Course Schedules
Download the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health’s 2024 – 2025 academic year course schedule.
Last Updated: 5.10.2024
Course Schedules by Term
Summer 2024 Planning Schedule
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Fall 2024 Planning Schedule
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Winter 2025 Planning Schedule
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Spring 2025 Planning Schedule
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View previous academic years course schedules per term for School of Public Health students – Archived GR Schedules.
SPH Course Descriptions
Descriptions of all School of Public Health courses can also be found in the course catalog of the most recent edition of the PSU Bulletin.
HSMP 582 / 682 – Oregon Health Policy: Lessons for State and National Reform
| Course Code | Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
HSMP 582 / 682 | 3 |
Course Information
Reviews Oregon’s nationally recognized health reforms and examine the lessons learned for the development and implementation of health policy at the national, state and local levels. Fundamental to the course will be exploring the many issues around employing public policy to address problems around access, cost, financing and quality in health care. This will be a seminar style course with an opportunity for students to meet with and learn from experts. Expected preparation: HSMP 571 Health Policy.
Slash Listed Courses
Also offered as HSMP 682 for doctoral students
HSMP 583 / 683 – Economics of Health Systems and Policy
| Course Code | Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
HSMP 583 / 683 | 3 |
Course Information
Health policy has a fundamental transactional nature. Economics provides a broad theoretical framework that seeks to assess and understand transactional relationships. Thus, economics has particular value as a means to diagnose the transactional problems that underpin health system dynamics and provide frameworks for proposed solutions. This course applies economic theory to assess problems in health systems and propose solutions, as well as critique existing policy and develop sound policy alternatives.
Prerequisite
Successful completion of HSMP 586 – Introduction to Health Economics, with an earned “B-” minimum passing grade
Slash Listed Courses
Doctoral students register for HSMP 683.
HSMP 585 / 685 – Implementation Science in Health Systems
| Course Code | Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
HSMP 585 / 685 |
Course Information
Students are introduced to the practice of implementation science as a strategic means to improve implementation efforts and as a foundation for designing research to further that end. Common implementation science frameworks, models and strategies are introduced and assessed for their implications for action or measurement at the policy, system, organization and community level. This course is an elective for the Health Management and Policy (HMP) program.
Slash Listed Courses
Also offered for doctoral-level credit as HSMP 685 and may only be taken once for credit.
HSMP 586 / 686 – Introduction to Health Economics
| Course Code | Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
HSMP 586 / 686 | 3 |
Course Information
Focuses on defining and measuring the performance of the health care sector, defining and explaining microeconomic concepts, and evaluating various policy initiatives to improve efficiency, equity, and technological progress in health care. Specific topics include description of the health care industry, production of health, measurement of health care price changes, theory of demand for health care, theory of production and cost, measurement of inputs and outputs, cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis, and structure and functioning of markets. In addition, the role of government in a private economy in dealing with market failure is discussed, especially as it relates to the goal of assuring universal access to health care. Does not require any specific preparation in economics or mathematics, although graphical presentation of economic concepts is emphasized. Recommended corequisite: HSMP 574.
Slash Listed Courses
Doctoral students register for the HSMP 686 section.
HSMP 587 – Financial Management of Health Services
| Course Code | Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
HSMP 587 | 3 |
Course Information
Focuses on the analysis and administration of resources in the health care field. Among the specific topics included in this course are financial statements, budgeting, cash flow, costing, capital decision making, sources of capital and operating funds, depreciation and government reimbursement schemes, and human resources planning and management.
HSMP 588 – Program Evaluation & Management in Health Services
| Course Code | Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
HSMP 588 | 3 |
Course Information
Introduces the theory and practice of program evaluation in the health services system. Includes multiple methods and uses of evaluation from the perspectives of managers, health professionals, and health services researchers, with an emphasis on the utilization of evaluation findings in program planning and management in health services. Course learning will be synthesized through a community-based learning experience involving working with a community partner to develop an evaluation framework and methodology for an existing or proposed health program.
HSMP 589 / 689 – Research Design in Health Services
| Course Code | Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
HSMP 589 / 689 | 3 |
Course Information
Provides an introduction to traditional methods of designing and conducting health services research. It is intended that at the completion of the course students will understand multiple approaches to health services research, be able to be both participants in and consumers of the research process, and will be competent in conducting critical appraisals of the health services literature and in writing research proposals.
Prerequisite
BSTA 525 – Intro to Biostatistics
Slash Listed Courses
Doctoral students register in the HSMP 689 section.
HSMP 603 – Dissertation
| Course Code | Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
HSMP 603 |
Course Information
Credits to be arranged. Permission not required.
HSMP 607 – Doctoral Seminar in Health Systems & Policy
| Course Code | Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
HSMP 607 | 1 - 9 |
Course Information
Doctoral seminar in health systems and policy. Permission not required.
HSMP 642 – Organizational Theory and Health Systems
| Course Code | Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
HSMP 642 | 3 |
Course Information
Students in this course will develop an understanding of the organizational theory domain and enhance their ability to frame research within that domain in the context of health systems. The course emphasizes both substance and skill development, drawing on insights from the fields of economics, anthropology, political science and systems science to explore the structure and functions of organizations, the interaction of organizations and their environment, and the behavior of individuals within organizations. Understanding organizational theory, research, actions and outcomes is fundamental.
HSMP 660 – Contemporary Research in Health Systems & Policy
| Course Code | Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
HSMP 660 | 3 |
Course Information
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.
IPE 523 / 623 – Climate Change & Human Health
| Course Code | Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
IPE 523 / 623 | 2 |
PHE 215 – Why Public Health Needs Indigenous Values: Intro to Decolonizing Public Health
| Course Code | Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
PHE 215 | 4 |
Course Information
As a gateway course of the OHSU-PSU undergraduate Indigenous Health Concentration, this foundational course will engage in concepts of Indigenous values, knowledge and perspectives and launch students into concepts of racial healing and racial justice for health equity. This course will introduce students to a decolonizing framework to advance health equity that centers on the strengths of Indigenous peoples.
PHE 225 – Finding Your Path Within Public Health
| Course Code | Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
PHE 225 | 1 |
Course Information
This course will help you understand the many career options in Public Health so that you can plan your academic journey to support your career goals. Learn important skills to enhance your marketability such as diversity training, writing resumes, cover letters and utilizing social media.
PHE 250 – 1 – Our Community: Our Health
| Course Code | Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
PHE 250 - 1 | 4 |
Course Information
Examines social, behavioral, and environmental community health-related issues and the controversies that surround them. This course will be a recommended prerequisite for all upper-division classes in the major.
PHE 250 – Our Community: Our Health – 2
| Course Code | Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
PHE 250 - 2 | 4 |
Course Information
Examines social, behavioral, and environmental community health-related issues and the controversies that surround them. This course will be a recommended prerequisite for all upper-division classes in the major.
PHE 250 – Our Community: Our Health -1
| Course Code | Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
PHE 250 - 1 | 4 |
Course Information
Examines social, behavioral, and environmental community health-related issues and the controversies that surround them. This course will be a recommended prerequisite for all upper-division classes in the major.
PHE 270 – Basic Biomechanics
| Course Code | Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
PHE 270 | 2 |
Course Information
Designed to introduce the anatomical and mechanical principles of kinesiology and biomechanics and their influences upon human movement/physical activity to include; Fundamental principles of the anatomy related to the musculoskeletal system to include; basic muscular structure, functional anatomy of joints and basic principles of physics.
PHE 275 – Stress Management
| Course Code | Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
PHE 275 | 4 |
Course Information
An overview of the physiology of stress, stress triggers, assessment of stress, and stress management techniques and strategies.
Interprofessional Education Course Schedule
Interprofessional education occurs when students from two or more professions learn about, from, and with each other to enhance collaboration and improve health outcomes. At least 1 credit of Interprofessional Education is required by all MPH degree programs.
Most courses with OHSU subject code IPE (Inter-Professional Education) or UNI (University Curriculum) satisfy the Interprofessional Education requirement. Other courses may also serve; consult your advisor.
For a list of IPE and UNI courses, descriptions, and their intended schedule download the spreadsheet. This list is subject to change, contact the course instructor if you would like to enroll.
Interprofessional Education
HSMP 584 / 684 – Social Policy and Public Health
HSMP 584 / 684
3
Course Information
Examines how social policies influence health, with particular attention to health equity and disparities. Students will develop skills necessary to assess the empirical evidence for, and health implications of social policies in the areas of education, agriculture/nutrition, social welfare/income transfer, employment/labor, housing/built environment, transportation, civil rights, and other policy domains.
Slash Listed Courses
Also offered for graduate-level credit as HSMP 684 and may be taken only once for credit.