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PUBH 6320 - Fundamentals of Epidemiology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This course provides an understanding of basic methods and tools used by epidemiologists to study the health of populations.

PUBH 6341 - Epidemiologic Methods I

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6320PubH /6341
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to epidemiologic concepts and methods: (1) Study design (randomized trials and observational studies); (2) Measures of exposure-disease association; (3) Casual inference and bias; (4) Confounding and effect modification.

PUBH 6102 - Issues in Environmental Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Current issues, principles, and methods of environmental/occupational health practice. prereq: Public health [MPH or MHA or certificate] student or health journalism MA major or nursing MS student or instr consent

PUBH 6250 - Foundations of Public Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

In this course we will examine values, contexts, principles, and frameworks of public health. We will provide an introduction to public health, consider the history of public health, social/political determinants, impact of health disparities on race, class and gender, moral and legal foundations, public health structures, historical trauma and cultural competence, health and human rights, advocacy and health equity, communication and financing, and the future of public health in the 21st century. Grounded in theory and concepts, we will incorporate core competencies and skills for public health professionals and will focus on developing problem solving and decision-making skills through critical analysis, reflection, case studies, readings, and paper assignments.

PUBH 6414 - Biostatistical Literacy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Develop ability to read/interpret statistical results in primary literature. Minimal calculation. No formal training in any statistical programming software. Biostatistical Literacy will cover the fundamental concepts of study design, descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, odds ratios, relative risks, adjusted models in multiple linear, logistic and Poisson regression, and survival analysis. The focus will be when to use a given method and how to interpret the results, not the actual computation or computer programming to obtain results from raw data. prereq: MPH or certificate student or environmental health or instr consent

PUBH 6450 - Biostatistics I

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course will cover the fundamental concepts of exploratory data analysis and statistical inference for univariate and bivariate data, including: ? study design and sampling methods, ? descriptive and graphical summaries, ? random variables and their distributions, ? interval estimation, ? hypothesis testing, ? relevant nonparametric methods, ? simple regression/correlation, and ? introduction to multiple regression. There will be a focus on analyzing data using statistical programming software and on communicating the results in short reports. Health science examples from the research literature will be used throughout the course. prereq: [College-level algebra, health sciences grad student] or instr consent

STAT 5021 - Statistical Analysis

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Intensive introduction to statistical methods for graduate students needing statistics as a research technique. prereq: college algebra or instr consent; credit will not be granted if credit has been received for STAT 3011

PUBH 6742 - Ethics in Public Health: Research and Policy

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Introduction to ethical issues in public health research/policy. Ethical analysis. Recognizing/analyzing moral issues.

PUBH 8777 - Thesis Credits: Master's

Credits:	1.0 -18.0 [max 50.0]
Grading Basis:	No Grade
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

(No description) prereq: Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 10 cr total required [Plan A only]

PUBH 7195 - MS in Environmental Health Sciences Plan B Project

Credits:	1.0 -5.0 [max 5.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Students must complete a written plan B project where they are required to synthesize and integrate knowledge acquired in coursework and other learning experiences and apply theory and principles in a context that reflects an aspect of professional practice. The culminating experience must be used as a means by which faculty judge whether the student has mastered the body of knowledge and can demonstrate proficiency in the required competencies through written and oral presentation. All master?s degree candidates are required to pass a final comprehensive oral examination to be taken after submission of the Plan B project(s).

PUBH 6112 - Environmental Health Risk Assessment: Application to Human Health Risks from Exposure to Chemicals

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to risk in context of regulatory decision making. prereq: PubH 6102 or instructor permission.

PUBH 6141 - GIS & Spatial Analysis for Public Health

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course examines how to incorporate and handle spatial data to address public health questions, such as evaluating environmental exposures or identifying vulnerable and at-risk populations. We will utilize a Geographic Information System (GIS) to incorporate and visualize data for public health research. Classwork will be presented in the form of health-related case studies where GIS helps to formulate and address scientific hypotheses based on research topics in the School of Public Health. Specifically, the ArcGIS software will be used as a tool to integrate, manipulate, and display spatial health data. Topics include understanding spatial data, mapping, topology, spatial manipulations related to data structures, online data, geocoding, remote sensing imagery, and reviewing public health literature. The course will emphasize how to prepare spatial data for a formal statistical analysis. All coursework will be discussed in the context of statistical frameworks for evaluating geostatistical, point pattern, and area-level (or lattice) data examples. The intended audience for this course are masters and doctoral students who seek a more advanced understanding of GIS and spatial data beyond exploratory skills. Their goal should be a working knowledge of spatial analysis that can be readily applied in future research or employment. Students should leave this course prepared to take more advanced spatial analysis courses, map geographic trends, formulate scientific hypothesis for epidemiological applications, with the knowledge to acquire online spatial data, and the skills to critically evaluate published papers that utilize GIS.

PUBH 6154 - Climate Change and Global Health Modeling

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Interconnected relationships between global climate change/human health. Develop computer models to predict climate change from natural/anthropogenic forces, predict human health outcomes as result of changing climate. prereq: Students must have elementary computer skills.

PUBH 6162 - Biomarkers

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduce current status of molecular biomarker research, including biomarkers of chemical exposures, genetic toxicity markers, genomics-based biomarkers of susceptibility, organ/systems biomarkers. Progression of biomarker development/application from laboratory environment to clinical or population-based settings/development of public health policies/interventions. prereq: Introductory courses in toxicology and exposure analysis recommended

PUBH 6181 - Surveillance of Foodborne Diseases and Food Safety Hazards

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 5181/VMed 5165
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Principles/methods for surveillance of foodborne diseases. Investigation of outbreaks, assessment of food safety hazards. Focuses on integration of epidemiologic/lab methods.

PUBH 6190 - Environmental Chemistry

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Overview air, water, and soil chemistry. Pertinent environmental problems. Human/ecological multimedia exposures to chemicals in the environment. prereq: One course each in [gen chem, org chem] or instr consent

PUBH 6193 - Advanced Topics in Human Exposure Science

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Designing exposure studies for epidemiologic investigations and health risk assessments. Techniques to measure/estimate human exposures to hazardous agents in non-occupational and occupational environments. prereq: 6192 or instr consent

PUBH 6115 - Worker Protection Law

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Role of government in protecting rights of citizens. Labor movement history as starting point for discussion of systems for protecting workers in unsafe workplaces and compensating them for injuries. Laws against class-based discrimination.

PUBH 6116 - Environmental Law

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Questions when pollution protection law conflicts with policy encouraging the use of natural resources. Conflicts when government restricts use of property without compensating its owner. Increasing authority of government to audit businesses.

PUBH 6120 - Injury Prevention in the Workplace, Community, and Home

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Injury epidemiology: analyses of major injury problems affecting the public in the workplace, community, and home using epidemiologic model and conceptual framework; emphasis on strategies/program development for prevention and control.

PUBH 6123 - Violence Prevention and Control: Theory, Research, and Application

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Analysis/critique of major theories and of epidemiological research pertinent to violence, including characteristics of violence and relevant risk factors, reporting/treatment protocols, and current/potential intervention efforts and prevention initiatives. Emphasizes interdisciplinary contributions to violence prevention/control.

PUBH 6232 - Emergency Preparedness: A Public Health Perspective

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course is an introduction to the discipline of public health emergency preparedness, response, and recovery. The course aims to provide a wide-ranging introduction to the field's core competencies. The course will look at the purpose, history, organization, functions, tools, and activities used in the field. Previously offered as PubH 5230 and 5231.

PUBH 6011 - Public Health Approaches to HIV/AIDS

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 3011/6011
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Survey of public health approaches to AIDS epidemic. Epidemiological/clinical features of HIV infection. Impact of AIDS on certain communities/populations. Behavior change principles as they apply to AIDS interventions. prereq: Grad student or professional school student or instr consent

PUBH 6034 - Evaluation I: Concepts

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6034/PubH 6852
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Developing useful program evaluations. Emphasizes skills for program administrators, planners. Needs assessments. Assessment of program design, implementation, impact. Cost-effectiveness analysis. Quantitative and qualitative data collection methods. Ethical considerations.

PUBH 6035 - Evaluation II: Planning & Evaluation

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6035/PubH 6806
Typically offered:	Every Fall

The course will prepare students to develop and apply evidence-based policy and program evaluation approaches in community health settings. The course is designed to guide students through planning and evaluating the impact of public health strategies using the RE-AIM Framework based on the Reach, Effectiveness, Adaptation, Implementation, and Maintenance/Sustainability. prereq: PubH 6034 or Instructor permission

PUBH 6045 - Skills for Policy Development

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Skills relevant to policy development and implementation for public health-related issues.

PUBH 6049 - Legislative Advocacy Skills for Public Health

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

State legislature as arena for public health practice. Skills necessary to operate in that arena. Analyzing emergence, development, and resolution of legislative issues of public health importance.

PUBH 6055 - Social Inequalities in Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Extent and causes of social inequalities in health. Degree to which understanding of these inequalities is hampered by methodological limitations in health research. Focuses on individual, community, and policy approaches to reducing social inequalities in health.

PUBH 6060 - Motivational Interviewing: Strategies to Effect Behavior Change

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Introduction of the theoretical basis of motivational interviewing (MI) style. Using MI style in diverse contexts (clinical, community program, research) and relative to diverse behavioral issues (addictions, healthy lifestyle behaviors, chronic disease adherence).

PUBH 6066 - Building Communities, Increasing Health: Preparing for Community Health Work

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Taught with Powderhorn-Phillips Cultural Wellness Center. Introduction to community building/organizing. Using culture as a resource for health, reducing barriers, identifying community assets, planning organizing strategy, understanding the impact of history. Emphasizes self-reflection and skill-building for authentic, grassroots community work.

PUBH 6078 - Public Health Policy as a Prevention Strategy

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Philosophical, ethical, economic, political, efficacy rationale for policy approach to prevention. Historical/current application of prevention policy to public health problems. prereq: 2nd yr MPH or public health MS student or [Epi, Biostats, Env Hlth, HSRPconcurrent registration is required (or allowed) in A PhD student] or instr consent

PUBH 6094 - Interventions to Address Weight-Related Health and Eating Disorders

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Examine obesity epidemic, eating disorders, prevention and treatment approaches at multiple levels (individual, social, environmental, policy), links between obesity and eating disorders.

PUBH 6134 - Sustainable Development and Global Public Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Effects of globalization on social/sustainable development. Population, war, economics, urbanization, environment, water/sanitation, communicable/non-communicable conditions. New infectious/chronic diseases, food security/environmental health. prereq: Credit will not be granted if received for 6100 or 6365

PUBH 6325 - Data Processing with PC-SAS

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduction to methods for transferring/processing existing data sources. Emphasizes hands-on approach to pre-statistical data processing and analysis with PC-SAS statistical software with a Microsoft Windows operating system.

PUBH 6341 - Epidemiologic Methods I

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6320PubH /6341
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to epidemiologic concepts and methods: (1) Study design (randomized trials and observational studies); (2) Measures of exposure-disease association; (3) Casual inference and bias; (4) Confounding and effect modification.

PUBH 6342 - Epidemiologic Methods II

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Methods and techniques for designing, implementing, analyzing, and interpreting observational epidemiologic studies, including cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional studies.

PUBH 6348 - Writing Research Grants

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Focuses on NIH research grants. Mechanisms of grant writing: specific aims, hypotheses, innovation, background, approaches, evaluation analyses, principles of informed consent, budget development, and grant-review process.

PUBH 6385 - Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Principles and/ methods. Strategies for disease control and prevention, including immunization. Relevance of modes of transmission of specific agents for disease spread and prevention. Public health consequences of infectious diseases at local, national, and international levels.

PUBH 6386 - Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

The course will provide an introduction to cardiovascular disease (CVD) epidemiology. It is intended to provide a detailed perspective on the well-established risk factors for CVD, as well as an introduction to emerging risk factors. Both observational studies and clinical trials will be discussed. The class will include a main focus on prevention of cardiovascular disease, and national recommendations for treatment and prevention. Several classes will incorporate discussions of new directions and current controversies in CVD. Additionally, the class will introduce students to the CVD research in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health.

PUBH 6387 - Cancer Epidemiology

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Epidemiologic aspects of cancer. Theories of carcinogenesis, patterns of incidence and mortality, site-specific risk factors. Issues of cancer control and prevention.

PUBH 6420 - Introduction to SAS Programming

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Summer

Use of SAS for analysis of biomedical data. Data manipulation/description. Basic statistical analyses (t-tests, chi-square, simple regression).

PUBH 6431 - Topics in Hierarchical Bayesian Analysis

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Hierarchical Bayesian methods combine information from various sources and are increasingly used in biomedical and public health settings to accommodate complex data and produce readily interpretable output. This course will introduce students to Bayesian methods, emphasizing the basic methodological framework, real-world applications, and practical computing.

PUBH 6451 - Biostatistics II

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course will cover more advanced aspects of statistical analysis methods with a focus on statistical modeling, including: ? two-way ANOVA, ? multiple linear regression, ? logistic regression, ? Poisson regression, ? log binomial and ordinal regression, ? survival analysis methods, including Kaplan-Meier analysis and proportional hazards (Cox) regression, ? power and sample size, and ? survey sampling and analysis. There will be a focus on analyzing data using statistical programming software and on communicating the results in short reports. Health science examples from the research literature will be used throughout the course. prereq: [PubH 6450 with grade of at least B, health sciences grad student] or instr consent

PUBH 6527 - Healthcare Leadership and Effecting Change

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

How to become effective change leader in organization. prereq: MHA student

PUBH 6556 - Health and Health Systems

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

U.S. health care system and health policy process, including current challenges in the areas of health care delivery, financing, and policy.

PUBH 6557 - Health Finance I

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Principles of corporate/not-for-profit finance. Net present value, financial analysis, capital budgeting, financing options/decisions, capital structure, capital asset pricing model, financial planning, working capital management. prereq: [[Health care admin or public health admin/policy major], familiarity with computerized spreadsheets] or instr consent

PUBH 6558 - Health Finance II

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Principles of corporate/not-for-profit finance and insurance concepts integrated/applied to health care. Capital/operating budgets. Medicare's payment systems for hospitals/physicians, risk-adjusted capitation payment systems. Population-based health care finance, managed care. Financing aspects of public health policy and health care reform. prereq: MHA student, familiarity with computerized spread-sheets]] or permission of instructor

PUBH 6560 - Operations Research and Quality in Health Care

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Prerequisites:	Grad-level statistics/management coursework
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Using a systems perspective to develop models to analyze/improve health care operations. Identifying data needs/sources to model structures, processes, and outcomes of care. Applying quality improvement, management sciences/operations research techniques to real world health care problems. prereq: Grad-level statistics/management coursework

PUBH 6562 - Information Technology in Health Care

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Managing information as a strategic resource within health care organizations. Designing information technology systems to capture, combine, and transform information to measure processes/outcomes of care, support collaborative clinical decision making, support management decisions, empower patients, and improve health care operations. Prereq: MHA student or instructor consent.

PUBH 6563 - Integrated Delivery Systems

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Integrated models of health care delivery. Emphasizes organizational design, governance, operations, strategy, resource deployment, and the role of the "embedded medical practice." prereq: Hlth care admin student or instr consent

PUBH 6564 - Private Purchasers of Health Care: Roles of Employers and Health Plans in U.S. Health Care System

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Development and organization of HMOs and PPOs: risk sharing, provider contracts, utilization management, quality improvement, marketing, and new product development; employer relations; Medicare and Medicaid contracting; budget processing; financial performance; pricing; government regulations. prereq: MHA or MBA or HSRP or PHA student or instr consent

PUBH 6565 - Innovation of Healthcare Services

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Designing/creating new care delivery services/experiences. Exploiting opportunities for innovation. Overcoming obstacles. Capturing value. prereq: MHA student only

PUBH 6568 - Interprofessional Teamwork in Health Care

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

Leading/participating in interdisciplinary teams. Team communication, problem solving, conflict management, organizational support. prereq: [Public health MPH or MHA or certificate student] or [health services research, policy/admin] MS student or instr consent

PUBH 6571 - Quality, Patient Safety, and Performance Improvement

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduction to concepts of performance improvement in health care institutions. prereq: MHA or MPH or certificate student or instr consent

PUBH 6577 - Advanced Problem Solving in Health Services Administration

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Capstone course. Students integrate/synthesize knowledge, attitudes, and skills acquired in curriculum and apply them to resolve management problem. prereq: MHA student

PUBH 6589 - Medical Technology Evaluation and Market Research

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Analytical tools for formulating evaluations of innovations in medical technologies. Disseminating results to get a new product to market.

PUBH 6601 - Born a Girl: Global Women's Health

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Women's health conditions, programs, services, and policies in developed/developing countries. Social, economic, environmental, behavioral, and political factors affecting health behaviors, reproductive health, chronic and acute diseases, premature mortality and longevity. prereq: Grad level student

PUBH 6605 - Sexual, Reproductive, and Perinatal Public Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Overview of perinatal, sexual, and reproductive health surveillance, programs, services, and policies in the U.S., with an emphasis on vulnerable populations and methods to assess and interpret perinatal, sexual, and reproductive health data. prereq: Public health student or grad student or instr consent

PUBH 6627 - Sexuality Education: Criteria, Curricula, and Controversy

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Issues and controversies affecting K-12 sexuality education. Current research and guidelines for effective, responsible education and curricula selection. Various curricula being used in the United States. Challenges in teaching sensitive issues inherent in sexuality education.

PUBH 6630 - Foundations of Maternal and Child Health Leadership

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6630/PubH 6655
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Historical/current principles, programs, policies, and practices related to women, children, adolescents, and families. Articulating a personal leadership style/plan for development of leadership competencies. Leadership principles, skills, and models applied to improving health of MCH populations. prereq: Public Health MCH major or instr consent

PUBH 6730 - International Comparative Health Systems

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

History and development of health systems from a socio-political perspective. Overview of relative importance and meaning of health outcomes data. Role of WHO. Students use OECD health database.

PUBH 6732 - Topics and Methods in Global Health Assessment

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

Evaluation of health populations relative to specific topics important to global health, including methodology appropriate to particular issue. Focuses on developing countries. prereq: [6705, [concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in PUBH 6705 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in PUBH 6320 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in PUBH 6341 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in grad course in epidemiology], [public health MPH or environmental health [MS or PhD] or health services research/policy/administration [MS or PhD] or epidemiology PhD or clinical research MS]] or instr consent

PUBH 6852 - Program Evaluation in Health and Mental Health Settings

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6034/PubH 6852
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Understanding an evaluation study. Program evaluation. Applications to health and mental health settings. emphasizes public health.

PUBH 6906 - Global Nutrition

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Nature/scope of chief nutritional issues and problems in the world. Emphasizes developing countries. Nutrient deficiencies, nutrition-related aspects of infectious/chronic disease. prereq: Grad student

PUBH 6140 - Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Principles/concepts in identifying health effects in workplace. Strategies for identifying excess risk, evaluating strengths/weaknesses of research techniques, assessing bias/confounding. prereq: Coursework in epidemiology, biostatistics

PUBH 6342 - Epidemiologic Methods II

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Methods and techniques for designing, implementing, analyzing, and interpreting observational epidemiologic studies, including cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional studies.

PUBH 6451 - Biostatistics II

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course will cover more advanced aspects of statistical analysis methods with a focus on statistical modeling, including: ? two-way ANOVA, ? multiple linear regression, ? logistic regression, ? Poisson regression, ? log binomial and ordinal regression, ? survival analysis methods, including Kaplan-Meier analysis and proportional hazards (Cox) regression, ? power and sample size, and ? survey sampling and analysis. There will be a focus on analyzing data using statistical programming software and on communicating the results in short reports. Health science examples from the research literature will be used throughout the course. prereq: [PubH 6450 with grade of at least B, health sciences grad student] or instr consent

PUBH 6112 - Environmental Health Risk Assessment: Application to Human Health Risks from Exposure to Chemicals

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to risk in context of regulatory decision making. prereq: PubH 6102 or instructor permission.

PUBH 6141 - GIS & Spatial Analysis for Public Health

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course examines how to incorporate and handle spatial data to address public health questions, such as evaluating environmental exposures or identifying vulnerable and at-risk populations. We will utilize a Geographic Information System (GIS) to incorporate and visualize data for public health research. Classwork will be presented in the form of health-related case studies where GIS helps to formulate and address scientific hypotheses based on research topics in the School of Public Health. Specifically, the ArcGIS software will be used as a tool to integrate, manipulate, and display spatial health data. Topics include understanding spatial data, mapping, topology, spatial manipulations related to data structures, online data, geocoding, remote sensing imagery, and reviewing public health literature. The course will emphasize how to prepare spatial data for a formal statistical analysis. All coursework will be discussed in the context of statistical frameworks for evaluating geostatistical, point pattern, and area-level (or lattice) data examples. The intended audience for this course are masters and doctoral students who seek a more advanced understanding of GIS and spatial data beyond exploratory skills. Their goal should be a working knowledge of spatial analysis that can be readily applied in future research or employment. Students should leave this course prepared to take more advanced spatial analysis courses, map geographic trends, formulate scientific hypothesis for epidemiological applications, with the knowledge to acquire online spatial data, and the skills to critically evaluate published papers that utilize GIS.

PUBH 6154 - Climate Change and Global Health Modeling

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Interconnected relationships between global climate change/human health. Develop computer models to predict climate change from natural/anthropogenic forces, predict human health outcomes as result of changing climate. prereq: Students must have elementary computer skills.

PUBH 6162 - Biomarkers

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduce current status of molecular biomarker research, including biomarkers of chemical exposures, genetic toxicity markers, genomics-based biomarkers of susceptibility, organ/systems biomarkers. Progression of biomarker development/application from laboratory environment to clinical or population-based settings/development of public health policies/interventions. prereq: Introductory courses in toxicology and exposure analysis recommended

PUBH 6181 - Surveillance of Foodborne Diseases and Food Safety Hazards

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 5181/VMed 5165
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Principles/methods for surveillance of foodborne diseases. Investigation of outbreaks, assessment of food safety hazards. Focuses on integration of epidemiologic/lab methods.

PUBH 6190 - Environmental Chemistry

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Overview air, water, and soil chemistry. Pertinent environmental problems. Human/ecological multimedia exposures to chemicals in the environment. prereq: One course each in [gen chem, org chem] or instr consent

PUBH 6193 - Advanced Topics in Human Exposure Science

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Designing exposure studies for epidemiologic investigations and health risk assessments. Techniques to measure/estimate human exposures to hazardous agents in non-occupational and occupational environments. prereq: 6192 or instr consent

PUBH 6115 - Worker Protection Law

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Role of government in protecting rights of citizens. Labor movement history as starting point for discussion of systems for protecting workers in unsafe workplaces and compensating them for injuries. Laws against class-based discrimination.

PUBH 6116 - Environmental Law

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Questions when pollution protection law conflicts with policy encouraging the use of natural resources. Conflicts when government restricts use of property without compensating its owner. Increasing authority of government to audit businesses.

PUBH 6120 - Injury Prevention in the Workplace, Community, and Home

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Injury epidemiology: analyses of major injury problems affecting the public in the workplace, community, and home using epidemiologic model and conceptual framework; emphasis on strategies/program development for prevention and control.

PUBH 6123 - Violence Prevention and Control: Theory, Research, and Application

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Analysis/critique of major theories and of epidemiological research pertinent to violence, including characteristics of violence and relevant risk factors, reporting/treatment protocols, and current/potential intervention efforts and prevention initiatives. Emphasizes interdisciplinary contributions to violence prevention/control.

PUBH 6232 - Emergency Preparedness: A Public Health Perspective

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course is an introduction to the discipline of public health emergency preparedness, response, and recovery. The course aims to provide a wide-ranging introduction to the field's core competencies. The course will look at the purpose, history, organization, functions, tools, and activities used in the field. Previously offered as PubH 5230 and 5231.

PUBH 6011 - Public Health Approaches to HIV/AIDS

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 3011/6011
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Survey of public health approaches to AIDS epidemic. Epidemiological/clinical features of HIV infection. Impact of AIDS on certain communities/populations. Behavior change principles as they apply to AIDS interventions. prereq: Grad student or professional school student or instr consent

PUBH 6034 - Evaluation I: Concepts

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6034/PubH 6852
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Developing useful program evaluations. Emphasizes skills for program administrators, planners. Needs assessments. Assessment of program design, implementation, impact. Cost-effectiveness analysis. Quantitative and qualitative data collection methods. Ethical considerations.

PUBH 6035 - Evaluation II: Planning & Evaluation

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6035/PubH 6806
Typically offered:	Every Fall

The course will prepare students to develop and apply evidence-based policy and program evaluation approaches in community health settings. The course is designed to guide students through planning and evaluating the impact of public health strategies using the RE-AIM Framework based on the Reach, Effectiveness, Adaptation, Implementation, and Maintenance/Sustainability. prereq: PubH 6034 or Instructor permission

PUBH 6045 - Skills for Policy Development

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Skills relevant to policy development and implementation for public health-related issues.

PUBH 6049 - Legislative Advocacy Skills for Public Health

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

State legislature as arena for public health practice. Skills necessary to operate in that arena. Analyzing emergence, development, and resolution of legislative issues of public health importance.

PUBH 6055 - Social Inequalities in Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Extent and causes of social inequalities in health. Degree to which understanding of these inequalities is hampered by methodological limitations in health research. Focuses on individual, community, and policy approaches to reducing social inequalities in health.

PUBH 6060 - Motivational Interviewing: Strategies to Effect Behavior Change

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Introduction of the theoretical basis of motivational interviewing (MI) style. Using MI style in diverse contexts (clinical, community program, research) and relative to diverse behavioral issues (addictions, healthy lifestyle behaviors, chronic disease adherence).

PUBH 6066 - Building Communities, Increasing Health: Preparing for Community Health Work

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Taught with Powderhorn-Phillips Cultural Wellness Center. Introduction to community building/organizing. Using culture as a resource for health, reducing barriers, identifying community assets, planning organizing strategy, understanding the impact of history. Emphasizes self-reflection and skill-building for authentic, grassroots community work.

PUBH 6078 - Public Health Policy as a Prevention Strategy

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Philosophical, ethical, economic, political, efficacy rationale for policy approach to prevention. Historical/current application of prevention policy to public health problems. prereq: 2nd yr MPH or public health MS student or [Epi, Biostats, Env Hlth, HSRPconcurrent registration is required (or allowed) in A PhD student] or instr consent

PUBH 6094 - Interventions to Address Weight-Related Health and Eating Disorders

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Examine obesity epidemic, eating disorders, prevention and treatment approaches at multiple levels (individual, social, environmental, policy), links between obesity and eating disorders.

PUBH 6134 - Sustainable Development and Global Public Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Effects of globalization on social/sustainable development. Population, war, economics, urbanization, environment, water/sanitation, communicable/non-communicable conditions. New infectious/chronic diseases, food security/environmental health. prereq: Credit will not be granted if received for 6100 or 6365

PUBH 6325 - Data Processing with PC-SAS

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduction to methods for transferring/processing existing data sources. Emphasizes hands-on approach to pre-statistical data processing and analysis with PC-SAS statistical software with a Microsoft Windows operating system.

PUBH 6341 - Epidemiologic Methods I

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6320PubH /6341
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to epidemiologic concepts and methods: (1) Study design (randomized trials and observational studies); (2) Measures of exposure-disease association; (3) Casual inference and bias; (4) Confounding and effect modification.

PUBH 6348 - Writing Research Grants

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Focuses on NIH research grants. Mechanisms of grant writing: specific aims, hypotheses, innovation, background, approaches, evaluation analyses, principles of informed consent, budget development, and grant-review process.

PUBH 6385 - Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Principles and/ methods. Strategies for disease control and prevention, including immunization. Relevance of modes of transmission of specific agents for disease spread and prevention. Public health consequences of infectious diseases at local, national, and international levels.

PUBH 6386 - Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

The course will provide an introduction to cardiovascular disease (CVD) epidemiology. It is intended to provide a detailed perspective on the well-established risk factors for CVD, as well as an introduction to emerging risk factors. Both observational studies and clinical trials will be discussed. The class will include a main focus on prevention of cardiovascular disease, and national recommendations for treatment and prevention. Several classes will incorporate discussions of new directions and current controversies in CVD. Additionally, the class will introduce students to the CVD research in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health.

PUBH 6387 - Cancer Epidemiology

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Epidemiologic aspects of cancer. Theories of carcinogenesis, patterns of incidence and mortality, site-specific risk factors. Issues of cancer control and prevention.

PUBH 6420 - Introduction to SAS Programming

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Summer

Use of SAS for analysis of biomedical data. Data manipulation/description. Basic statistical analyses (t-tests, chi-square, simple regression).

PUBH 6431 - Topics in Hierarchical Bayesian Analysis

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Hierarchical Bayesian methods combine information from various sources and are increasingly used in biomedical and public health settings to accommodate complex data and produce readily interpretable output. This course will introduce students to Bayesian methods, emphasizing the basic methodological framework, real-world applications, and practical computing.

PUBH 6527 - Healthcare Leadership and Effecting Change

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

How to become effective change leader in organization. prereq: MHA student

PUBH 6556 - Health and Health Systems

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

U.S. health care system and health policy process, including current challenges in the areas of health care delivery, financing, and policy.

PUBH 6557 - Health Finance I

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Principles of corporate/not-for-profit finance. Net present value, financial analysis, capital budgeting, financing options/decisions, capital structure, capital asset pricing model, financial planning, working capital management. prereq: [[Health care admin or public health admin/policy major], familiarity with computerized spreadsheets] or instr consent

PUBH 6558 - Health Finance II

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Principles of corporate/not-for-profit finance and insurance concepts integrated/applied to health care. Capital/operating budgets. Medicare's payment systems for hospitals/physicians, risk-adjusted capitation payment systems. Population-based health care finance, managed care. Financing aspects of public health policy and health care reform. prereq: MHA student, familiarity with computerized spread-sheets]] or permission of instructor

PUBH 6560 - Operations Research and Quality in Health Care

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Prerequisites:	Grad-level statistics/management coursework
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Using a systems perspective to develop models to analyze/improve health care operations. Identifying data needs/sources to model structures, processes, and outcomes of care. Applying quality improvement, management sciences/operations research techniques to real world health care problems. prereq: Grad-level statistics/management coursework

PUBH 6562 - Information Technology in Health Care

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Managing information as a strategic resource within health care organizations. Designing information technology systems to capture, combine, and transform information to measure processes/outcomes of care, support collaborative clinical decision making, support management decisions, empower patients, and improve health care operations. Prereq: MHA student or instructor consent.

PUBH 6563 - Integrated Delivery Systems

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Integrated models of health care delivery. Emphasizes organizational design, governance, operations, strategy, resource deployment, and the role of the "embedded medical practice." prereq: Hlth care admin student or instr consent

PUBH 6564 - Private Purchasers of Health Care: Roles of Employers and Health Plans in U.S. Health Care System

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Development and organization of HMOs and PPOs: risk sharing, provider contracts, utilization management, quality improvement, marketing, and new product development; employer relations; Medicare and Medicaid contracting; budget processing; financial performance; pricing; government regulations. prereq: MHA or MBA or HSRP or PHA student or instr consent

PUBH 6565 - Innovation of Healthcare Services

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Designing/creating new care delivery services/experiences. Exploiting opportunities for innovation. Overcoming obstacles. Capturing value. prereq: MHA student only

PUBH 6568 - Interprofessional Teamwork in Health Care

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

Leading/participating in interdisciplinary teams. Team communication, problem solving, conflict management, organizational support. prereq: [Public health MPH or MHA or certificate student] or [health services research, policy/admin] MS student or instr consent

PUBH 6571 - Quality, Patient Safety, and Performance Improvement

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduction to concepts of performance improvement in health care institutions. prereq: MHA or MPH or certificate student or instr consent

PUBH 6577 - Advanced Problem Solving in Health Services Administration

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Capstone course. Students integrate/synthesize knowledge, attitudes, and skills acquired in curriculum and apply them to resolve management problem. prereq: MHA student

PUBH 6589 - Medical Technology Evaluation and Market Research

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Analytical tools for formulating evaluations of innovations in medical technologies. Disseminating results to get a new product to market.

PUBH 6601 - Born a Girl: Global Women's Health

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Women's health conditions, programs, services, and policies in developed/developing countries. Social, economic, environmental, behavioral, and political factors affecting health behaviors, reproductive health, chronic and acute diseases, premature mortality and longevity. prereq: Grad level student

PUBH 6605 - Sexual, Reproductive, and Perinatal Public Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Overview of perinatal, sexual, and reproductive health surveillance, programs, services, and policies in the U.S., with an emphasis on vulnerable populations and methods to assess and interpret perinatal, sexual, and reproductive health data. prereq: Public health student or grad student or instr consent

PUBH 6627 - Sexuality Education: Criteria, Curricula, and Controversy

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Issues and controversies affecting K-12 sexuality education. Current research and guidelines for effective, responsible education and curricula selection. Various curricula being used in the United States. Challenges in teaching sensitive issues inherent in sexuality education.

PUBH 6630 - Foundations of Maternal and Child Health Leadership

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6630/PubH 6655
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Historical/current principles, programs, policies, and practices related to women, children, adolescents, and families. Articulating a personal leadership style/plan for development of leadership competencies. Leadership principles, skills, and models applied to improving health of MCH populations. prereq: Public Health MCH major or instr consent

PUBH 6730 - International Comparative Health Systems

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

History and development of health systems from a socio-political perspective. Overview of relative importance and meaning of health outcomes data. Role of WHO. Students use OECD health database.

PUBH 6732 - Topics and Methods in Global Health Assessment

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

Evaluation of health populations relative to specific topics important to global health, including methodology appropriate to particular issue. Focuses on developing countries. prereq: [6705, [concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in PUBH 6705 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in PUBH 6320 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in PUBH 6341 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in grad course in epidemiology], [public health MPH or environmental health [MS or PhD] or health services research/policy/administration [MS or PhD] or epidemiology PhD or clinical research MS]] or instr consent

PUBH 6852 - Program Evaluation in Health and Mental Health Settings

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6034/PubH 6852
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Understanding an evaluation study. Program evaluation. Applications to health and mental health settings. emphasizes public health.

PUBH 6906 - Global Nutrition

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Nature/scope of chief nutritional issues and problems in the world. Emphasizes developing countries. Nutrient deficiencies, nutrition-related aspects of infectious/chronic disease. prereq: Grad student

PUBH 6182 - Emerging Infectious Disease: Current Issues, Policies, and Controversies

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Issues/controversies surrounding emerging infectious diseases. Framework for considering realistic/innovative policies. Bioterrorism, public health preparedness. Pandemic influenza preparedness, smallpox vaccination, antibiotic resistance. prereq: AHC student, instr consent

PUBH 6184 - Field and laboratory methods in public health entomology

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Pathogens transmitted by arthropods, particularly mosquitoes and ticks, inflict human disease all over the world. These pathogens represent a broad diversity of persistent foes as well as emerging challengers. PubH 6184: Field and laboratory methods in public health entomology will provide students with the tools and experiences that they will need to be conversant on the topic with both the general public and public health entomology experts. This course is intended to prepare MPH, Veterinary, and other graduate and undergraduate student to work alongside these experts and be able to contribute intelligently to entomological problems they might encounter during their future careers. To this end, rather than having a heavy emphasis on lectures and textbooks, the course has many field trips to professional entomology facilities, field work, and laboratory projects.

PUBH 6385 - Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Principles and/ methods. Strategies for disease control and prevention, including immunization. Relevance of modes of transmission of specific agents for disease spread and prevention. Public health consequences of infectious diseases at local, national, and international levels.

VMED 5180 - Ecology of Infectious Disease

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CMB 5180/PubH 6180/PubH 6380
Typically offered:	Every Fall

How host, agent, environmental interactions influence transmission of infectious agents. Environmental dissemination, eradication/control, evolution of virulence. Use of analytical/molecular tools.

PUBH 6112 - Environmental Health Risk Assessment: Application to Human Health Risks from Exposure to Chemicals

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to risk in context of regulatory decision making. prereq: PubH 6102 or instructor permission.

PUBH 6141 - GIS & Spatial Analysis for Public Health

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course examines how to incorporate and handle spatial data to address public health questions, such as evaluating environmental exposures or identifying vulnerable and at-risk populations. We will utilize a Geographic Information System (GIS) to incorporate and visualize data for public health research. Classwork will be presented in the form of health-related case studies where GIS helps to formulate and address scientific hypotheses based on research topics in the School of Public Health. Specifically, the ArcGIS software will be used as a tool to integrate, manipulate, and display spatial health data. Topics include understanding spatial data, mapping, topology, spatial manipulations related to data structures, online data, geocoding, remote sensing imagery, and reviewing public health literature. The course will emphasize how to prepare spatial data for a formal statistical analysis. All coursework will be discussed in the context of statistical frameworks for evaluating geostatistical, point pattern, and area-level (or lattice) data examples. The intended audience for this course are masters and doctoral students who seek a more advanced understanding of GIS and spatial data beyond exploratory skills. Their goal should be a working knowledge of spatial analysis that can be readily applied in future research or employment. Students should leave this course prepared to take more advanced spatial analysis courses, map geographic trends, formulate scientific hypothesis for epidemiological applications, with the knowledge to acquire online spatial data, and the skills to critically evaluate published papers that utilize GIS.

PUBH 6154 - Climate Change and Global Health Modeling

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Interconnected relationships between global climate change/human health. Develop computer models to predict climate change from natural/anthropogenic forces, predict human health outcomes as result of changing climate. prereq: Students must have elementary computer skills.

PUBH 6162 - Biomarkers

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduce current status of molecular biomarker research, including biomarkers of chemical exposures, genetic toxicity markers, genomics-based biomarkers of susceptibility, organ/systems biomarkers. Progression of biomarker development/application from laboratory environment to clinical or population-based settings/development of public health policies/interventions. prereq: Introductory courses in toxicology and exposure analysis recommended

PUBH 6181 - Surveillance of Foodborne Diseases and Food Safety Hazards

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 5181/VMed 5165
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Principles/methods for surveillance of foodborne diseases. Investigation of outbreaks, assessment of food safety hazards. Focuses on integration of epidemiologic/lab methods.

PUBH 6190 - Environmental Chemistry

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Overview air, water, and soil chemistry. Pertinent environmental problems. Human/ecological multimedia exposures to chemicals in the environment. prereq: One course each in [gen chem, org chem] or instr consent

PUBH 6193 - Advanced Topics in Human Exposure Science

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Designing exposure studies for epidemiologic investigations and health risk assessments. Techniques to measure/estimate human exposures to hazardous agents in non-occupational and occupational environments. prereq: 6192 or instr consent

PUBH 6115 - Worker Protection Law

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Role of government in protecting rights of citizens. Labor movement history as starting point for discussion of systems for protecting workers in unsafe workplaces and compensating them for injuries. Laws against class-based discrimination.

PUBH 6116 - Environmental Law

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Questions when pollution protection law conflicts with policy encouraging the use of natural resources. Conflicts when government restricts use of property without compensating its owner. Increasing authority of government to audit businesses.

PUBH 6120 - Injury Prevention in the Workplace, Community, and Home

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Injury epidemiology: analyses of major injury problems affecting the public in the workplace, community, and home using epidemiologic model and conceptual framework; emphasis on strategies/program development for prevention and control.

PUBH 6123 - Violence Prevention and Control: Theory, Research, and Application

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Analysis/critique of major theories and of epidemiological research pertinent to violence, including characteristics of violence and relevant risk factors, reporting/treatment protocols, and current/potential intervention efforts and prevention initiatives. Emphasizes interdisciplinary contributions to violence prevention/control.

PUBH 6232 - Emergency Preparedness: A Public Health Perspective

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course is an introduction to the discipline of public health emergency preparedness, response, and recovery. The course aims to provide a wide-ranging introduction to the field's core competencies. The course will look at the purpose, history, organization, functions, tools, and activities used in the field. Previously offered as PubH 5230 and 5231.

PUBH 6011 - Public Health Approaches to HIV/AIDS

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 3011/6011
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Survey of public health approaches to AIDS epidemic. Epidemiological/clinical features of HIV infection. Impact of AIDS on certain communities/populations. Behavior change principles as they apply to AIDS interventions. prereq: Grad student or professional school student or instr consent

PUBH 6034 - Evaluation I: Concepts

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6034/PubH 6852
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Developing useful program evaluations. Emphasizes skills for program administrators, planners. Needs assessments. Assessment of program design, implementation, impact. Cost-effectiveness analysis. Quantitative and qualitative data collection methods. Ethical considerations.

PUBH 6035 - Evaluation II: Planning & Evaluation

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6035/PubH 6806
Typically offered:	Every Fall

The course will prepare students to develop and apply evidence-based policy and program evaluation approaches in community health settings. The course is designed to guide students through planning and evaluating the impact of public health strategies using the RE-AIM Framework based on the Reach, Effectiveness, Adaptation, Implementation, and Maintenance/Sustainability. prereq: PubH 6034 or Instructor permission

PUBH 6045 - Skills for Policy Development

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Skills relevant to policy development and implementation for public health-related issues.

PUBH 6049 - Legislative Advocacy Skills for Public Health

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

State legislature as arena for public health practice. Skills necessary to operate in that arena. Analyzing emergence, development, and resolution of legislative issues of public health importance.

PUBH 6055 - Social Inequalities in Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Extent and causes of social inequalities in health. Degree to which understanding of these inequalities is hampered by methodological limitations in health research. Focuses on individual, community, and policy approaches to reducing social inequalities in health.

PUBH 6060 - Motivational Interviewing: Strategies to Effect Behavior Change

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Introduction of the theoretical basis of motivational interviewing (MI) style. Using MI style in diverse contexts (clinical, community program, research) and relative to diverse behavioral issues (addictions, healthy lifestyle behaviors, chronic disease adherence).

PUBH 6066 - Building Communities, Increasing Health: Preparing for Community Health Work

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Taught with Powderhorn-Phillips Cultural Wellness Center. Introduction to community building/organizing. Using culture as a resource for health, reducing barriers, identifying community assets, planning organizing strategy, understanding the impact of history. Emphasizes self-reflection and skill-building for authentic, grassroots community work.

PUBH 6078 - Public Health Policy as a Prevention Strategy

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Philosophical, ethical, economic, political, efficacy rationale for policy approach to prevention. Historical/current application of prevention policy to public health problems. prereq: 2nd yr MPH or public health MS student or [Epi, Biostats, Env Hlth, HSRPconcurrent registration is required (or allowed) in A PhD student] or instr consent

PUBH 6094 - Interventions to Address Weight-Related Health and Eating Disorders

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Examine obesity epidemic, eating disorders, prevention and treatment approaches at multiple levels (individual, social, environmental, policy), links between obesity and eating disorders.

PUBH 6134 - Sustainable Development and Global Public Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Effects of globalization on social/sustainable development. Population, war, economics, urbanization, environment, water/sanitation, communicable/non-communicable conditions. New infectious/chronic diseases, food security/environmental health. prereq: Credit will not be granted if received for 6100 or 6365

PUBH 6325 - Data Processing with PC-SAS

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduction to methods for transferring/processing existing data sources. Emphasizes hands-on approach to pre-statistical data processing and analysis with PC-SAS statistical software with a Microsoft Windows operating system.

PUBH 6341 - Epidemiologic Methods I

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6320PubH /6341
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to epidemiologic concepts and methods: (1) Study design (randomized trials and observational studies); (2) Measures of exposure-disease association; (3) Casual inference and bias; (4) Confounding and effect modification.

PUBH 6342 - Epidemiologic Methods II

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Methods and techniques for designing, implementing, analyzing, and interpreting observational epidemiologic studies, including cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional studies.

PUBH 6348 - Writing Research Grants

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Focuses on NIH research grants. Mechanisms of grant writing: specific aims, hypotheses, innovation, background, approaches, evaluation analyses, principles of informed consent, budget development, and grant-review process.

PUBH 6386 - Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

The course will provide an introduction to cardiovascular disease (CVD) epidemiology. It is intended to provide a detailed perspective on the well-established risk factors for CVD, as well as an introduction to emerging risk factors. Both observational studies and clinical trials will be discussed. The class will include a main focus on prevention of cardiovascular disease, and national recommendations for treatment and prevention. Several classes will incorporate discussions of new directions and current controversies in CVD. Additionally, the class will introduce students to the CVD research in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health.

PUBH 6387 - Cancer Epidemiology

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Epidemiologic aspects of cancer. Theories of carcinogenesis, patterns of incidence and mortality, site-specific risk factors. Issues of cancer control and prevention.

PUBH 6420 - Introduction to SAS Programming

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Summer

Use of SAS for analysis of biomedical data. Data manipulation/description. Basic statistical analyses (t-tests, chi-square, simple regression).

PUBH 6431 - Topics in Hierarchical Bayesian Analysis

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Hierarchical Bayesian methods combine information from various sources and are increasingly used in biomedical and public health settings to accommodate complex data and produce readily interpretable output. This course will introduce students to Bayesian methods, emphasizing the basic methodological framework, real-world applications, and practical computing.

PUBH 6451 - Biostatistics II

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course will cover more advanced aspects of statistical analysis methods with a focus on statistical modeling, including: ? two-way ANOVA, ? multiple linear regression, ? logistic regression, ? Poisson regression, ? log binomial and ordinal regression, ? survival analysis methods, including Kaplan-Meier analysis and proportional hazards (Cox) regression, ? power and sample size, and ? survey sampling and analysis. There will be a focus on analyzing data using statistical programming software and on communicating the results in short reports. Health science examples from the research literature will be used throughout the course. prereq: [PubH 6450 with grade of at least B, health sciences grad student] or instr consent

PUBH 6527 - Healthcare Leadership and Effecting Change

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

How to become effective change leader in organization. prereq: MHA student

PUBH 6556 - Health and Health Systems

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

U.S. health care system and health policy process, including current challenges in the areas of health care delivery, financing, and policy.

PUBH 6557 - Health Finance I

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Principles of corporate/not-for-profit finance. Net present value, financial analysis, capital budgeting, financing options/decisions, capital structure, capital asset pricing model, financial planning, working capital management. prereq: [[Health care admin or public health admin/policy major], familiarity with computerized spreadsheets] or instr consent

PUBH 6558 - Health Finance II

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Principles of corporate/not-for-profit finance and insurance concepts integrated/applied to health care. Capital/operating budgets. Medicare's payment systems for hospitals/physicians, risk-adjusted capitation payment systems. Population-based health care finance, managed care. Financing aspects of public health policy and health care reform. prereq: MHA student, familiarity with computerized spread-sheets]] or permission of instructor

PUBH 6560 - Operations Research and Quality in Health Care

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Prerequisites:	Grad-level statistics/management coursework
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Using a systems perspective to develop models to analyze/improve health care operations. Identifying data needs/sources to model structures, processes, and outcomes of care. Applying quality improvement, management sciences/operations research techniques to real world health care problems. prereq: Grad-level statistics/management coursework

PUBH 6562 - Information Technology in Health Care

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Managing information as a strategic resource within health care organizations. Designing information technology systems to capture, combine, and transform information to measure processes/outcomes of care, support collaborative clinical decision making, support management decisions, empower patients, and improve health care operations. Prereq: MHA student or instructor consent.

PUBH 6563 - Integrated Delivery Systems

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Integrated models of health care delivery. Emphasizes organizational design, governance, operations, strategy, resource deployment, and the role of the "embedded medical practice." prereq: Hlth care admin student or instr consent

PUBH 6564 - Private Purchasers of Health Care: Roles of Employers and Health Plans in U.S. Health Care System

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Development and organization of HMOs and PPOs: risk sharing, provider contracts, utilization management, quality improvement, marketing, and new product development; employer relations; Medicare and Medicaid contracting; budget processing; financial performance; pricing; government regulations. prereq: MHA or MBA or HSRP or PHA student or instr consent

PUBH 6565 - Innovation of Healthcare Services

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Designing/creating new care delivery services/experiences. Exploiting opportunities for innovation. Overcoming obstacles. Capturing value. prereq: MHA student only

PUBH 6568 - Interprofessional Teamwork in Health Care

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

Leading/participating in interdisciplinary teams. Team communication, problem solving, conflict management, organizational support. prereq: [Public health MPH or MHA or certificate student] or [health services research, policy/admin] MS student or instr consent

PUBH 6571 - Quality, Patient Safety, and Performance Improvement

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduction to concepts of performance improvement in health care institutions. prereq: MHA or MPH or certificate student or instr consent

PUBH 6577 - Advanced Problem Solving in Health Services Administration

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Capstone course. Students integrate/synthesize knowledge, attitudes, and skills acquired in curriculum and apply them to resolve management problem. prereq: MHA student

PUBH 6589 - Medical Technology Evaluation and Market Research

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Analytical tools for formulating evaluations of innovations in medical technologies. Disseminating results to get a new product to market.

PUBH 6601 - Born a Girl: Global Women's Health

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Women's health conditions, programs, services, and policies in developed/developing countries. Social, economic, environmental, behavioral, and political factors affecting health behaviors, reproductive health, chronic and acute diseases, premature mortality and longevity. prereq: Grad level student

PUBH 6605 - Sexual, Reproductive, and Perinatal Public Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Overview of perinatal, sexual, and reproductive health surveillance, programs, services, and policies in the U.S., with an emphasis on vulnerable populations and methods to assess and interpret perinatal, sexual, and reproductive health data. prereq: Public health student or grad student or instr consent

PUBH 6627 - Sexuality Education: Criteria, Curricula, and Controversy

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Issues and controversies affecting K-12 sexuality education. Current research and guidelines for effective, responsible education and curricula selection. Various curricula being used in the United States. Challenges in teaching sensitive issues inherent in sexuality education.

PUBH 6630 - Foundations of Maternal and Child Health Leadership

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6630/PubH 6655
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Historical/current principles, programs, policies, and practices related to women, children, adolescents, and families. Articulating a personal leadership style/plan for development of leadership competencies. Leadership principles, skills, and models applied to improving health of MCH populations. prereq: Public Health MCH major or instr consent

PUBH 6730 - International Comparative Health Systems

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

History and development of health systems from a socio-political perspective. Overview of relative importance and meaning of health outcomes data. Role of WHO. Students use OECD health database.

PUBH 6732 - Topics and Methods in Global Health Assessment

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

Evaluation of health populations relative to specific topics important to global health, including methodology appropriate to particular issue. Focuses on developing countries. prereq: [6705, [concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in PUBH 6705 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in PUBH 6320 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in PUBH 6341 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in grad course in epidemiology], [public health MPH or environmental health [MS or PhD] or health services research/policy/administration [MS or PhD] or epidemiology PhD or clinical research MS]] or instr consent

PUBH 6852 - Program Evaluation in Health and Mental Health Settings

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6034/PubH 6852
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Understanding an evaluation study. Program evaluation. Applications to health and mental health settings. emphasizes public health.

PUBH 6906 - Global Nutrition

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Nature/scope of chief nutritional issues and problems in the world. Emphasizes developing countries. Nutrient deficiencies, nutrition-related aspects of infectious/chronic disease. prereq: Grad student

PUBH 6112 - Environmental Health Risk Assessment: Application to Human Health Risks from Exposure to Chemicals

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to risk in context of regulatory decision making. prereq: PubH 6102 or instructor permission.

PUBH 6162 - Biomarkers

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduce current status of molecular biomarker research, including biomarkers of chemical exposures, genetic toxicity markers, genomics-based biomarkers of susceptibility, organ/systems biomarkers. Progression of biomarker development/application from laboratory environment to clinical or population-based settings/development of public health policies/interventions. prereq: Introductory courses in toxicology and exposure analysis recommended

PUBH 6175 - Environmental Measurements Laboratory

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Spring Even Year

Measuring exposures to potentially hazardous agents in air or water. Sampling the agent. Preparing sample for analysis. Conducting analysis. Interpreting results. prereq: EH or instr consent

PUBH 6190 - Environmental Chemistry

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Overview air, water, and soil chemistry. Pertinent environmental problems. Human/ecological multimedia exposures to chemicals in the environment. prereq: One course each in [gen chem, org chem] or instr consent

PUBH 6192 - Measurement and Properties of Air Contaminants

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Gaseous/particulate air contaminants, their occurrence in workplaces. Factors governing generation/dispersal. Criteria, rationales, and standards for measurement in workplace. Industrial hygiene measurement. Aerosol-related ill-health. prereq: Good grasp of [elementary physics, chemistry, mathematics including calculus]

PUBH 6193 - Advanced Topics in Human Exposure Science

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Designing exposure studies for epidemiologic investigations and health risk assessments. Techniques to measure/estimate human exposures to hazardous agents in non-occupational and occupational environments. prereq: 6192 or instr consent

PUBH 6141 - GIS & Spatial Analysis for Public Health

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course examines how to incorporate and handle spatial data to address public health questions, such as evaluating environmental exposures or identifying vulnerable and at-risk populations. We will utilize a Geographic Information System (GIS) to incorporate and visualize data for public health research. Classwork will be presented in the form of health-related case studies where GIS helps to formulate and address scientific hypotheses based on research topics in the School of Public Health. Specifically, the ArcGIS software will be used as a tool to integrate, manipulate, and display spatial health data. Topics include understanding spatial data, mapping, topology, spatial manipulations related to data structures, online data, geocoding, remote sensing imagery, and reviewing public health literature. The course will emphasize how to prepare spatial data for a formal statistical analysis. All coursework will be discussed in the context of statistical frameworks for evaluating geostatistical, point pattern, and area-level (or lattice) data examples. The intended audience for this course are masters and doctoral students who seek a more advanced understanding of GIS and spatial data beyond exploratory skills. Their goal should be a working knowledge of spatial analysis that can be readily applied in future research or employment. Students should leave this course prepared to take more advanced spatial analysis courses, map geographic trends, formulate scientific hypothesis for epidemiological applications, with the knowledge to acquire online spatial data, and the skills to critically evaluate published papers that utilize GIS.

PUBH 6154 - Climate Change and Global Health Modeling

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Interconnected relationships between global climate change/human health. Develop computer models to predict climate change from natural/anthropogenic forces, predict human health outcomes as result of changing climate. prereq: Students must have elementary computer skills.

PUBH 6181 - Surveillance of Foodborne Diseases and Food Safety Hazards

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 5181/VMed 5165
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Principles/methods for surveillance of foodborne diseases. Investigation of outbreaks, assessment of food safety hazards. Focuses on integration of epidemiologic/lab methods.

PUBH 6115 - Worker Protection Law

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Role of government in protecting rights of citizens. Labor movement history as starting point for discussion of systems for protecting workers in unsafe workplaces and compensating them for injuries. Laws against class-based discrimination.

PUBH 6116 - Environmental Law

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Questions when pollution protection law conflicts with policy encouraging the use of natural resources. Conflicts when government restricts use of property without compensating its owner. Increasing authority of government to audit businesses.

PUBH 6120 - Injury Prevention in the Workplace, Community, and Home

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Injury epidemiology: analyses of major injury problems affecting the public in the workplace, community, and home using epidemiologic model and conceptual framework; emphasis on strategies/program development for prevention and control.

PUBH 6123 - Violence Prevention and Control: Theory, Research, and Application

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Analysis/critique of major theories and of epidemiological research pertinent to violence, including characteristics of violence and relevant risk factors, reporting/treatment protocols, and current/potential intervention efforts and prevention initiatives. Emphasizes interdisciplinary contributions to violence prevention/control.

PUBH 6112 - Environmental Health Risk Assessment: Application to Human Health Risks from Exposure to Chemicals

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to risk in context of regulatory decision making. prereq: PubH 6102 or instructor permission.

PUBH 6159 - Principles of Toxicology I

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This is the first of two courses that covers fundamental principles of exposure, uptake and metabolism. This course focuses on identifying the mechanisms and effects of chemical, biological, and physical agents on human health. Discussions will focus on the action of environmental agents and how they interact with humans to cause disease. Emphasis is on understanding the principles of toxicology as they apply to understanding toxicant-human interactions.

PUBH 6160 - Principles of Toxicology II

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This second part of the Principles of Toxicology course is focused on toxicodynamics. In this course,students will learn to apply their knowledge of basic toxicokinetic principles and metabolic systems to elucidate mechanisms of toxicity induced by xenobiotic compounds. In addition, they will learn basic principles of omics-based approaches and methodologies, and how such data can be integrated to assess and predict adverse effects of chemical exposures across multiple levels of biological complexity. At the end of the course, students will give a scientific presentation on a published article of their choice (approved by instructors) that explores the mechanism of a toxicodynamic process. prereqs: Biochemistry and PubH 6104 or permission of the instructor

PUBH 6161 - Regulatory Toxicology

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

In-depth introduction to laws (and associated regulations) of U.S. federal regulatory agencies, such as CPSC, EPA, FDA, OSHA, and DOT, that require/use toxicological data/information in their mission of protecting human/environmental health. prereq: Background in toxicology or pharmacology or related field is recommended

PUBH 6162 - Biomarkers

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduce current status of molecular biomarker research, including biomarkers of chemical exposures, genetic toxicity markers, genomics-based biomarkers of susceptibility, organ/systems biomarkers. Progression of biomarker development/application from laboratory environment to clinical or population-based settings/development of public health policies/interventions. prereq: Introductory courses in toxicology and exposure analysis recommended

PUBH 8160 - Advanced Toxicology

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Cellular/molecular mechanisms by which xenobiotics cause toxicity. Investigative approaches to current research problems in toxicology/carcinogenesis. Apoptosis, cell cycle regulation, genetic toxicology, molecular mechanisms of chemical carcinogenesis, genetic basis for susceptibility to environmental toxicants. prereq: 6160, one course in biochem, one course in molecular biol, instr consent

PUBH 8161 - Current Literature in Toxicology

Credits:	1.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Modern methods in toxicology, critical thinking skills. Topics vary each semester. Students read and discuss toxicological literature.

PUBH 6141 - GIS & Spatial Analysis for Public Health

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course examines how to incorporate and handle spatial data to address public health questions, such as evaluating environmental exposures or identifying vulnerable and at-risk populations. We will utilize a Geographic Information System (GIS) to incorporate and visualize data for public health research. Classwork will be presented in the form of health-related case studies where GIS helps to formulate and address scientific hypotheses based on research topics in the School of Public Health. Specifically, the ArcGIS software will be used as a tool to integrate, manipulate, and display spatial health data. Topics include understanding spatial data, mapping, topology, spatial manipulations related to data structures, online data, geocoding, remote sensing imagery, and reviewing public health literature. The course will emphasize how to prepare spatial data for a formal statistical analysis. All coursework will be discussed in the context of statistical frameworks for evaluating geostatistical, point pattern, and area-level (or lattice) data examples. The intended audience for this course are masters and doctoral students who seek a more advanced understanding of GIS and spatial data beyond exploratory skills. Their goal should be a working knowledge of spatial analysis that can be readily applied in future research or employment. Students should leave this course prepared to take more advanced spatial analysis courses, map geographic trends, formulate scientific hypothesis for epidemiological applications, with the knowledge to acquire online spatial data, and the skills to critically evaluate published papers that utilize GIS.

PUBH 6154 - Climate Change and Global Health Modeling

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Interconnected relationships between global climate change/human health. Develop computer models to predict climate change from natural/anthropogenic forces, predict human health outcomes as result of changing climate. prereq: Students must have elementary computer skills.

PUBH 6181 - Surveillance of Foodborne Diseases and Food Safety Hazards

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 5181/VMed 5165
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Principles/methods for surveillance of foodborne diseases. Investigation of outbreaks, assessment of food safety hazards. Focuses on integration of epidemiologic/lab methods.

PUBH 6190 - Environmental Chemistry

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Overview air, water, and soil chemistry. Pertinent environmental problems. Human/ecological multimedia exposures to chemicals in the environment. prereq: One course each in [gen chem, org chem] or instr consent

PUBH 6193 - Advanced Topics in Human Exposure Science

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Designing exposure studies for epidemiologic investigations and health risk assessments. Techniques to measure/estimate human exposures to hazardous agents in non-occupational and occupational environments. prereq: 6192 or instr consent

PUBH 6115 - Worker Protection Law

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Role of government in protecting rights of citizens. Labor movement history as starting point for discussion of systems for protecting workers in unsafe workplaces and compensating them for injuries. Laws against class-based discrimination.

PUBH 6116 - Environmental Law

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Questions when pollution protection law conflicts with policy encouraging the use of natural resources. Conflicts when government restricts use of property without compensating its owner. Increasing authority of government to audit businesses.

PUBH 6120 - Injury Prevention in the Workplace, Community, and Home

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Injury epidemiology: analyses of major injury problems affecting the public in the workplace, community, and home using epidemiologic model and conceptual framework; emphasis on strategies/program development for prevention and control.

PUBH 6123 - Violence Prevention and Control: Theory, Research, and Application

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Analysis/critique of major theories and of epidemiological research pertinent to violence, including characteristics of violence and relevant risk factors, reporting/treatment protocols, and current/potential intervention efforts and prevention initiatives. Emphasizes interdisciplinary contributions to violence prevention/control.

FSCN 5131 - Food Quality for Graduate Credit

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Management systems, statistical procedures, regulatory requirements involved with producing quality food/ingredients. Risk assessment/management, good manufacturing practices, hazard analysis critical control point (HACCP), statistical methods for process control, total quality management, food/drug laws. Prereq: Food Science Grad Student Student may select grading basis if instructor approves. A-F registration is required for class to count toward degree.

PUBH 6181 - Surveillance of Foodborne Diseases and Food Safety Hazards

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 5181/VMed 5165
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Principles/methods for surveillance of foodborne diseases. Investigation of outbreaks, assessment of food safety hazards. Focuses on integration of epidemiologic/lab methods.

PUBH 6182 - Emerging Infectious Disease: Current Issues, Policies, and Controversies

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Issues/controversies surrounding emerging infectious diseases. Framework for considering realistic/innovative policies. Bioterrorism, public health preparedness. Pandemic influenza preparedness, smallpox vaccination, antibiotic resistance. prereq: AHC student, instr consent

PUBH 6183 - Theory and Practice in Foodborne Disease Outbreak Detection, Investigation and Control

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course focuses on the practical basis for developing and implementing methods for foodborne disease outbreak detection, investigation and control; using recent outbreaks to highlight underlying principles. The course will review biological characteristics of major foodborne disease pathogens, clinical features of the illnesses they cause and epidemiologic presentations of foodborne outbreaks. The implications of these characteristics will be discussed in a problem solving, seminar format that examines theory and practice in the context of recent outbreaks. Strategies to promote timely decision-making will be emphasized.

PUBH 6385 - Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Principles and/ methods. Strategies for disease control and prevention, including immunization. Relevance of modes of transmission of specific agents for disease spread and prevention. Public health consequences of infectious diseases at local, national, and international levels.

PUBH 7210 - Topics: Global Food Systems

Credits:	0.5 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Food systems related to specific food products, including inputs, processes, and outputs from production sites to consumers. Context for food safety policy. Concept of food system biosecurity as prerequisites for a safe, abundant, affordable, and diverse food supply. Case studies of food-borne disease outbreaks illustrate critical controls in food production.

VMED 5180 - Ecology of Infectious Disease

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CMB 5180/PubH 6180/PubH 6380
Typically offered:	Every Fall

How host, agent, environmental interactions influence transmission of infectious agents. Environmental dissemination, eradication/control, evolution of virulence. Use of analytical/molecular tools.

PUBH 6112 - Environmental Health Risk Assessment: Application to Human Health Risks from Exposure to Chemicals

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to risk in context of regulatory decision making. prereq: PubH 6102 or instructor permission.

PUBH 6141 - GIS & Spatial Analysis for Public Health

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course examines how to incorporate and handle spatial data to address public health questions, such as evaluating environmental exposures or identifying vulnerable and at-risk populations. We will utilize a Geographic Information System (GIS) to incorporate and visualize data for public health research. Classwork will be presented in the form of health-related case studies where GIS helps to formulate and address scientific hypotheses based on research topics in the School of Public Health. Specifically, the ArcGIS software will be used as a tool to integrate, manipulate, and display spatial health data. Topics include understanding spatial data, mapping, topology, spatial manipulations related to data structures, online data, geocoding, remote sensing imagery, and reviewing public health literature. The course will emphasize how to prepare spatial data for a formal statistical analysis. All coursework will be discussed in the context of statistical frameworks for evaluating geostatistical, point pattern, and area-level (or lattice) data examples. The intended audience for this course are masters and doctoral students who seek a more advanced understanding of GIS and spatial data beyond exploratory skills. Their goal should be a working knowledge of spatial analysis that can be readily applied in future research or employment. Students should leave this course prepared to take more advanced spatial analysis courses, map geographic trends, formulate scientific hypothesis for epidemiological applications, with the knowledge to acquire online spatial data, and the skills to critically evaluate published papers that utilize GIS.

PUBH 6154 - Climate Change and Global Health Modeling

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Interconnected relationships between global climate change/human health. Develop computer models to predict climate change from natural/anthropogenic forces, predict human health outcomes as result of changing climate. prereq: Students must have elementary computer skills.

PUBH 6162 - Biomarkers

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduce current status of molecular biomarker research, including biomarkers of chemical exposures, genetic toxicity markers, genomics-based biomarkers of susceptibility, organ/systems biomarkers. Progression of biomarker development/application from laboratory environment to clinical or population-based settings/development of public health policies/interventions. prereq: Introductory courses in toxicology and exposure analysis recommended

PUBH 6190 - Environmental Chemistry

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Overview air, water, and soil chemistry. Pertinent environmental problems. Human/ecological multimedia exposures to chemicals in the environment. prereq: One course each in [gen chem, org chem] or instr consent

PUBH 6193 - Advanced Topics in Human Exposure Science

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Designing exposure studies for epidemiologic investigations and health risk assessments. Techniques to measure/estimate human exposures to hazardous agents in non-occupational and occupational environments. prereq: 6192 or instr consent

PUBH 6115 - Worker Protection Law

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Role of government in protecting rights of citizens. Labor movement history as starting point for discussion of systems for protecting workers in unsafe workplaces and compensating them for injuries. Laws against class-based discrimination.

PUBH 6116 - Environmental Law

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Questions when pollution protection law conflicts with policy encouraging the use of natural resources. Conflicts when government restricts use of property without compensating its owner. Increasing authority of government to audit businesses.

PUBH 6120 - Injury Prevention in the Workplace, Community, and Home

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Injury epidemiology: analyses of major injury problems affecting the public in the workplace, community, and home using epidemiologic model and conceptual framework; emphasis on strategies/program development for prevention and control.

PUBH 6123 - Violence Prevention and Control: Theory, Research, and Application

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Analysis/critique of major theories and of epidemiological research pertinent to violence, including characteristics of violence and relevant risk factors, reporting/treatment protocols, and current/potential intervention efforts and prevention initiatives. Emphasizes interdisciplinary contributions to violence prevention/control.

CEGE 5541 - Environmental Water Chemistry

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to water chemistry. Physical chemical principles, geochemical processes controlling chemical composition of waters, behavior of contaminants that affect the suitability of water for beneficial uses. prereq: CEGE 3501, Chem 1061, Chem 1062, upper division CSE or grad student or instructor consent

EEB 5601 - Limnology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Advanced introduction to description/analysis of interaction of physical, chemical, and biological factors that control functioning of life in lakes and other freshwater aquatic environments. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

PUBH 6190 - Environmental Chemistry

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Overview air, water, and soil chemistry. Pertinent environmental problems. Human/ecological multimedia exposures to chemicals in the environment. prereq: One course each in [gen chem, org chem] or instr consent

PUBH 6112 - Environmental Health Risk Assessment: Application to Human Health Risks from Exposure to Chemicals

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to risk in context of regulatory decision making. prereq: PubH 6102 or instructor permission.

PUBH 6141 - GIS & Spatial Analysis for Public Health

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course examines how to incorporate and handle spatial data to address public health questions, such as evaluating environmental exposures or identifying vulnerable and at-risk populations. We will utilize a Geographic Information System (GIS) to incorporate and visualize data for public health research. Classwork will be presented in the form of health-related case studies where GIS helps to formulate and address scientific hypotheses based on research topics in the School of Public Health. Specifically, the ArcGIS software will be used as a tool to integrate, manipulate, and display spatial health data. Topics include understanding spatial data, mapping, topology, spatial manipulations related to data structures, online data, geocoding, remote sensing imagery, and reviewing public health literature. The course will emphasize how to prepare spatial data for a formal statistical analysis. All coursework will be discussed in the context of statistical frameworks for evaluating geostatistical, point pattern, and area-level (or lattice) data examples. The intended audience for this course are masters and doctoral students who seek a more advanced understanding of GIS and spatial data beyond exploratory skills. Their goal should be a working knowledge of spatial analysis that can be readily applied in future research or employment. Students should leave this course prepared to take more advanced spatial analysis courses, map geographic trends, formulate scientific hypothesis for epidemiological applications, with the knowledge to acquire online spatial data, and the skills to critically evaluate published papers that utilize GIS.

PUBH 6154 - Climate Change and Global Health Modeling

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Interconnected relationships between global climate change/human health. Develop computer models to predict climate change from natural/anthropogenic forces, predict human health outcomes as result of changing climate. prereq: Students must have elementary computer skills.

PUBH 6162 - Biomarkers

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduce current status of molecular biomarker research, including biomarkers of chemical exposures, genetic toxicity markers, genomics-based biomarkers of susceptibility, organ/systems biomarkers. Progression of biomarker development/application from laboratory environment to clinical or population-based settings/development of public health policies/interventions. prereq: Introductory courses in toxicology and exposure analysis recommended

PUBH 6181 - Surveillance of Foodborne Diseases and Food Safety Hazards

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 5181/VMed 5165
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Principles/methods for surveillance of foodborne diseases. Investigation of outbreaks, assessment of food safety hazards. Focuses on integration of epidemiologic/lab methods.

PUBH 6193 - Advanced Topics in Human Exposure Science

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Designing exposure studies for epidemiologic investigations and health risk assessments. Techniques to measure/estimate human exposures to hazardous agents in non-occupational and occupational environments. prereq: 6192 or instr consent

PUBH 6115 - Worker Protection Law

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Role of government in protecting rights of citizens. Labor movement history as starting point for discussion of systems for protecting workers in unsafe workplaces and compensating them for injuries. Laws against class-based discrimination.

PUBH 6116 - Environmental Law

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Questions when pollution protection law conflicts with policy encouraging the use of natural resources. Conflicts when government restricts use of property without compensating its owner. Increasing authority of government to audit businesses.

PUBH 6120 - Injury Prevention in the Workplace, Community, and Home

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Injury epidemiology: analyses of major injury problems affecting the public in the workplace, community, and home using epidemiologic model and conceptual framework; emphasis on strategies/program development for prevention and control.

PUBH 6123 - Violence Prevention and Control: Theory, Research, and Application

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Analysis/critique of major theories and of epidemiological research pertinent to violence, including characteristics of violence and relevant risk factors, reporting/treatment protocols, and current/potential intervention efforts and prevention initiatives. Emphasizes interdisciplinary contributions to violence prevention/control.

CEGE 4561 - Solids and Hazardous Wastes

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This course will serve as an introduction to the topics of solid and hazardous waste management. Classes will incorporate information about prevention, treatment options, and the regulations surrounding solid and hazardous waste. They will also provide an opportunity to observe different methods of waste treatment in action.

CEGE 8503 - Environmental Mass Transport

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Prerequisites:	3502, 3501 or equiv or #
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Principles of intraphase and interfacial chemical transport and fate in the environment, specifically the processes of diffusion, dispersion, and convection. Application to surface water and atmospheric mixing, dispersion in groundwater, and transport between these media. prereq: 3502, 3501 or equiv or instr consent

CEGE 8542 - Chemistry of Organic Pollutants in Environmental Systems

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Structural characteristics and physico-chemical properties of organic contaminants in aquatic systems. Emphasizes PCBs, PAHs, dioxins, insecticides, herbicides, and chlorinated solvents. Factors affecting their transport/transformation. Structure- and property-activity relationships, their use in predicting organic chemical behavior. prereq: CEGE 5541 or instr consent

CEGE 8561 - Analysis and Modeling of Aquatic Environments I

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Prerequisites:	One sem grad work or #
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduction to hydrologic transport and water quality simulation in natural water systems. Deterministic, process-oriented water quality model development. Mixed cell models, advection, turbulent diffusion/dispersion. Chemical/biological kinetics in water quality models. Application of water quality models to management problems. prereq: One sem grad work or instr consent

PUBH 6120 - Injury Prevention in the Workplace, Community, and Home

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Injury epidemiology: analyses of major injury problems affecting the public in the workplace, community, and home using epidemiologic model and conceptual framework; emphasis on strategies/program development for prevention and control.

PUBH 6123 - Violence Prevention and Control: Theory, Research, and Application

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Analysis/critique of major theories and of epidemiological research pertinent to violence, including characteristics of violence and relevant risk factors, reporting/treatment protocols, and current/potential intervention efforts and prevention initiatives. Emphasizes interdisciplinary contributions to violence prevention/control.

PUBH 6342 - Epidemiologic Methods II

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Methods and techniques for designing, implementing, analyzing, and interpreting observational epidemiologic studies, including cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional studies.

PUBH 6451 - Biostatistics II

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course will cover more advanced aspects of statistical analysis methods with a focus on statistical modeling, including: ? two-way ANOVA, ? multiple linear regression, ? logistic regression, ? Poisson regression, ? log binomial and ordinal regression, ? survival analysis methods, including Kaplan-Meier analysis and proportional hazards (Cox) regression, ? power and sample size, and ? survey sampling and analysis. There will be a focus on analyzing data using statistical programming software and on communicating the results in short reports. Health science examples from the research literature will be used throughout the course. prereq: [PubH 6450 with grade of at least B, health sciences grad student] or instr consent

PUBH 8120 - Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences Research Seminar

Credits:	1.0 [max 12.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Facilitates student research training in occupational health and Safety. Roundtable discussions, interdisciplinary involvement.

PUBH 6112 - Environmental Health Risk Assessment: Application to Human Health Risks from Exposure to Chemicals

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to risk in context of regulatory decision making. prereq: PubH 6102 or instructor permission.

PUBH 6141 - GIS & Spatial Analysis for Public Health

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course examines how to incorporate and handle spatial data to address public health questions, such as evaluating environmental exposures or identifying vulnerable and at-risk populations. We will utilize a Geographic Information System (GIS) to incorporate and visualize data for public health research. Classwork will be presented in the form of health-related case studies where GIS helps to formulate and address scientific hypotheses based on research topics in the School of Public Health. Specifically, the ArcGIS software will be used as a tool to integrate, manipulate, and display spatial health data. Topics include understanding spatial data, mapping, topology, spatial manipulations related to data structures, online data, geocoding, remote sensing imagery, and reviewing public health literature. The course will emphasize how to prepare spatial data for a formal statistical analysis. All coursework will be discussed in the context of statistical frameworks for evaluating geostatistical, point pattern, and area-level (or lattice) data examples. The intended audience for this course are masters and doctoral students who seek a more advanced understanding of GIS and spatial data beyond exploratory skills. Their goal should be a working knowledge of spatial analysis that can be readily applied in future research or employment. Students should leave this course prepared to take more advanced spatial analysis courses, map geographic trends, formulate scientific hypothesis for epidemiological applications, with the knowledge to acquire online spatial data, and the skills to critically evaluate published papers that utilize GIS.

PUBH 6154 - Climate Change and Global Health Modeling

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Interconnected relationships between global climate change/human health. Develop computer models to predict climate change from natural/anthropogenic forces, predict human health outcomes as result of changing climate. prereq: Students must have elementary computer skills.

PUBH 6162 - Biomarkers

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduce current status of molecular biomarker research, including biomarkers of chemical exposures, genetic toxicity markers, genomics-based biomarkers of susceptibility, organ/systems biomarkers. Progression of biomarker development/application from laboratory environment to clinical or population-based settings/development of public health policies/interventions. prereq: Introductory courses in toxicology and exposure analysis recommended

PUBH 6181 - Surveillance of Foodborne Diseases and Food Safety Hazards

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 5181/VMed 5165
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Principles/methods for surveillance of foodborne diseases. Investigation of outbreaks, assessment of food safety hazards. Focuses on integration of epidemiologic/lab methods.

PUBH 6190 - Environmental Chemistry

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Overview air, water, and soil chemistry. Pertinent environmental problems. Human/ecological multimedia exposures to chemicals in the environment. prereq: One course each in [gen chem, org chem] or instr consent

PUBH 6193 - Advanced Topics in Human Exposure Science

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Designing exposure studies for epidemiologic investigations and health risk assessments. Techniques to measure/estimate human exposures to hazardous agents in non-occupational and occupational environments. prereq: 6192 or instr consent

PUBH 6115 - Worker Protection Law

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Role of government in protecting rights of citizens. Labor movement history as starting point for discussion of systems for protecting workers in unsafe workplaces and compensating them for injuries. Laws against class-based discrimination.

PUBH 6116 - Environmental Law

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Questions when pollution protection law conflicts with policy encouraging the use of natural resources. Conflicts when government restricts use of property without compensating its owner. Increasing authority of government to audit businesses.

PUBH 6130 - Occupational Medicine: Principles and Practice

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Pathogenesis of diseases caused by occupational hazards. Evaluating work-related illnesses. Overall regulatory framework governing occupational health/safety. prereq: Environmental health major; toxicology course recommended or instr consent

PUBH 6150 - Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Occupational Health and Safety Field Problems

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Guided evaluation of potential health/safety problems at work site, recommendations and design criteria for correction/evaluation of occupational health/safety programs.

PUBH 6170 - Introduction to Occupational Health and Safety

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Nurs/PubH 5170
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

Concepts/issues in occupational health/safety. Application of public health principles/decision-making process in preventing injury/disease, promoting health of adults, protecting worker populations from environmental hazards. Observational visit to manufacturing facility. prereq: Environmental health major or instr consent

PUBH 6172 - Industrial Hygiene Applications

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

Recognition, evaluation, and control of occupational health/safety hazards. Practice application to specific industrial hygiene problems related to gases/vapors, aerosols, and physical agents.

PUBH 6173 - Exposure to Physical Agents

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Even Year

Nature, health effects, monitoring, and control of physical agents in working/living environments. Ionizing/non-ionizing radiations (including lasers, ultraviolet, visible, and infrared light). Noise/vibration, heat/cold stress. Dose, response, and engineering interventions.

PUBH 6174 - Control of Workplace Exposure

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

Hierarchy of options for controlling human exposures to airborne contaminants, both gaseous/aerosol. Science/practice of process control/exhaust ventilation in workplaces/other indoor air spaces/air cleaning. Control of emissions to ambient environment.

PUBH 6175 - Environmental Measurements Laboratory

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Spring Even Year

Measuring exposures to potentially hazardous agents in air or water. Sampling the agent. Preparing sample for analysis. Conducting analysis. Interpreting results. prereq: EH or instr consent

PUBH 6192 - Measurement and Properties of Air Contaminants

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Gaseous/particulate air contaminants, their occurrence in workplaces. Factors governing generation/dispersal. Criteria, rationales, and standards for measurement in workplace. Industrial hygiene measurement. Aerosol-related ill-health. prereq: Good grasp of [elementary physics, chemistry, mathematics including calculus]

PUBH 6193 - Advanced Topics in Human Exposure Science

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Designing exposure studies for epidemiologic investigations and health risk assessments. Techniques to measure/estimate human exposures to hazardous agents in non-occupational and occupational environments. prereq: 6192 or instr consent

PUBH 7196 - Applied Practice Experience: Environmental Health

Credits:	1.0 -5.0 [max 5.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

MPH students are required to complete a supervised Applied Practice Experience (APEx). Students must address five competencies and must submit two products that demonstrate attainment of the competencies. prereq: Environmental health student, instr consent

PUBH 6020 - Fundamentals of Social and Behavioral Science

Credits:	2.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Three major approaches to social sciences in public health: psychosocial, community approaches, economic and policy interventions. Covers theories of behavior change, program and policy development, community engagement, and policy implementation and advocacy. Not open to students in Community Health Promotion or Public Health Nutrition MPH programs.

PUBH 6112 - Environmental Health Risk Assessment: Application to Human Health Risks from Exposure to Chemicals

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to risk in context of regulatory decision making. prereq: PubH 6102 or instructor permission.

PUBH 6115 - Worker Protection Law

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Role of government in protecting rights of citizens. Labor movement history as starting point for discussion of systems for protecting workers in unsafe workplaces and compensating them for injuries. Laws against class-based discrimination.

PUBH 6116 - Environmental Law

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Questions when pollution protection law conflicts with policy encouraging the use of natural resources. Conflicts when government restricts use of property without compensating its owner. Increasing authority of government to audit businesses.

PUBH 6120 - Injury Prevention in the Workplace, Community, and Home

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Injury epidemiology: analyses of major injury problems affecting the public in the workplace, community, and home using epidemiologic model and conceptual framework; emphasis on strategies/program development for prevention and control.

PUBH 6131 - Working in Global Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduction to key issues in global health. Global burden of disease. Cultural issues/health. Nutrition. Infectious diseases. Environmental problems. Women/children. Prereq Grad student.

PUBH 6132 - Air, Water, and Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Issues related to providing adequate levels of clean air/water. Local water quantity/quality, air quality in developed/developing world, global air/water quality, policies meant to protect these resources.

PUBH 6140 - Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Principles/concepts in identifying health effects in workplace. Strategies for identifying excess risk, evaluating strengths/weaknesses of research techniques, assessing bias/confounding. prereq: Coursework in epidemiology, biostatistics

PUBH 6161 - Regulatory Toxicology

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

In-depth introduction to laws (and associated regulations) of U.S. federal regulatory agencies, such as CPSC, EPA, FDA, OSHA, and DOT, that require/use toxicological data/information in their mission of protecting human/environmental health. prereq: Background in toxicology or pharmacology or related field is recommended

PUBH 6162 - Biomarkers

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduce current status of molecular biomarker research, including biomarkers of chemical exposures, genetic toxicity markers, genomics-based biomarkers of susceptibility, organ/systems biomarkers. Progression of biomarker development/application from laboratory environment to clinical or population-based settings/development of public health policies/interventions. prereq: Introductory courses in toxicology and exposure analysis recommended

PUBH 6177 - Nanotechnology Health and Safety

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

As defined by ASTM, nanotechnology is the emerging field of "technologies that measure, manipulate, or incorporate materials and/or features with at least one dimension between approximately 1 and 100 nm". Toxicology studies have indicated that exposures to nanomaterials present unique health risks not encountered with their parent materials. After completing this course, students will understand how the fundamental concepts and methods of occupational hygiene are applied specifically to nanomaterials. Students will learn to use aerosol science, toxicology, product lifecycle assessment, exposure assessment, and occupational hygiene data interpretation methods comprehensively to evaluate workers' disease risks from nanomaterial exposures and to guide intervention efforts. Emphasis will be placed on control measures appropriate for nanomaterials, and control banding approaches when data are lacking. Participants will study the handling of waste products and potential impacts of released nanoparticles on the public and the ambient environment. The course is aimed at graduate and upper-level undergraduate students in the health and basic sciences, engineering, public health, and industrial hygiene.

PUBH 6182 - Emerging Infectious Disease: Current Issues, Policies, and Controversies

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Issues/controversies surrounding emerging infectious diseases. Framework for considering realistic/innovative policies. Bioterrorism, public health preparedness. Pandemic influenza preparedness, smallpox vaccination, antibiotic resistance. prereq: AHC student, instr consent

PUBH 6190 - Environmental Chemistry

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Overview air, water, and soil chemistry. Pertinent environmental problems. Human/ecological multimedia exposures to chemicals in the environment. prereq: One course each in [gen chem, org chem] or instr consent

PUBH 6451 - Biostatistics II

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course will cover more advanced aspects of statistical analysis methods with a focus on statistical modeling, including: ? two-way ANOVA, ? multiple linear regression, ? logistic regression, ? Poisson regression, ? log binomial and ordinal regression, ? survival analysis methods, including Kaplan-Meier analysis and proportional hazards (Cox) regression, ? power and sample size, and ? survey sampling and analysis. There will be a focus on analyzing data using statistical programming software and on communicating the results in short reports. Health science examples from the research literature will be used throughout the course. prereq: [PubH 6450 with grade of at least B, health sciences grad student] or instr consent

PUBH 6751 - Principles of Management in Health Services Organizations

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Understanding of and improvement in the competencies of managers in organizations, particularly as applied to health services and public health organizations. prereq: [Public hlth MPH or MHA or certificate] student or [environmental health MS or PhD] student or dentistry MS student or instr consent

CEGE 4561 - Solids and Hazardous Wastes

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This course will serve as an introduction to the topics of solid and hazardous waste management. Classes will incorporate information about prevention, treatment options, and the regulations surrounding solid and hazardous waste. They will also provide an opportunity to observe different methods of waste treatment in action.

CEGE 5551 - Environmental Microbiology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Role of microorganisms in environmental bioremediation, pollution control, water/wastewater treatment, biogeochemistry, and human health. prereq: Upper div or grad student or instructor consent

IE 5511 - Human Factors and Work Analysis

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	HumF 5211/IE 5511/ME 5211
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Human factors engineering (ergonomics), methods engineering, and work measurement. Human-machine interface: displays, controls, instrument layout, and supervisory control. Anthropometry, work physiology and biomechanics. Work environmental factors: noise, illumination, toxicology. Methods engineering, including operations analysis, motion study, and time standards. prereq: Upper div CSE or grad student

IE 5513 - Engineering Safety

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Occupational, health, and product safety. Standards, laws, and regulations. Hazards and their engineering control, including general principles, tools and machines, mechanics and structures, electrical safety, materials handling, fire safety, and chemicals. Human behavior and safety, procedures and training, warnings and instructions. prereq: Upper div CSE or grad student

KIN 5001 - Foundations of Human Factors/Ergonomics

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	HumF/Kin 5001
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Variability in human performance as influenced by interaction with designs of machines and tools, computers and software, complex technological systems, jobs and working conditions, organizations, and sociotechnical institutions. Emphasizes conceptual, empirical, practical aspects of human factors/ergonomic science.

ME 5113 - Aerosol/Particle Engineering

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Kinetic theory, definition, theory and measurement of particle properties, elementary particle mechanics, particle statistics; Brownian motion and diffusion, coagulation, evaporation and condensation, sampling and transport. prereq: CSE upper div or grad student

PA 5721 - Energy Systems and Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Impact of energy production/consumption choices on environmental quality, sustainable development, and other economic/social goals. Emphasizes public policy choices for energy/environment, linkages between them.

CMGT 4031 - Construction Safety and Loss Control

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Introduction to construction safety, health, and loss control. Hazard recognition. Control procedures. Management systems for measuring/evaluating loss-control performances in construction industry. prereq: 3001, 45 sem cr

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