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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 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 6741 - Ethics in Public Health: Professional Practice 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 practice/policy. Ethical analysis, recognizing/analyzing moral issues. prereq: Public health [MPH or MHA or certificate] student or environmental health [MS or PhD] major 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

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 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

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 6107 - Excel Skills for Data Management in Public Health Settings

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

Hands-on course on computer skills to learn a wide range of methods to manipulate public health data. Students will be given ?raw? datasets and practice computer methods to clean, filter, recode, combine, tabulate and report data within the Excel and Access environments. The course is ideal for students who may not pursue more advanced quantitative training but still want to feel comfortable using these widely available programs to produce quality datasets for further analysis, and to generate summary results or reports in their work as public health practitioners.

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 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 6813 - Managing Electronic Health Information

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Managing health information is a central function of health care organizations. Information is used for managing population health, profiling providers, and measuring quality. This course describes relational data theory, normalization, and Structured Query Language (SQL) will be used to create and query databases. Students will be introduced to the basic programming skills necessary to manage data in research projects. Programming aspects of the course will use SQL procedure in the SAS language. prereq: Admission to a University of Minnesota Masters program or Permission of instructor.

PUBH 7461 - Exploring and Visualizing Data in R

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

This course is intended for students, both within and outside the School of Public Health, who want to learn how to manipulate data, perform simple statistical analyses, and prepare basic visualizations using the statistical software R. While the tools and techniques taught will be generic, many of the examples will be drawn from biomedicine and public health.

PUBH 6845 - Using Demographic Data for Policy Analysis

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

How to pose researchable policy questions, locate existing data, turn data into a usable format, understand data documentation, analyze data, communicate findings according to standards of the professional policy community. Quantitative issues. prereq: [Grad level research methods course, basic statistics course] or instr consent

PUBH 6755 - Planning and Budgeting for Public Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

Principles of budgeting, planning, forecasting, and analyzing in nonprofit/government organizations applied to health care administration and public health. prereq: Academic Hlth Ctr grad student 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 7194 - Integrative Learning Experience: Environmental Health

Credits:	1.0 -5.0 [max 25.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

MPH students complete an integrated learning experience (ILE) that demonstrates synthesis of foundational and concentration competencies. Students in consultation with faculty select foundational and concentration-specific competencies appropriate to the student?s educational and professional goals. prereq: Environmental health program, instr consent

PUBH 6100 - Topics: Environmental Health

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 20.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

New course offerings/topics in environmental health.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 6074 - Mass Communication and Public Health

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Jour 5541/PubH 6074
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course provides an overview of theory and research that lies at the intersection of mass communication and public health. We examine the potential for media exposure to influence public health outcomes, both as a product of people's everyday interactions with media and the strategic use of media messages to accomplish public health goals. To this end, we will explore large-scale public health campaigns in the context of tobacco, obesity, and cancer screening. We also will explore news media coverage of controversial health issues, such as the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, and health information in entertainment media, such as smoking in movies. This course seeks to understand whether media messages have had intended and/or unintended effects on public attitudes and behavior. Although our focus is on mass media, interpersonal, medical, and digital media sources will be considered as well.

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 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 6343 - Epidemiologic Methods III

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

Analysis/interpretation of data from various epidemiological study designs. SAS used to demonstrate epidemiological/statistical concepts in data analysis. prereq: [6342, 6451] with a grade of at least B- or instr consent

PUBH 6344 - Completing the Integrative Learning Experience: Secondary Data Analysis

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

The goal of PubH 6344 is to provide guidance and hands-on experience for developing and completing the Integrated Learning Experience (ILE) research project involving secondary data analysis of a cross-sectional, case-control, or cohort study. The course will help meet research project milestones and complete the project in a timely manner.

PUBH 6389 - Nutritional Epidemiology

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

Nutrition/disease relationships through application of epidemiologic methods. Characterization of various exposures to food/nutrient intakes, biological basis for nutrition/disease relationships. Studies of specific chronic diseases and nutritional intake. Design/interpretation of studies using nutritional measures. prereq: [[6320 or 6330 or 6341], [Epidemiology MPH or Public Health Nutrition MPH or Epidemiology PhD student]] or instr consent

PUBH 6350 - Epidemiologic Methods III: Lab

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

Skills-based course in which students get hands-on experience in analysis of a variety of epidemiologic datasets using SAS programming to apply epidemiologic methods presented in PubH 6343, examine crude data for outliers, data errors and distributional assumptions, debug code when programs do not run correctly, and prepare a scientific presentation with appropriate content for introduction/background, methods, results and discussion.

PUBH 6355 - Pathophysiology of Human Disease

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

Compendium of human diseases relevant to public health professionals. Focuses on cardiovascular disease, cancer, and infectious disease. Presented from epidemiologic perspective. Significance of diseases in terms of prevalence, incidence, morbidity, and mortality. Risk factors, prevention strategies. prereq: Epidemiology major or public health nutrition major or Environmental Health major or instr consent

PUBH 6381 - Genetics in Public Health in the Age of Precision Medicine

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

Our understanding of human genomic variation and its relationship to health is expanding rapidly. This knowledge is now being translated primarily through the field of ?precision medicine? (finding the right drug for the right person at the right time). Public health, in contrast, seeks to abate the social and environmental factors that lead to disease and health disparities. This course will provide an introduction to the field of public health genomics at this interesting point in its history. Approximately one-half of the course is devoted to Genetic Epidemiology, or the science of detecting genetic risk factors for human disease. The other half of the course will cover public health genomics, including ?precision public health?, genetic screening programs, and the possibilities and pitfalls of direct to consumer marketing of genetic tests. How genomics relates to health equity will be a recurring theme of this course. This is a graduate course designed primarily for Epidemiology MPH and PhD students, and fulfills the ?Epi Of? requirement for the MPH in Epidemiology. Graduate students from other programs are very welcome.

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 6541 - Statistics for Health Management Decision Making

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

Variation. Frequency distribution, measurement, probability, graphing. Significance tests, estimation, trends; data handling. Modeling, odds ratios. Prevalence, incidence and vital statistics. Research applications. Statistical approach to rational administrative decision making. Inductive teaching, lectures, computer/lab exercises. prereq: Health care admin student or instr consent

PUBH 6542 - Management of Health Care Organizations

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

Role of hospital in health services delivery. Relationships with other systems and the community. Emphasizes governance, medical staff, and role of administrator. Lectures, on-site visits to health services organizations. prereq: MHA student or permission of instructor

PUBH 6544 - Principles of Problem Solving in Health Services Organizations

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

Problem-solving theory/technique. Solving a management problem within a health services organization. Presenting a report. Lectures, seminars, demonstrations. prereq: 6541, completed 30 hours of MHA coursework, health care administration student

PUBH 6547 - Health Care Human Resources Management

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

Concepts in human resources management as applied to health services organizations. Relationship between human resources management and general management. Work and human resources. Compensation/benefits, personnel planning, recruitment/selection, training/development. Employee appraisal/discipline. Union-management relations. prereq: Health care admin student or public health admin student or instr consent

PUBH 6555 - Health Economics

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

General principles of health economics applied to issues in health. Implications for health policy.

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 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 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 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 6596 - Legal Considerations in Health Services Organizations

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

Laws affecting administration of hospitals and other healthcare organizations. Administrative law, corporate/business law, labor law, civil liability, tax-related issues. Legal issues relevant to administration, decision making, and planning. prereq: Health care admin student

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 6702 - Integrative Leadership Seminar

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

Are you interested in working across government, business, and the non-profit sector for public good? Are you wondering how you can create sustainable shared leadership on challenges that can best be addressed together? This course explores multi-sector leadership and related governance and management challenges from a variety of perspectives and provides an opportunity for students to work together to apply what they are learning individually and in teams through in-class exercises and a final team project. The course is taught by a team of interdisciplinary faculty and considers different contexts, forms, and specific examples of multisector leadership that can enable transformative action to tackle a significant societal issue and achieve lasting change. prereq: University of Minnesota doctoral student or master's student

PUBH 6711 - Public Health Law

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

Basic concepts of law, legislative process, and legal bases for existence/administration of public health programs. Legal aspects of current public health issues/controversies, regulatory role of government in health services system. prereq: Grad student or professional school student or instr consent

PUBH 6717 - Decision Analysis for Health Care

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

Introduction to methods/range of applications of decision analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis in health care technology assessment, medical decision making, and health resource allocation.

PUBH 6724 - The Health Care System and Public Health

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

Overview of health care delivery, finance systems within public health context. Components of health care system: financing, role of employers/public programs, health care delivery system, managed care. Collaborative interventions between managed care, public health. prereq: Public health or grad student or instr consent

PUBH 6727 - Health Leadership and Effecting Change

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

Analysis of leadership models and competencies, particularly as applied to organizational change. Applications to individual self-development and to health care organizations. prereq: Public hlth MPH or MHA or certificate student or [health services research, policy/admin] MS student or instr consent

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 6755 - Planning and Budgeting for Public Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

Principles of budgeting, planning, forecasting, and analyzing in nonprofit/government organizations applied to health care administration and public health. prereq: Academic Hlth Ctr grad student or instr consent

PUBH 6765 - Continuous Quality Improvement: Methods and Techniques

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

Theory/practical applications of concepts, tools, techniques of continuous quality improvement (QI) in public health/health care.

PUBH 6803 - Conducting a Systematic Literature Review

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

Project-based class to develop systematic review skills for evidence-based practice. Draws from AHRQ and Cochrane systematic review methodology; supported by examples from the Minnesota Evidence-based Practice Center. Use for master?s thesis, dissertation, or to support research proposals. Prereq: research study design or epidemiology.

PUBH 6805 - Introduction to Project Management for Health Professionals

Credits:	2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Core concepts/skills for managing projects effectively, making sure they are completed on time, within budget, meeting performance objectives. prereq: Matriculation in master's program in School of Public Health, or instr consent

PUBH 6806 - Principles of Public Health Research

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

Evaluation of public health research literature and planning for independent research projects. Formulation of research question, research design, sampling techniques, use of research concepts, and data analysis. Data collection techniques, including questionnaires, interviews, and data analysis. prereq: Pub hlth or grad or professional school student or instr consent

PUBH 6832 - Economics of the Health Care System

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

Examines applications of microeconomic principles to the U.S. health care system. Topics include demand for medical care, insurance theory and selection issues, provider payment, competition in health care markets, the health care workforce, pharmaceutical prices and innovation, health care spending growth, quality of care, externalities, the relationship between income and health, and the economics of the opioid epidemic. Prerequisite: an introductory economics or microeconomic theory course ? or permission of the instructor.

PUBH 6809 - Advanced Methods in Health Decision Science

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

Methods applicable to issues of medical decision making. Analyses of environmental/safety decisions. How to apply methods at cutting-edge of clinical decision science. prereq: [6717 or intro course in decision analysis], some facility with mathematical notation/reasoning

PUBH 6810 - Survey Research Methods

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

Theory/application of survey research in data collection. Sampling, item development, instrument design/administration to conduct survey or be aware of issues related to design/implementation. Identification of sources of error in survey research.

PUBH 6813 - Managing Electronic Health Information

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Managing health information is a central function of health care organizations. Information is used for managing population health, profiling providers, and measuring quality. This course describes relational data theory, normalization, and Structured Query Language (SQL) will be used to create and query databases. Students will be introduced to the basic programming skills necessary to manage data in research projects. Programming aspects of the course will use SQL procedure in the SAS language. prereq: Admission to a University of Minnesota Masters program or Permission of instructor.

PUBH 6815 - Community-based Participatory Research

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

This introductory course is intended for junior faculty, post-docs, graduate students and community practitioners interested in adding CBPR to their repertoire of effective approaches to understanding and addressing social and health disparities. Topics will explore the purpose and applications of CBPR; partnership formation and maintenance; issues of power, trust, race, class, and social justice; conflict resolution; ethical issues; CBPR's relationship to cultural knowledge systems, and funding CBPR projects. This is NOT a methodology course. CBPR is an approach to conducting research that is amenable to a variety of research designs and methodologies and will NOT cover topics such as survey design, quantitative methods, qualitative methods, focus groups, community needs assessment procedures, etc.

PUBH 7214 - Principles of Risk Communication

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

Key concepts of risk communication theory and their practical application to collection/sharing of information in support of individual and community decision-making about public health issues. Application of risk communication principles to routine, ongoing public health issues and those that arise out of emergency/crisis.

PUBH 6845 - Using Demographic Data for Policy Analysis

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

How to pose researchable policy questions, locate existing data, turn data into a usable format, understand data documentation, analyze data, communicate findings according to standards of the professional policy community. Quantitative issues. prereq: [Grad level research methods course, basic statistics course] or instr consent

PUBH 7222 - Best Practices in Emergency Response

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Periodic Summer

Best practices in PH preparedness & response are evolving & continually tested with new experiences & expertise. This course for PH professionals and professionals responsible for preparedness planning, response & recovery is designed to provide participants with practical applications & tools to apply learning from real incidents.

PUBH 6855 - Medical Sociology

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

Introduction to common theoretical/empirical approaches used by sociologists to study health/illness. How content reflects social inequalities in health/illness. Social processes that shape experience of health/illness. prereq: [[Grad or professional school] student, previous experience with statistical software] or instr consent

PUBH 6862 - Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care

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

Government regulations. New technologies. Diagnosis/treatment protocols. Strengths, limitations, appropriateness of different approaches. prereq: instr consent; introductory econ course recommended

PUBH 6863 - Understanding Health Care Quality

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

Introduction to assessing/assuring quality of care. Emphasizes both process and outcomes approaches, paralleling interest in appropriateness/effectiveness of care. Issues around creating needed behavioral changes.

PUBH 6901 - Foundations of Public Health Nutrition Leadership

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

Principles of public health nutrition. Roles/function of public health nutritionists. Programs/delivery mechanisms for promoting nutritional status of populations. Students explore their beliefs/competencies in relation to principles/philosophy of public health nutrition. This course has a strong focus on policy, systems and environmental changes to improves access to health foods for individuals and communities.

PUBH 6920 - Foundations of Interprofessional Professional Communication and Collaboration

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

Explore nature of/need for interprofessional communication, qualities of successful teams/interprofessional interactions, professional identity, ethics, integrity, values, communication/decision making in interprofessional environment.

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.

PUBH 7430 - Statistical Methods for Correlated Data

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

Correlated data arise in many situations, particularly when observations are made over time and space or on individuals who share certain underlying characteristics. This course covers techniques for exploring and describing correlated data, along with statistical methods for estimating population parameters (mostly means) from these data. The focus will be primarily on generalized linear models (both with and without random effects) for normally and non-normally distributed data. Wherever possible, techniques will be illustrated using real-world examples. Computing will be done using R and SAS. prereq: Regression at the level of PubH 6451 or PubH 7405 or Stat 5302. Familiarity with basic matrix notation and operations (multiplication, inverse, transpose). Working knowledge of SAS or R (PubH 6420).

PUBH 7250 - Designing and Conducting Focus Group Interviews

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

Interactive, intensive overview of focus group procedures for public/non-profit environments. Practical approaches to determining appropriate use of focus groups. Design options, developing questions, recruiting participants, moderating. Analyzing/reporting results.

PUBH 7253 - Introduction to GIS

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

Concepts/uses of Geographic Information Systems. Data structures, sources of data, tools, vendors/software, health-related applications. Exercises in spatial data display/query, map generation, spatial analysis using ArcGIS software. Students create their own GIS project model. prereq: Experience with spreadsheet programs

PUBH 7257 - Qualitative Data Analysis

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

Analyze/work with qualitative data from variety of data collection methods/multiple analysis approaches. Discussion of analyzing photograph/video data will provide insights on how best to analyze these types of data.

PUBH 7475 - Statistical Learning and Data Mining

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

Various statistical techniques for extracting useful information (i.e., learning) from data. Linear discriminant analysis, tree-structured classifiers, feed-forward neural networks, support vector machines, other nonparametric methods, classifier ensembles, unsupervised learning. prereq: [[[6450, 6452] or equiv], programming backgroud in [FORTRAN or C/C++ or JAVA or Splus/R]] or instr consent; 2nd yr MS recommended

PUBH 7534 - Marketing for Health Care Professionals

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Application of principles of marketing to managing professional practice.

PUBH 7541 - Statistics for Health Management Decision Making

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

Variation. Frequency distribution, measurement, probability, graphing. Significance tests, estimation, trends. Data handling. Modeling, odds ratios. Prevalence, incidence/vital statistics. Research applications. Statistical approach to rational administrative decision making. Prereq: MHA student or instructor consent.

PUBH 7556 - Health and Health Systems

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

U.S. health care system/health policy process. Current challenges in areas of health care delivery, financing, policy.

PUBH 7562 - Information Technology in Health Care

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

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

PUBH 7564 - Private Purchasers of Health Care

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

Development/organization of HMOs/PPOs. Risk sharing, provider contracts, utilization management, quality improvement, marketing, new product development. Employer relations. Medicare/Medicaid contracting. Budget processing. Financial performance. Government regulations.

PUBH 7565 - Innovation of Healthcare Services

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

Designing/creating new care delivery services/experiences. Exploiting opportunities for innovation. Overcoming obstacles. Capturing value.

PUBH 7568 - Interdisciplinary Teamwork in Health Care

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

Develop skills to function in inter-professional teams by using knowledge of various health care professions, principles of teamwork, knowledge of teams as they function in health care. Team formation, leading teams, decision making in teams, managing conflict in teams.

PUBH 7569 - Health Care Policy

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

Public policy environment surrounding health care/public health systems. Political context of health policy. Approaches to policy formation/analysis. Tools/strategies for influencing health policy outcomes.

PUBH 8141 - Doctoral Seminar in Observational Inference

Credits:	2.0 [max 20.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Fundamentals of epidemiologic inference. Methods for designing, analyzing, and interpreting epidemiologic studies.

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 6100 - Topics: Environmental Health

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 20.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

New course offerings/topics in environmental health.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 6074 - Mass Communication and Public Health

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Jour 5541/PubH 6074
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course provides an overview of theory and research that lies at the intersection of mass communication and public health. We examine the potential for media exposure to influence public health outcomes, both as a product of people's everyday interactions with media and the strategic use of media messages to accomplish public health goals. To this end, we will explore large-scale public health campaigns in the context of tobacco, obesity, and cancer screening. We also will explore news media coverage of controversial health issues, such as the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, and health information in entertainment media, such as smoking in movies. This course seeks to understand whether media messages have had intended and/or unintended effects on public attitudes and behavior. Although our focus is on mass media, interpersonal, medical, and digital media sources will be considered as well.

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 6343 - Epidemiologic Methods III

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

Analysis/interpretation of data from various epidemiological study designs. SAS used to demonstrate epidemiological/statistical concepts in data analysis. prereq: [6342, 6451] with a grade of at least B- or instr consent

PUBH 6344 - Completing the Integrative Learning Experience: Secondary Data Analysis

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

The goal of PubH 6344 is to provide guidance and hands-on experience for developing and completing the Integrated Learning Experience (ILE) research project involving secondary data analysis of a cross-sectional, case-control, or cohort study. The course will help meet research project milestones and complete the project in a timely manner.

PUBH 6389 - Nutritional Epidemiology

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

Nutrition/disease relationships through application of epidemiologic methods. Characterization of various exposures to food/nutrient intakes, biological basis for nutrition/disease relationships. Studies of specific chronic diseases and nutritional intake. Design/interpretation of studies using nutritional measures. prereq: [[6320 or 6330 or 6341], [Epidemiology MPH or Public Health Nutrition MPH or Epidemiology PhD student]] or instr consent

PUBH 6350 - Epidemiologic Methods III: Lab

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

Skills-based course in which students get hands-on experience in analysis of a variety of epidemiologic datasets using SAS programming to apply epidemiologic methods presented in PubH 6343, examine crude data for outliers, data errors and distributional assumptions, debug code when programs do not run correctly, and prepare a scientific presentation with appropriate content for introduction/background, methods, results and discussion.

PUBH 6355 - Pathophysiology of Human Disease

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

Compendium of human diseases relevant to public health professionals. Focuses on cardiovascular disease, cancer, and infectious disease. Presented from epidemiologic perspective. Significance of diseases in terms of prevalence, incidence, morbidity, and mortality. Risk factors, prevention strategies. prereq: Epidemiology major or public health nutrition major or Environmental Health major or instr consent

PUBH 6381 - Genetics in Public Health in the Age of Precision Medicine

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

Our understanding of human genomic variation and its relationship to health is expanding rapidly. This knowledge is now being translated primarily through the field of ?precision medicine? (finding the right drug for the right person at the right time). Public health, in contrast, seeks to abate the social and environmental factors that lead to disease and health disparities. This course will provide an introduction to the field of public health genomics at this interesting point in its history. Approximately one-half of the course is devoted to Genetic Epidemiology, or the science of detecting genetic risk factors for human disease. The other half of the course will cover public health genomics, including ?precision public health?, genetic screening programs, and the possibilities and pitfalls of direct to consumer marketing of genetic tests. How genomics relates to health equity will be a recurring theme of this course. This is a graduate course designed primarily for Epidemiology MPH and PhD students, and fulfills the ?Epi Of? requirement for the MPH in Epidemiology. Graduate students from other programs are very welcome.

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 6541 - Statistics for Health Management Decision Making

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

Variation. Frequency distribution, measurement, probability, graphing. Significance tests, estimation, trends; data handling. Modeling, odds ratios. Prevalence, incidence and vital statistics. Research applications. Statistical approach to rational administrative decision making. Inductive teaching, lectures, computer/lab exercises. prereq: Health care admin student or instr consent

PUBH 6542 - Management of Health Care Organizations

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

Role of hospital in health services delivery. Relationships with other systems and the community. Emphasizes governance, medical staff, and role of administrator. Lectures, on-site visits to health services organizations. prereq: MHA student or permission of instructor

PUBH 6544 - Principles of Problem Solving in Health Services Organizations

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

Problem-solving theory/technique. Solving a management problem within a health services organization. Presenting a report. Lectures, seminars, demonstrations. prereq: 6541, completed 30 hours of MHA coursework, health care administration student

PUBH 6547 - Health Care Human Resources Management

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

Concepts in human resources management as applied to health services organizations. Relationship between human resources management and general management. Work and human resources. Compensation/benefits, personnel planning, recruitment/selection, training/development. Employee appraisal/discipline. Union-management relations. prereq: Health care admin student or public health admin student or instr consent

PUBH 6555 - Health Economics

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

General principles of health economics applied to issues in health. Implications for health policy.

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 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 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 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 6596 - Legal Considerations in Health Services Organizations

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

Laws affecting administration of hospitals and other healthcare organizations. Administrative law, corporate/business law, labor law, civil liability, tax-related issues. Legal issues relevant to administration, decision making, and planning. prereq: Health care admin student

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 6702 - Integrative Leadership Seminar

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

Are you interested in working across government, business, and the non-profit sector for public good? Are you wondering how you can create sustainable shared leadership on challenges that can best be addressed together? This course explores multi-sector leadership and related governance and management challenges from a variety of perspectives and provides an opportunity for students to work together to apply what they are learning individually and in teams through in-class exercises and a final team project. The course is taught by a team of interdisciplinary faculty and considers different contexts, forms, and specific examples of multisector leadership that can enable transformative action to tackle a significant societal issue and achieve lasting change. prereq: University of Minnesota doctoral student or master's student

PUBH 6711 - Public Health Law

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

Basic concepts of law, legislative process, and legal bases for existence/administration of public health programs. Legal aspects of current public health issues/controversies, regulatory role of government in health services system. prereq: Grad student or professional school student or instr consent

PUBH 6717 - Decision Analysis for Health Care

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

Introduction to methods/range of applications of decision analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis in health care technology assessment, medical decision making, and health resource allocation.

PUBH 6724 - The Health Care System and Public Health

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

Overview of health care delivery, finance systems within public health context. Components of health care system: financing, role of employers/public programs, health care delivery system, managed care. Collaborative interventions between managed care, public health. prereq: Public health or grad student or instr consent

PUBH 6727 - Health Leadership and Effecting Change

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

Analysis of leadership models and competencies, particularly as applied to organizational change. Applications to individual self-development and to health care organizations. prereq: Public hlth MPH or MHA or certificate student or [health services research, policy/admin] MS student or instr consent

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 6755 - Planning and Budgeting for Public Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

Principles of budgeting, planning, forecasting, and analyzing in nonprofit/government organizations applied to health care administration and public health. prereq: Academic Hlth Ctr grad student or instr consent

PUBH 6765 - Continuous Quality Improvement: Methods and Techniques

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

Theory/practical applications of concepts, tools, techniques of continuous quality improvement (QI) in public health/health care.

PUBH 6803 - Conducting a Systematic Literature Review

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

Project-based class to develop systematic review skills for evidence-based practice. Draws from AHRQ and Cochrane systematic review methodology; supported by examples from the Minnesota Evidence-based Practice Center. Use for master?s thesis, dissertation, or to support research proposals. Prereq: research study design or epidemiology.

PUBH 6805 - Introduction to Project Management for Health Professionals

Credits:	2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Core concepts/skills for managing projects effectively, making sure they are completed on time, within budget, meeting performance objectives. prereq: Matriculation in master's program in School of Public Health, or instr consent

PUBH 6806 - Principles of Public Health Research

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

Evaluation of public health research literature and planning for independent research projects. Formulation of research question, research design, sampling techniques, use of research concepts, and data analysis. Data collection techniques, including questionnaires, interviews, and data analysis. prereq: Pub hlth or grad or professional school student or instr consent

PUBH 6832 - Economics of the Health Care System

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

Examines applications of microeconomic principles to the U.S. health care system. Topics include demand for medical care, insurance theory and selection issues, provider payment, competition in health care markets, the health care workforce, pharmaceutical prices and innovation, health care spending growth, quality of care, externalities, the relationship between income and health, and the economics of the opioid epidemic. Prerequisite: an introductory economics or microeconomic theory course ? or permission of the instructor.

PUBH 6809 - Advanced Methods in Health Decision Science

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

Methods applicable to issues of medical decision making. Analyses of environmental/safety decisions. How to apply methods at cutting-edge of clinical decision science. prereq: [6717 or intro course in decision analysis], some facility with mathematical notation/reasoning

PUBH 6810 - Survey Research Methods

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

Theory/application of survey research in data collection. Sampling, item development, instrument design/administration to conduct survey or be aware of issues related to design/implementation. Identification of sources of error in survey research.

PUBH 6813 - Managing Electronic Health Information

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Managing health information is a central function of health care organizations. Information is used for managing population health, profiling providers, and measuring quality. This course describes relational data theory, normalization, and Structured Query Language (SQL) will be used to create and query databases. Students will be introduced to the basic programming skills necessary to manage data in research projects. Programming aspects of the course will use SQL procedure in the SAS language. prereq: Admission to a University of Minnesota Masters program or Permission of instructor.

PUBH 6815 - Community-based Participatory Research

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

This introductory course is intended for junior faculty, post-docs, graduate students and community practitioners interested in adding CBPR to their repertoire of effective approaches to understanding and addressing social and health disparities. Topics will explore the purpose and applications of CBPR; partnership formation and maintenance; issues of power, trust, race, class, and social justice; conflict resolution; ethical issues; CBPR's relationship to cultural knowledge systems, and funding CBPR projects. This is NOT a methodology course. CBPR is an approach to conducting research that is amenable to a variety of research designs and methodologies and will NOT cover topics such as survey design, quantitative methods, qualitative methods, focus groups, community needs assessment procedures, etc.

PUBH 7214 - Principles of Risk Communication

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

Key concepts of risk communication theory and their practical application to collection/sharing of information in support of individual and community decision-making about public health issues. Application of risk communication principles to routine, ongoing public health issues and those that arise out of emergency/crisis.

PUBH 6845 - Using Demographic Data for Policy Analysis

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

How to pose researchable policy questions, locate existing data, turn data into a usable format, understand data documentation, analyze data, communicate findings according to standards of the professional policy community. Quantitative issues. prereq: [Grad level research methods course, basic statistics course] or instr consent

PUBH 7222 - Best Practices in Emergency Response

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Periodic Summer

Best practices in PH preparedness & response are evolving & continually tested with new experiences & expertise. This course for PH professionals and professionals responsible for preparedness planning, response & recovery is designed to provide participants with practical applications & tools to apply learning from real incidents.

PUBH 6855 - Medical Sociology

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

Introduction to common theoretical/empirical approaches used by sociologists to study health/illness. How content reflects social inequalities in health/illness. Social processes that shape experience of health/illness. prereq: [[Grad or professional school] student, previous experience with statistical software] or instr consent

PUBH 6862 - Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care

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

Government regulations. New technologies. Diagnosis/treatment protocols. Strengths, limitations, appropriateness of different approaches. prereq: instr consent; introductory econ course recommended

PUBH 6863 - Understanding Health Care Quality

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

Introduction to assessing/assuring quality of care. Emphasizes both process and outcomes approaches, paralleling interest in appropriateness/effectiveness of care. Issues around creating needed behavioral changes.

PUBH 6901 - Foundations of Public Health Nutrition Leadership

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

Principles of public health nutrition. Roles/function of public health nutritionists. Programs/delivery mechanisms for promoting nutritional status of populations. Students explore their beliefs/competencies in relation to principles/philosophy of public health nutrition. This course has a strong focus on policy, systems and environmental changes to improves access to health foods for individuals and communities.

PUBH 6920 - Foundations of Interprofessional Professional Communication and Collaboration

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

Explore nature of/need for interprofessional communication, qualities of successful teams/interprofessional interactions, professional identity, ethics, integrity, values, communication/decision making in interprofessional environment.

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.

PUBH 7430 - Statistical Methods for Correlated Data

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

Correlated data arise in many situations, particularly when observations are made over time and space or on individuals who share certain underlying characteristics. This course covers techniques for exploring and describing correlated data, along with statistical methods for estimating population parameters (mostly means) from these data. The focus will be primarily on generalized linear models (both with and without random effects) for normally and non-normally distributed data. Wherever possible, techniques will be illustrated using real-world examples. Computing will be done using R and SAS. prereq: Regression at the level of PubH 6451 or PubH 7405 or Stat 5302. Familiarity with basic matrix notation and operations (multiplication, inverse, transpose). Working knowledge of SAS or R (PubH 6420).

PUBH 7250 - Designing and Conducting Focus Group Interviews

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

Interactive, intensive overview of focus group procedures for public/non-profit environments. Practical approaches to determining appropriate use of focus groups. Design options, developing questions, recruiting participants, moderating. Analyzing/reporting results.

PUBH 7253 - Introduction to GIS

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

Concepts/uses of Geographic Information Systems. Data structures, sources of data, tools, vendors/software, health-related applications. Exercises in spatial data display/query, map generation, spatial analysis using ArcGIS software. Students create their own GIS project model. prereq: Experience with spreadsheet programs

PUBH 7257 - Qualitative Data Analysis

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

Analyze/work with qualitative data from variety of data collection methods/multiple analysis approaches. Discussion of analyzing photograph/video data will provide insights on how best to analyze these types of data.

PUBH 7475 - Statistical Learning and Data Mining

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

Various statistical techniques for extracting useful information (i.e., learning) from data. Linear discriminant analysis, tree-structured classifiers, feed-forward neural networks, support vector machines, other nonparametric methods, classifier ensembles, unsupervised learning. prereq: [[[6450, 6452] or equiv], programming backgroud in [FORTRAN or C/C++ or JAVA or Splus/R]] or instr consent; 2nd yr MS recommended

PUBH 7534 - Marketing for Health Care Professionals

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Application of principles of marketing to managing professional practice.

PUBH 7541 - Statistics for Health Management Decision Making

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

Variation. Frequency distribution, measurement, probability, graphing. Significance tests, estimation, trends. Data handling. Modeling, odds ratios. Prevalence, incidence/vital statistics. Research applications. Statistical approach to rational administrative decision making. Prereq: MHA student or instructor consent.

PUBH 7556 - Health and Health Systems

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

U.S. health care system/health policy process. Current challenges in areas of health care delivery, financing, policy.

PUBH 7562 - Information Technology in Health Care

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

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

PUBH 7564 - Private Purchasers of Health Care

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

Development/organization of HMOs/PPOs. Risk sharing, provider contracts, utilization management, quality improvement, marketing, new product development. Employer relations. Medicare/Medicaid contracting. Budget processing. Financial performance. Government regulations.

PUBH 7565 - Innovation of Healthcare Services

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

Designing/creating new care delivery services/experiences. Exploiting opportunities for innovation. Overcoming obstacles. Capturing value.

PUBH 7568 - Interdisciplinary Teamwork in Health Care

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

Develop skills to function in inter-professional teams by using knowledge of various health care professions, principles of teamwork, knowledge of teams as they function in health care. Team formation, leading teams, decision making in teams, managing conflict in teams.

PUBH 7569 - Health Care Policy

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

Public policy environment surrounding health care/public health systems. Political context of health policy. Approaches to policy formation/analysis. Tools/strategies for influencing health policy outcomes.

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 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 6100 - Topics: Environmental Health

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 20.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

New course offerings/topics in environmental health.

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 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.

PUBH 6547 - Health Care Human Resources Management

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

Concepts in human resources management as applied to health services organizations. Relationship between human resources management and general management. Work and human resources. Compensation/benefits, personnel planning, recruitment/selection, training/development. Employee appraisal/discipline. Union-management relations. prereq: Health care admin student or public health admin student or instr consent

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 6810 - Survey Research Methods

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

Theory/application of survey research in data collection. Sampling, item development, instrument design/administration to conduct survey or be aware of issues related to design/implementation. Identification of sources of error in survey research.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 6074 - Mass Communication and Public Health

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Jour 5541/PubH 6074
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course provides an overview of theory and research that lies at the intersection of mass communication and public health. We examine the potential for media exposure to influence public health outcomes, both as a product of people's everyday interactions with media and the strategic use of media messages to accomplish public health goals. To this end, we will explore large-scale public health campaigns in the context of tobacco, obesity, and cancer screening. We also will explore news media coverage of controversial health issues, such as the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, and health information in entertainment media, such as smoking in movies. This course seeks to understand whether media messages have had intended and/or unintended effects on public attitudes and behavior. Although our focus is on mass media, interpersonal, medical, and digital media sources will be considered as well.

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 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 6343 - Epidemiologic Methods III

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

Analysis/interpretation of data from various epidemiological study designs. SAS used to demonstrate epidemiological/statistical concepts in data analysis. prereq: [6342, 6451] with a grade of at least B- or instr consent

PUBH 6344 - Completing the Integrative Learning Experience: Secondary Data Analysis

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

The goal of PubH 6344 is to provide guidance and hands-on experience for developing and completing the Integrated Learning Experience (ILE) research project involving secondary data analysis of a cross-sectional, case-control, or cohort study. The course will help meet research project milestones and complete the project in a timely manner.

PUBH 6389 - Nutritional Epidemiology

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

Nutrition/disease relationships through application of epidemiologic methods. Characterization of various exposures to food/nutrient intakes, biological basis for nutrition/disease relationships. Studies of specific chronic diseases and nutritional intake. Design/interpretation of studies using nutritional measures. prereq: [[6320 or 6330 or 6341], [Epidemiology MPH or Public Health Nutrition MPH or Epidemiology PhD student]] or instr consent

PUBH 6350 - Epidemiologic Methods III: Lab

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

Skills-based course in which students get hands-on experience in analysis of a variety of epidemiologic datasets using SAS programming to apply epidemiologic methods presented in PubH 6343, examine crude data for outliers, data errors and distributional assumptions, debug code when programs do not run correctly, and prepare a scientific presentation with appropriate content for introduction/background, methods, results and discussion.

PUBH 6355 - Pathophysiology of Human Disease

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

Compendium of human diseases relevant to public health professionals. Focuses on cardiovascular disease, cancer, and infectious disease. Presented from epidemiologic perspective. Significance of diseases in terms of prevalence, incidence, morbidity, and mortality. Risk factors, prevention strategies. prereq: Epidemiology major or public health nutrition major or Environmental Health major or instr consent

PUBH 6381 - Genetics in Public Health in the Age of Precision Medicine

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

Our understanding of human genomic variation and its relationship to health is expanding rapidly. This knowledge is now being translated primarily through the field of ?precision medicine? (finding the right drug for the right person at the right time). Public health, in contrast, seeks to abate the social and environmental factors that lead to disease and health disparities. This course will provide an introduction to the field of public health genomics at this interesting point in its history. Approximately one-half of the course is devoted to Genetic Epidemiology, or the science of detecting genetic risk factors for human disease. The other half of the course will cover public health genomics, including ?precision public health?, genetic screening programs, and the possibilities and pitfalls of direct to consumer marketing of genetic tests. How genomics relates to health equity will be a recurring theme of this course. This is a graduate course designed primarily for Epidemiology MPH and PhD students, and fulfills the ?Epi Of? requirement for the MPH in Epidemiology. Graduate students from other programs are very welcome.

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 6541 - Statistics for Health Management Decision Making

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

Variation. Frequency distribution, measurement, probability, graphing. Significance tests, estimation, trends; data handling. Modeling, odds ratios. Prevalence, incidence and vital statistics. Research applications. Statistical approach to rational administrative decision making. Inductive teaching, lectures, computer/lab exercises. prereq: Health care admin student or instr consent

PUBH 6542 - Management of Health Care Organizations

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

Role of hospital in health services delivery. Relationships with other systems and the community. Emphasizes governance, medical staff, and role of administrator. Lectures, on-site visits to health services organizations. prereq: MHA student or permission of instructor

PUBH 6544 - Principles of Problem Solving in Health Services Organizations

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

Problem-solving theory/technique. Solving a management problem within a health services organization. Presenting a report. Lectures, seminars, demonstrations. prereq: 6541, completed 30 hours of MHA coursework, health care administration student

PUBH 6555 - Health Economics

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

General principles of health economics applied to issues in health. Implications for health policy.

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 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 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 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 6596 - Legal Considerations in Health Services Organizations

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

Laws affecting administration of hospitals and other healthcare organizations. Administrative law, corporate/business law, labor law, civil liability, tax-related issues. Legal issues relevant to administration, decision making, and planning. prereq: Health care admin student

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 6702 - Integrative Leadership Seminar

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

Are you interested in working across government, business, and the non-profit sector for public good? Are you wondering how you can create sustainable shared leadership on challenges that can best be addressed together? This course explores multi-sector leadership and related governance and management challenges from a variety of perspectives and provides an opportunity for students to work together to apply what they are learning individually and in teams through in-class exercises and a final team project. The course is taught by a team of interdisciplinary faculty and considers different contexts, forms, and specific examples of multisector leadership that can enable transformative action to tackle a significant societal issue and achieve lasting change. prereq: University of Minnesota doctoral student or master's student

PUBH 6711 - Public Health Law

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

Basic concepts of law, legislative process, and legal bases for existence/administration of public health programs. Legal aspects of current public health issues/controversies, regulatory role of government in health services system. prereq: Grad student or professional school student or instr consent

PUBH 6717 - Decision Analysis for Health Care

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

Introduction to methods/range of applications of decision analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis in health care technology assessment, medical decision making, and health resource allocation.

PUBH 6724 - The Health Care System and Public Health

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

Overview of health care delivery, finance systems within public health context. Components of health care system: financing, role of employers/public programs, health care delivery system, managed care. Collaborative interventions between managed care, public health. prereq: Public health or grad student or instr consent

PUBH 6727 - Health Leadership and Effecting Change

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

Analysis of leadership models and competencies, particularly as applied to organizational change. Applications to individual self-development and to health care organizations. prereq: Public hlth MPH or MHA or certificate student or [health services research, policy/admin] MS student or instr consent

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 6755 - Planning and Budgeting for Public Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

Principles of budgeting, planning, forecasting, and analyzing in nonprofit/government organizations applied to health care administration and public health. prereq: Academic Hlth Ctr grad student or instr consent

PUBH 6765 - Continuous Quality Improvement: Methods and Techniques

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

Theory/practical applications of concepts, tools, techniques of continuous quality improvement (QI) in public health/health care.

PUBH 6803 - Conducting a Systematic Literature Review

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

Project-based class to develop systematic review skills for evidence-based practice. Draws from AHRQ and Cochrane systematic review methodology; supported by examples from the Minnesota Evidence-based Practice Center. Use for master?s thesis, dissertation, or to support research proposals. Prereq: research study design or epidemiology.

PUBH 6805 - Introduction to Project Management for Health Professionals

Credits:	2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Core concepts/skills for managing projects effectively, making sure they are completed on time, within budget, meeting performance objectives. prereq: Matriculation in master's program in School of Public Health, or instr consent

PUBH 6806 - Principles of Public Health Research

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

Evaluation of public health research literature and planning for independent research projects. Formulation of research question, research design, sampling techniques, use of research concepts, and data analysis. Data collection techniques, including questionnaires, interviews, and data analysis. prereq: Pub hlth or grad or professional school student or instr consent

PUBH 6832 - Economics of the Health Care System

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

Examines applications of microeconomic principles to the U.S. health care system. Topics include demand for medical care, insurance theory and selection issues, provider payment, competition in health care markets, the health care workforce, pharmaceutical prices and innovation, health care spending growth, quality of care, externalities, the relationship between income and health, and the economics of the opioid epidemic. Prerequisite: an introductory economics or microeconomic theory course ? or permission of the instructor.

PUBH 6809 - Advanced Methods in Health Decision Science

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

Methods applicable to issues of medical decision making. Analyses of environmental/safety decisions. How to apply methods at cutting-edge of clinical decision science. prereq: [6717 or intro course in decision analysis], some facility with mathematical notation/reasoning

PUBH 6813 - Managing Electronic Health Information

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Managing health information is a central function of health care organizations. Information is used for managing population health, profiling providers, and measuring quality. This course describes relational data theory, normalization, and Structured Query Language (SQL) will be used to create and query databases. Students will be introduced to the basic programming skills necessary to manage data in research projects. Programming aspects of the course will use SQL procedure in the SAS language. prereq: Admission to a University of Minnesota Masters program or Permission of instructor.

PUBH 6815 - Community-based Participatory Research

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

This introductory course is intended for junior faculty, post-docs, graduate students and community practitioners interested in adding CBPR to their repertoire of effective approaches to understanding and addressing social and health disparities. Topics will explore the purpose and applications of CBPR; partnership formation and maintenance; issues of power, trust, race, class, and social justice; conflict resolution; ethical issues; CBPR's relationship to cultural knowledge systems, and funding CBPR projects. This is NOT a methodology course. CBPR is an approach to conducting research that is amenable to a variety of research designs and methodologies and will NOT cover topics such as survey design, quantitative methods, qualitative methods, focus groups, community needs assessment procedures, etc.

PUBH 7214 - Principles of Risk Communication

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

Key concepts of risk communication theory and their practical application to collection/sharing of information in support of individual and community decision-making about public health issues. Application of risk communication principles to routine, ongoing public health issues and those that arise out of emergency/crisis.

PUBH 6845 - Using Demographic Data for Policy Analysis

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

How to pose researchable policy questions, locate existing data, turn data into a usable format, understand data documentation, analyze data, communicate findings according to standards of the professional policy community. Quantitative issues. prereq: [Grad level research methods course, basic statistics course] or instr consent

PUBH 6855 - Medical Sociology

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

Introduction to common theoretical/empirical approaches used by sociologists to study health/illness. How content reflects social inequalities in health/illness. Social processes that shape experience of health/illness. prereq: [[Grad or professional school] student, previous experience with statistical software] or instr consent

PUBH 6862 - Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care

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

Government regulations. New technologies. Diagnosis/treatment protocols. Strengths, limitations, appropriateness of different approaches. prereq: instr consent; introductory econ course recommended

PUBH 6863 - Understanding Health Care Quality

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

Introduction to assessing/assuring quality of care. Emphasizes both process and outcomes approaches, paralleling interest in appropriateness/effectiveness of care. Issues around creating needed behavioral changes.

PUBH 6901 - Foundations of Public Health Nutrition Leadership

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

Principles of public health nutrition. Roles/function of public health nutritionists. Programs/delivery mechanisms for promoting nutritional status of populations. Students explore their beliefs/competencies in relation to principles/philosophy of public health nutrition. This course has a strong focus on policy, systems and environmental changes to improves access to health foods for individuals and communities.

PUBH 6920 - Foundations of Interprofessional Professional Communication and Collaboration

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

Explore nature of/need for interprofessional communication, qualities of successful teams/interprofessional interactions, professional identity, ethics, integrity, values, communication/decision making in interprofessional environment.

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.

PUBH 7430 - Statistical Methods for Correlated Data

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

Correlated data arise in many situations, particularly when observations are made over time and space or on individuals who share certain underlying characteristics. This course covers techniques for exploring and describing correlated data, along with statistical methods for estimating population parameters (mostly means) from these data. The focus will be primarily on generalized linear models (both with and without random effects) for normally and non-normally distributed data. Wherever possible, techniques will be illustrated using real-world examples. Computing will be done using R and SAS. prereq: Regression at the level of PubH 6451 or PubH 7405 or Stat 5302. Familiarity with basic matrix notation and operations (multiplication, inverse, transpose). Working knowledge of SAS or R (PubH 6420).

PUBH 7250 - Designing and Conducting Focus Group Interviews

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

Interactive, intensive overview of focus group procedures for public/non-profit environments. Practical approaches to determining appropriate use of focus groups. Design options, developing questions, recruiting participants, moderating. Analyzing/reporting results.

PUBH 7253 - Introduction to GIS

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

Concepts/uses of Geographic Information Systems. Data structures, sources of data, tools, vendors/software, health-related applications. Exercises in spatial data display/query, map generation, spatial analysis using ArcGIS software. Students create their own GIS project model. prereq: Experience with spreadsheet programs

PUBH 7257 - Qualitative Data Analysis

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

Analyze/work with qualitative data from variety of data collection methods/multiple analysis approaches. Discussion of analyzing photograph/video data will provide insights on how best to analyze these types of data.

PUBH 7475 - Statistical Learning and Data Mining

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

Various statistical techniques for extracting useful information (i.e., learning) from data. Linear discriminant analysis, tree-structured classifiers, feed-forward neural networks, support vector machines, other nonparametric methods, classifier ensembles, unsupervised learning. prereq: [[[6450, 6452] or equiv], programming backgroud in [FORTRAN or C/C++ or JAVA or Splus/R]] or instr consent; 2nd yr MS recommended

PUBH 7534 - Marketing for Health Care Professionals

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Application of principles of marketing to managing professional practice.

PUBH 7541 - Statistics for Health Management Decision Making

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

Variation. Frequency distribution, measurement, probability, graphing. Significance tests, estimation, trends. Data handling. Modeling, odds ratios. Prevalence, incidence/vital statistics. Research applications. Statistical approach to rational administrative decision making. Prereq: MHA student or instructor consent.

PUBH 7556 - Health and Health Systems

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

U.S. health care system/health policy process. Current challenges in areas of health care delivery, financing, policy.

PUBH 7562 - Information Technology in Health Care

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

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

PUBH 7564 - Private Purchasers of Health Care

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

Development/organization of HMOs/PPOs. Risk sharing, provider contracts, utilization management, quality improvement, marketing, new product development. Employer relations. Medicare/Medicaid contracting. Budget processing. Financial performance. Government regulations.

PUBH 7565 - Innovation of Healthcare Services

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

Designing/creating new care delivery services/experiences. Exploiting opportunities for innovation. Overcoming obstacles. Capturing value.

PUBH 7568 - Interdisciplinary Teamwork in Health Care

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

Develop skills to function in inter-professional teams by using knowledge of various health care professions, principles of teamwork, knowledge of teams as they function in health care. Team formation, leading teams, decision making in teams, managing conflict in teams.

PUBH 7569 - Health Care Policy

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

Public policy environment surrounding health care/public health systems. Political context of health policy. Approaches to policy formation/analysis. Tools/strategies for influencing health policy outcomes.

PUBH 8141 - Doctoral Seminar in Observational Inference

Credits:	2.0 [max 20.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Fundamentals of epidemiologic inference. Methods for designing, analyzing, and interpreting epidemiologic studies.

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 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 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 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 6108 - Foundations of Global Health

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

This course provides an introduction to key principles and topics in global health including measures of global burden of disease, identification of key health problems around the world and the main determinants, health systems and international public health organizations. In addition, we will discuss cross-cutting and timely issues in health promotion, disease control programs, and operational research in international settings. Class exercises and discussions will focus on challenging global health problems, and strategies to address them. This course is required for those students enrolled in the School of Public Health Global Health Certificate program, and is also open to other qualified students (see Course Prerequisites). Examples of diseases and illustrations of global health problems in this class will include both infectious and non-infectious diseases and should be of interest to students in various programs.

PUBH 6100 - Topics: Environmental Health

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 20.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

New course offerings/topics in environmental health.

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 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 6074 - Mass Communication and Public Health

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Jour 5541/PubH 6074
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course provides an overview of theory and research that lies at the intersection of mass communication and public health. We examine the potential for media exposure to influence public health outcomes, both as a product of people's everyday interactions with media and the strategic use of media messages to accomplish public health goals. To this end, we will explore large-scale public health campaigns in the context of tobacco, obesity, and cancer screening. We also will explore news media coverage of controversial health issues, such as the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, and health information in entertainment media, such as smoking in movies. This course seeks to understand whether media messages have had intended and/or unintended effects on public attitudes and behavior. Although our focus is on mass media, interpersonal, medical, and digital media sources will be considered as well.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 6343 - Epidemiologic Methods III

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

Analysis/interpretation of data from various epidemiological study designs. SAS used to demonstrate epidemiological/statistical concepts in data analysis. prereq: [6342, 6451] with a grade of at least B- or instr consent

PUBH 6344 - Completing the Integrative Learning Experience: Secondary Data Analysis

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

The goal of PubH 6344 is to provide guidance and hands-on experience for developing and completing the Integrated Learning Experience (ILE) research project involving secondary data analysis of a cross-sectional, case-control, or cohort study. The course will help meet research project milestones and complete the project in a timely manner.

PUBH 6350 - Epidemiologic Methods III: Lab

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

Skills-based course in which students get hands-on experience in analysis of a variety of epidemiologic datasets using SAS programming to apply epidemiologic methods presented in PubH 6343, examine crude data for outliers, data errors and distributional assumptions, debug code when programs do not run correctly, and prepare a scientific presentation with appropriate content for introduction/background, methods, results and discussion.

PUBH 6355 - Pathophysiology of Human Disease

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

Compendium of human diseases relevant to public health professionals. Focuses on cardiovascular disease, cancer, and infectious disease. Presented from epidemiologic perspective. Significance of diseases in terms of prevalence, incidence, morbidity, and mortality. Risk factors, prevention strategies. prereq: Epidemiology major or public health nutrition major or Environmental Health major or instr consent

PUBH 6381 - Genetics in Public Health in the Age of Precision Medicine

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

Our understanding of human genomic variation and its relationship to health is expanding rapidly. This knowledge is now being translated primarily through the field of ?precision medicine? (finding the right drug for the right person at the right time). Public health, in contrast, seeks to abate the social and environmental factors that lead to disease and health disparities. This course will provide an introduction to the field of public health genomics at this interesting point in its history. Approximately one-half of the course is devoted to Genetic Epidemiology, or the science of detecting genetic risk factors for human disease. The other half of the course will cover public health genomics, including ?precision public health?, genetic screening programs, and the possibilities and pitfalls of direct to consumer marketing of genetic tests. How genomics relates to health equity will be a recurring theme of this course. This is a graduate course designed primarily for Epidemiology MPH and PhD students, and fulfills the ?Epi Of? requirement for the MPH in Epidemiology. Graduate students from other programs are very welcome.

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 6389 - Nutritional Epidemiology

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

Nutrition/disease relationships through application of epidemiologic methods. Characterization of various exposures to food/nutrient intakes, biological basis for nutrition/disease relationships. Studies of specific chronic diseases and nutritional intake. Design/interpretation of studies using nutritional measures. prereq: [[6320 or 6330 or 6341], [Epidemiology MPH or Public Health Nutrition MPH or Epidemiology PhD student]] or instr consent

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 6541 - Statistics for Health Management Decision Making

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

Variation. Frequency distribution, measurement, probability, graphing. Significance tests, estimation, trends; data handling. Modeling, odds ratios. Prevalence, incidence and vital statistics. Research applications. Statistical approach to rational administrative decision making. Inductive teaching, lectures, computer/lab exercises. prereq: Health care admin student or instr consent

PUBH 6542 - Management of Health Care Organizations

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

Role of hospital in health services delivery. Relationships with other systems and the community. Emphasizes governance, medical staff, and role of administrator. Lectures, on-site visits to health services organizations. prereq: MHA student or permission of instructor

PUBH 6544 - Principles of Problem Solving in Health Services Organizations

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

Problem-solving theory/technique. Solving a management problem within a health services organization. Presenting a report. Lectures, seminars, demonstrations. prereq: 6541, completed 30 hours of MHA coursework, health care administration student

PUBH 6547 - Health Care Human Resources Management

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

Concepts in human resources management as applied to health services organizations. Relationship between human resources management and general management. Work and human resources. Compensation/benefits, personnel planning, recruitment/selection, training/development. Employee appraisal/discipline. Union-management relations. prereq: Health care admin student or public health admin student or instr consent

PUBH 6555 - Health Economics

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

General principles of health economics applied to issues in health. Implications for health policy.

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 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 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 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 6596 - Legal Considerations in Health Services Organizations

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

Laws affecting administration of hospitals and other healthcare organizations. Administrative law, corporate/business law, labor law, civil liability, tax-related issues. Legal issues relevant to administration, decision making, and planning. prereq: Health care admin student

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 6702 - Integrative Leadership Seminar

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

Are you interested in working across government, business, and the non-profit sector for public good? Are you wondering how you can create sustainable shared leadership on challenges that can best be addressed together? This course explores multi-sector leadership and related governance and management challenges from a variety of perspectives and provides an opportunity for students to work together to apply what they are learning individually and in teams through in-class exercises and a final team project. The course is taught by a team of interdisciplinary faculty and considers different contexts, forms, and specific examples of multisector leadership that can enable transformative action to tackle a significant societal issue and achieve lasting change. prereq: University of Minnesota doctoral student or master's student

PUBH 6711 - Public Health Law

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

Basic concepts of law, legislative process, and legal bases for existence/administration of public health programs. Legal aspects of current public health issues/controversies, regulatory role of government in health services system. prereq: Grad student or professional school student or instr consent

PUBH 6717 - Decision Analysis for Health Care

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

Introduction to methods/range of applications of decision analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis in health care technology assessment, medical decision making, and health resource allocation.

PUBH 6724 - The Health Care System and Public Health

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

Overview of health care delivery, finance systems within public health context. Components of health care system: financing, role of employers/public programs, health care delivery system, managed care. Collaborative interventions between managed care, public health. prereq: Public health or grad student or instr consent

PUBH 6727 - Health Leadership and Effecting Change

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

Analysis of leadership models and competencies, particularly as applied to organizational change. Applications to individual self-development and to health care organizations. prereq: Public hlth MPH or MHA or certificate student or [health services research, policy/admin] MS student 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 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 6755 - Planning and Budgeting for Public Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

Principles of budgeting, planning, forecasting, and analyzing in nonprofit/government organizations applied to health care administration and public health. prereq: Academic Hlth Ctr grad student or instr consent

PUBH 6765 - Continuous Quality Improvement: Methods and Techniques

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

Theory/practical applications of concepts, tools, techniques of continuous quality improvement (QI) in public health/health care.

PUBH 6803 - Conducting a Systematic Literature Review

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

Project-based class to develop systematic review skills for evidence-based practice. Draws from AHRQ and Cochrane systematic review methodology; supported by examples from the Minnesota Evidence-based Practice Center. Use for master?s thesis, dissertation, or to support research proposals. Prereq: research study design or epidemiology.

PUBH 6805 - Introduction to Project Management for Health Professionals

Credits:	2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Core concepts/skills for managing projects effectively, making sure they are completed on time, within budget, meeting performance objectives. prereq: Matriculation in master's program in School of Public Health, or instr consent

PUBH 6806 - Principles of Public Health Research

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

Evaluation of public health research literature and planning for independent research projects. Formulation of research question, research design, sampling techniques, use of research concepts, and data analysis. Data collection techniques, including questionnaires, interviews, and data analysis. prereq: Pub hlth or grad or professional school student or instr consent

PUBH 6809 - Advanced Methods in Health Decision Science

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

Methods applicable to issues of medical decision making. Analyses of environmental/safety decisions. How to apply methods at cutting-edge of clinical decision science. prereq: [6717 or intro course in decision analysis], some facility with mathematical notation/reasoning

PUBH 6810 - Survey Research Methods

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

Theory/application of survey research in data collection. Sampling, item development, instrument design/administration to conduct survey or be aware of issues related to design/implementation. Identification of sources of error in survey research.

PUBH 6813 - Managing Electronic Health Information

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Managing health information is a central function of health care organizations. Information is used for managing population health, profiling providers, and measuring quality. This course describes relational data theory, normalization, and Structured Query Language (SQL) will be used to create and query databases. Students will be introduced to the basic programming skills necessary to manage data in research projects. Programming aspects of the course will use SQL procedure in the SAS language. prereq: Admission to a University of Minnesota Masters program or Permission of instructor.

PUBH 6815 - Community-based Participatory Research

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

This introductory course is intended for junior faculty, post-docs, graduate students and community practitioners interested in adding CBPR to their repertoire of effective approaches to understanding and addressing social and health disparities. Topics will explore the purpose and applications of CBPR; partnership formation and maintenance; issues of power, trust, race, class, and social justice; conflict resolution; ethical issues; CBPR's relationship to cultural knowledge systems, and funding CBPR projects. This is NOT a methodology course. CBPR is an approach to conducting research that is amenable to a variety of research designs and methodologies and will NOT cover topics such as survey design, quantitative methods, qualitative methods, focus groups, community needs assessment procedures, etc.

PUBH 6832 - Economics of the Health Care System

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

Examines applications of microeconomic principles to the U.S. health care system. Topics include demand for medical care, insurance theory and selection issues, provider payment, competition in health care markets, the health care workforce, pharmaceutical prices and innovation, health care spending growth, quality of care, externalities, the relationship between income and health, and the economics of the opioid epidemic. Prerequisite: an introductory economics or microeconomic theory course ? or permission of the instructor.

PUBH 6845 - Using Demographic Data for Policy Analysis

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

How to pose researchable policy questions, locate existing data, turn data into a usable format, understand data documentation, analyze data, communicate findings according to standards of the professional policy community. Quantitative issues. prereq: [Grad level research methods course, basic statistics course] 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 6855 - Medical Sociology

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

Introduction to common theoretical/empirical approaches used by sociologists to study health/illness. How content reflects social inequalities in health/illness. Social processes that shape experience of health/illness. prereq: [[Grad or professional school] student, previous experience with statistical software] or instr consent

PUBH 6862 - Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care

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

Government regulations. New technologies. Diagnosis/treatment protocols. Strengths, limitations, appropriateness of different approaches. prereq: instr consent; introductory econ course recommended

PUBH 6863 - Understanding Health Care Quality

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

Introduction to assessing/assuring quality of care. Emphasizes both process and outcomes approaches, paralleling interest in appropriateness/effectiveness of care. Issues around creating needed behavioral changes.

PUBH 6901 - Foundations of Public Health Nutrition Leadership

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

Principles of public health nutrition. Roles/function of public health nutritionists. Programs/delivery mechanisms for promoting nutritional status of populations. Students explore their beliefs/competencies in relation to principles/philosophy of public health nutrition. This course has a strong focus on policy, systems and environmental changes to improves access to health foods for individuals and communities.

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 6920 - Foundations of Interprofessional Professional Communication and Collaboration

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

Explore nature of/need for interprofessional communication, qualities of successful teams/interprofessional interactions, professional identity, ethics, integrity, values, communication/decision making in interprofessional environment.

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.

PUBH 7214 - Principles of Risk Communication

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

Key concepts of risk communication theory and their practical application to collection/sharing of information in support of individual and community decision-making about public health issues. Application of risk communication principles to routine, ongoing public health issues and those that arise out of emergency/crisis.

PUBH 7222 - Best Practices in Emergency Response

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Periodic Summer

Best practices in PH preparedness & response are evolving & continually tested with new experiences & expertise. This course for PH professionals and professionals responsible for preparedness planning, response & recovery is designed to provide participants with practical applications & tools to apply learning from real incidents.

PUBH 7250 - Designing and Conducting Focus Group Interviews

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

Interactive, intensive overview of focus group procedures for public/non-profit environments. Practical approaches to determining appropriate use of focus groups. Design options, developing questions, recruiting participants, moderating. Analyzing/reporting results.

PUBH 7253 - Introduction to GIS

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

Concepts/uses of Geographic Information Systems. Data structures, sources of data, tools, vendors/software, health-related applications. Exercises in spatial data display/query, map generation, spatial analysis using ArcGIS software. Students create their own GIS project model. prereq: Experience with spreadsheet programs

PUBH 7257 - Qualitative Data Analysis

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

Analyze/work with qualitative data from variety of data collection methods/multiple analysis approaches. Discussion of analyzing photograph/video data will provide insights on how best to analyze these types of data.

PUBH 7430 - Statistical Methods for Correlated Data

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

Correlated data arise in many situations, particularly when observations are made over time and space or on individuals who share certain underlying characteristics. This course covers techniques for exploring and describing correlated data, along with statistical methods for estimating population parameters (mostly means) from these data. The focus will be primarily on generalized linear models (both with and without random effects) for normally and non-normally distributed data. Wherever possible, techniques will be illustrated using real-world examples. Computing will be done using R and SAS. prereq: Regression at the level of PubH 6451 or PubH 7405 or Stat 5302. Familiarity with basic matrix notation and operations (multiplication, inverse, transpose). Working knowledge of SAS or R (PubH 6420).

PUBH 7475 - Statistical Learning and Data Mining

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

Various statistical techniques for extracting useful information (i.e., learning) from data. Linear discriminant analysis, tree-structured classifiers, feed-forward neural networks, support vector machines, other nonparametric methods, classifier ensembles, unsupervised learning. prereq: [[[6450, 6452] or equiv], programming backgroud in [FORTRAN or C/C++ or JAVA or Splus/R]] or instr consent; 2nd yr MS recommended

PUBH 7534 - Marketing for Health Care Professionals

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Application of principles of marketing to managing professional practice.

PUBH 7541 - Statistics for Health Management Decision Making

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

Variation. Frequency distribution, measurement, probability, graphing. Significance tests, estimation, trends. Data handling. Modeling, odds ratios. Prevalence, incidence/vital statistics. Research applications. Statistical approach to rational administrative decision making. Prereq: MHA student or instructor consent.

PUBH 7556 - Health and Health Systems

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

U.S. health care system/health policy process. Current challenges in areas of health care delivery, financing, policy.

PUBH 7562 - Information Technology in Health Care

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

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

PUBH 7564 - Private Purchasers of Health Care

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

Development/organization of HMOs/PPOs. Risk sharing, provider contracts, utilization management, quality improvement, marketing, new product development. Employer relations. Medicare/Medicaid contracting. Budget processing. Financial performance. Government regulations.

PUBH 7565 - Innovation of Healthcare Services

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

Designing/creating new care delivery services/experiences. Exploiting opportunities for innovation. Overcoming obstacles. Capturing value.

PUBH 7568 - Interdisciplinary Teamwork in Health Care

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

Develop skills to function in inter-professional teams by using knowledge of various health care professions, principles of teamwork, knowledge of teams as they function in health care. Team formation, leading teams, decision making in teams, managing conflict in teams.

PUBH 7569 - Health Care Policy

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

Public policy environment surrounding health care/public health systems. Political context of health policy. Approaches to policy formation/analysis. Tools/strategies for influencing health policy outcomes.

PUBH 8141 - Doctoral Seminar in Observational Inference

Credits:	2.0 [max 20.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Fundamentals of epidemiologic inference. Methods for designing, analyzing, and interpreting epidemiologic studies.

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 6151 - Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing Seminar

Credits:	1.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Synthesize information from coursework/professional experience to enhance critical thinking/application to field of occupational/environmental health nursing. prereq: Enrolled in OEHN program, MS, MPH, PhD degrees

PUBH 6100 - Topics: Environmental Health

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 20.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

New course offerings/topics in environmental health.

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 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 6074 - Mass Communication and Public Health

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Jour 5541/PubH 6074
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course provides an overview of theory and research that lies at the intersection of mass communication and public health. We examine the potential for media exposure to influence public health outcomes, both as a product of people's everyday interactions with media and the strategic use of media messages to accomplish public health goals. To this end, we will explore large-scale public health campaigns in the context of tobacco, obesity, and cancer screening. We also will explore news media coverage of controversial health issues, such as the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, and health information in entertainment media, such as smoking in movies. This course seeks to understand whether media messages have had intended and/or unintended effects on public attitudes and behavior. Although our focus is on mass media, interpersonal, medical, and digital media sources will be considered as well.

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 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 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 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 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 6343 - Epidemiologic Methods III

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

Analysis/interpretation of data from various epidemiological study designs. SAS used to demonstrate epidemiological/statistical concepts in data analysis. prereq: [6342, 6451] with a grade of at least B- or instr consent

PUBH 6344 - Completing the Integrative Learning Experience: Secondary Data Analysis

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

The goal of PubH 6344 is to provide guidance and hands-on experience for developing and completing the Integrated Learning Experience (ILE) research project involving secondary data analysis of a cross-sectional, case-control, or cohort study. The course will help meet research project milestones and complete the project in a timely manner.

PUBH 6350 - Epidemiologic Methods III: Lab

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

Skills-based course in which students get hands-on experience in analysis of a variety of epidemiologic datasets using SAS programming to apply epidemiologic methods presented in PubH 6343, examine crude data for outliers, data errors and distributional assumptions, debug code when programs do not run correctly, and prepare a scientific presentation with appropriate content for introduction/background, methods, results and discussion.

PUBH 6355 - Pathophysiology of Human Disease

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

Compendium of human diseases relevant to public health professionals. Focuses on cardiovascular disease, cancer, and infectious disease. Presented from epidemiologic perspective. Significance of diseases in terms of prevalence, incidence, morbidity, and mortality. Risk factors, prevention strategies. prereq: Epidemiology major or public health nutrition major or Environmental Health major or instr consent

PUBH 6381 - Genetics in Public Health in the Age of Precision Medicine

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

Our understanding of human genomic variation and its relationship to health is expanding rapidly. This knowledge is now being translated primarily through the field of ?precision medicine? (finding the right drug for the right person at the right time). Public health, in contrast, seeks to abate the social and environmental factors that lead to disease and health disparities. This course will provide an introduction to the field of public health genomics at this interesting point in its history. Approximately one-half of the course is devoted to Genetic Epidemiology, or the science of detecting genetic risk factors for human disease. The other half of the course will cover public health genomics, including ?precision public health?, genetic screening programs, and the possibilities and pitfalls of direct to consumer marketing of genetic tests. How genomics relates to health equity will be a recurring theme of this course. This is a graduate course designed primarily for Epidemiology MPH and PhD students, and fulfills the ?Epi Of? requirement for the MPH in Epidemiology. Graduate students from other programs are very welcome.

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 6389 - Nutritional Epidemiology

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

Nutrition/disease relationships through application of epidemiologic methods. Characterization of various exposures to food/nutrient intakes, biological basis for nutrition/disease relationships. Studies of specific chronic diseases and nutritional intake. Design/interpretation of studies using nutritional measures. prereq: [[6320 or 6330 or 6341], [Epidemiology MPH or Public Health Nutrition MPH or Epidemiology PhD student]] or instr consent

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 6541 - Statistics for Health Management Decision Making

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

Variation. Frequency distribution, measurement, probability, graphing. Significance tests, estimation, trends; data handling. Modeling, odds ratios. Prevalence, incidence and vital statistics. Research applications. Statistical approach to rational administrative decision making. Inductive teaching, lectures, computer/lab exercises. prereq: Health care admin student or instr consent

PUBH 6542 - Management of Health Care Organizations

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

Role of hospital in health services delivery. Relationships with other systems and the community. Emphasizes governance, medical staff, and role of administrator. Lectures, on-site visits to health services organizations. prereq: MHA student or permission of instructor

PUBH 6544 - Principles of Problem Solving in Health Services Organizations

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

Problem-solving theory/technique. Solving a management problem within a health services organization. Presenting a report. Lectures, seminars, demonstrations. prereq: 6541, completed 30 hours of MHA coursework, health care administration student

PUBH 6547 - Health Care Human Resources Management

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

Concepts in human resources management as applied to health services organizations. Relationship between human resources management and general management. Work and human resources. Compensation/benefits, personnel planning, recruitment/selection, training/development. Employee appraisal/discipline. Union-management relations. prereq: Health care admin student or public health admin student or instr consent

PUBH 6555 - Health Economics

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

General principles of health economics applied to issues in health. Implications for health policy.

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 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 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 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 6596 - Legal Considerations in Health Services Organizations

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

Laws affecting administration of hospitals and other healthcare organizations. Administrative law, corporate/business law, labor law, civil liability, tax-related issues. Legal issues relevant to administration, decision making, and planning. prereq: Health care admin student

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 6702 - Integrative Leadership Seminar

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

Are you interested in working across government, business, and the non-profit sector for public good? Are you wondering how you can create sustainable shared leadership on challenges that can best be addressed together? This course explores multi-sector leadership and related governance and management challenges from a variety of perspectives and provides an opportunity for students to work together to apply what they are learning individually and in teams through in-class exercises and a final team project. The course is taught by a team of interdisciplinary faculty and considers different contexts, forms, and specific examples of multisector leadership that can enable transformative action to tackle a significant societal issue and achieve lasting change. prereq: University of Minnesota doctoral student or master's student

PUBH 6711 - Public Health Law

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

Basic concepts of law, legislative process, and legal bases for existence/administration of public health programs. Legal aspects of current public health issues/controversies, regulatory role of government in health services system. prereq: Grad student or professional school student or instr consent

PUBH 6717 - Decision Analysis for Health Care

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

Introduction to methods/range of applications of decision analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis in health care technology assessment, medical decision making, and health resource allocation.

PUBH 6724 - The Health Care System and Public Health

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

Overview of health care delivery, finance systems within public health context. Components of health care system: financing, role of employers/public programs, health care delivery system, managed care. Collaborative interventions between managed care, public health. prereq: Public health or grad student or instr consent

PUBH 6727 - Health Leadership and Effecting Change

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

Analysis of leadership models and competencies, particularly as applied to organizational change. Applications to individual self-development and to health care organizations. prereq: Public hlth MPH or MHA or certificate student or [health services research, policy/admin] MS student 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 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 6755 - Planning and Budgeting for Public Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

Principles of budgeting, planning, forecasting, and analyzing in nonprofit/government organizations applied to health care administration and public health. prereq: Academic Hlth Ctr grad student or instr consent

PUBH 6803 - Conducting a Systematic Literature Review

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

Project-based class to develop systematic review skills for evidence-based practice. Draws from AHRQ and Cochrane systematic review methodology; supported by examples from the Minnesota Evidence-based Practice Center. Use for master?s thesis, dissertation, or to support research proposals. Prereq: research study design or epidemiology.

PUBH 6805 - Introduction to Project Management for Health Professionals

Credits:	2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Core concepts/skills for managing projects effectively, making sure they are completed on time, within budget, meeting performance objectives. prereq: Matriculation in master's program in School of Public Health, or instr consent

PUBH 6806 - Principles of Public Health Research

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

Evaluation of public health research literature and planning for independent research projects. Formulation of research question, research design, sampling techniques, use of research concepts, and data analysis. Data collection techniques, including questionnaires, interviews, and data analysis. prereq: Pub hlth or grad or professional school student or instr consent

PUBH 6809 - Advanced Methods in Health Decision Science

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

Methods applicable to issues of medical decision making. Analyses of environmental/safety decisions. How to apply methods at cutting-edge of clinical decision science. prereq: [6717 or intro course in decision analysis], some facility with mathematical notation/reasoning

PUBH 6810 - Survey Research Methods

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

Theory/application of survey research in data collection. Sampling, item development, instrument design/administration to conduct survey or be aware of issues related to design/implementation. Identification of sources of error in survey research.

PUBH 6813 - Managing Electronic Health Information

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Managing health information is a central function of health care organizations. Information is used for managing population health, profiling providers, and measuring quality. This course describes relational data theory, normalization, and Structured Query Language (SQL) will be used to create and query databases. Students will be introduced to the basic programming skills necessary to manage data in research projects. Programming aspects of the course will use SQL procedure in the SAS language. prereq: Admission to a University of Minnesota Masters program or Permission of instructor.

PUBH 6815 - Community-based Participatory Research

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

This introductory course is intended for junior faculty, post-docs, graduate students and community practitioners interested in adding CBPR to their repertoire of effective approaches to understanding and addressing social and health disparities. Topics will explore the purpose and applications of CBPR; partnership formation and maintenance; issues of power, trust, race, class, and social justice; conflict resolution; ethical issues; CBPR's relationship to cultural knowledge systems, and funding CBPR projects. This is NOT a methodology course. CBPR is an approach to conducting research that is amenable to a variety of research designs and methodologies and will NOT cover topics such as survey design, quantitative methods, qualitative methods, focus groups, community needs assessment procedures, etc.

PUBH 6832 - Economics of the Health Care System

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

Examines applications of microeconomic principles to the U.S. health care system. Topics include demand for medical care, insurance theory and selection issues, provider payment, competition in health care markets, the health care workforce, pharmaceutical prices and innovation, health care spending growth, quality of care, externalities, the relationship between income and health, and the economics of the opioid epidemic. Prerequisite: an introductory economics or microeconomic theory course ? or permission of the instructor.

PUBH 6845 - Using Demographic Data for Policy Analysis

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

How to pose researchable policy questions, locate existing data, turn data into a usable format, understand data documentation, analyze data, communicate findings according to standards of the professional policy community. Quantitative issues. prereq: [Grad level research methods course, basic statistics course] 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 6855 - Medical Sociology

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

Introduction to common theoretical/empirical approaches used by sociologists to study health/illness. How content reflects social inequalities in health/illness. Social processes that shape experience of health/illness. prereq: [[Grad or professional school] student, previous experience with statistical software] or instr consent

PUBH 6862 - Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care

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

Government regulations. New technologies. Diagnosis/treatment protocols. Strengths, limitations, appropriateness of different approaches. prereq: instr consent; introductory econ course recommended

PUBH 6863 - Understanding Health Care Quality

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

Introduction to assessing/assuring quality of care. Emphasizes both process and outcomes approaches, paralleling interest in appropriateness/effectiveness of care. Issues around creating needed behavioral changes.

PUBH 6901 - Foundations of Public Health Nutrition Leadership

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

Principles of public health nutrition. Roles/function of public health nutritionists. Programs/delivery mechanisms for promoting nutritional status of populations. Students explore their beliefs/competencies in relation to principles/philosophy of public health nutrition. This course has a strong focus on policy, systems and environmental changes to improves access to health foods for individuals and communities.

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 6920 - Foundations of Interprofessional Professional Communication and Collaboration

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

Explore nature of/need for interprofessional communication, qualities of successful teams/interprofessional interactions, professional identity, ethics, integrity, values, communication/decision making in interprofessional environment.

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.

PUBH 7214 - Principles of Risk Communication

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

Key concepts of risk communication theory and their practical application to collection/sharing of information in support of individual and community decision-making about public health issues. Application of risk communication principles to routine, ongoing public health issues and those that arise out of emergency/crisis.

PUBH 7222 - Best Practices in Emergency Response

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Periodic Summer

Best practices in PH preparedness & response are evolving & continually tested with new experiences & expertise. This course for PH professionals and professionals responsible for preparedness planning, response & recovery is designed to provide participants with practical applications & tools to apply learning from real incidents.

PUBH 7250 - Designing and Conducting Focus Group Interviews

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

Interactive, intensive overview of focus group procedures for public/non-profit environments. Practical approaches to determining appropriate use of focus groups. Design options, developing questions, recruiting participants, moderating. Analyzing/reporting results.

PUBH 7253 - Introduction to GIS

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

Concepts/uses of Geographic Information Systems. Data structures, sources of data, tools, vendors/software, health-related applications. Exercises in spatial data display/query, map generation, spatial analysis using ArcGIS software. Students create their own GIS project model. prereq: Experience with spreadsheet programs

PUBH 7257 - Qualitative Data Analysis

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

Analyze/work with qualitative data from variety of data collection methods/multiple analysis approaches. Discussion of analyzing photograph/video data will provide insights on how best to analyze these types of data.

PUBH 7430 - Statistical Methods for Correlated Data

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

Correlated data arise in many situations, particularly when observations are made over time and space or on individuals who share certain underlying characteristics. This course covers techniques for exploring and describing correlated data, along with statistical methods for estimating population parameters (mostly means) from these data. The focus will be primarily on generalized linear models (both with and without random effects) for normally and non-normally distributed data. Wherever possible, techniques will be illustrated using real-world examples. Computing will be done using R and SAS. prereq: Regression at the level of PubH 6451 or PubH 7405 or Stat 5302. Familiarity with basic matrix notation and operations (multiplication, inverse, transpose). Working knowledge of SAS or R (PubH 6420).

PUBH 7475 - Statistical Learning and Data Mining

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

Various statistical techniques for extracting useful information (i.e., learning) from data. Linear discriminant analysis, tree-structured classifiers, feed-forward neural networks, support vector machines, other nonparametric methods, classifier ensembles, unsupervised learning. prereq: [[[6450, 6452] or equiv], programming backgroud in [FORTRAN or C/C++ or JAVA or Splus/R]] or instr consent; 2nd yr MS recommended

PUBH 7534 - Marketing for Health Care Professionals

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Application of principles of marketing to managing professional practice.

PUBH 7541 - Statistics for Health Management Decision Making

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

Variation. Frequency distribution, measurement, probability, graphing. Significance tests, estimation, trends. Data handling. Modeling, odds ratios. Prevalence, incidence/vital statistics. Research applications. Statistical approach to rational administrative decision making. Prereq: MHA student or instructor consent.

PUBH 7556 - Health and Health Systems

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

U.S. health care system/health policy process. Current challenges in areas of health care delivery, financing, policy.

PUBH 7562 - Information Technology in Health Care

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

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

PUBH 7564 - Private Purchasers of Health Care

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

Development/organization of HMOs/PPOs. Risk sharing, provider contracts, utilization management, quality improvement, marketing, new product development. Employer relations. Medicare/Medicaid contracting. Budget processing. Financial performance. Government regulations.

PUBH 7565 - Innovation of Healthcare Services

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

Designing/creating new care delivery services/experiences. Exploiting opportunities for innovation. Overcoming obstacles. Capturing value.

PUBH 7568 - Interdisciplinary Teamwork in Health Care

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

Develop skills to function in inter-professional teams by using knowledge of various health care professions, principles of teamwork, knowledge of teams as they function in health care. Team formation, leading teams, decision making in teams, managing conflict in teams.

PUBH 7569 - Health Care Policy

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

Public policy environment surrounding health care/public health systems. Political context of health policy. Approaches to policy formation/analysis. Tools/strategies for influencing health policy outcomes.

PUBH 8141 - Doctoral Seminar in Observational Inference

Credits:	2.0 [max 20.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Fundamentals of epidemiologic inference. Methods for designing, analyzing, and interpreting epidemiologic studies.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 6100 - Topics: Environmental Health

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 20.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

New course offerings/topics in environmental health.

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 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 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 6074 - Mass Communication and Public Health

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Jour 5541/PubH 6074
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course provides an overview of theory and research that lies at the intersection of mass communication and public health. We examine the potential for media exposure to influence public health outcomes, both as a product of people's everyday interactions with media and the strategic use of media messages to accomplish public health goals. To this end, we will explore large-scale public health campaigns in the context of tobacco, obesity, and cancer screening. We also will explore news media coverage of controversial health issues, such as the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, and health information in entertainment media, such as smoking in movies. This course seeks to understand whether media messages have had intended and/or unintended effects on public attitudes and behavior. Although our focus is on mass media, interpersonal, medical, and digital media sources will be considered as well.

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 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 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 6343 - Epidemiologic Methods III

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

Analysis/interpretation of data from various epidemiological study designs. SAS used to demonstrate epidemiological/statistical concepts in data analysis. prereq: [6342, 6451] with a grade of at least B- or instr consent

PUBH 6344 - Completing the Integrative Learning Experience: Secondary Data Analysis

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

The goal of PubH 6344 is to provide guidance and hands-on experience for developing and completing the Integrated Learning Experience (ILE) research project involving secondary data analysis of a cross-sectional, case-control, or cohort study. The course will help meet research project milestones and complete the project in a timely manner.

PUBH 6350 - Epidemiologic Methods III: Lab

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

Skills-based course in which students get hands-on experience in analysis of a variety of epidemiologic datasets using SAS programming to apply epidemiologic methods presented in PubH 6343, examine crude data for outliers, data errors and distributional assumptions, debug code when programs do not run correctly, and prepare a scientific presentation with appropriate content for introduction/background, methods, results and discussion.

PUBH 6355 - Pathophysiology of Human Disease

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

Compendium of human diseases relevant to public health professionals. Focuses on cardiovascular disease, cancer, and infectious disease. Presented from epidemiologic perspective. Significance of diseases in terms of prevalence, incidence, morbidity, and mortality. Risk factors, prevention strategies. prereq: Epidemiology major or public health nutrition major or Environmental Health major or instr consent

PUBH 6381 - Genetics in Public Health in the Age of Precision Medicine

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

Our understanding of human genomic variation and its relationship to health is expanding rapidly. This knowledge is now being translated primarily through the field of ?precision medicine? (finding the right drug for the right person at the right time). Public health, in contrast, seeks to abate the social and environmental factors that lead to disease and health disparities. This course will provide an introduction to the field of public health genomics at this interesting point in its history. Approximately one-half of the course is devoted to Genetic Epidemiology, or the science of detecting genetic risk factors for human disease. The other half of the course will cover public health genomics, including ?precision public health?, genetic screening programs, and the possibilities and pitfalls of direct to consumer marketing of genetic tests. How genomics relates to health equity will be a recurring theme of this course. This is a graduate course designed primarily for Epidemiology MPH and PhD students, and fulfills the ?Epi Of? requirement for the MPH in Epidemiology. Graduate students from other programs are very welcome.

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 6389 - Nutritional Epidemiology

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

Nutrition/disease relationships through application of epidemiologic methods. Characterization of various exposures to food/nutrient intakes, biological basis for nutrition/disease relationships. Studies of specific chronic diseases and nutritional intake. Design/interpretation of studies using nutritional measures. prereq: [[6320 or 6330 or 6341], [Epidemiology MPH or Public Health Nutrition MPH or Epidemiology PhD student]] or instr consent

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 6541 - Statistics for Health Management Decision Making

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

Variation. Frequency distribution, measurement, probability, graphing. Significance tests, estimation, trends; data handling. Modeling, odds ratios. Prevalence, incidence and vital statistics. Research applications. Statistical approach to rational administrative decision making. Inductive teaching, lectures, computer/lab exercises. prereq: Health care admin student or instr consent

PUBH 6542 - Management of Health Care Organizations

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

Role of hospital in health services delivery. Relationships with other systems and the community. Emphasizes governance, medical staff, and role of administrator. Lectures, on-site visits to health services organizations. prereq: MHA student or permission of instructor

PUBH 6544 - Principles of Problem Solving in Health Services Organizations

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

Problem-solving theory/technique. Solving a management problem within a health services organization. Presenting a report. Lectures, seminars, demonstrations. prereq: 6541, completed 30 hours of MHA coursework, health care administration student

PUBH 6547 - Health Care Human Resources Management

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

Concepts in human resources management as applied to health services organizations. Relationship between human resources management and general management. Work and human resources. Compensation/benefits, personnel planning, recruitment/selection, training/development. Employee appraisal/discipline. Union-management relations. prereq: Health care admin student or public health admin student or instr consent

PUBH 6555 - Health Economics

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

General principles of health economics applied to issues in health. Implications for health policy.

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 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 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 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 6596 - Legal Considerations in Health Services Organizations

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

Laws affecting administration of hospitals and other healthcare organizations. Administrative law, corporate/business law, labor law, civil liability, tax-related issues. Legal issues relevant to administration, decision making, and planning. prereq: Health care admin student

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 6702 - Integrative Leadership Seminar

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

Are you interested in working across government, business, and the non-profit sector for public good? Are you wondering how you can create sustainable shared leadership on challenges that can best be addressed together? This course explores multi-sector leadership and related governance and management challenges from a variety of perspectives and provides an opportunity for students to work together to apply what they are learning individually and in teams through in-class exercises and a final team project. The course is taught by a team of interdisciplinary faculty and considers different contexts, forms, and specific examples of multisector leadership that can enable transformative action to tackle a significant societal issue and achieve lasting change. prereq: University of Minnesota doctoral student or master's student

PUBH 6711 - Public Health Law

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

Basic concepts of law, legislative process, and legal bases for existence/administration of public health programs. Legal aspects of current public health issues/controversies, regulatory role of government in health services system. prereq: Grad student or professional school student or instr consent

PUBH 6717 - Decision Analysis for Health Care

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

Introduction to methods/range of applications of decision analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis in health care technology assessment, medical decision making, and health resource allocation.

PUBH 6724 - The Health Care System and Public Health

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

Overview of health care delivery, finance systems within public health context. Components of health care system: financing, role of employers/public programs, health care delivery system, managed care. Collaborative interventions between managed care, public health. prereq: Public health or grad student or instr consent

PUBH 6727 - Health Leadership and Effecting Change

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

Analysis of leadership models and competencies, particularly as applied to organizational change. Applications to individual self-development and to health care organizations. prereq: Public hlth MPH or MHA or certificate student or [health services research, policy/admin] MS student 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 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 6755 - Planning and Budgeting for Public Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

Principles of budgeting, planning, forecasting, and analyzing in nonprofit/government organizations applied to health care administration and public health. prereq: Academic Hlth Ctr grad student or instr consent

PUBH 6765 - Continuous Quality Improvement: Methods and Techniques

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

Theory/practical applications of concepts, tools, techniques of continuous quality improvement (QI) in public health/health care.

PUBH 6803 - Conducting a Systematic Literature Review

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

Project-based class to develop systematic review skills for evidence-based practice. Draws from AHRQ and Cochrane systematic review methodology; supported by examples from the Minnesota Evidence-based Practice Center. Use for master?s thesis, dissertation, or to support research proposals. Prereq: research study design or epidemiology.

PUBH 6805 - Introduction to Project Management for Health Professionals

Credits:	2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Core concepts/skills for managing projects effectively, making sure they are completed on time, within budget, meeting performance objectives. prereq: Matriculation in master's program in School of Public Health, or instr consent

PUBH 6806 - Principles of Public Health Research

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

Evaluation of public health research literature and planning for independent research projects. Formulation of research question, research design, sampling techniques, use of research concepts, and data analysis. Data collection techniques, including questionnaires, interviews, and data analysis. prereq: Pub hlth or grad or professional school student or instr consent

PUBH 6809 - Advanced Methods in Health Decision Science

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

Methods applicable to issues of medical decision making. Analyses of environmental/safety decisions. How to apply methods at cutting-edge of clinical decision science. prereq: [6717 or intro course in decision analysis], some facility with mathematical notation/reasoning

PUBH 6810 - Survey Research Methods

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

Theory/application of survey research in data collection. Sampling, item development, instrument design/administration to conduct survey or be aware of issues related to design/implementation. Identification of sources of error in survey research.

PUBH 6813 - Managing Electronic Health Information

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Managing health information is a central function of health care organizations. Information is used for managing population health, profiling providers, and measuring quality. This course describes relational data theory, normalization, and Structured Query Language (SQL) will be used to create and query databases. Students will be introduced to the basic programming skills necessary to manage data in research projects. Programming aspects of the course will use SQL procedure in the SAS language. prereq: Admission to a University of Minnesota Masters program or Permission of instructor.

PUBH 6815 - Community-based Participatory Research

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

This introductory course is intended for junior faculty, post-docs, graduate students and community practitioners interested in adding CBPR to their repertoire of effective approaches to understanding and addressing social and health disparities. Topics will explore the purpose and applications of CBPR; partnership formation and maintenance; issues of power, trust, race, class, and social justice; conflict resolution; ethical issues; CBPR's relationship to cultural knowledge systems, and funding CBPR projects. This is NOT a methodology course. CBPR is an approach to conducting research that is amenable to a variety of research designs and methodologies and will NOT cover topics such as survey design, quantitative methods, qualitative methods, focus groups, community needs assessment procedures, etc.

PUBH 6832 - Economics of the Health Care System

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

Examines applications of microeconomic principles to the U.S. health care system. Topics include demand for medical care, insurance theory and selection issues, provider payment, competition in health care markets, the health care workforce, pharmaceutical prices and innovation, health care spending growth, quality of care, externalities, the relationship between income and health, and the economics of the opioid epidemic. Prerequisite: an introductory economics or microeconomic theory course ? or permission of the instructor.

PUBH 6845 - Using Demographic Data for Policy Analysis

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

How to pose researchable policy questions, locate existing data, turn data into a usable format, understand data documentation, analyze data, communicate findings according to standards of the professional policy community. Quantitative issues. prereq: [Grad level research methods course, basic statistics course] 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 6855 - Medical Sociology

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

Introduction to common theoretical/empirical approaches used by sociologists to study health/illness. How content reflects social inequalities in health/illness. Social processes that shape experience of health/illness. prereq: [[Grad or professional school] student, previous experience with statistical software] or instr consent

PUBH 6862 - Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care

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

Government regulations. New technologies. Diagnosis/treatment protocols. Strengths, limitations, appropriateness of different approaches. prereq: instr consent; introductory econ course recommended

PUBH 6863 - Understanding Health Care Quality

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

Introduction to assessing/assuring quality of care. Emphasizes both process and outcomes approaches, paralleling interest in appropriateness/effectiveness of care. Issues around creating needed behavioral changes.

PUBH 6901 - Foundations of Public Health Nutrition Leadership

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

Principles of public health nutrition. Roles/function of public health nutritionists. Programs/delivery mechanisms for promoting nutritional status of populations. Students explore their beliefs/competencies in relation to principles/philosophy of public health nutrition. This course has a strong focus on policy, systems and environmental changes to improves access to health foods for individuals and communities.

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 6920 - Foundations of Interprofessional Professional Communication and Collaboration

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

Explore nature of/need for interprofessional communication, qualities of successful teams/interprofessional interactions, professional identity, ethics, integrity, values, communication/decision making in interprofessional environment.

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.

PUBH 7214 - Principles of Risk Communication

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

Key concepts of risk communication theory and their practical application to collection/sharing of information in support of individual and community decision-making about public health issues. Application of risk communication principles to routine, ongoing public health issues and those that arise out of emergency/crisis.

PUBH 7222 - Best Practices in Emergency Response

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Periodic Summer

Best practices in PH preparedness & response are evolving & continually tested with new experiences & expertise. This course for PH professionals and professionals responsible for preparedness planning, response & recovery is designed to provide participants with practical applications & tools to apply learning from real incidents.

PUBH 7250 - Designing and Conducting Focus Group Interviews

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

Interactive, intensive overview of focus group procedures for public/non-profit environments. Practical approaches to determining appropriate use of focus groups. Design options, developing questions, recruiting participants, moderating. Analyzing/reporting results.

PUBH 7253 - Introduction to GIS

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

Concepts/uses of Geographic Information Systems. Data structures, sources of data, tools, vendors/software, health-related applications. Exercises in spatial data display/query, map generation, spatial analysis using ArcGIS software. Students create their own GIS project model. prereq: Experience with spreadsheet programs

PUBH 7257 - Qualitative Data Analysis

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

Analyze/work with qualitative data from variety of data collection methods/multiple analysis approaches. Discussion of analyzing photograph/video data will provide insights on how best to analyze these types of data.

PUBH 7430 - Statistical Methods for Correlated Data

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

Correlated data arise in many situations, particularly when observations are made over time and space or on individuals who share certain underlying characteristics. This course covers techniques for exploring and describing correlated data, along with statistical methods for estimating population parameters (mostly means) from these data. The focus will be primarily on generalized linear models (both with and without random effects) for normally and non-normally distributed data. Wherever possible, techniques will be illustrated using real-world examples. Computing will be done using R and SAS. prereq: Regression at the level of PubH 6451 or PubH 7405 or Stat 5302. Familiarity with basic matrix notation and operations (multiplication, inverse, transpose). Working knowledge of SAS or R (PubH 6420).

PUBH 7475 - Statistical Learning and Data Mining

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

Various statistical techniques for extracting useful information (i.e., learning) from data. Linear discriminant analysis, tree-structured classifiers, feed-forward neural networks, support vector machines, other nonparametric methods, classifier ensembles, unsupervised learning. prereq: [[[6450, 6452] or equiv], programming backgroud in [FORTRAN or C/C++ or JAVA or Splus/R]] or instr consent; 2nd yr MS recommended

PUBH 7534 - Marketing for Health Care Professionals

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Application of principles of marketing to managing professional practice.

PUBH 7541 - Statistics for Health Management Decision Making

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

Variation. Frequency distribution, measurement, probability, graphing. Significance tests, estimation, trends. Data handling. Modeling, odds ratios. Prevalence, incidence/vital statistics. Research applications. Statistical approach to rational administrative decision making. Prereq: MHA student or instructor consent.

PUBH 7556 - Health and Health Systems

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

U.S. health care system/health policy process. Current challenges in areas of health care delivery, financing, policy.

PUBH 7562 - Information Technology in Health Care

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

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

PUBH 7564 - Private Purchasers of Health Care

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

Development/organization of HMOs/PPOs. Risk sharing, provider contracts, utilization management, quality improvement, marketing, new product development. Employer relations. Medicare/Medicaid contracting. Budget processing. Financial performance. Government regulations.

PUBH 7565 - Innovation of Healthcare Services

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

Designing/creating new care delivery services/experiences. Exploiting opportunities for innovation. Overcoming obstacles. Capturing value.

PUBH 7568 - Interdisciplinary Teamwork in Health Care

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

Develop skills to function in inter-professional teams by using knowledge of various health care professions, principles of teamwork, knowledge of teams as they function in health care. Team formation, leading teams, decision making in teams, managing conflict in teams.

PUBH 7569 - Health Care Policy

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

Public policy environment surrounding health care/public health systems. Political context of health policy. Approaches to policy formation/analysis. Tools/strategies for influencing health policy outcomes.

PUBH 8141 - Doctoral Seminar in Observational Inference

Credits:	2.0 [max 20.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Fundamentals of epidemiologic inference. Methods for designing, analyzing, and interpreting epidemiologic studies.

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 6100 - Topics: Environmental Health

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 20.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

New course offerings/topics in environmental health.

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.

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 6074 - Mass Communication and Public Health

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Jour 5541/PubH 6074
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course provides an overview of theory and research that lies at the intersection of mass communication and public health. We examine the potential for media exposure to influence public health outcomes, both as a product of people's everyday interactions with media and the strategic use of media messages to accomplish public health goals. To this end, we will explore large-scale public health campaigns in the context of tobacco, obesity, and cancer screening. We also will explore news media coverage of controversial health issues, such as the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, and health information in entertainment media, such as smoking in movies. This course seeks to understand whether media messages have had intended and/or unintended effects on public attitudes and behavior. Although our focus is on mass media, interpersonal, medical, and digital media sources will be considered as well.

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 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 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 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 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 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 6343 - Epidemiologic Methods III

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

Analysis/interpretation of data from various epidemiological study designs. SAS used to demonstrate epidemiological/statistical concepts in data analysis. prereq: [6342, 6451] with a grade of at least B- or instr consent

PUBH 6344 - Completing the Integrative Learning Experience: Secondary Data Analysis

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

The goal of PubH 6344 is to provide guidance and hands-on experience for developing and completing the Integrated Learning Experience (ILE) research project involving secondary data analysis of a cross-sectional, case-control, or cohort study. The course will help meet research project milestones and complete the project in a timely manner.

PUBH 6350 - Epidemiologic Methods III: Lab

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

Skills-based course in which students get hands-on experience in analysis of a variety of epidemiologic datasets using SAS programming to apply epidemiologic methods presented in PubH 6343, examine crude data for outliers, data errors and distributional assumptions, debug code when programs do not run correctly, and prepare a scientific presentation with appropriate content for introduction/background, methods, results and discussion.

PUBH 6355 - Pathophysiology of Human Disease

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

Compendium of human diseases relevant to public health professionals. Focuses on cardiovascular disease, cancer, and infectious disease. Presented from epidemiologic perspective. Significance of diseases in terms of prevalence, incidence, morbidity, and mortality. Risk factors, prevention strategies. prereq: Epidemiology major or public health nutrition major or Environmental Health major or instr consent

PUBH 6381 - Genetics in Public Health in the Age of Precision Medicine

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

Our understanding of human genomic variation and its relationship to health is expanding rapidly. This knowledge is now being translated primarily through the field of ?precision medicine? (finding the right drug for the right person at the right time). Public health, in contrast, seeks to abate the social and environmental factors that lead to disease and health disparities. This course will provide an introduction to the field of public health genomics at this interesting point in its history. Approximately one-half of the course is devoted to Genetic Epidemiology, or the science of detecting genetic risk factors for human disease. The other half of the course will cover public health genomics, including ?precision public health?, genetic screening programs, and the possibilities and pitfalls of direct to consumer marketing of genetic tests. How genomics relates to health equity will be a recurring theme of this course. This is a graduate course designed primarily for Epidemiology MPH and PhD students, and fulfills the ?Epi Of? requirement for the MPH in Epidemiology. Graduate students from other programs are very welcome.

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 6389 - Nutritional Epidemiology

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

Nutrition/disease relationships through application of epidemiologic methods. Characterization of various exposures to food/nutrient intakes, biological basis for nutrition/disease relationships. Studies of specific chronic diseases and nutritional intake. Design/interpretation of studies using nutritional measures. prereq: [[6320 or 6330 or 6341], [Epidemiology MPH or Public Health Nutrition MPH or Epidemiology PhD student]] or instr consent

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 6541 - Statistics for Health Management Decision Making

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

Variation. Frequency distribution, measurement, probability, graphing. Significance tests, estimation, trends; data handling. Modeling, odds ratios. Prevalence, incidence and vital statistics. Research applications. Statistical approach to rational administrative decision making. Inductive teaching, lectures, computer/lab exercises. prereq: Health care admin student or instr consent

PUBH 6542 - Management of Health Care Organizations

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

Role of hospital in health services delivery. Relationships with other systems and the community. Emphasizes governance, medical staff, and role of administrator. Lectures, on-site visits to health services organizations. prereq: MHA student or permission of instructor

PUBH 6544 - Principles of Problem Solving in Health Services Organizations

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

Problem-solving theory/technique. Solving a management problem within a health services organization. Presenting a report. Lectures, seminars, demonstrations. prereq: 6541, completed 30 hours of MHA coursework, health care administration student

PUBH 6547 - Health Care Human Resources Management

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

Concepts in human resources management as applied to health services organizations. Relationship between human resources management and general management. Work and human resources. Compensation/benefits, personnel planning, recruitment/selection, training/development. Employee appraisal/discipline. Union-management relations. prereq: Health care admin student or public health admin student or instr consent

PUBH 6555 - Health Economics

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

General principles of health economics applied to issues in health. Implications for health policy.

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 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 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 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 6596 - Legal Considerations in Health Services Organizations

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

Laws affecting administration of hospitals and other healthcare organizations. Administrative law, corporate/business law, labor law, civil liability, tax-related issues. Legal issues relevant to administration, decision making, and planning. prereq: Health care admin student

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 6702 - Integrative Leadership Seminar

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

Are you interested in working across government, business, and the non-profit sector for public good? Are you wondering how you can create sustainable shared leadership on challenges that can best be addressed together? This course explores multi-sector leadership and related governance and management challenges from a variety of perspectives and provides an opportunity for students to work together to apply what they are learning individually and in teams through in-class exercises and a final team project. The course is taught by a team of interdisciplinary faculty and considers different contexts, forms, and specific examples of multisector leadership that can enable transformative action to tackle a significant societal issue and achieve lasting change. prereq: University of Minnesota doctoral student or master's student

PUBH 6711 - Public Health Law

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

Basic concepts of law, legislative process, and legal bases for existence/administration of public health programs. Legal aspects of current public health issues/controversies, regulatory role of government in health services system. prereq: Grad student or professional school student or instr consent

PUBH 6717 - Decision Analysis for Health Care

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

Introduction to methods/range of applications of decision analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis in health care technology assessment, medical decision making, and health resource allocation.

PUBH 6724 - The Health Care System and Public Health

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

Overview of health care delivery, finance systems within public health context. Components of health care system: financing, role of employers/public programs, health care delivery system, managed care. Collaborative interventions between managed care, public health. prereq: Public health or grad student or instr consent

PUBH 6727 - Health Leadership and Effecting Change

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

Analysis of leadership models and competencies, particularly as applied to organizational change. Applications to individual self-development and to health care organizations. prereq: Public hlth MPH or MHA or certificate student or [health services research, policy/admin] MS student 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 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 6755 - Planning and Budgeting for Public Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

Principles of budgeting, planning, forecasting, and analyzing in nonprofit/government organizations applied to health care administration and public health. prereq: Academic Hlth Ctr grad student or instr consent

PUBH 6765 - Continuous Quality Improvement: Methods and Techniques

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

Theory/practical applications of concepts, tools, techniques of continuous quality improvement (QI) in public health/health care.

PUBH 6803 - Conducting a Systematic Literature Review

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

Project-based class to develop systematic review skills for evidence-based practice. Draws from AHRQ and Cochrane systematic review methodology; supported by examples from the Minnesota Evidence-based Practice Center. Use for master?s thesis, dissertation, or to support research proposals. Prereq: research study design or epidemiology.

PUBH 6805 - Introduction to Project Management for Health Professionals

Credits:	2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Core concepts/skills for managing projects effectively, making sure they are completed on time, within budget, meeting performance objectives. prereq: Matriculation in master's program in School of Public Health, or instr consent

PUBH 6806 - Principles of Public Health Research

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

Evaluation of public health research literature and planning for independent research projects. Formulation of research question, research design, sampling techniques, use of research concepts, and data analysis. Data collection techniques, including questionnaires, interviews, and data analysis. prereq: Pub hlth or grad or professional school student or instr consent

PUBH 6809 - Advanced Methods in Health Decision Science

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

Methods applicable to issues of medical decision making. Analyses of environmental/safety decisions. How to apply methods at cutting-edge of clinical decision science. prereq: [6717 or intro course in decision analysis], some facility with mathematical notation/reasoning

PUBH 6810 - Survey Research Methods

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

Theory/application of survey research in data collection. Sampling, item development, instrument design/administration to conduct survey or be aware of issues related to design/implementation. Identification of sources of error in survey research.

PUBH 6813 - Managing Electronic Health Information

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Managing health information is a central function of health care organizations. Information is used for managing population health, profiling providers, and measuring quality. This course describes relational data theory, normalization, and Structured Query Language (SQL) will be used to create and query databases. Students will be introduced to the basic programming skills necessary to manage data in research projects. Programming aspects of the course will use SQL procedure in the SAS language. prereq: Admission to a University of Minnesota Masters program or Permission of instructor.

PUBH 6815 - Community-based Participatory Research

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

This introductory course is intended for junior faculty, post-docs, graduate students and community practitioners interested in adding CBPR to their repertoire of effective approaches to understanding and addressing social and health disparities. Topics will explore the purpose and applications of CBPR; partnership formation and maintenance; issues of power, trust, race, class, and social justice; conflict resolution; ethical issues; CBPR's relationship to cultural knowledge systems, and funding CBPR projects. This is NOT a methodology course. CBPR is an approach to conducting research that is amenable to a variety of research designs and methodologies and will NOT cover topics such as survey design, quantitative methods, qualitative methods, focus groups, community needs assessment procedures, etc.

PUBH 6832 - Economics of the Health Care System

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

Examines applications of microeconomic principles to the U.S. health care system. Topics include demand for medical care, insurance theory and selection issues, provider payment, competition in health care markets, the health care workforce, pharmaceutical prices and innovation, health care spending growth, quality of care, externalities, the relationship between income and health, and the economics of the opioid epidemic. Prerequisite: an introductory economics or microeconomic theory course ? or permission of the instructor.

PUBH 6845 - Using Demographic Data for Policy Analysis

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

How to pose researchable policy questions, locate existing data, turn data into a usable format, understand data documentation, analyze data, communicate findings according to standards of the professional policy community. Quantitative issues. prereq: [Grad level research methods course, basic statistics course] 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 6855 - Medical Sociology

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

Introduction to common theoretical/empirical approaches used by sociologists to study health/illness. How content reflects social inequalities in health/illness. Social processes that shape experience of health/illness. prereq: [[Grad or professional school] student, previous experience with statistical software] or instr consent

PUBH 6862 - Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care

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

Government regulations. New technologies. Diagnosis/treatment protocols. Strengths, limitations, appropriateness of different approaches. prereq: instr consent; introductory econ course recommended

PUBH 6863 - Understanding Health Care Quality

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

Introduction to assessing/assuring quality of care. Emphasizes both process and outcomes approaches, paralleling interest in appropriateness/effectiveness of care. Issues around creating needed behavioral changes.

PUBH 6901 - Foundations of Public Health Nutrition Leadership

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

Principles of public health nutrition. Roles/function of public health nutritionists. Programs/delivery mechanisms for promoting nutritional status of populations. Students explore their beliefs/competencies in relation to principles/philosophy of public health nutrition. This course has a strong focus on policy, systems and environmental changes to improves access to health foods for individuals and communities.

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 6920 - Foundations of Interprofessional Professional Communication and Collaboration

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

Explore nature of/need for interprofessional communication, qualities of successful teams/interprofessional interactions, professional identity, ethics, integrity, values, communication/decision making in interprofessional environment.

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.

PUBH 7214 - Principles of Risk Communication

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

Key concepts of risk communication theory and their practical application to collection/sharing of information in support of individual and community decision-making about public health issues. Application of risk communication principles to routine, ongoing public health issues and those that arise out of emergency/crisis.

PUBH 7222 - Best Practices in Emergency Response

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Periodic Summer

Best practices in PH preparedness & response are evolving & continually tested with new experiences & expertise. This course for PH professionals and professionals responsible for preparedness planning, response & recovery is designed to provide participants with practical applications & tools to apply learning from real incidents.

PUBH 7250 - Designing and Conducting Focus Group Interviews

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

Interactive, intensive overview of focus group procedures for public/non-profit environments. Practical approaches to determining appropriate use of focus groups. Design options, developing questions, recruiting participants, moderating. Analyzing/reporting results.

PUBH 7253 - Introduction to GIS

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

Concepts/uses of Geographic Information Systems. Data structures, sources of data, tools, vendors/software, health-related applications. Exercises in spatial data display/query, map generation, spatial analysis using ArcGIS software. Students create their own GIS project model. prereq: Experience with spreadsheet programs

PUBH 7257 - Qualitative Data Analysis

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

Analyze/work with qualitative data from variety of data collection methods/multiple analysis approaches. Discussion of analyzing photograph/video data will provide insights on how best to analyze these types of data.

PUBH 7430 - Statistical Methods for Correlated Data

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

Correlated data arise in many situations, particularly when observations are made over time and space or on individuals who share certain underlying characteristics. This course covers techniques for exploring and describing correlated data, along with statistical methods for estimating population parameters (mostly means) from these data. The focus will be primarily on generalized linear models (both with and without random effects) for normally and non-normally distributed data. Wherever possible, techniques will be illustrated using real-world examples. Computing will be done using R and SAS. prereq: Regression at the level of PubH 6451 or PubH 7405 or Stat 5302. Familiarity with basic matrix notation and operations (multiplication, inverse, transpose). Working knowledge of SAS or R (PubH 6420).

PUBH 7475 - Statistical Learning and Data Mining

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

Various statistical techniques for extracting useful information (i.e., learning) from data. Linear discriminant analysis, tree-structured classifiers, feed-forward neural networks, support vector machines, other nonparametric methods, classifier ensembles, unsupervised learning. prereq: [[[6450, 6452] or equiv], programming backgroud in [FORTRAN or C/C++ or JAVA or Splus/R]] or instr consent; 2nd yr MS recommended

PUBH 7534 - Marketing for Health Care Professionals

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Application of principles of marketing to managing professional practice.

PUBH 7541 - Statistics for Health Management Decision Making

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

Variation. Frequency distribution, measurement, probability, graphing. Significance tests, estimation, trends. Data handling. Modeling, odds ratios. Prevalence, incidence/vital statistics. Research applications. Statistical approach to rational administrative decision making. Prereq: MHA student or instructor consent.

PUBH 7556 - Health and Health Systems

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

U.S. health care system/health policy process. Current challenges in areas of health care delivery, financing, policy.

PUBH 7562 - Information Technology in Health Care

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

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

PUBH 7564 - Private Purchasers of Health Care

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

Development/organization of HMOs/PPOs. Risk sharing, provider contracts, utilization management, quality improvement, marketing, new product development. Employer relations. Medicare/Medicaid contracting. Budget processing. Financial performance. Government regulations.

PUBH 7565 - Innovation of Healthcare Services

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

Designing/creating new care delivery services/experiences. Exploiting opportunities for innovation. Overcoming obstacles. Capturing value.

PUBH 7568 - Interdisciplinary Teamwork in Health Care

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

Develop skills to function in inter-professional teams by using knowledge of various health care professions, principles of teamwork, knowledge of teams as they function in health care. Team formation, leading teams, decision making in teams, managing conflict in teams.

PUBH 7569 - Health Care Policy

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

Public policy environment surrounding health care/public health systems. Political context of health policy. Approaches to policy formation/analysis. Tools/strategies for influencing health policy outcomes.

PUBH 8141 - Doctoral Seminar in Observational Inference

Credits:	2.0 [max 20.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Fundamentals of epidemiologic inference. Methods for designing, analyzing, and interpreting epidemiologic studies.

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 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 6100 - Topics: Environmental Health

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 20.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

New course offerings/topics in environmental health.

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 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.

HUMF 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:	Periodic Fall

Variability in human performance influenced by interaction with designs of machines/tools, computers/software, complex technological systems, jobs/working conditions, organizations, sociotechnical institutions. Conceptual, empirical, practical aspects of human factors/ergonomics. prereq: Grad HumF major or minor or instr consent

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 5122 - Applied Exercise Physiology

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

Mechanisms of cardiorespiratory and muscular responses to exercise; application of exercise physiology to assessment of work capacity, athletic conditioning, and requirements of human powered vehicles; low to moderate exercise as an intervention in lowering risk for common health problems. prereq: 4385 or equiv or instr consent

KIN 5723 - Psychology of Sport Injury and Rehabilitation

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

Psychosocial bases of risk factors preceding sport injury, responses to the occurrence of sport injury, and the rehabilitation process. Lecture, discussion, guest lecture, interviews, and presentation experience. prereq: Intro psych course

PSY 5501 - Self, Society and Health - What's Work Got To Do With It?

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

Survey of history, concepts, theories, methods, and findings of vocational/occupational health psychology. Burnout, personality, violence, stressors/stress-relations, counter productive behaviors, coping in workplace. Vocational development/assessment, career decision-making/counseling, person-environment fit. prereq: 3001W or equiv or instr consent

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 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 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 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 6636 - Qualitative Research Methods in Public Health Practice

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Qualitative inquiry, selected data collection, management, analysis methods for qualitative research in public health. Current approaches to assess strength of evidence of qualitative studies in public health. Provision of practical skills that can be applied in public health settings.

PUBH 6806 - Principles of Public Health Research

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

Evaluation of public health research literature and planning for independent research projects. Formulation of research question, research design, sampling techniques, use of research concepts, and data analysis. Data collection techniques, including questionnaires, interviews, and data analysis. prereq: Pub hlth or grad or professional school student or instr consent

PUBH 6810 - Survey Research Methods

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

Theory/application of survey research in data collection. Sampling, item development, instrument design/administration to conduct survey or be aware of issues related to design/implementation. Identification of sources of error in survey research.

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 7401 - Fundamentals of Biostatistical Inference

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

Part of two-course sequence intended for PhD students in School of Public Health who need rigorous approach to probability/statistics/statistical inference with applications to research in public health. prereq: Background in calculus; intended for PhD students in public hlth and other hlth sci who need rigorous approach to probability/statistics and statistical inference with applications to research in public hlth

PUBH 7402 - Biostatistics Modeling and Methods

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

Second of two-course sequence. Rigorous approach to probability/statistics, statistical inference. Applications to research in public health. prereq: 7401; intended for PhD students in health sciences

PUBH 7405 - Biostatistical Inference I

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

T-tests, confidence intervals, power, type I/II errors. Exploratory data analysis. Simple linear regression, regression in matrix notation, multiple regression, diagnostics. Ordinary least squares, violations, generalized least squares, nonlinear least squares regression. Introduction to General linear Model. SAS and S-Plus used. prereq: [[Stat 5101 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in Stat 5101], biostatistics major] or instr consent

PUBH 7406 - Biostatistical Inference II

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course introduces students to a variety of concepts, tools, and techniques that are relevant to the rigorous design and analysis of complex biomedical studies. Topics include ANOVA, sample-size calculations, multiple testing, missing data, prediction, diagnostic testing, smoothing, variable selection, the bootstrap, and nonparametric tests. R software will be used. Biostatistics students are strongly encouraged to typeset their work using LaTeX or in R markdown. prereq: [7405, [STAT 5102 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in STAT 5102], biostatistics major] or instr consent

PUBH 7407 - Analysis of Categorical Data

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

Contingency tables, odds ratio, relative risk, chi-square tests, log-linear models, logistic regression, conditional logistic regression, Poisson regression, matching, generalized linear models for independent data. SAS/S-Plus used throughout. prereq: 7405, [Stat 5102 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in Stat 5102 or Stat 8102 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in Stat 8102]

PUBH 7420 - Clinical Trials: Design, Implementation, and Analysis

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

Introduction to and methodology of randomized clinical trials. Design issues, sample size, operational details, interim monitoring, data analysis issues, overviews. prereq: 6451 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 6451 or 7406 or instr consent

PUBH 7430 - Statistical Methods for Correlated Data

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

Correlated data arise in many situations, particularly when observations are made over time and space or on individuals who share certain underlying characteristics. This course covers techniques for exploring and describing correlated data, along with statistical methods for estimating population parameters (mostly means) from these data. The focus will be primarily on generalized linear models (both with and without random effects) for normally and non-normally distributed data. Wherever possible, techniques will be illustrated using real-world examples. Computing will be done using R and SAS. prereq: Regression at the level of PubH 6451 or PubH 7405 or Stat 5302. Familiarity with basic matrix notation and operations (multiplication, inverse, transpose). Working knowledge of SAS or R (PubH 6420).

PUBH 7440 - Introduction to Bayesian Analysis

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

Introduction to Bayesian methods. Comparison with traditional frequentist methods. Emphasizes data analysis via modern computing methods: Gibbs sampler, WinBUGS software package. prereq: [[7401 or STAT 5101 or equiv], [public health MPH or biostatistics or statistics] grad student] or instr consent

PUBH 7450 - Survival Analysis

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

Statistical methodologies in analysis of survival data. Kaplan-Meier estimator, Cox's proportional hazards multiple regression model, time-dependent covariates, analysis of residuals, multiple failure outcomes. Typical biomedical applications, including clinical trials and person-years data. prereq: 7405, [STAT 5101 or STAT 8101]

PUBH 7460 - Advanced Statistical Computing

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

Statistical computing using SAS, Splus, and FORTRAN or C. Use of pseudo-random number generators, distribution functions. Matrix manipulations with applications to regression and estimation of variance. Simulation studies, minimization of functions, nonlinear regression, macro programming, numerical methods of integration. prereq: [7405, biostatistics major, [C or FORTRAN]] or instr consent

PUBH 8341 - Advanced Epidemiologic Methods: Concepts

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

Conceptual foundations of fundamental issues in epidemiologic methodology. How/why a given method, design, or approach might help explain population health. Strengths, limits, and potential alternatives for a given approach.

PUBH 8342 - Advanced Epidemiologic Methods: Applications

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

Applied methodology course designed for students in the Epi PhD program. Examples and readings are aimed at clinical/biological and social/behavioral track students.

PUBH 8343 - Synthesis and Application of Methods in Epidemiologic Research

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Focuses on the extension, synthesis, and integration of research methods taught in the advanced epidemiology methods sequence (PubH 8341 and PubH 8342) and the application of these methods. Discussion of novel methods such as causal inferences related to the g-formula and penalized regression. Fosters a deeper understanding of current epidemiologic methods and how they are actually implemented in research.

PUBH 8813 - Measurement of Health-Related Social Factors

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

How social factors such as innovativeness, compliance, religiosity, and stress are measured and tested for reliability and validity. Relationships between theory, concepts, variables, data. prereq: Intro stat course, understanding of simple correlations or instr consent

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.

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 6100 - Topics: Environmental Health

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 20.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

New course offerings/topics in environmental health.

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 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.

PUBH 6711 - Public Health Law

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

Basic concepts of law, legislative process, and legal bases for existence/administration of public health programs. Legal aspects of current public health issues/controversies, regulatory role of government in health services system. prereq: Grad student or professional school student or instr consent

PUBH 7214 - Principles of Risk Communication

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

Key concepts of risk communication theory and their practical application to collection/sharing of information in support of individual and community decision-making about public health issues. Application of risk communication principles to routine, ongoing public health issues and those that arise out of emergency/crisis.

VMED 5181 - Spatial Analysis in Infectious Disease Epidemiology

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

Spatial distribution of disease events. Exposures/outcomes. Factors that determine where diseases occur. Analyzing spatial disease data in public health, geography, epidemiology. Focuses on human/animal health related examples. prereq: Intro to epidemiology, statistics,

MICB 4131 - Immunology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	MicB 4131/VPM 4131
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Molecular, genetic and cellular basis for innate and adaptive immune responses. The immune systems role in; transplantation, autoimmune disease, cancer immunotherapy, vaccinololgy, acquired and genetic immunodeficiencies. Prereq: Biol 2003 or Biol 1009 and [Junior or senior]

MICB 4151 - Molecular and Genetic Bases for Microbial Diseases

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

Genetic basis of microbial pathogenesis. Effect of gene transfer and regulation on evolution of microbial pathogens and capacity to colonize, induce disease. Biochemical and cellular interactions between bacteria and human hosts. prereq: MICB 3301 AND [BIOL4003 OR PMB4131 OR Molecular Biology (BIOL 3020 or BIOL 3025 or BIOL 3015)]

MICB 4171 - Biology, Genetics, and Pathogenesis of Viruses

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	MicB 4141W/4171
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Structure, attachment, entry. Genome replication/mRNA production by RNA viruses. Reverse transcription. DNA virus templates. Replication of DNA virus genomes. Processing of viral pre-mRNA. Translational control. Assembly, host defense, tumor viruses, pathogenesis, HIV, antivirals. prereq: Biol 2003 and Biol 4003 and [MicB 4131 or instructor permission]

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 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 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 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 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 6100 - Topics: Environmental Health

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 20.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

New course offerings/topics in environmental health.

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 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 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 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 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

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.

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