and quantitative statistical analysis methods of data generated from various epidemiologic study designs. Health equity considerations are integrated throughout. Students will be introduced to epidemiologic designs, hypothesis testing, and data analysis using statistical software. Students will be introduced to epidemiologic designs, hypothesis testing, and data analysis using statistical software. The class project will use a population-based public health problem (e.g. heat wave exposure, influenza) as a common thread throughout the course.​
 

Prerequisite

• PUBH 521 or instructor permission

Students will learn to identify and assess communication landscapes to better understand how “health” is being constructed for diverse audiences. We will introduce the cognitive, theoretical, ethical, and cultural foundations that underlie public health communication and that will help us more effectively contribute to public debate and advance health equity and social justice. We will practice message development in consideration of the community-based and collaborative roles of public health, and the often-controversial issues we address. We also will identify and practice the key components of three major communication campaign frameworks, each serving differing goals, strategies, contexts, and audiences.​

Students will learn to identify and assess communication landscapes to better understand how “health” is being constructed for diverse audiences. We will introduce the cognitive, theoretical, ethical, and cultural foundations that underlie public health communication and that will help us more effectively contribute to public debate and advance health equity and social justice. We will practice message development in consideration of the community-based and collaborative roles of public health, and the often-controversial issues we address. We also will identify and practice the key components of three major communication campaign frameworks, each serving differing goals, strategies, contexts, and audiences.​

This course explores inter-relationships between environment and well-being across scales of space and time. Through a lens of equity and social justice, students study climate change, exposure science, occupational health, as well as environmental systems and spaces that impact public health and safety. Students will gain foundational knowledge that allows them to apply environmental health principles to public health practice and research.​

The Applied Practice Experience (APEx) provides students with the opportunity to apply knowledge and skills from their MPH coursework to real-world public health challenges in community and organizational settings. The APEx is a 160-hour field experience in which students work with public, private, or community-based organizations, producing at least two deliverables that demonstrate attainment of three CEPH foundational competencies and two program-specific competencies. Group projects may be approved if each student’s role and contributions are clearly defined. Each student must complete their own APEx deliverables and academic assignments.​ This course may be repeated for up to 4 credits.
 
Credits
1-4

 
Prerequisite
PUBH 511, PUBH 521, PUBH 522, PUBH 531, PUBH 532, PUBH 533, PUBH 534

Doctoral seminar covering current topics in health systems and policy research providing doctoral students in the Health Systems and Policy Ph.D. program an opportunity to develop multi-disciplinary perspectives on current issues in their area of research.

Course intended for Ph.D. students only.

(Formerly HSMP 660 – Contemporary Research in Health Systems & Policy)