Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine (DEPM)
MPH Core Courses
PH 600 Principles of Epidemiology
Presents a comprehensive treatment of the concepts and methods of chronic disease epidemiology. Topics include the classification of statistical associations and methods of distinguishing between causal and non-causal associations. Case-control, cohort and experimental studies are considered in detail. There are also presentations by students of epidemiological papers, including those linking lung cancer to cigarette smoking.
Prerequisites: PREV 620 previously or concurrently and consent of instructor.
3 credits
Course Masters: M. Baumgarten, PhD
PH 610 Foundations of Public Health
This course will examine the complex set of factors that are associated with the health and disease of diverse populations, including the individual, organizational, community and population. Course content will highlight the social and behavioral sciences, communication and informatics sciences and public health law and ethics. We will go beyond the individual risk factor approach to health and disease, applying multi-disciplinary models which elucidate the economic, sociocultural, political, and behavioral context and processes underlying health care access and decision-making.
Prerequisites: none
4 credits
Co-course masters: Renee Royak-Schaler, PhD
PH 620 Principles of Biostatistics
Is designed to develop an understanding of statistical principles and methods as applied to human health and disease. Topics include: research design; descriptive statistics; probability; distribution models; binomial, Poisson, and normal distribution; sampling theory and statistical inference.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of college algebra required. Calculus recommended.
3 credits
Course Masters: C. Brown, PhD and L. Magder, Phd
PH 648 Health Care Administration and Evaluation Lectures
Seminars, readings, and small group discussions are designed to convey an understanding of health care systems, their structure, function, and effectiveness. Topics include: principles of management; municipal, state, national, and foreign organizational systems; HMOs; health care costs; cost containment and quality; regulations; planning and evaluation; health manpower, and applied problem solving. Available as a two-hour lecture course with an option to take an additional hour which provides in-depth exposure to a selected topic in health care administration and evaluation resulting in a paper.
Prerequisites: none
2 credits
Course Master: J. Cooksey, MD, MPH
PH 668 Environmental and Occupational Health Course
Surveys the effects of the environment on human health. Topics include occupational exposures; toxicology of environmental pollutants; occupational epidemiology; industrial hygiene; legal and regulatory aspects; role of the physician and nurse in the workplace; control of exposures; and health education relating to the worker. Instruction by lectures, seminars, and field trips to sites of interest.
Prerequisites: none.
3 credits
Course Master: S. Amr, MD, MS
PH 789 Capstone Experience
A supervised public health field experience that requires substantive application of the knowledge and skills acquired in the MPH core courses and in courses taken in the area of concentration. The Capstone proposal is developed by the student in consultation with the faculty advisor, and must be approved by the director of the student’s MPH concentration area and the Capstone Committee. The field experience will be jointly supervised by the faculty advisor and a field preceptor. Examples of possible field experiences include significant contributions to a research study, placement in a government health department with an assigned project, systematic review of literature culminating in paper submitted for publication, development of public health policy for a government or non-profit agency.
Time requirement: at least 240 contact hours in six week block or extended over a longer period.
Prerequisites: students must have completed all MPH core and concentration courses.
6 credits
Course Master: Sania Amr, MD, MS
PH TBA Special Topics in Public Health (1-6)
This individually-planned and closely-supervised course provides experience in public health topics.
Prerequisites: PH600, 610 and 620
1-6 credits
Various Faculty
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