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*18200 Environmental Health (3 credits)
Foundation for understanding the scientific principles of environmental analysis, including communicable diseases, toxic chemicals and hazardous physical conditions as well as the development of environmental legislation. (Recommended: Undergraduate chemistry and biology; 18201 Principles of Epidemiology)
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*18201 Principles of Epidemiology (3 credits)
Design and implementation of case control, cohort, and mortality studies; resources, databases, and problems; and analysis critique of studies in current medical literature.
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18202 Toxicology (3 credits)
Assessment of the literature and conditions of exposure to potentially toxic substances, as well as clinical and industrial management of such substances, are covered in depth. Prerequisite: undergraduate chemistry, biology, and anatomy. Organic chemistry would be a plus.
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*18203 Public Health Administration(3 credits)
This course will provide an introduction to the structure, functions and financing of public health within the context of the U.S. health care system and its health policies, and to the planning, management and evaluation of programs to improve health.
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*18204 Biostatistics (3 credits)
The use of descriptive and analytical statistics in research studies with an emphasis on understanding statistical reports and judging the appropriateness of statistical applications reported in the literature. Calculations of statistics are included as a means to understand the appropriate use of statistics.
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18205 Practice of Occupational Health (3 credits)
This course is an introduction to practice in this specialty area with specific education on the key content areas in occupational health. Students will acquire new knowledge, skills, and attitudes as they approach occupational health issues and problems in the future.
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18206 Practice of Public Health (3 credits)
Public health principles as they apply to the practice of public health; community aspects of employee health; resources for contemporary public health issues. Prerequisite: The following are preferred: 18200 Environmental Health, 18201 Principles of Epidemiology and 18203 Public Health Administration.
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18207 Health Care Financial Management: Accounting (3 credits)
Provides health care executives with an understanding of basic accounting management techniques applied to the operation of health service delivery organizations; uses concepts and tools to enable students to react to changes in the economic and business environment of health services delivery and administration and to interact effectively with financial management specialists and financial institutions.
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18208 Health Care Financial Management: Finance (3 credits)
Introduces the field of financial management and examines how funds are acquired, structured, protected, and used to assure an organization's survival and to incorporate advances in health care technology and practice; emphasizes the concepts of managerial finance in the context of the U.S. health care industry.
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*18212 Behavioral Science and Public Health (3 credits) (18212 or 18214)
This course surveys the influence of biological factors, family, state of development, ethnic and cultural factors, community influences and stressors affecting health and well-being.
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18213 Clinical Prevention (3 credits)
Prepares health care professionals to interpret, update clinical preventive services guidelines and to judiciously put them into practice. This goal is pursued by thorough review of the methodology and Guidelines of the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), the Put Prevention into Practice Handbook (PPIP), and selected readings from websites and journals. Activity assignments provide application of the methodology and guidelines into practice.
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18214 Organizational Behavior and Design (3 credits) (*This course may also be an elective.)
Emphasis on how individual and group behaviors influence and are influenced by leadership, politics, power, communication patterns, stress and an organization's design; conflict management and negotiation skills as skills for the health care executive; cases, examples, and exercises to highlight organizational issues and develop students' insight in key areas.
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18215 Infectious Diseases (3 credits)
The practice of public health in the area of infectious diseases; surveillance, outbreak investigation and control, and prevention and policy.
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18218 Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Health (3 credits)
This course will provide students with an in-depth introduction to health disparities and underlying determinants of population health. The course will help clinicians and other public health students and professionals develop and strengthen their knowledge, skills and ability to critically examine issues of health disparities and to develop a better understanding of some of the underlying social determinants of health disparities from a multidisciplinary perspective. The ultimate goal of the course is to help students develop the skills needed to apply knowledge and theory of health disparities in designing health services and epidemiological studies and interventions to reduce and ultimately eliminate health disparities. (Recommended: general epidemiology and biostatistics.)
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18220 Occupational Health Law (3 credits)
The basic legal knowledge required by an occupational health professional including worker's compensation laws; laws/regulations governing occupational safety and health; environmental laws/regulations; food, drug, device, and cosmetic laws/regulations; and medical malpractice and the malpractice system.
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18221 Public Health Law (3 credits)
The basic legal knowledge a public health professional should have including worker's compensation laws; laws/regulations governing public health safety and health; environmental laws/regulations; food, drug, device, and cosmetic laws/regulations; and medical malpractice and the medical malpractice system, including legal sources of public health powers, the administrative law system, public health law as it relates to individual rights, control of property, substance abuse, and the AIDS epidemic.
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18222 Health Care Law (3 credits)
Knowledge of the law is essential to comprehend the relationships, particularly the rights and responsibilities among the patient, the patient's family, the physician, the health care institution, and other interested third parties. This course not only investigates these relationships and the conflicts that arise in the decision making, but also identifies the impact of public policy and technology on these relationships. This course will introduce you to the basis of health care law as well as to the changing nature of the law. This is necessary due to the increasing influence of the law on health care institutions and its professionals.
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18225 Executive Leadership (3 credits)
Designed to increase the health care executive's awareness of the role of leader within the health care organization; examines existing theories and concepts of leadership, surveys topical issues, and new developments in the leadership area and develops students' leadership skills and abilities; uses leadership concepts to analyze, diagnose, and make decisions about leaders in various organizational situations; case studies, examples and exercises highlight particular leadership issues and develop students' self-insight in key skill areas.
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18250 Balancing Harms and Individual and Community Interests: Ethical Issues in Public Health (3 credits)
This course will provide students with an introduction to the moral, social and ethical issues involved in public health policy and practice. The course begins by examining the moral, social and political philosophical foundations of public health, particularly the role of the state and of the individual autonomy in shaping behaviors. The course then examines several areas of public health policy and practice in the context of this moral and social framework. These include mandatory childhood vaccination programs; health screenings; use of personal health information; racial and gender disparities in healthcare; and access to healthcare/health insurance. Special attention is paid to how consideration of the moral and social framework will place limits on, and shape, public health intervention
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18254 Challenges in Maternal and Child Health (3 credits)
This online course will provide students with an in-depth introduction to the underlying health challenges as they pertain to women, children and youth. The ultimate goal of the course is to help students develop a broad understanding about the factors that shape the health of populations and to equip them with evaluative tools for determining how health system shortfalls might be effectively addressed. The course will assist clinicians and other public health students and professionals to develop and strengthen their knowledge, skills, and ability to critically examine maternal child health issues and to develop a better understanding of some of the underlying determinants of health.
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18258 Advanced Epidemiological Methods (3 credits)
Epidemiological Methods builds on introductory epidemiology courses by providing a more in-depth understanding of fundamental epidemiologic principles presented in introductory epidemiologic courses such as study design and bias. In addition, Epidemiologic Methods emphasizes more advanced concepts needed in establishing causal relationships from observational data. It is particularly relevant to students who intend to conduct studies investigating the occurrence and determinants of diseases and who wish to be sophisticated consumers or critics of epidemiologic research conducted by others. The course emphasizes practical application of Epidemiologic Methods to real world problems.
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18280 Field Placement (2 - 4 credits)
This is a planned, supervised and evaluated practice experience that is designed to enhance and complement the student's educational training by providing practical experience in public or private organizations that address significant public health issues. Working with a site preceptor and faculty advisor, students will complete an action learning project that is relevant to their area of concentration.
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18295 Reading and Research (Credit hours to be arranged.)
This independent study course, under public health guidance, to pursue reading and research in an area of specific student interest.
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18297 Capstone Project (3 credits)
The Capstone Project is a culminating experience that requires the student to synthesize and integrate knowledge acquired in coursework and other learning experiences and apply theory and public health principles in the development of a Master's Paper on a significant public or community health issue or topic.
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10222 Ethics and Integrity in Science (1 credit) (Required for students conducting research.) This course provides the basis for understanding the ethical issues related to basic scientific and medical research, including animal and human subject research, fraud and misconduct, and governmental, institutional, and researcher responsibilities. This course is offered through the Division of Bioethics.
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TBD Ethical Issues in Public Health: Clinical and Community Applications (3)
There is a growing interest in ethical aspects of public health policy and practice, perhaps fueled in part by the threat of bioterrorism and 9/11. Public health policy and intervention typically are surrounded by ethical issues, including questions of autonomy, individual rights, coercion, justice, community, the common good, and multi-cultural values. In this course, through students' placements in public health practice and policy settings, they will identify and observe the "application" of ethics to a broad range of contemporary public health issues; and through follow-up class discussions and supplemental research and writing, students will analyze their collective experiences. It is anticipated that issues such as the following will be discussed:
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Community as a public health value
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The tension between the rights of the individual and claims of public health as demonstrated in infectious disease control
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The appropriate limits of the government in regulating behaviors that lead to premature morbidity and mortality;
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Ethical issues in environmental health (e.g., rights to know environmental threats to public health); and
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Ethical debates surrounding public health genetics (e.g., should genetic information and genetic interventions be used routinely in public health – or are they different?).
(Additional Bioethics courses are offered through the Division of Bioethics.)
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