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Download Public Health Courses at a University and more Lecture notes Public Health in PDF only on Docsity! Public Health (PB HLTH) 1 Public Health (PB HLTH) Courses Expand all course descriptions [+]Collapse all course descriptions [-] PB HLTH 14 Healthy People: Introduction to Health Promotion 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014 Introduction to personal and community health, drawing on physical and social sciences. Specific areas include stress, alcohol and drugs, nutrition, exercise, the environment, communication, and sexuality. Readings, lectures, and discussions explore key issues for students and examine those issues in the context of contemporary American society. Public health approaches to disease prevention and health promotion are explored for each topic. Healthy People: Introduction to Health Promotion: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Instructor: Kodama Healthy People: Introduction to Health Promotion: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 15 Introduction to Global Health Equity 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017 This seminar provides an overview of the intersection between global health and social justice, with a specific focus on the ways in which inequity, specifically the conditions that lead to poverty, disproportionately affect health outcomes. Students will learn about the historical and theoretical underpinnings of global health, how social determinants affect medical outcomes and health policy, the principles of international law and health economics, and the structure of health delivery models. In the process, students will engage in topics related to social factors that impact health, including class, race, gender, and poverty. Class discussions will address contemporary global health priorities through the lens of human rights activism. Introduction to Global Health Equity: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Instructor: LE Introduction to Global Health Equity: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 24 Freshman Seminar in Public Health 1 Unit Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2021 Seminar limited to 15 freshmen led by senior faculty on broad topics in public health such as financing health care, promoting preventive behavior, controlling major public health problems such as world hunger, AIDS, drugs, and the population explosion. Freshman Seminar in Public Health: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of seminar per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final Exam To be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Freshman Seminar in Public Health: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 84 Sophomore Seminar 1 or 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2019 Sophomore seminars are small interactive courses offered by faculty members in departments all across the campus. Sophomore seminars offer opportunity for close, regular intellectual contact between faculty members and students in the crucial second year. The topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited to 15 sophomores. Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: At discretion of instructor Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 5 weeks - 3-6 hours of seminar per week 10 weeks - 1.5-3 hours of seminar per week 15 weeks - 1-2 hours of seminar per week Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5-5 hours of seminar per week 8 weeks - 1.5-3.5 hours of seminar and 2-4 hours of seminar per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final Exam To be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Sophomore Seminar: Read Less [-] 2 Public Health (PB HLTH) PB HLTH 98 Directed Group Study 1 - 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015 Directed Group Study: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog. Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required. Directed Group Study: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 99 Supervised Independent Study 1 - 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015 Supervised Independent Study: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Consent of instructor Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of independent study per week 8 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of independent study per week 10 weeks - 1.5-6 hours of independent study per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required. Supervised Independent Study: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 101 A Sustainable World: Challenges and Opportunities 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2021 Students now attending Berkeley will confront an extremely different set of challenges than the current faculty experienced. Economic growth cannot continue exponentially in a finite world. Human activity and human numbers threaten the possibility of irreversible damage to the fragile biosphere on which all life depends. In this 3-unit interdisciplinary course, students will focus on finding creative solutions to the problems faced by their generation. Each week, experts will discuss problems and solutions concerning sustainability and climate change that they’re passionate about. Topics include energy consumption, food security, population growth and family planning, migration, climate change, policy, and governance. A Sustainable World: Challenges and Opportunities: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Course Objectives: Find ways to roll back the many political, social, and cultural barriers that stand in the way of developing needed, evidence- based policies and investments. Identify those behaviors that must change, those public policies that must be put in place and the investments that must be made in order to move the current pattern of unsustainable economic activity to a biologically sustainable one. Learn to appraise critically different and sometimes conflicting sources of information. Propose solutions to complex interdisciplinary problems that draw on politics, economics, and philosophy and other social sciences as well as the hard sciences. Understand how adverse trends- for example in global warming and population growth- can interact in adverse ways, sometimes with considerable rapidity. Understand that the continued exponential growth in energy consumption and human population growth is unsustainable. Understand the current rate of destruction of natural resources and biodiversity. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternate method of final assessment during regularly scheduled final exam group (e.g., presentation, final project, etc.). Instructors: Maus, van der Walt A Sustainable World: Challenges and Opportunities: Read Less [-] Public Health (PB HLTH) 5 PB HLTH N112 Global Health: A Multidisciplinary Examination 4 Units Terms offered: Summer 2023 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2022 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session This course examines health at the individual and community/global level by examining the interplay of many factors, including the legal, social, political, and physical environments; economic forces; access to food, safe water, sanitation, and affordable preventive/medical care; nutrition; cultural beliefs and human behaviors; and religion; among others. Students will be expected to read, understand, and use advanced materials from diverse disciplines. Class accompanied by case-based discussions. This class is the Summer Session version of PH 112; same units and content, increased lecture and discussion hours. Global Health: A Multidisciplinary Examination: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Credit Restrictions: Students who complete PH 112 receive no credit for completing PH N112. Hours & Format Summer: 6 weeks - 6 hours of lecture and 6 hours of discussion per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Instructors: Reingold, Colford Global Health: A Multidisciplinary Examination: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 115 Introduction to Global Health Equity 3 Units Terms offered: Summer 2023 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2022 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session This lecture will provide an overview of the intersection between global health and social justice, with a specific focus on ways in which inequity, specifically conditions that lead to poverty, disproportionately affect health outcomes. Students will learn about historical and theoretical underpinnings of global health, how social and structural determinants affect health outcomes and policy, the principles of international law and health economics, and the structure of health delivery models. In the process, students will engage in topics related to social factors that impact health, including class, race, gender, and poverty. Class discussions will address contemporary global health priorities through the lens of human rights activism. Introduction to Global Health Equity: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Student Learning Outcomes: Critically analyze and critique key grassroots global health advocacy efforts and models Formulate comprehensive and equitable policy recommendations on global health cases Think critically about and articulate the history, pathology, and causation of contemporary global health inequity Utilize basic research methods and work collaboratively in a team setting to complete a group case project Rules & Requirements Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for PB HLTH 115 after completing PB HLTH 15. A deficient grade in PB HLTH 115 may be removed by taking PB HLTH 15. Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with advisor consent. Hours & Format Summer: 6 weeks - 4 hours of lecture and 4 hours of discussion per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Instructor: Le Introduction to Global Health Equity: Read Less [-] 6 Public Health (PB HLTH) PB HLTH 116 Seminar on Social, Political, and Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022 This course offers an introduction to issues and perspectives related to health and medicine. Guest lecturers speak about the week’s topic, which can include a variety of topics such as public health, violence, chronic illnesses, environmental health, and health care economics. Speakers share their first-hand experiences in their fields, discuss current issues, debate ethical dilemmas, and pose and answer questions. During the weekly discussion sections, students delve deeper into the issues, not only exploring and perhaps questioning their own thoughts and beliefs, but also learning from the experiences and perspectives of their fellow students. Seminar on Social, Political, and Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Course Objectives: Consider various socio-economic, ethical, political, and social justice issues in health and medicine from an interdisciplinary perspective, and learn something new. This course will help students form a more comprehensive picture of what public health is and how various levels interact to impact population health. In the process, students will become better acquainted with their own beliefs, as they pertain to the issues discussed, and will learn how to productively engage in discussion with others who may or may not share these same beliefs. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam required. Instructors: Francis, Keller Seminar on Social, Political, and Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine: Read Less [-] PB HLTH C117 Introduction to Global Health Disparities Research 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018 This course prepares students to conduct a 10-week global health research project in a low or middle-income country (LMIC); provides a background in global health, emphasizing infectious disease research, international research ethics, and the conduct of health research in low- resource settings. Leads students through the process of preparing for, conducting, and completing a short-term research project, with modules focused on cultural communication, the role and pace of research in these other countries, presentation preparation, project development, and troubleshooting skills; gaining perspective into the relationship between global health and health disparities in the USA Introduction to Global Health Disparities Research: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternate method of final assessment during regularly scheduled final exam group (e.g., presentation, final project, etc.). Instructor: Reingold Also listed as: INTEGBI C195 Introduction to Global Health Disparities Research: Read Less [-] Public Health (PB HLTH) 7 PB HLTH 118 Global Nutrition 3 Units Terms offered: Summer 2023 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2022 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session We will focus on low- and middle-income countries because they experience the greatest burden of malnutrition, and because they face a unique context of limited financial and government resources. In this course, we will discuss the effects of nutrition throughout the lifecycle in pregnancy, infancy, childhood, and adulthood. We will focus on nutrition broadly including issues of undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, and obesity. We will also analyze and evaluate actions taken to ameliorate the major nutritional problems facing vulnerable populations in low- and middle-income countries. Global Nutrition: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Course Objectives: 1. Describe and interpret the prevalence and trends of public health nutrition issues faced by mothers and children living in low- and middle-income countries, ranging from undernutrition to overweight and obesity. 2. Discuss the political, environmental, cultural, and socioeconomic factors underlying a wide range of nutrition issues in low- and middle-income countries and understand how interventions affect these factors. 3. Identify the ways in which historical, social, cultural, economic, commercial, and institutional factors promote or act as barriers to the design and implementation of agriculture, food, and nutrition policies and programs, and the ways in which these policies and programs affect health and other outcomes. 4. Integrate knowledge of nutritional issues and policy to analyze methods through which stakeholder groups affect the design and implementation of food and nutrition programs and policies. Student Learning Outcomes: • Ability to conduct a literature review of a specific public health nutritional problem using reputable sources and communicate important findings to various audiences • Ability to understand how pressing public health nutritional problems in low- or middle-income contexts affect different stakeholder groups; • Critical analysis of issues in public health nutrition relating to the context of a low- or middle-income country; • Understanding of the biological and social roles of nutrition in health through the life cycle, particularly as they relate to issues of poor nutrition in a global context; Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. Instructor: Fernald Global Nutrition: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 124 Health Care and Public Health Managment 3 Units Terms offered: Not yet offered Examines the management of health care and public health organizations and covers organizational design, human resources, leadership, and change management competencies. Introduces management tools and techniques for monitoring and managing change within organizations. Emphasizes how leaders use data to solve problems. Case studies emphasize how to manage human relations and demands from the external environment. Health Care and Public Health Managment: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Student Learning Outcomes: a) Describe key priorities and challenges for health care and public health organizational leaders. b) Analyze health care and public health operational, financial, and quality of care data to inform organizational decision-making. c) Assess the tradeoffs of diverse organizational structures and designs, including divisional, functional, and matrix designs. d) Apply the enabling conditions for effective teams to design and facilitate high performing teams. e) Describe different leadership theories and how they apply to leading health care and public health organizations. f) Formulate strategies for the effective recruitment, engagement, and integration of effective governing and advisory boards. g) Analyze the key steps involved in organizational change management. h) Apply performance improvement and operational efficiency methods to health care and public health organizational performance problems. Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Junior or senior status Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. Instructor: Rodriguez Health Care and Public Health Managment: Read Less [-] 10 Public Health (PB HLTH) PB HLTH 142 Introduction to Probability and Statistics in Biology and Public Health 4 Units Terms offered: Summer 2023 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2023, Fall 2022 Descriptive statistics, probability, probability distributions, point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing, chi-square, correlation and regression with biomedical applications. Introduction to Probability and Statistics in Biology and Public Health: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: High school algebra Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture, 1 hour of discussion, and 1 hour of laboratory per week Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture, 2.5 hours of discussion, and 2.5 hours of laboratory per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Instructors: Riddell, Kang Dufour Introduction to Probability and Statistics in Biology and Public Health: Read Less [-] PB HLTH W142 Introduction to Probability and Statistics in Biology and Public Health 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022 Descriptive statistics, probability, probability distributions, point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing, chi-square, correlation, and regression with biomedical applications. Introduction to Probability and Statistics in Biology and Public Health: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: High school algebra Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 7 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week 15 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Online: This is an online course. Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required. Instructor: Kang-Dufour Introduction to Probability and Statistics in Biology and Public Health: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 144A Introduction to SAS Programming 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014 This course is intended to serve as an introduction to the SAS programming language for Windows in an applied, workshop environment. Emphasis is on data management and programming in a public health research setting. Topics include SAS language to compute, recode, label, and format variables as well as sort, subset, concatenate, and merge data sets. SAS statistical procedures will be used to compute univariate and bivariate summary statistics and tests, simple linear models,graphical plots, and statistical output data sets. Introduction to SAS Programming: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: 142 or consent of instructor Credit Restrictions: This course (or equivalent) is required for students who plan to enroll in 251, Practicum in Epidemiological Methods. Enrollment is limited to School of Public Health students. If space permits, others may enroll with consent of instructor. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Instructor: Lein Introduction to SAS Programming: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 144B Intermediate SAS Programming 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014 Topics include data step flow control, looping and automated processing, implicit and explicit arrays, data simulation strategies, data set reconfiguration, use of SAS Macro variables, and writing simple SAS Macro programs. Intermediate SAS Programming: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: 144A Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to School of Public Health students. If space permits, others may enroll with consent of instructor. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Instructor: Lein Intermediate SAS Programming: Read Less [-] Public Health (PB HLTH) 11 PB HLTH 145 Statistical Analysis of Continuous Outcome Data 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2013 Regression models for continuous outcome data: least squares estimates and their properties, interpreting coefficients, prediction, comparing models, checking model assumptions, transformations, outliers, and influential points. Categorical explanatory variables: interaction and analysis of covariance, correlation and partial correlation. Appropriate graphical methods and statistical computing. Analysis of variance for one- and two-factor models: F tests, assumption checking, multiple comparisons. Random effects models and variance components. Introduction to repeated measures models. Statistical Analysis of Continuous Outcome Data: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: 142 or equivalent Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of laboratory per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Instructor: Lahiff Formerly known as: 142B Statistical Analysis of Continuous Outcome Data: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 147 Global Perspective on Vision 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019 There are four facets to the course. 1) Core knowledge of the epidemiology of the major causes of vision loss globally 2) The role of ophthalmology and surgical interventions in global health 3) novel teaching methods in group dynamics, public speaking, video making, physician shadowing, surgery observation and leadership opportunities 4) Hands on public health work with an intervention, such as vision screening for the homeless. A multidisciplinary approach will be employed to study what interventions are taking place to alleviate the burden of ophthalmic disease. Global Perspective on Vision: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Instructor: Lee Formerly known as: Public Health 247 Global Perspective on Vision: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 150A Introduction to Epidemiology and Human Disease 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021 This course introduces epidemiological methods with the goal of teaching students to read critically and interpret published epidemiologic studies in humans. The course also exposes students to the epidemiology of diseases and conditions of current public health importance in the United States and internationally. Introduction to Epidemiology and Human Disease: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: A course in statistics, preferably 142 Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 4 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Instructors: Barcellos, Mujahid, Lewnard Formerly known as: 150 Introduction to Epidemiology and Human Disease: Read Less [-] 12 Public Health (PB HLTH) PB HLTH 150B Human Health and the Environment in a Changing World 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020 The course will present the major human and natural activities that lead to release of hazardous materials into the environment as well as the causal links between chemical, physical, and biological hazards in the environment and their impact on human health. The basic principles of toxicology will be presented including dose-response relationships, absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of chemicals. The overall role of environmental risks in the pattern of human disease, both nationally and internationally, will be covered. The engineering and policy strategies, including risk assessment, used to evaluate and control these risks will be introduced. Human Health and the Environment in a Changing World: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: 142 and 150A recommended. May be taken concurrently Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for PB HLTH 150B after completing BEHS 160, PB HLTH 150, or PB HLTH N150B. A deficient grade in PB HLTH 150B may be removed by taking PB HLTH 150, or PB HLTH N150B. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Instructors: Bradman, Cardenas Formerly known as: second half of 150 Human Health and the Environment in a Changing World: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 150D Introduction to Health Policy and Management 3 Units Terms offered: Summer 2023 First 6 Week Session, Fall 2022, Summer 2022 First 6 Week Session This course is intended to introduce students to health policy making and health care organizations in the United States. Students will be introduced to concepts from public policy, economics, organizational behavior, and political science. Students will also be introduced to current issues in U.S. health policy and the present organization of the U.S. health care system. Introduction to Health Policy and Management: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Course Objectives: 1. Provide an overview of the structure and financing of the U.S. healthcare system at the end of the first half of the course as measured by the midterm exam. a. Compare the US healthcare system to the systems in other developed countries (as measured on the final exam). 2. Identify the principal functions of health insurance, the structure of public and private health insurance plans, and trends in enrollment and expenditures by the end of the first half of the course as measured by the midterm exam. 3. Describe the involvement and policy goals of different stakeholders in the U.S. healthcare system measured by the midterm exam, article presentations and demonstrated in the course paper. 4. Explain the health care policy making process in the U.S. and the respective roles of government and markets in this process. Understand the legal, ethical, economic, and regulatory dimensions of health care. To be measured by the final exam. 5. Demonstrate critical thinking and ability to analyze health policies as demonstrated in the final term paper. 6. Explain the socio-economic behavioral, biological, environmental, and other factors that impact human health and contribute to health disparities, as assessed in the final exam. a. Comprehend the impact of structural racism on health and health care 7. Explain the innovation and adaptation cycle in biomedical and health information technologies in the U.S health care system as measured in the final exam. 8. Recognize the structural racism that exists within our healthcare system; consider each person’s role in perpetuating the status quo in order to move towards breaking it down. 9. Apply the concepts learned to understand health/health care crisis (i.e., COVID-19) Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. Instructor: Flagg Introduction to Health Policy and Management: Read Less [-] Public Health (PB HLTH) 15 PB HLTH 155C War and Public Health 3 Units Terms offered: Summer 2023 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2022 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session Course covers global Public Health effects of war in context of war's destruction of the health care infrastructure within the Social Ecological framework. Topics include war’s impact on infectious disease & as barrier to control of vaccine-preventable diseases; maternal child health; health of those displaced; psychosocial toll & environmental health consequences. Curriculum focuses on ongoing global conflicts & ramifications of U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, includes modules focusing on public health prevention approach to war & research methods for studying health outcomes in conflict zones. Students work in teams & apply the course material to a specific war that they will follow. Panel discussions to feature veterans & refugees. War and Public Health: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Course Objectives: The course will provide students with a foundation on which they can build their own line of future inquiry exploring how war impacts public health. The objectives of this course include providing students a new paradigm through which they can identify the sustained impact of armed conflict on communities, families and individuals, and understand that those effects linger long after the dead are buried or buildings are reconstructed. Student Learning Outcomes: Finally, they will be able to evaluate how public health’s prevention approach can be applied to armed conflict. In addition, students should be able to place the public health effects of war within the Social Ecological framework. Moreover, upon completion of the course, students should be able to explain the effects of war on environmental health, nutrition and psychological health. Students should also be able to explain how war can prevent control of infectious diseases, has contributed to outbreaks or re-emergence of diseases that were previously eliminated, and has prevented the eradication of vaccine preventable diseases. Students who take the course will apply critical thought to media reports about community violence or adverse health and place them in the framework of the public health consequences of war. The learning outcomes of the course include the ability to explain how war’s destruction of the health care infrastructure impedes Public Health’s mission globally — particularly in war zones in low-resource countries — and how war has also impacted Public Health in US communities. Hours & Format Summer: 6 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Final exam required. Instructor: Lubens War and Public Health: Read Less [-] PB HLTH C155 Sociology of Health and Medicine 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Summer 2020 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2018 First 6 Week Session, Spring 2018, Summer 2017 First 6 Week Session This course covers several topics, including distributive justice in health care, the organization and politics of the health system, the correlates of health (by race, sex, class, income), pandemics (e.g., AIDS, Avian Flu and other influenzas, etc.), and the experience of illness and interactions with doctors and the medical system. Sociology of Health and Medicine: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Sociology 1, 3, 3AC or consent of instructor Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for Sociology C115 after taking Sociology 155, Sociology C155/Public Health C155. A deficient grade in Sociology 155 may be removed by taking Sociology C115/Public Health C155. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-3 hours of lecture and 0-2 hours of discussion per week Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5-7.5 hours of lecture and 0-2 hours of discussion per week 8 weeks - 6-6 hours of lecture and 0-2 hours of discussion per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Also listed as: SOCIOL C115 Sociology of Health and Medicine: Read Less [-] 16 Public Health (PB HLTH) PB HLTH 155D Preparation for Public Health Practice and Leadership Seminar 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021 This capstone course will enhance student preparation to be effective public health practitioners and leaders through application of core knowledge, strengthening essential professional skills and development of post-graduation career and graduate education plans. Students will tackle real-world public health cases and emerging local challenges to enhance essential problem solving and innovation skills. Students will also enhance key communication, team and project skills. Through these activities, students will strengthen their ability to lead themselves, work effectively with others and lead health improvement. Preparation for Public Health Practice and Leadership Seminar: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Course Objectives: Through lecture, readings, and course activities, students will develop the capacity to: # Apply public health knowledge acquired in core courses to case-based scenarios. # Analyze the impact of a public health problem on a community/population level. # Develop and apply innovative approaches to addressing public health issues and present recommendations. # Develop interpersonal skill building, conflict resolution, and practical problem-solving skills. # Enhance oral and written communication and other key skills necessary for effectiveness as a professional and in demand by employers including: project management, human centered design and process improvement. # Increase knowledge of public health career and graduate education options and how to choose a path. # Prepare career-related materials. Strengthen interviewing and networking skills. # Strengthen effectiveness at working in teams to address public health challenges. Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Completion/concurrent enrollment of Public Health Major core courses: PH142, PH150A, PH150B, and P150D. Note, it is expected that capstone students will be 4th year graduating seniors, unless otherwise given permission to enroll by the Course Instructor. It is expected that capstone students will have no more than two Public Health Major core course to complete at time of enrollment Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternate method of final assessment during regularly scheduled final exam group (e.g., presentation, final project, etc.). Instructor: Williams Preparation for Public Health Practice and Leadership Seminar: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 155E Seeing People:Understanding Homelessness' Roots, Stigmas & Solutions-A Berkeley Changemaker Course 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022 The goal is to support you as an informed citizen who understands homelessness, its roots, the multilevel systems & services that exist to address it, & the levers at each level to effect change. We will focus on developing skills to be a changemaker by working together to address homelessness & “housism” in our community. “Housism” is the belief that people experiencing homelessness are intrinsically less worthy/human. We will be informed in our growth by counter-narratives by people experiencing homelessness & by theoretical frameworks, such as the Social Determinants of Health, Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality, the Ecological Model, & theories of stigma. Students who have experienced homelessness or unstable housing are welcome. Seeing People:Understanding Homelessness' Roots, Stigmas & Solutions-A Berkeley Changemaker Course: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Course Objectives: 1. Explain the causes of homelessness from historical, systems, and social-ecological perspectives. 2. Discuss the roots of homelessness in the United States and in the Bay Area in systemic racism against BIPOC populations, homophobia, transphobia, and sexism. 3. Inspect and unpack your housism and begin to develop and apply an antihousist framework. 4. Categorize the different subpopulations of people experiencing homelessness and the unique forces leading to their vulnerability. 5. Demonstrate the relationship between homelessness, individual wellbeing and public health. 6. Apply changemaker principles to the goal of eliminating housism in the Bay Area. Rules & Requirements Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the American Cultures requirement Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with advisor consent. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. Instructor: Auerswald Seeing People:Understanding Homelessness' Roots, Stigmas & Solutions-A Berkeley Changemaker Course: Read Less [-] Public Health (PB HLTH) 17 PB HLTH C160 Environmental Health and Development 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Summer 2022 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2022 The health effects of environmental alterations caused by development programs and other human activities in both developing and developed areas. Case studies will contextualize methodological information and incorporate a global perspective on environmentally mediated diseases in diverse populations. Topics include water management; population change; toxics; energy development; air pollution; climate change; chemical use, etc. Environmental Health and Development: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for ESPM C167 after completing ESPM 167. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week Summer: 6 weeks - 6.5 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Instructor: Morello-Frosch Also listed as: ESPM C167 Environmental Health and Development: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 162A Public Health Microbiology 4 Units Terms offered: Summer 2023 Second 6 Week Session, Fall 2022, Summer 2022 Second 6 Week Session Introduction to properties of microorganisms; their relationships with humans in causing infectious diseases and in maintaining health. With PBHLTH 168, satisfies most requirements for a laboratory course in microbiology. May be taken without PBHLTH 168. Public Health Microbiology: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: One year each of college-level biology and chemistry Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Instructors: Harris, Liu Public Health Microbiology: Read Less [-] 20 Public Health (PB HLTH) PB HLTH 180 The Evolution of Human Sexuality 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022 This course is built around an evolutionary perspective of the basis of human mating behavior and explores a variety of topics in human sexualtiy with the goal of helping us to understand ourselves and to understand and accept the behavior of others. The course takes examples from art, sociology, anatomy, anthropology, physiology, contemporary politics, and history to explore the richness of human sexual behavior and reproduction and the interaction between our biology and our culture. The Evolution of Human Sexuality: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Instructor: Potts The Evolution of Human Sexuality: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 181 Poverty and Population 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020 Globally one million more births than deaths occur every 112 hours, 90% in the poorest countries. Between 1960 and 1980, considerable attention was focused on rapid population growth. Afterwards, the attention has faded and investment in family planning evaporated. Family size among some of the poorest women is increasing. This course seeks to provide an understanding of the relationships between population growth, poverty, women's autonomy, and health. It explores the political "fashions" underlying changing paradigms among demographers, and economists, and development specialists. Poverty and Population: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Instructors: Campbell, Potts, Prata Poverty and Population: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 188 Fung Fellowship Seminar 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022 This course explores the development of innovations to improve the health of populations, with a primary focus on technologies for children (ages 0 to teen) and older adults. Significant emphasis is placed on health equity in exploring these customer groups. Human-centered design is used as the overarching approach to problem solving, which contributes mindsets and skills, as well as mechanisms for collaboration. This course is part of the Fung Fellowship for Wellness & Technology Innovations. Fung Fellowship Seminar: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 1 hour of laboratory per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. Instructor: Sandhu Fung Fellowship Seminar: Read Less [-] PB HLTH H195A Special Study for Honors Candidates in Public Health 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2019, Fall 2017 Required for students intending to complete an honors thesis in their senior year. This course will document your completion of an senior honors thesis in Public Health. You will focus on writing and publishing scientific documents and presenting scientific information in mixed media (written and oral) to diverse audiences (scientists and the general public). Special Study for Honors Candidates in Public Health: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of independent study per week Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of independent study per week 8 weeks - 5.5 hours of independent study per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternate method of final assessment during regularly scheduled final exam group (e.g., presentation, final project, etc.). Special Study for Honors Candidates in Public Health: Read Less [-] Public Health (PB HLTH) 21 PB HLTH 196 Special Topics in Public Health 1 - 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2021 Special topics in various fields of Public Health. Topics covered will vary from semester to semester and will be announced at the beginning of each term. Special Topics in Public Health: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Upper division standing Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of lecture per week Summer: 6 weeks - 1-10 hours of lecture per week 8 weeks - 1-8 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Special Topics in Public Health: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 197 Field Study in Public Health 1 - 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2018 Supervised experience relevant to specific aspects of public health in off- campus organizations. Regular individual meetings with faculty sponsor and written reports required. Field Study in Public Health: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Upper division standing Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week Summer: 6 weeks - 1-10 hours of independent study per week 8 weeks - 1-8 hours of independent study per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required. Field Study in Public Health: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 198 Directed Group Study 1 - 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022 Directed Group Study: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per week Summer: 6 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per week 8 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required. Directed Group Study: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 199 Supervised Independent Study and Research 1 - 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2017 Enrollment restrictions apply; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog. Supervised Independent Study and Research: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week Summer: 6 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week 8 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required. Supervised Independent Study and Research: Read Less [-] 22 Public Health (PB HLTH) PB HLTH 200A Current issues in Public Health Ethics: Research and Practice 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016 This course seeks to examine the ethical challenges inherent in public health practice, research, and policy. It covers a range of topics in ethics through cases representative of different public health dilemmas. The cases considered include treating homeless people with TB, rationing medical care in the United States, conducting HIV studies of maternal- fetal transmission in Africa, managed care policies and setting priorities, the deaf community and cochlear implants, and the societal implications of genetic information. The goal is to enable students to develop an analytical methodology that has practical application for their future work. Current issues in Public Health Ethics: Research and Practice: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Graduate standing Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Halpern Current issues in Public Health Ethics: Research and Practice: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 200C Public Health Core Breadth Seminar 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2009, Fall 2008 This course is designed to provide students with a brief introduction to the field of public health and a basic understanding of the contributions of the environmental, behavioral, and management and policy sciences to the practice of public health. Central foci of the course include the interactions of biology, behavior and environment; the community and population-based nature of public health; health disparities; the relationships among health care access, cost and quality of care; the performance of the health care delivery system; the concepts of risk and burden of disease; the importance of ecological and life course perspectives; and theory- and evidence-based public health research and practice. By the conclusion of this course, students will be able to discuss and describe seminal concepts and approaches, as well as current theories and methods underlying societal efforts to study and address key public health problems. Public Health Core Breadth Seminar: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Graduate standing Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructors: Minkler, Shortell, Smith Public Health Core Breadth Seminar: Read Less [-] Public Health (PB HLTH) 25 PB HLTH W200G Health and Social Behavior Breadth 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022 Course focuses on social, cultural, bio-behavioral determinants of health & health behavior, issues related to social & behavioral interventions, policies aimed at improving community & population health. Students will have experience in/be able to apply range of Health & Social Behavior perspectives, approaches to critically analyze public health issues, conceptualize research & interventions at different levels of ecological model. Topics designed to convey key concepts, highlight approaches in Health & Social Behavior via lectures, readings, videos & online resources. Group assignments focus on community context & health. Will require students to synthesize/apply concepts from course. Assignments will culminate in a final group project. Health and Social Behavior Breadth: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Course Objectives: Describe a range of major themes, theories and conceptual frameworks, research and practice approaches commonly encountered in Health and Social Behavior. Describe and apply ecological public health frameworks and concepts emphasizing multilevel interactions between biology, behavior, environments and the distribution of life opportunities. Describe the rationale for community involvement in public health actions and the key principles of community-based approaches to public health. Understand how socially constructed concepts of race, ethnicity, immigration, gender and social class influence health and structure population health inequities. Understand relationships between human behavior and public health to critically assess models of human behavior and to explore strengths- based, multi-level intervention design. Rules & Requirements Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for PB HLTH W200G after completing PB HLTH 200L. A deficient grade in PB HLTH W200G may be removed by taking PB HLTH 200L. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 7 weeks - 6.5 hours of web-based lecture per week 15 weeks - 3 hours of web-based lecture per week Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of web-based lecture per week Online: This is an online course. Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: vanDommelen-Gonzalez Health and Social Behavior Breadth: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 201E Public Health Interventions: Theory, Practice, and Research 2 or 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019 This course focuses on the primary factors that affect health and the interventions that can promote health. Students examine the determinants of health and the theory, history, types, ethics, and approaches of public health interventions. Community level interventions and multidisciplinary approaches receive special emphasis. The course stresses a rigorous critique of the outcomes of interventions and practical ways to improve them. Students take an active role in the design and conduct of the course. Public Health Interventions: Theory, Practice, and Research: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Previous experience with health interventions and doctoral student status or consent of instructor Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructors: Neuhauser, Syme Public Health Interventions: Theory, Practice, and Research: Read Less [-] 26 Public Health (PB HLTH) PB HLTH 201F Community-Based Research and Interventions to Promote Health: Theory and Methods 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2009 This course will delve into theoretical, methodological, and practical considerations in conducting physical and mental health interventions in diverse communities. Course emphases are: a) conceptualization and implementation of community interventions within ecological models and principles; b) logic models of intervention process and outcomes; c) comparing and integrating prevention science and community-based participatory approaches to intervention; d) strategies and challenges in replicating and diffusing community-based interventions across diverse settings; and e) cultural competency in community intervention development. Community-Based Research and Interventions to Promote Health: Theory and Methods: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Graduate standing Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Ozer Community-Based Research and Interventions to Promote Health: Theory and Methods: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 202B Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Health Status 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021 Focus on ethnic and cultural diversity in health behavior as a basis for public health programs. Consideration of U.S. ethnic minority groups and cultural groups in non-Western societies. Health status and behavior examined in context of relevant social and anthropological theory (social class, acculturation, political economy). Influence of socio-cultural background on concepts of health, illness, and health-seeking behavior. Implications for planning public health programs and policies. Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Health Status: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Morello-Frosh Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Health Status: Read Less [-] PB HLTH C202B Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Health Status 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2013 Focus on ethnic and cultural diversity in health behavior as a basis for public health programs. Consideration of U.S. ethnic minority groups and cultural groups in non-Western societies. Health status and behavior examined in context of relevant social and anthropological theory (social class, acculturation, political economy). Influence of socio-cultural background on concepts of health, illness, and health-seeking behavior. Implications for planning public health programs and policies. Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Health Status: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Morello-Frosch Also listed as: ESPM C254 Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Health Status: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 202G Advanced Alcohol Research Seminar 1 Unit Terms offered: Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022 This course is an advanced alcohol research seminar in which presentations are made by alcohol research scientists nationally and internationally, as well as pre-and post-doctoral fellows, and focus on special topical areas related to psychosocial research in the field each semester. Areas covered include the epidemiology of drinking patterns and alcohol-related problems, issues related to treatment of alcohol- related problems, and health services research. Guest presentations are also provided (related to topics outside psychosocial research) to provide a breadth of understanding in the field. The seminar also includes sessions focused on methodological issues in alcohol-related research and grant writing, and has a research ethics component covering a number of sessions. Advanced Alcohol Research Seminar: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructors: Cherpitel, Kaskutas Advanced Alcohol Research Seminar: Read Less [-] Public Health (PB HLTH) 27 PB HLTH W202 Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Health Status 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2015, Fall 2014 This course will examine ethnic and cultural differences in health status and behavior among historically marginalized communities in the United States, including African-Americans, Latinos, Asian-Americans, Native Americans, as well as sexual minorities and groups from non-Western societies. Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Health Status: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 7 weeks - 6 hours of web-based lecture per week Online: This is an online course. Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Morello-Frosch Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Health Status: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 203A Theories of Health and Social Behavior 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020 This course provides a survey of theoretical perspectives and their application in analyzing the behavioral, social, and cultural dimensions of community health problems. An emphasis is placed on critically examining the strengths and weaknesses of particular theories for understanding and addressing complex community health problems. Theories of Health and Social Behavior: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Background in social and behavioral sciences. Consent of instructor Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Holmes Theories of Health and Social Behavior: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 204A Mass Communications in Public Health 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020 Examines the role of mass communication in advancing public health goals. Reviews mass media theories in general, and theories of the news media in particular. Provides an in-depth understanding of media advocacy as a strategy for using news media and paid advertising to support policy initiatives at the local, state, and federal levels. Examples are drawn from a wide range of public health issues. Mass Communications in Public Health: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Mass Communications in Public Health: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 204F Culture, Public Health Practice, and Eliminating Health Disparities: From Ideas to Action in the 21st Century 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2013 Public health literature and practice make frequent reference to the terms culture, cultural competence, race, racism, ethnicity, and health disparities. Understanding these terms, their complex meanings and current application in public health practice is the subject matter of this course. By the end of the course students will be able to describe the concepts of culture, race, racism, ethnicity, cultural competence, cultural humility, health disparities and their use in public health theory and practice; identify and describe the application of these concepts in local public health practice; and demonstrate an understanding of these concepts and their application in public health practice through the completion of a group project. Culture, Public Health Practice, and Eliminating Health Disparities: From Ideas to Action in the 21st Century: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Graduate students in Public Health or by consent of instructor Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Nazeeri-Simmons Culture, Public Health Practice, and Eliminating Health Disparities: From Ideas to Action in the 21st Century: Read Less [-] 30 Public Health (PB HLTH) PB HLTH 206C Nutritional Epidemiology 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Spring 2021 This course develops the ability to read published nutritional epidemiology research critically. Basic research methods in nutritional epidemiology will be reviewed, and issues in design, analysis, and interpretation unique to nutritional epidemiology will be addressed. This will be accomplished by readings and study questions, lecture/ discussions, and problem sets. Nutritional Epidemiology: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Summer: 8 weeks - 15 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Block Nutritional Epidemiology: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 206D Programs and Policies in Global Nutrition 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2019, Fall 2017 This course will use a case-based approach to examine the ways in which governments in developing countries design and implement policies and programs that affect food production and access to safe, affordable, and nutritionally adequate diets. In the course we will analyze, assess and evaluate ways to take action to ameliorate the major nutritional problems facing vulnerable populations in developing countries. Programs and Policies in Global Nutrition: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Course Objectives: # Critical analysis of issues in public health nutrition relating to the context of a developing country; # Demonstration of effective organizational skills and the ability to communicate with and enlist the support of potential participants and stakeholders; and # Participation in making policy related to health and nutrition within services, programs, and projects. # Understanding of the biological and social roles of nutrition in health, particularly as they relate to issues of poor nutrition in a global context; Student Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe and interpret the prevalence and trends of public health nutrition issues faced by mothers and children living in low- and middle-income countries, ranging from malnutrition to micronutrient deficiencies to overweight and obesity. 2. Discuss the political, environmental, cultural, and socioeconomic factors underlying a wide range of nutrition issues in low- and middle-income countries and predict how interventions affect these factors. 3. Identify the ways in which historical, social, cultural, economic, commercial, and institutional factors promote or act as barriers to the design and implementation of agriculture, food, and nutrition policies and programs, and the ways in which these policies and programs affect health and other outcomes. 4. Integrate knowledge of nutritional issues and policies to analyze methods through which stakeholder groups affect the design and implementation of food and nutrition programs and policies. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Fernald Programs and Policies in Global Nutrition: Read Less [-] Public Health (PB HLTH) 31 PB HLTH W206 Maternal and Child Health Nutrition 3 Units Terms offered: Summer 2023 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2022 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session Nutrition plays a vital role in human reproduction, child growth/ development. Course provides an overview of the major nutritional issues for infants, children, adolescents, and reproductive age women in the United States. One module on malnutrition offers global content. Reviews programs, interventions aimed at improving MCH nutrition, builds student familiarity with evidence-based MCH nutrition practice guidelines. Demonstrates a methodology for applying this knowledge to food choices at a personal, programmatic level. Students will be asked to engage in a "hands on" experience with the USA's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly The Food Stamp Program). Supplemental learning activities for this course are highly interactive Maternal and Child Health Nutrition: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit under special circumstances: if student receives D or F grade Hours & Format Summer: 6 weeks - 6 hours of web-based lecture per week Online: This is an online course. Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Leung Maternal and Child Health Nutrition: Read Less [-] PB HLTH W206A Nutrition Assessment 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022 Nutrition assessment tools are used to evaluate an individual’s or population’s nutrition status and/or risk of specific nutrient excess or deficiency. This 3-unit course will discuss various dietary, anthropometric, clinical, and biochemical nutrition assessment tools and provide you with skills to determine which assessment tools are needed based on program/research project goals, how to interpret nutrition assessment survey results and apply them to populations, and critically evaluate the metrics used to define different types of malnutrition. Nutrition Assessment: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Course Objectives: 1. Recommend the appropriate nutrition assessment tool needed based on the target population, nutrient/ nutrition issue of interest, and goal of the assessment. 2. Critically evaluate nutrition assessment tools based on their required resources, applications, limitations, and biases. 3. Interpret nutrition assessment results and apply them at the population level. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week Online: This is an online course. Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Zyba Nutrition Assessment: Read Less [-] 32 Public Health (PB HLTH) PB HLTH W206B Food and Nutrition Policy 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022 Course examines ways in which the US govt designs & implements policies/programs that affect access to nutritionally adequate, safe, affordable diets. We analyze how multiple stakeholders in the food system interact to affect policy design & implementation; historical, social, economic, environmental & political factors that determine stakeholder positions on policy issues; & ways these factors promote or act as barriers to achieving a system that promotes optimal food access, nutrition & health. We cover contemporary food & nutrition policy issues, as well as the history of these issues & ideas. Students will understand the broad spectrum of policies that affect human diets & will become familiar with the policy processes. Food and Nutrition Policy: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Course Objectives: a. Describe the principal areas of domestic food and nutrition policy (e.g., food assistance, dietary guidance and education, agricultural support, food industry regulation, food safety regulation, food and nutrition research) and the most important current issues related to these policy areas. b. Identify the governmental agencies primarily responsible for each area of food and nutrition policy and explain their roles. c. Identify the ways in which historical, social, cultural, economic, commercial, and institutional factors promote or act as barriers to the design and implementation of agriculture, food, and nutrition policies and programs, and the ways in which these policies and programs affect health. d. Describe the major federal food programs—their history, purpose, reach, and effectiveness, as well as current policy and political questions being raised about them. e. Identify and apply the methods through which stakeholder groups affect the design and implementation of agriculture, food, and nutrition policies. f. Recognize your potential to engage in and influence food and nutrition policy throughout your career. Rules & Requirements Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for PB HLTH W206B after completing PB HLTH 206B. A deficient grade in PB HLTH W206B may be removed by taking PB HLTH 206B. Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with advisor consent. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 7 hours of lecture per week Online: This is an online course. Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Thompson Food and Nutrition Policy: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 207 Transforming the Food System: From Agroecology to Population Health 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021 This course will take a solutions-oriented approach to addressing the pressing problems in current food systems. We will explore strategies used by the disciplines of agroecology, policy, law, public health, and business in working to improve food systems and apply their varied approaches to real-world case studies. Through weekly readings, discussions, and problem-solving sessions with Berkeley’s leading food systems experts, students will gain a broad understanding of food systems and the leverage points that can be targeted to improve the health of people and the planet. Transforming the Food System: From Agroecology to Population Health: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Course Objectives: 1. Define and explain food systems, explain interdependence within those systems, and understand their impacts on the health of people and the planet 2. Identify leverage points for transforming food systems based on evidence 3. Understand various strategies—legal, political, agro-ecological, economic, behavioral, etc.—that different disciplines use to target leverage points 4. Articulate different perspectives on food systems issues and explain the pros and cons of strategies for food systems change 5. Adapt communication styles to various audiences and media Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Graduate student standing Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with advisor consent. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Madsen Transforming the Food System: From Agroecology to Population Health: Read Less [-] Public Health (PB HLTH) 35 PB HLTH 210 Foundations of Maternal and Child Health Policy, Practice and Science 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020 This course will explore issues related to maternal, child, and adolescent health throughout the life course with a focus on the social determinants of health, health disparities, and social justice. Discussion will focus on current issues central to maternal and child health policy and practice; the history and organization of MCH health services in the US; and analyze the ways in which the political context in the US and internationally affects the health and well-being of families, including critical examination of the ways in which knowledge about an issue, an understanding of the social strategies to address that issue, and political will are all leveraged to influence the creation of MCH policy. Foundations of Maternal and Child Health Policy, Practice and Science: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Consent of instructor Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Pies Foundations of Maternal and Child Health Policy, Practice and Science: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 210B Adolescent Health 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2021 This course is designed to provide an understanding of the epidemiology and etiology of critical health issues among adolescents, including complex contextual influences and individual processes related to this dynamic period of life. Each adolescent health outcome will be considered in light of developmental issues related to the pubertal transition and multilevel influences that contribute to adolescent health and well-being, including 1) biological, 2) cognitive, 3) behavioral, and 4) social-culture factors. The course will emphasize: empirical evidence for the etiology of adolescent health problems, documented risk and protective factors, and content and timing of preventive intervention efforts to ameliorate risk. Adolescent Health: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Graduate standing Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Deardorff Adolescent Health: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 210C Needs Assessment in Maternal and Child Health 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013 The purpose of this course is to provide a conceptual and practical understanding of health needs and the strategies that can be used for conducting needs assessments in maternal and child health. The course is aimed at students who anticipate working in situations that involve measuring health problems in communities, planning for health services, and advocating or making decisions about the distribution of community health resources. Needs Assessment in Maternal and Child Health: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Graduate student in Public Health Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Guendelman Formerly known as: 210B Needs Assessment in Maternal and Child Health: Read Less [-] 36 Public Health (PB HLTH) PB HLTH 210D Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2017, Spring 2016 Research methods and issues in perinatal and reproductive epidemiology with emphasis on methods of study. Specific adverse reproductive outcomes, risk factors, and prevalence will be discussed. Will include critiques of published studies and techniques of proposal writing. Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Graduate standing in epidemiology or consent of instructor Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Eskenazi Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 210E Practicum in MCH Data Analysis I 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020 This course is designed to support MCH students complete their masters capstone project. Part I is offered in the Fall and Part II is in Spring. Practicum in MCH Data Analysis I: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Credit Restrictions: Formerly known as: PH 293-7 MCH Seminar. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Harley Practicum in MCH Data Analysis I: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 210F Practicum In MCH Data Analysis II 1 - 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021 The course is designed to support MCH students working on their Master's Capstone project. The course goal is to support students in a variety of methodological issues and practical issues. The course is a combination of formal class meetings and one-on-one meetings. Practicum In MCH Data Analysis II: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Credit Restrictions: Formerly known as: 293-6 Practical Issues in MCH Data Analysis. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-2 hours of seminar and 1-2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Harley Practicum In MCH Data Analysis II: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 210J Maternal, Child & Adolescent Health Journal Club 2 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020 The purpose of this seminar is to learn how to critically review peer- reviewed articles in the field of maternal, child, adolescent and family health (MCAH). This is a required course for all Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health MPH students and some MCAH Specialty areas. Others may enroll with permission of the instructor. Maternal, Child & Adolescent Health Journal Club: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only. Instructor: Eskenazi Maternal, Child & Adolescent Health Journal Club: Read Less [-] Public Health (PB HLTH) 37 PB HLTH 210K Foundations of Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health Leadership 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021 This course introduces students to theories and concepts of leadership and explores ways of applying these to maternal, child, and adolescent health issues. This course provides opportunities for students to develop skills and resources for further developing their own leadership. The skills taught in this course will prepare students to become dynamic, thoughtful leaders in the field of MCAH with a particular focus on continued self- reflection and development to lead programs that address the diverse issues facing MCAH populations. Foundations of Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health Leadership: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only. Instructor: Strouse Foundations of Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health Leadership: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 211 Health and Human Rights 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020 The course examines the origins of health and human rights concerns and outlines a conceptual basis for human rights among health professionals. It provides an overview of the epidemiology of human rights violations worldwide and an analysis of the psychology of abuse. The course considers the role of health professionals in (1) documenting the health and social consequences of human rights violations and war; (2) treating survivors of abuse; (3) addressing specific human rights concerns of women and children; (4) identifying the impact of health policy on human rights; and (5) participating in human rights education and advocacy. The course will also examine issues of universality of human rights and cultural relativism and the role of accountability for the past abuses in prevention. Health and Human Rights: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructors: Iacopino, Weinstein Health and Human Rights: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 212A International Maternal and Child Health 2 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020 Assessment of health status of mothers, infants, and children on worldwide basis; special emphasis on problems, policies, and programs affecting MCH and family planning in developing countries. International Maternal and Child Health: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Miller International Maternal and Child Health: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 212C Migration and Health: A U.S.- Mexico Binational Perspective 2 - 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014 Building upon expertise on migration from Mexico to the U.S., the goal of this course is to strengthen students' knowledge and understanding of public health issues of immigrants and the effects that migration has on the health/disease issues of communities in the countries of origin, transit, and destination. Students will explore successful public health intervention programs targeting these populations. Migration and Health: A U.S.-Mexico Binational Perspective: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Guendelman Migration and Health: A U.S.-Mexico Binational Perspective: Read Less [-] 40 Public Health (PB HLTH) PB HLTH 216A Biological Embedding of Social Factors 2 Units Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2017, Spring 2016 This is an interdisciplinary course which will adopt a broad-based ecological perspective of health and behavior. This class will emphasize the interconnected and multidirectional relationships between biology, behavior, and the social environment. This course will be conducted as a seminar series (with a focus on biological processes). We will investigate the assertion that biological, psychological, and social processes interact over a lifetime to influence health and vulnerability to disease (a developmental epigenetic perspective). Rather than focusing on "if" social factors can influence health and disease we will focus on "how" social factors may regulate/change biological measures. Three very general themes will be addressed: development, "social" neuroscience and gene-environment interactions as they relate to behavior. Topics such as constraints/plasticity and behavior, genetic determinism, vulnerability versus resilience, gene-environment interactions, fetal/developmental programming, and stress will all be touched upon. Biological Embedding of Social Factors: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Francis Biological Embedding of Social Factors: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 217C Aging and Public Health 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015 The purpose of this course is to provide an overview of research, practice, and policy in the area of aging and public health. Topics will include the epidemiology of aging; race, class, gender, and aging; nutrition and the elderly; and current health policy surrounding aging. Themes running throughout the course and linking a number of the topics covered will include the diversity of the elderly; the importance of co- morbidity and functional health status in this population group; the family and broader environmental contexts in which aging takes place; and the influence of public and private sector policies on health and health- related behavior in the elderly. Weekly lectures by the faculty will be complemented by presentations by prominent Bay Area researchers in the areas of geriatrics and gerontology. This is the core course for the School of Public Health specialty in aging and public health. Aging and Public Health: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Satariano Aging and Public Health: Read Less [-] Public Health (PB HLTH) 41 PB HLTH C217D Biological and Public Health Aspects of Alzheimer's Disease 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013 This course will survey the field of Alzheimer's disease (AD) from a biological and public health perspective by reading original research papers in the fields of medicine, neuroscience, and epidemiology. The course will begin with a historical survey of the concept of AD, followed by a description of clinical and neuropathological features. Subsequent classes will cover the genetics and molecular biology of the disease, as well as biomarkers, epidemiology, risk factors, treatment, development of new diagnostic approaches, and ethical issues. The course will also serve as a model for the analysis of complex diseases with multiple genetic and environmental causes, and late onset neurodegenerative diseases. The course will also serve as a model for the analysis of complex diseases with multiple genetic and environmental causes and late-onset neurodegenerative disease. Biological and Public Health Aspects of Alzheimer's Disease: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Jagust Also listed as: NEUROSC C217D Biological and Public Health Aspects of Alzheimer's Disease: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 218B Evaluation of Health and Social Programs 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020 The study of concepts, methods, rationale, and uses of evaluation research as they apply to health and social programs. Evaluation of Health and Social Programs: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Evaluation of Health and Social Programs: Read Less [-] PB HLTH W218 Evaluation of Health and Social Programs 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021 This course provides an overview of the concepts and methods of program evaluation. The course will be useful to those concerned with evaluation of health and social service programs. Participants will develop the critical skills necessary to assess the quality of evaluation research projects, to apply technical skills in professional practice, and to develop evaluation plans for a variety of heath and social programs. Evaluation of Health and Social Programs: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 7 weeks - 6 hours of web-based lecture per week Online: This is an online course. Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Paleo Evaluation of Health and Social Programs: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 219C Community-Based Participatory Research in Public Health 3 - 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2018 The goal of this seminar is to provide doctoral and advanced master's degree students with an understanding of theories, principles, and strategies of community-based participatory research (CBPR) and related traditions. The advantages and limitations of this approach, skills necessary for effective application, and theory-driven case studies will be explored. Students undertaking a service-learning project applying CBPR may receive a 4th unit. Community-Based Participatory Research in Public Health: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Minkler Community-Based Participatory Research in Public Health: Read Less [-] 42 Public Health (PB HLTH) PB HLTH 219D Social and Behavioral Health Research: Introduction to Survey Methods 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2013, Fall 2012 This course provides students with a thorough tool kit for designing survey questionnaires and for implementing telephone, face-to-face, and mail surveys. The three-hour weekly class sessions are designed to convey practical knowledge, with a case study approach used to complement each topical lecture. An SPSS laboratory is also given each semester. The course is an elective for Health and Social Behavior students, and many from the multidisciplinary program and other tracks in the school (including UCSF, e.g., nurses in their Ph.D. programs) have often enrolled as well. By the end of the semester, students will have designed, as their class project, a research project including a study design rationale, aims and hypotheses, data collection methods and measures, human subjects consent form, codebook and analysis plan. Social and Behavioral Health Research: Introduction to Survey Methods: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Karriker-Jaffe Social and Behavioral Health Research: Introduction to Survey Methods: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 219E Introduction to Qualitative Methods in Public Health Research 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021 This course is designed to familiarize students who have little or no experience in conducting qualitative research with the perspectives, methods, and techniques of a vast and contentious tradition of research. The course will cover some of the methods of data collections used in the conduct of qualitative inquiries, the analysis of textural data, the write-up of findings from qualitative studies, and the development of a qualitative research proposal. While learning about qualitative methods, students will gain an understanding of the qualitative research literature on a topic of their choice, as well as how to integrate findings from a variety of qualitative studies on a research question of topic. Introduction to Qualitative Methods in Public Health Research: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Miller Introduction to Qualitative Methods in Public Health Research: Read Less [-] PB HLTH W219 Social and Behavioral Health Research: Introduction to Survey Methods 3 Units Terms offered: Summer 2023 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2023, Summer 2022 Second 6 Week Session This course provides a thorough background in the design, administration, and interpretation of a range of survey strategies (e.g., telephone, face-to-face, mail and internet surveys) within the broader context of a research or evaluation project. Topics will include formulation of study aims, developing an appropriate research design, protection of human subjects and proper conduct of research, sample size calculations, recruitment strategies, survey administration, and development of an analysis plan. Class topics are designed to convey practical knowledge through topical lectures, group activities, partner feedback and a survey design project consisting of two parts: a survey instrument and a research plan. Social and Behavioral Health Research: Introduction to Survey Methods: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Student Learning Outcomes: 1. Formulate research questions and develop testable hypotheses appropriate for survey research 2. Identify appropriate survey tools to address a particular research question and hypothesis 3. Define and operationalize constructs and variables for survey research 4. Assess the reliability and validity of survey measures 5. Select a sampling design optimized for examining a particular research question and hypothesis 6. Demonstrate the ability to identify and address cultural and ethical considerations in conducting survey research, particularly involving diverse and special populations (including children, the elderly, and those diagnosed and treated for acute and chronic conditions) where relevant 7. Develop an analysis plan and dissemination plan linked to research questions, hypotheses and a survey instrument Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 7 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week Summer: 7 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week Online: This is an online course. Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Sheats Social and Behavioral Health Research: Introduction to Survey Methods: Read Less [-] Public Health (PB HLTH) 45 PB HLTH 222A Biomedical Innovation Policy 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021 Course examines the policy framework for biomedical technology, including medical devices, drugs, diagnostics, digital therapeutics and algorithms. Emphasis will be placed on the funding of research and development, the protection of intellectual property, FDA market authorization, insurance coverage and algorithm design. Focus will be on the US but will examine industrial policy and innovation nationalism within a global context. Students are required to read peer-reviewed articles, keep up with journalistic reports and participate in classroom discussions. Lectures will be pre-recorded and posted on bCourses and it is expected that students will have watched these lectures and done the readings prior to class. Biomedical Innovation Policy: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Course Objectives: • Compare the strengths and limits of alternative mechanisms for stimulating R&D investments in the life sciences: research grants, commercialization grants, tax credits, patent-protected pricing, innovation prizes, and advanced market commitments, among others. • Describe the basic principles and applications of intellectual property policy and the tradeoffs between greater access to current treatments. via low product prices, and greater incentives for investment in new treatments, via high prices. o Intellectual property policy with respect to generics and biosimilars • Discuss the basic structure of regulatory market authorization: o FDA review of safety and efficacy for pharmaceuticals o Accelerated review and the evolution of evidentiary demands o Market authorization for medical devices, diagnostic tests, digital therapeutics • Explain the basic principles of health technology assessment and their applicability to insurance coverage and pricing. Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Graduate standing. Undergraduates will be considered on case-by-case basis Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Robinson Biomedical Innovation Policy: Read Less [-] PB HLTH W222A Biomedical Innovation Policy 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022 This course examines the policy framework for biomedical technology, including medical devices, drugs, diagnostics, digital therapeutics, and algorithms. Emphasis will be placed on the funding of research and development, the protection of intellectual property, FDA market authorization, insurance coverage, and algorithm design. The focus will be on the US but we will examine industrial policy and innovation nationalism within a global context. Students will be required to read peer-reviewed articles, keep up with journalistic reports, and participate in online discussions. Biomedical Innovation Policy: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Course Objectives: # Be able to explain the principles of health technology assessment (HTA) and the challenges raised in their application to insurance coverage and pricing for Medicare. # Compare the strengths and limits of alternative mechanisms for stimulating R&D investments in the life sciences: research grants, commercialization grants, tax credits, patent-protected pricing, and innovation prizes, among others. Be able to apply these principles to develop a package of policy incentives to encourage investment in novel antibiotics. # Describe the basic principles and applications of intellectual property policy and the tradeoffs between greater access to current treatments. via low product prices, and greater incentives for investment in new treatments, via high prices. # Intellectual property policy with respect to generics and biosimilars # Discuss the structure of regulatory market authorization, including FDA review of safety and efficacy for pharmaceuticals and market authorization for medical devices, diagnostic tests, digital therapeutics. Apply these principles in video debate over FDA accelerated review. Rules & Requirements Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for PB HLTH W222A after completing PB HLTH 222A. A deficient grade in PB HLTH W222A may be removed by taking PB HLTH 222A. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week Online: This is an online course. Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Robinson Biomedical Innovation Policy: Read Less [-] 46 Public Health (PB HLTH) PB HLTH 223C Strategic Management and the Health Sector 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021 The overall purpose of this course is to assist the student in managing health care organizations from a strategic perspective. This is accomplished by systematically addressing systemwide, organization- wide, group- and individual-level issues in strategy formulation, content, implementation, and performance. Emphasis is placed upon the manager's role in simultaneously taking into account a wide variety of internal and external factors to improve organization and system performance in meeting the health needs of individuals and communities. Emphasis is also placed on the development and implementation of strategies to meet multiple stakeholder demands, particular attention given to continuous quality improvement/total quality management. Strategic Management and the Health Sector: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Business Administration 205 or 224A and 223A or consent of instructor. Students are required to have a general background knowledge of the health services system Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructors: Shortell, Oxendine Strategic Management and the Health Sector: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 223D Foundations of Health Policy and Management 2 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020 This course is designed as a first semester seminar for master's students in the Division of Health Policy and Management. The purposes of this course are fourfold: 1) to provide an overview of the U.S. medical and health care systems; 2) to provide an introduction to basic concepts and competencies in health policy analysis and health management; 3) to provide internship preparation and career development activities; and 4) to provide opportunities to develop relationships with 1st- and 2nd-year HPM students and with faculty, alumni, and healthcare leaders. Foundations of Health Policy and Management: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Graduate standing in Health Policy and Management or consent of instructor Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructors: Oxendine, Solomon Foundations of Health Policy and Management: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 223E Capstone Seminar in Health Policy and Management 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021 This course is an integrative seminar that builds on the core curriculum requirements of the school and HPM specialty. Participants are master's degree students advancing to candidacy. After sharing their internship experiences and the impact on career decisions, the students are required to draw on situations from their internship to demonstrate what they have learned by leading fellow seminar participants in facilitated discussions, culminating in a specific management recommendation or policy position. Students will gain exposure to a range of HPM issues based on the experiences of their peers. Each student is also required to produce a 20-page paper and prepare and deliver a formal presentation to seminar participants and invited faculty. The paper will address an HPM topic of interest that has been selected by the student and approved by the course faculty and the student's academic advisor. Suggested formats for the paper are a policy or strategic management analysis, but other options may be proposed and approved by the instructor. Capstone Seminar in Health Policy and Management: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Graduate standing in HPM and completion of 297 internship Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Solomon Capstone Seminar in Health Policy and Management: Read Less [-] Public Health (PB HLTH) 47 PB HLTH W223 Strategy in Health Care Organizations 3 Units Terms offered: Summer 2023 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2022 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session This course is an introduction to health care strategy in which students will have an immersive, practical, hands-on experience in the strategic management of a real or fictitious health care organization. This course will familiarize students with the requisite skills and techniques to lead strategic change at a division, department, or enterprise level within a health care organization. Strategy in Health Care Organizations: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Course Objectives: 1. Strategic Management Theory and Leading Practices. Students will learn this through a combination of lectures, readings from the textbook and business journal articles, and “how to” instructional videos. 2. Real World Experience. Students will learn this through a combination of Executive Interviews, Case Studies, and personal reflection. 3. Hands-on Practice. Students will learn this through a carefully designed, team-based practical experience in which they for a real or fictitious health care organization of their choice. Student Learning Outcomes: Adjust organizational strategy in response to real-time crises. Define and align their organization’s mission, vision, values, and strategy. Learn how to define and measure key performance indicators (KPIs). Learn how to successfully implement a strategy by creating a Strategic Roadmap, high level Project Plan, and Risk Mitigation Plan. Learn various common strategies, including: Growth by Concentration/ Horizontal Integration, Growth by Related Diversification/Vertical Integration, and Innovation. Learn various tools and techniques that may be used in informing a strategy including: Value Chain Analysis, Benchmarking, SWOT Analyses, Root Cause Analysis, Porter’s Five Forces Model, Scenario Planning, and Balanced Scorecards. Understand the important influences of leadership and culture on the successful execution of the strategy. Understand the pros and cons of strategic alternatives including: Internal Development, Internal New Venture Creation, Investment in New Ventures, Acquisition, Mergers, Joint Ventures/Strategic Alliances/ Partnerships, and Innovation. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 7 weeks - 6 hours of web-based lecture per week Summer: 7 weeks - 6 hours of web-based lecture per week Online: This is an online course. Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Webb Strategy in Health Care Organizations: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 224A Organizational Behavior and Management in Health Care 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2019 Introduction to health administration, focusing on theories of management, organizations, and environments as they relate to the administration of health services. Cases, simulation, and structured experiences will be used to tie theory to practice. Organizational Behavior and Management in Health Care: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Rodriguez Organizational Behavior and Management in Health Care: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 224E Health Care Quality 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2019 The course focuses on the quality of Health Care in the United States, including variations and determinants in quality and best practices in improving quality. Students will develop an understanding of conceptual frameworks for Health Care problem solving and quality improvement. As part of the class they will gain experience in designing a Health Care quality improvement plan. The course is designed for Graduate students interested in healthcare delivery. Health Care Quality: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Nazeeri-Simmons Health Care Quality: Read Less [-] 50 Public Health (PB HLTH) PB HLTH W226A Health Economics 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020 This online course provides an overview of the United States healthcare system using a microeconomic lens. Students will be introduced to the microeconomic theory and empirical students that will deepen their understanding of how consumers, firms and the government influence healthcare expenditures (including its quantity and prices), healthcare quality, and patient health outcomes. These economic models will enable students to predict how changes in consumer behavior, the industrial organization of firms, and government policies affect healthcare and health outcomes. Health Economics: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Introduction to Health Policy and Management (PH W200E) Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 6 hours of web-based lecture per week Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of web-based lecture per week Online: This is an online course. Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Fulton Health Economics: Read Less [-] PB HLTH W226C Economics of Population Health 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021 This 3-unit online course will explore the economics evidence base and tools for evaluating economic factors and interventions that shape the health of populations. The course will include a substantial economic evaluation module to teach cost-effectiveness analysis tools. Economics of Population Health: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Graduate Standing Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 7 weeks - 14 hours of web-based lecture per week Online: This is an online course. Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Dow Economics of Population Health: Read Less [-] PB HLTH W226F Cost-Effectiveness Analysis 1 Unit Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021 This course teaches students cost-effectiveness analysis and related tools in a compact 3-week online format. Students will learn when and why to use alternative economic evaluation methods to assess benefits relative to costs of health policies and interventions. They will also learn to interpret and critique such analyses, and to conduct basic cost- effectiveness analyses themselves. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 3 weeks - 5 hours of web-based lecture per week Online: This is an online course. Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Dow Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 227A Health Care Finance 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2017, Fall 2015 This course covers finance and strategic financial management in the health services and products industry, including provider organizations, insurance firms, and biopharmaceutical and medical device companies. Cases are used to apply the financial analysis and planning skills learned in the course. Topic areas include financial statement analysis, pricing and service decisions, debt financing, venture capital, and private equity, IPO and public equity markets, risk and return, capital budgeting and project risk assessment, mergers and acquisitions, vertical and horizontal integration. Health Care Finance: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Graduate standing Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: MacPherson Health Care Finance: Read Less [-] Public Health (PB HLTH) 51 PB HLTH W227A Health Care Finance 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021 This 3-unit online course provides the student with an understanding of the importance of finance in healthcare and provides basic financial and accounting skills needed by all health professionals. The course introduces student to concepts in both financial and managerial accounting and teaches students relevant financial techniques used by managers and those charged with key capital investment decisions including: ratio analysis, cost-volume profit analysis, discounted cash flow and forecasting. Health Care Finance: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Credit Restrictions: Students who have completed on campus PB HLTH 227A will not receive credit for W227A Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 7 weeks - 6 hours of web-based lecture per week Summer: 7 weeks - 6 hours of web-based lecture per week Online: This is an online course. Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: MacPherson Health Care Finance: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 231A Analytic Methods for Health Policy and Management 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2018 This course provides an overview of analytic methods that Master's students in health policy and management should be familiar with. Topics include linear regression, limited dependent variable models such as logit, design, and analysis of complex surveys (with weighted and clustered sampling), and quasi-experimental causal analysis. The course complements 245, with an emphasis on enabling nonstatisticians to interpret and critique applications in the HPM literature. Analytic Methods for Health Policy and Management: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: 142 or equivalent (basic probability and statistics) Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Dow Analytic Methods for Health Policy and Management: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 231C Health Care Operations and Management Methods 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2015 This course will introduce students to basic operations research/ management (OR/OM) methods and discuss how they can be applied in health care delivery settings. The class uses a problem-based, participatory approach to learning. Data management and analysis are conducted using Excel and STATA. Topics include process reengineering and job redesign, productivity and performance management, linear programming and operational decision-making, staffing and job scheduling, patient flow analysis, queuing theory and applications, forecasting, and supply chain management. Health Care Operations and Management Methods: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: PB HLTH 142 or consent of instructor Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Rodriguez Health Care Operations and Management Methods: Read Less [-] PB HLTH C233 Healthy Cities 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019 Exploration of common origins of urban planning and public health, from why and how the fields separated and strategies to reconnect them, to addressing urban health inequities in the 21st century. Inquiry to influences of urban population health, analysis of determinants, and roles that city planning and public health agencies - at local and international level - have in research, and action aimed at improving urban health. Measures, analysis, and design of policy strategies are explored. Healthy Cities: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Corburn Formerly known as: City and Regional Planning 256 Also listed as: CY PLAN C256 Healthy Cities: Read Less [-] 52 Public Health (PB HLTH) PB HLTH C234 Green Chemistry: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sustainability 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013 Meeting the challenge of global sustainability will require interdisciplinary approaches to research and education, as well as the integration of this new knowledge into society, policymaking, and business. Green Chemistry is an intellectual framework created to meet these challenges and guide technological development. It encourages the design and production of safer and more sustainable chemicals and products. Green Chemistry: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sustainability: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: One year of chemistry, including a semester of organic chemistry, or consent of instructors based on previous experience Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Summer: 6 weeks - 20 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructors: Arnold, Bergman, Guth, Iles, Kokai, Mulvihill, Schwarzman, Wilson Also listed as: CHEM C234/ESPM C234 Green Chemistry: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sustainability: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 235 Impact Evaluation for Health Professionals 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014 This course will review the methods for the design and analysis of impact evaluations relevant to health professionals, especially those working in low and middle-income countries. The class will emphasize the challenges involved in identifying the causal relationship between a program or project and its outcomes while providing students with some experience in drafting a proposal that might be submitted to a funding agency for support of an impact evaluation. For doctoral students the course may help concretely to identify potential dissertation projects; for masters students the course will provide skills useful in obtaining a future job in the field. Impact Evaluation for Health Professionals: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Public Health 142 or equivalent Probability and Statistics course Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructors: Colford, Gertler Impact Evaluation for Health Professionals: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 236 U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Drug Development, and Public Health 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2021 The process and principles of drug development will be discussed in the context of the FDA's mandate and reach (basic science, pre-clinical and clinical research, policy, law, and public health), emphasizing the impact of public health emergencies such as HIV on evolution of regulatory policies. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Drug Development, and Public Health: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: None Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructors: Miller, Strobos U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Drug Development, and Public Health: Read Less [-] Public Health (PB HLTH) 55 PB HLTH 237F Doctoral Seminar in Health Economics 2 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022 The seminar is required for all first and second-year students in the PhD Program in Health Policy. This seminar focuses on health economics. Students critically examine empirical research focused on moral hazard, adverse selection, modeling demand, cost-effectiveness analysis, market influences, provider payment, behavioral economics, and benefits design in health care and public health. Doctoral Seminar in Health Economics: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Course Objectives: a) To provide an initial exposure to the major economic theories and frameworks relevant to the study of health policy and health services research. b) To introduce key empirical methodologies used by economists. c) To critique empirical studies conducted from the methodological perspectives typically applied by economists. d) To provide overall socialization to the norms and values of the component disciplines as well as the health policy and health services research field as a whole. Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Doctoral student status or consent of instructor Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructors: Brown, Dow Doctoral Seminar in Health Economics: Read Less [-] PB HLTH C240A Introduction to Modern Biostatistical Theory and Practice 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021 Course covers major topics in general statistical theory, with a focus on statistical methods in epidemiology. The course provides a broad theoretical framework for understanding the properties of commonly- used and more advanced methods. Emphasis is on estimation in nonparametric models in the context of contingency tables, regression (e.g., linear, logistic), density estimation and more. Topics include maximum likelihood and loss-based estimation, asymptotic linearity/ normality, the delta method, bootstrapping, machine learning, targeted maximum likelihood estimation. Comprehension of broad concepts is the main goal, but practical implementation in R is also emphasized. Basic knowledge of probability/statistics and calculus are assume Introduction to Modern Biostatistical Theory and Practice: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Statistics 200A (may be taken concurrently) Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of laboratory per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Hubbard Also listed as: STAT C245A Introduction to Modern Biostatistical Theory and Practice: Read Less [-] 56 Public Health (PB HLTH) PB HLTH C240B Biostatistical Methods: Survival Analysis and Causality 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019 Analysis of survival time data using parametric and non-parametric models, hypothesis testing, and methods for analyzing censored (partially observed) data with covariates. Topics include marginal estimation of a survival function, estimation of a generalized multivariate linear regression model (allowing missing covariates and/or outcomes), estimation of a multiplicative intensity model (such as Cox proportional hazards model) and estimation of causal parameters assuming marginal structural models. General theory for developing locally efficient estimators of the parameters of interest in censored data models. Computing techniques, numerical methods, simulation and general implementation of biostatistical analysis techniques with emphasis on data applications. Biostatistical Methods: Survival Analysis and Causality: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Statistics 200B (may be taken concurrently) Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of laboratory per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: van der Laan Also listed as: STAT C245B Biostatistical Methods: Survival Analysis and Causality: Read Less [-] PB HLTH C240C Biostatistical Methods: Computational Statistics with Applications in Biology and Medicine 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020 This course provides an introduction to computational statistics, with emphasis on statistical methods and software for addressing high- dimensional inference problems in biology and medicine. Topics include numerical and graphical data summaries, loss-based estimation (regression, classification, density estimation), smoothing, EM algorithm, Markov chain Monte-Carlo, clustering, multiple testing, resampling, hidden Markov models, in silico experiments. Biostatistical Methods: Computational Statistics with Applications in Biology and Medicine: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Statistics 200A or equivalent (may be taken concurrently) Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of laboratory per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Dudoit Also listed as: STAT C245C Biostatistical Methods: Computational Statistics with Applications in Biology and Medicine: Read Less [-] Public Health (PB HLTH) 57 PB HLTH C240D Biostatistical Methods: Computational Statistics with Applications in Biology and Medicine II 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2015, Fall 2013 This course and Pb Hlth C240C/Stat C245C provide an introduction to computational statistics with emphasis on statistical methods and software for addressing high-dimensional inference problems that arise in current biological and medical research. The courses also discusses statistical computing resources, with emphasis on the R language and environment (www.r-project.org). Programming topics to be discussed include: data structures, functions, statistical models, graphical procedures, designing an R package, object-oriented programming, inter-system interfaces. The statistical and computational methods are motivated by and illustrated on data structures that arise in current high- dimensional inference problems in biology and medicine. Biostatistical Methods: Computational Statistics with Applications in Biology and Medicine II: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Statistics 200A-200B or Statistics 201A-201B (may be taken concurrently) or consent of instructor Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of laboratory per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Dudoit Also listed as: STAT C245D Biostatistical Methods: Computational Statistics with Applications in Biology and Medicine II: Read Less [-] PB HLTH C240E Statistical Genomics 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 Genomics is one of the fundamental areas of research in the biological sciences and is rapidly becoming one of the most important application areas in statistics. This is the first course of a two-semester sequence, which provides an introduction to statistical and computational methods for the analysis of meiosis, population genetics, and genetic mapping. The second course is Statistics C245F/Public Health C240F. The courses are primarily intended for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students from the mathematical sciences. Statistical Genomics: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Statistics 200A and 200B or equivalent (may be taken concurrently). A course in algorithms and knowledge of at least one computing language (e.g., R, matlab) is recommended Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructors: Dudoit, Huang, Nielsen, Song Also listed as: STAT C245E Statistical Genomics: Read Less [-] PB HLTH C240F Statistical Genomics 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2018, Spring 2017 Genomics is one of the fundamental areas of research in the biological sciences and is rapidly becoming one of the most important application areas in statistics. The first course in this two-semester sequence is Public Health C240E/Statistics C245E. This is the second course, which focuses on sequence analysis, phylogenetics, and high-throughput microarray and sequencing gene expression experiments. The courses are primarily intended for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students from the mathematical sciences. Statistical Genomics: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructors: Dudoit, Huang, Nielsen, Song Also listed as: STAT C245F Statistical Genomics: Read Less [-] 60 Public Health (PB HLTH) PB HLTH 243B Targeted Learning in Practice 2 - 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2004 This course follows PBHLTH 243A as a two part series. It provides a self- contained introduction to the computational tools for Targeted Learning through it's accompanying software ecosystem, the tlverse. Each class incorporates a concise preliminary lecture, vignette-guided live coding exercises, and discussion. Students will have the opportunity to perform hands-on implementation of novel estimators for answering causal questions with real- world cross-sectional data using the tlverse software ecosystem of R packages. Targeted Learning in Practice: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Course Objectives: Apply standard cross-validation schemes using the origami R package, including V-fold, stratified, ad cluster-specific cross- validation. Approximate causal effects under stochastic treatment regimes with the tmle3shift R package by defining a single shift, grid of counterfactual shifts, or individual-level shifts of the treatment. Differentiate stochastic, dynamic, optimal dynamic, and static treatment regimes from each other, and interpret effects under each kind of intervention. Estimate direct and indirect effects based on decompositions of the total causal effects of static and stochastic interventions with the tmle3mediate R package. Estimate the effect of a static intervention using the appropriate "Spec", as defined in the tmle3 R package, and apply tmle3's delta method in order to estimate transformations of existing parameters. Follow the roadmap of statistical learning to define estimation problems in realistic statistical models, and obtain valid inferences. Obtain and interpret variable importance metrics from the following tlverse R packages: sl3, tmle3, tmle3mopttx, tmle3shift, and tmle3mediate. Train a super learner using the sl3 R package by selecting an appropriate loss function, metalearner, and assembling a library of candidate machine learning algorithms. Use the tmle3mopttx R package to learn the optimal individualized treatment regime, and to estimate effects under such data-adaptive regimes. Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: PB HLTH 243A Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with advisor consent. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-1 hours of lecture and 1-1 hours of laboratory per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: van der Laan Targeted Learning in Practice: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 243C Information Systems in Public Health 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021 An introduction to new information systems, such as the Internet and interactive television, and how they may be used to improve human health. The course has three objectives: first, to familiarize students with new information technologies; second, to review how these technologies will be used by public health professionals, consumers, health care providers, and others; and third, to study related ethical and legal issues such as privacy, access, and liability. The course is designed for people with minimal understanding of interactive technologies. Information Systems in Public Health: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Van Brunt Information Systems in Public Health: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 243D Special Topics in Biostatistics: Adaptive Designs 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2018, Fall 2015, Fall 2014 This course examines the theory and statistical methods for analyzing data generated by adaptive group sequential designs. It also considers the construction of targeted adaptive group sequential designs that adapt in a way that is optimal for the estimation of a particular target feature of the data generating experiment (i.e., causal effect of the treatment). Topics to be covered include: sequential testing, adaptive sample size, martingale estimating functions to construct estimators, targeted maximum likelihood estimation for adaptive designs, targeted Bayesian learning for adaptive designs, martingale theory for the analysis of estimators for adaptive designs. Special Topics in Biostatistics: Adaptive Designs: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Prior biostatistics or statistics course or consent of instructor Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: van der Laan Special Topics in Biostatistics: Adaptive Designs: Read Less [-] Public Health (PB HLTH) 61 PB HLTH 244 Big Data: A Public Health Perspective 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2021 Big Data deluge now engulfs almost every brand of science and business, requiring expertise in combination of statistics and computing. This course aims to help students develop a set of useful skills to cope with the Big Data challenges, with particular focus on Public Health applications. It covers a wide range of modern statistics and machine learning techniques, as well as state of the art computational tools, and emphasizes statistical modeling and inference (e.g., how to properly formulate a hypothesis and a model, develop intuitive insights and interpretations, and evaluate uncertainty of the outcomes) and covers important computational and algorithmic components (modern computational paradigm of Map-Reduce). Big Data: A Public Health Perspective: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Li Big Data: A Public Health Perspective: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 245 Introduction to Multivariate Statistics 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020 The following topics are discussed in the context of biomedical and biological application: multiple regression, loglinear models, discriminant analysis, principal components. Instruction in statistical computing is given in the laboratory session. Introduction to Multivariate Statistics: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: 145 or equivalent or consent of instructor Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of laboratory per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Lahiff Introduction to Multivariate Statistics: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 249 Grant Writing 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022, Spring 2004, Spring 2003 The objective of this course is to introduce students to the fundamentals of proposal writing for epidemiologic research. The course will focus primarily on developing an NIH Research Grant (R Series), though we will also discuss other grant mechanisms. In addition, the course will cover the grant submission process and grand review. Students will write a formal proposal focusing on a specific research question of their choice. Emphasis will be placed on development of significant and innovative research aims, critical evaluation of the previous literature and proposing a valid and feasible approach to address their research question. Grant Writing: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Course Objectives: • Demonstrate critical thinking and communication skills • Describe principles of grant writing • Design an epidemiologic study • Explain about the grant submission and review process Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: PBHLTH 250A, PBHLTH 250B & PBHLTH 293: Epidemiology Doctoral Seminar is recommended. Developing a research topic, writing a 1st draft of your Specific Aims takes time. Accomplishing these tasks, writing a full grant proposal is a tall order for a semester. Recommend that prior to taking this class you take PH 293: Epidemiology Doctoral Seminar, which focuses on developing a research topic & Specific Aims. PH 249 picks up where PH 293 leaves off & requires a strong first draft of your Aims page Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for PB HLTH 249 after completing PB HLTH 249, or PB HLTH 249. A deficient grade in PB HLTH 249 may be removed by taking PB HLTH 249, or PB HLTH 249. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Metayer Grant Writing: Read Less [-] 62 Public Health (PB HLTH) PB HLTH 250A Epidemiologic Methods I 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020 This course is designed to introduce principles and methods of epidemiology, including types and sources of descriptive epidemiologic data, analytic study designs (intervention trials, cohort, case-control, cross-sectional and ecological), screening, confounding and other types of bias, and causal inference. The course will provide a basic understanding of epidemiology for those pursuing a career in public health. Epidemiologic Methods I: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: 142 (may be taken concurrently) Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of laboratory per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: McCoy Epidemiologic Methods I: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 250B Epidemiologic Methods II 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2020 This course is intended as an intermediate level course in the field of epidemiology. Topics include causal inference; measurement of disease rates; inferential reasoning; and research study designs including ecologic, case-control, cohort, intervention trials, and meta- analytic designs (potential sources of bias, confounding, and effect modification in each research design are explored in depth); topics in clinical epidemiology including the use of likelihood ratios, receiver operator curves, and the sensitivity, specificity, predictive value of a test; and a brief introduction to logistic regression, survival analysis, and decision analysis. The readings from this course are drawn primarily from advanced epidemiology textbooks (Kleinbuam, Rothman, Miettinen). The course is intended to provide a firm foundation for students who will subsequently enroll in 250C. Epidemiologic Methods II: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: 250A or an equivalent introductory course in epidemiology or advanced degree (M.D., Ph.D., D.V.M.) in a biomedical field Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 4 hours of lecture and 2 hours of laboratory per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Ahern or Colford (alternating years) Epidemiologic Methods II: Read Less [-] Public Health (PB HLTH) 65 PB HLTH W250F Epidemiologic Methods II: Part 1 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018 This course is intended as an intermediate level course in the field of epidemiology. Topics include causal inference; measurement of disease rates; inferential reasoning; and research study designs including ecologic, case-control, cohort, intervention trials, and meta-analytic designs. These topics are covered at a more advanced level than in PH250A or PHW250. The readings from this course are drawn primarily from advanced epidemiology textbooks (e.g., Kleinbaum, Rothman). The course is intended to provide a firm foundation for students who will later enroll in 250C. Epidemiologic Methods II: Part 1: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: PB HLTH 150A, PB HLTH 250A, or PB HLTH W250 Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 6 hours of web-based lecture per week Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of web-based lecture per week Online: This is an online course. Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructors: COLFORD, BENJAMIN-CHUNG Epidemiologic Methods II: Part 1: Read Less [-] PB HLTH W250G Epidemiologic Methods II: Part 2 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018 This course is intended as an intermediate level course in the field of epidemiology. Topics include potential sources of bias, confounding, and effect modification in each research design are explored in depth); topics in clinical epidemiology including the use of likelihood ratios, receiver operator curves, and the sensitivity, specificity, predictive value of a test; and a brief introduction to logistic regression and survival analysis. These topics are covered at a more advanced level than in PH250A or PHW250. The readings from this course are drawn primarily from advanced epidemiology textbooks (e.g., Kleinbaum, Rothman). The course is intended to provide a firm foundation for students who will later enroll in 250C. Epidemiologic Methods II: Part 2: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: PB HLTH 150A, PB HLTH 250A, or PB HLTH W250 Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 6 hours of web-based lecture per week Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of web-based lecture per week Online: This is an online course. Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructors: Colford, Benjamin-Chung Epidemiologic Methods II: Part 2: Read Less [-] 66 Public Health (PB HLTH) PB HLTH 251C Causal Inference and Meta- Analysis in Epidemiology 2 Units Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015 This course will review the theoretical aspects of causal inference, literature review, and meta-analysis, but its focus will be more on the practical aspects of these topics that are not commonly found in textbooks or presented in classes on epidemiologic theory. It is hoped that the student develops the day-to-day skills necessary to complete and present a well-documented, accurate, and thorough review of epidemiologic literature. Causal Inference and Meta-Analysis in Epidemiology: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Students in the first semester of the second year of the epidemiology/biostatistics Master's of Public Health program. (Students from other programs welcome.) Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructors: A. Smith, Steinmaus Causal Inference and Meta-Analysis in Epidemiology: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 251D Applied Epidemiology Using R 2 Units Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017 This is an intensive, one-semester introduction to the R programming language for applied epidemiology. R is a freely available, multi-platform (Mac OS, Linux, and Windows, etc.), versatile, and powerful program for statistical computing and graphics (http://www.r-project.org). This course will focus on core basics of organizing, managing, and manipulating epidemiologic data; basic epidemiologic applications; introduction to R programming; and basic R graphics. Applied Epidemiology Using R: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Aragon Applied Epidemiology Using R: Read Less [-] PB HLTH W251 R for Public Health 2 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021 The course examines principles & methods underlying the use of R, emphasizing multi-disciplinary, collaborative, & real world uses. We will emphasize practices for collaborative coding using Git/GitHub repositories for storing & sharing code to benefit not only your current collaborators but your most frequent collaborator. We will introduce best practices for organizing data & projects, how to create reproducible examples (a.k.a reprex) for when you get stuck and need to ask the R community for help (but can’t share a full dataset because it’s too large or contains confidential information). Application of principles will be taught through scenarios that public health practitioners encounter. R for Public Health: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Course Objectives: Effectively engage with public health practitioners in the use of R to address current public health and/or policy issues; Apply knowledge of R to support ongoing analytic work in epidemiology and biostatistics; Create meaningful visualizations of data and have a basic understanding of tools available through R to present data (including R markdown, R Shiny) Develop strategies for addressing issues that arise when combining data from multiple, complex data sources; Identify best practices for project management, programming, and version control when contributing data to evaluate and/or support effective public health interventions; Leverage existing open-source resources for continued learning and problem solving. Select appropriate methods for importing, cleaning, and analyzing data within R; Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of lecture per week Online: This is an online course. Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Wheeler R for Public Health: Read Less [-] Public Health (PB HLTH) 67 PB HLTH W251B Data Visualization for Public Health 2 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022 In this course we will discuss the theory behind effective graphical design, how to apply this theory to communicating health data to different audiences, and how to produce a variety of graphical types using primarily the ggplot command in the statistical analysis program R. There are two lectures per week accompanied by readings. Generally, the course content and assignments alternate weekly between theory and R programming. Data Visualization for Public Health: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Course Objectives: • Apply color theory and accessibility principles to reach the widest audience. • Create a data dashboard using REDCap or Tableau. • Create graphics for print and digital media. • Effectively communicate your messages, both graphically and verbally. • Leverage existing graphical applications, including mapping/census data • Produce different styles of graphics using R. • Understand the theory behind good graphical design for presenting health data. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Online: This is an online course. Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Mocello Data Visualization for Public Health: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 252 Epidemiological Analysis 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020 This 4-unit course will cover modern quantitative methods relevant to epidemiologic research drawing heavily on concepts covered in PB HLTH 250B. Course topics include generalized linear models, Kaplan- Meier estimation, survival distributions, and models for parametric and semi-parametric survival analysis. We will also cover methods for confounder selection, dose-response modeling, and interaction and effect modification. Epidemiological Analysis: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Course Objectives: Apply the appropriate statistical model to estimate epidemiologic effects of interest Articulate necessary assumptions for different methods, and accurately interpret results Identify measures of association that can be estimated under various study designs d. Understand analyses presented in epidemiologic literature, and evaluate their soundness e. Follow future developments in epidemiologic research Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: PB HLTH 250B, PB HLTH 241, or consent of instructor Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of laboratory per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Bradshaw Epidemiological Analysis: Read Less [-] 70 Public Health (PB HLTH) PB HLTH W252A Introduction to Causal Inference for Public Health Professionals 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023 With the ongoing “data explosion”, methods to delineate causation from correlation are perhaps more pressing now than ever. This course will introduce a general framework for Causal Inference in Public Health: 1) clear statement of the research question, 2) definition of the causal model and effect of interest, 3) assessment of identifiability, 4) choice and implementation of estimators including parametric and non-parametric methods, and 5) appropriate interpretation of findings. The statistical methods include G-computation, inverse probability weighting (IPW), and targeted minimum loss-based estimation (TMLE) with machine learning. Introduction to Causal Inference for Public Health Professionals: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Course Objectives: 1. Translate a research question and background knowledge into a causal model (directed acyclic graphs and non-parametric structural equation models). 2. Define the target causal parameter with counterfactuals. 3. Assess identifiability of the target causal parameter and express it as a parameter of the observed data distribution. 4. Understand the challenge posed by parametric estimation approaches and apply machine learning methods. 5. Understand the properties of and apply 3 estimators: G-computation, inverse probability weighting (IPW), and targeted minimum loss-based estimation (TMLE) with Super Learner. 6. Understand how to appropriately address missing outcomes, which may be differentially measured. 7. Apply course concepts to address cause-and-effect in a real data application. 8. Be ready to explore more advanced settings for Causal Inference. Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Required: A graduate-level Biostatistics course covering basic probability theory and multivariable regression analysis (e.g., PHW241 Intermediate Biostatistics for Public Health); or instructor permission. Recommended: - A graduate-level course in Epidemiology (e.g., PHW250 Epidemiologic Methods). - Prior programming experience with R Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Online: This is an online course. Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Balzer Introduction to Causal Inference for Public Health Professionals: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 253B Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021 A discussion of major infectious diseases with emphasis on disease surveillance, investigative procedures, and prevention programs. Emphasis is on current problems in health agencies at a state, national, and international level. Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Prior degree or courses in biomedical sciences and consent of instructor Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Reingold Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 253D Behavior and Policy Science in HIV Treatment and Prevention 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014 This course will integrate various social science disciplines and apply these perspectives to problems of HIV treatment and prevention, particularly in the developing world. Throughout the academic term, students will apply knowledge of behavioral science, epidemiology, quantitative and qualitative methods in the analysis of developing and evaluating HIV-related treatment and prevention interventions, including policy interventions. Course requirements will include the preparation of a major paper recommending interventions, country level budgets and evaluation designs for a specific developing country. Specific requirements for this paper will be distributed during the third class session. Behavior and Policy Science in HIV Treatment and Prevention: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructors: Ekstrand, Morin Behavior and Policy Science in HIV Treatment and Prevention: Read Less [-] Public Health (PB HLTH) 71 PB HLTH 253E Ethical Challenges in Public Health Interventions: Catastrophic and Routine 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013 This course aims to enhance course participants' ability to articulate and examine ethical issues surrounding responses to public health/healthcare challenges whether routine or during catastrophe. Discussions will be based on presentations and assigned readings for the class, and with an expectation that students will incorporate their own diverse views and approaches to moral and logistical challenges. Ethical Challenges in Public Health Interventions: Catastrophic and Routine: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Kayman Ethical Challenges in Public Health Interventions: Catastrophic and Routine: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 253G Sexual Health Promotion and Sexually Transmitted Disease Control 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016 This seminar will explore current issues and controversies in public health approaches to sexual health promotion and STD control with a focus on pragmatic skills including program development and evaluation. Students will engage in independent research with interactive group discussions and student presentations. Sexual Health Promotion and Sexually Transmitted Disease Control: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Graduate students, undergraduates with consent of instructor Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only. Instructor: Bernstein Sexual Health Promotion and Sexually Transmitted Disease Control: Read Less [-] PB HLTH W253 Outbreak Investigations 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020 The purpose of this course is to provide students with an overview of outbreak investigations in public health. This course will teach students why and how clusters of illnesses/epidemics are investigated. Methods and approaches required for such investigations will be discussed in detail, using published and unpublished material from the scientific literature. Outbreak Investigations: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Students must be matriculated in the On-campus Online MPH Program in order to enroll in this course Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 7 weeks - 6 hours of web-based lecture per week Online: This is an online course. Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructors: Reingold, Enanoria Outbreak Investigations: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 254 Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021 Epidemiological methods for designing, conducting, and interpreting epidemiological studies of persons occupationally or environmentally exposed to chemical and physical agents. Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: 250A Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of session per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: A. Smith Formerly known as: 254B Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology: Read Less [-] 72 Public Health (PB HLTH) PB HLTH 255A Social Epidemiology 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021 This is a breadth course intended to provide an overview of the field of social edpidemiology and its role in understanding the social determinants of population health and health disparities. Given the breadth of social epidemiology, 255A provides a systematic and selective overview of literature covering the history and development of the field, theoretical perspectives and conceptual approaches, major topical areas and current controversies related to theory, research methods and research findings. Principles emphasized throughout the course (ecological model, measurement and causality) will provide a framework for critical analysis and synthesis across content areas. This is not a methods course. Social Epidemiology: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. 142, 145, and 250A-250B recommended Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Nuru-Jeter Social Epidemiology: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 255C Mental Health and Psychopathology 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Fall 2013 This doctoral seminar is designed to provide an understanding of the complex (and often interactive) individual and environmental conditions that increase the risk of psychopathology in individuals across the life span. We will start by learning about general concepts important to an understanding of psychopathology and prevention of psychopathology, including the "biopsychosocial model," "psychological resilence," and different levels of preventive interventions. For each different area of psychopathology, we will consider: a) the core feature of disorder; b) key theory and empirical evidence regarding etiology and course, with a particular emphasis on understanding the range of risk and protective factors on the individual, family, and community level; and c) the implications of etiological understanding for public health efforts to prevent the particular disorder. Mental Health and Psychopathology: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Open to doctoral students or with consent of instructor Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Ozer Mental Health and Psychopathology: Read Less [-] Public Health (PB HLTH) 75 PB HLTH C256B Genetic Analysis Method 3 Units Terms offered: Prior to 2007 This introductory course will provide hands-on experience with modern wet laboratory techniques and computer analysis tools for studies in molecular and genetic epidemiology and other areas of genomics in human health. Students will also participate in critical review of journal articles. Students are expected to understand basic principles of human/ population genetics and molecular biology, latest designs and methods for genome-wide association studies and other approaches to identify genetic variants, environmental risk factors and the combined effects of gene and environment important to human health. Students will learn how to perform DNA extraction, polymerase chain reaction and methods for genotyping, sequencing, and cytogenetics. Genetic Analysis Method: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Introductory level biology course. Completion of introductory biostatistics and epidemiology courses strongly recommended and may be taken concurrently with permission. PH256A is a requirement for PH256B; they can be taken concurrently Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-2 hours of lecture and 1-3 hours of laboratory per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructors: Barcellos, Holland Also listed as: CMPBIO C256B Genetic Analysis Method: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 257 Outbreak Investigation 2 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021 This course will teach students why and how clusters of illnesses/ epidemics are investigated. Methods and approaches required for such investigations will be discussed in detail, using published articles from the scientific literature to provide examples. Outbreak Investigation: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: 250A, 250B, or an equivalent introductory course in epidemiologic methods Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only. Instructor: Reingold Outbreak Investigation: Read Less [-] PB HLTH W257 Public Health Preparedness and Emergency Response 3 Units Terms offered: Summer 2023 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2022 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session This one semester course is an intensive introduction to public health emergency preparedness and response, and covers the following topic areas: the role of public health in disasters; natural disasters and severe weather; intentional mass threats (CBRNE); biosurveillance: detecting and monitoring public health threat; post-disaster sampling, surveys, and rapid needs assessments; public health emergency incident management systems; emergency operations planning and exercises. Public Health Preparedness and Emergency Response: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Completion of one semester of graduate public health curriculum, or in public health practice Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 7 weeks - 6 hours of web-based lecture per week Summer: 7 weeks - 6 hours of web-based lecture per week Online: This is an online course. Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Aragon Public Health Preparedness and Emergency Response: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 258 Cancer Epidemiology 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021 For students with a basic understanding of epidemiology, biostatistics, and tumor biology. An introduction to the epidemiology of some major site-specific cancers, considering epidemiological approaches to the study of their causation, and implementation will be discussed. Cancer Epidemiology: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Public Health 150A or 250A Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Metayer Cancer Epidemiology: Read Less [-] 76 Public Health (PB HLTH) PB HLTH W258 Global Health Disaster Preparedness and Response 3 Units Terms offered: Prior to 2007 This course is designed to serve the emerging field of global disaster management. Topics include the analysis of past mega-disasters; global disaster trends; hazard identification, profiling, and analysis; concepts of risk and vulnerability and risk evaluation; structural and non-structural mitigation; multi-level disaster preparedness; pre-, peri-, and post- disaster response, including the provision of water, food, and shelter, and the management of volunteers; components of recovery, disaster effects on communities and societies; participation of governmental, non- governmental, and multilateral agencies and organizations in planning and response; role of the media, including social media. Global Health Disaster Preparedness and Response: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit under special circumstances: if receive D or F grades Hours & Format Summer: 6 weeks - 7 hours of web-based lecture per week Online: This is an online course. Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Gershon Global Health Disaster Preparedness and Response: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 259B Practical Applications of Epidemiologic Methods in Developing Countries 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2012, Spring 2011 Practical application of epidemiologic methods in the developing country settings, including surveillance, surveys, case-control studies, and intervention trials. The applications of these methods to the study of infectious and non-infectious disease problems common in developing countries will be presented. Practical Applications of Epidemiologic Methods in Developing Countries: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Reingold Practical Applications of Epidemiologic Methods in Developing Countries: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 260A Principles of Infectious Diseases 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020 This course presents general principles of microbial interactions with humans that result in infection and disease. Common themes are developed using examples of viral, bacterial, and parasitological pathogens that exemplify mechanisms of infectious disease. The epidemiology, pathogenesis, host immune response, diagnosis, treatment, and control will be presented for each infectious disease discussed. Principles of Infectious Diseases: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Upper division course preparation in biology Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructors: Riley, Swartzberg Principles of Infectious Diseases: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 260B Principles of Infectious Diseases 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020 This course presents general principles of microbial interactions with humans that result in infection and disease. Common themes are developed using examples of viral, bacterial, and parasitological pathogens that exemplify mechanisms of infectious disease. The epidemiology, pathogenesis, host immune response, diagnosis, treatment, and control will be presented for each infectious disease discussed. Principles of Infectious Diseases: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Upper division course preparation in biology Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Swartzberg Principles of Infectious Diseases: Read Less [-] Public Health (PB HLTH) 77 PB HLTH 260C Infectious Disease Laboratory 2 or 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015 Module I: Practice in standard techniques for the isolation, identification, and characterization of infectious agents; laboratory safety. Module 2: Application of molecular methods to the identification and characterization of infectious agents, vectors, and hosts. Infectious Disease Laboratory: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: 260A or consent of instructor Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 6 hours of laboratory and 4 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructors: Loretz, Sensabaugh Infectious Disease Laboratory: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 260E Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases 2 - 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2020, Fall 2018 The course will cover general principles and practical approaches in the use of molecular laboratory techniques to address infectious disease epidemiologic problems. It is designed for students with experience in the laboratory or in epidemiology, but not both. The principles to be discussed will include the use of molecular techniques in outbreak investigations, characterizations of dynamics of disease transmission, identifying vehicles, and quantifying attributable risks in sporadic infections, refining data stratification to assist case-control studies, distinguishing pathovars from non-pathogenic variants of organisms, doing surveillance, and identifying genetic determinants of disease transmissions. 3-units if a five-page paper completed. Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: 150A Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and .5 hours of discussion per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Riley Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 260F Infectious Disease Research in Developing Countries 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 The objective of this course is to provide M.P.H. and Ph.D. students with an appreciation and understanding of the complex issues involved in conducting scientific, laboratory-based investigation in developing countries. We will discuss the many obstacles to establishing and sustaining research projects, such as poor infrastructure, insufficient financial and material resources, and lack of scientific information and interaction. More importantly, we will identify innovative solutions to overcoming these obstacles. The first half of the course will consist of presentations by U.S. and developing countries investigators who have long-term research experience in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. We will also discuss related issues such as ethical considerations, equitable collaborations, research capacity strengthening. During the second half of the course, students will give presentations on topics of their choice. Infectious Disease Research in Developing Countries: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Harris Infectious Disease Research in Developing Countries: Read Less [-] 80 Public Health (PB HLTH) PB HLTH 266 Viruses and Human Cancer 2 - 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2014, Spring 2013 Topics include the basic biology of cancer; molecular biology of tumor viruses; mechanisms of viral carcinogenesis; characteristics of virally transformed cells; the challenge of proving the viral etiology of human cancers; the epidemiology, pathology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of virally caused human cancers. The course format will include lectures and reading/discussion of original research publications. To be taken for three units if a term paper is written and for two units without a term paper. Viruses and Human Cancer: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Course in basic virology or microbiology Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Buehring Viruses and Human Cancer: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 266A Foodborne diseases 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2019, Fall 2016, Fall 2015 This course will cover public health, microbiological, social, and economical issues related to foodborne diseases. Three areas will be explored: 1) categories, clinical manifestations, and disease processes of foodborne illnesses; 2) etiological agents causing foodborne illnesses; 3) investigation and prevention of foodborne illness. The course will discuss different types of foodborne diseases, clinical manifestations, and the interactions between etiological agents (pathogens and non- pathogens) and human hosts. We will cover pathogens that are the most frequently associated with foodborne illness including bacterial and viral pathogens such as Salmonella, E coli, hepatitis viruses and Norwalk-like gastroenteritus viruses. We will also study non-pathogen agents such as heavy metal, pesticide, and toxic chemicals. Futhermore, the course will discuss how to identify the etiological agents in outbreaks and possible measures that can be taken to minimize the risk to the public including vaccines and education. Finally, we will explore the social and economic issues involved in the food production, distribution, and consumption that contribute to foodborne diseases. Foodborne diseases: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of microbiology Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1.5 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Lu Foodborne diseases: Read Less [-] Public Health (PB HLTH) 81 PB HLTH 266B Zoonotic Diseases 2 Units Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020 This is a graduate (Ph.D. and MPH) level course designed to describe the major zoonoses and their life cycle, disease manifestations, epidemiology, and methods for prevention and control. Available treatments, diagnostics, and public health and agriculture surveillance and “forecasting” programs will also be discussed. The most recent research on the molecular and cellular basis of the mechanisms and consequences of the “species” jump from other animals to humans will be reviewed. The global nature of zoonotic diseases and the integration of multiple disciplines (molecular biology, immunology, epidemiology, evolutionary biology, ecology, animal science, veterinary medicine, etc.) will be emphasized. Zoonotic Diseases: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Course Objectives: Recognize, understand and be able to describe the public health importance of presented zoonotic diseases Understand the agent’s life cycle (agent, host, and environment interaction), including the source(s) or reservoir(s) and host range Understand the factors involved in the susceptibility and resistance of the human host to the cross-species transmission of disease Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Public Health 260A or equivalent Infectious Diseases course (may be taken concurrently) Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Dailey Zoonotic Diseases: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 266C Healthcare-Associated Infections 2 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020 This course will examine the principles underlying the control of infections in healthcare facilities (the emphasis will be on hospitals), the causes of these infections, current important topics in this field, and future trends. Students will develop an understanding of the national and local programs involved in healthcare-associated infections (HAI’s), the major causes of HAI's antimicrobial stewardship, specific agents and procedures causing HAI’s and how to prevent HAI's. Healthcare-Associated Infections: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Course Objectives: 1) Understand the public health impact of HAIs. 2) Know the important causes of HAIs. 3) Formulate a plan to address each of the causes. 4) Address in-depth one important issue about HAIs. Student Learning Outcomes: At the conclusion of the course, students will understand the public health import of HAIs, why they occur, and what to do to prevent them. They will also appreciate how we obtain and process the data that informs our interventions. Rules & Requirements Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only. Instructor: Swartzberg Healthcare-Associated Infections: Read Less [-] 82 Public Health (PB HLTH) PB HLTH 266D Homelessness and the Public's Health 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023 Homelessness is an epidemic in the United States affecting more than 500,000 people each day. It impacts people of all races, age, and family situations, and it has enormous consequences for physical and mental health. There is no single cause, and no single solution. The focus of this course is the relationship between homelessness and health. We will discuss the range of causes for homelessness and how each of these is correlated to individual health, public health, public policy, and the law. We will explore various strategies and approaches through readings, guest lecturers, and student-led discussions. Homelessness and the Public's Health: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Course Objectives: • Develop plans to address this important public health problem. • Understand the consequences of homelessness on an individual’s health • Understand the obstacles to addressing homelessness • Understand the root causes of homelessness and various strategies to address them Student Learning Outcomes: 1) Understand the root causes of homelessness and various strategies to address them. 2) Understand the consequences of homelessness on an individual’s health. 3) Understand the obstacles to addressing homelessness. 4) Develop plans to address this important public health problem. Rules & Requirements Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only. Instructors: Swartzberg, Davis Homelessness and the Public's Health: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 267B Characterization of Airborne Contaminants 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2019 Principles underlying the use of air monitoring methods in industry and the environment. Topics include behavior of gases, vapors, and aerosols; mechanisms of absorption and elimination of inhaled toxicants; methods for measuring of airborne chemicals and particles. Characterization of Airborne Contaminants: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Graduate standing in environmental health sciences or consent of instructor Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 3 hours of fieldwork per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Hammond Characterization of Airborne Contaminants: Read Less [-] Public Health (PB HLTH) 85 PB HLTH 270C Practical Toxicology 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2017, Spring 2016 This course will focus on cutting-edge issues involving real-world toxicology in drug discovery, pesticide regulation, stem cell research, etc. Many well-known toxicologists, regulators, and consultants from pharmaceutical companies, petroleum industry, private consulting firms, non-profit institutes, federal and state regulatory agencies in the Bay Area will be invited to talk to our participating students. Some of the speakers are our school's alumni who understand exactly what our students need to know before entering the real world. Learning outside the classroom will be another major focus and different from other existing toxicology courses offered at Berkeley. This new class will provide students a chance to visit some of the real-world sites allowing students to see and feel what they really need to know and to learn. To better prepare our students for the real world, we will use combined teaching/learning styles including lecture with discussion sections, site-visits, hand-on experience in a toxicology laboratory, and student group assignments or projects. Practical Toxicology: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: 270B or Nutrition Science and Toxicology 110 or equivalent course in toxicology Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Zhang Practical Toxicology: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 271C Drinking Water and Health 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 The course covers monitoring, control and regulatory policy of microbial, chemical and radiological drinking water contaminants. Additional subjects include history and iconography of safe water, communicating risks to water consumers and a bottled water versus tap water taste test as part of the discussion on aesthetic water quality parameters. Drinking Water and Health: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Student Learning Outcomes: By the end of this course, students will be expected to: Recognize the global occurrence of waterborne contaminants and related health impacts. Understand water quality monitoring and control of key water quality constituents. Appreciate the complexities of the regulatory process as it pertains to public drinking water systems in the US and abroad. Read and synthesize published and unpublished sources of information regarding drinking water and health. Prepare a literature review in journal submission format. Using an established rubric, review and comment on a literature review (prepared by a fellow student). Rank the paper as acceptable, acceptable with minor revision, acceptable with major revision, unacceptable. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Smith Drinking Water and Health: Read Less [-] 86 Public Health (PB HLTH) PB HLTH C271G Health Implications of Climate Change 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015 The course will provide a basic foundation in the physical mechanisms of, responses to, and health implications of climate change. We will explore the variety of epidemiologic, risk assessment, and statistical methods used to understand the impacts of climate change on health across diverse demographic groups. The public health implications, positive and negative, of efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change will be elaborated, including discussions of ethical, political, and economic aspects of these efforts. Students will be responsible for leading class discussions and presenting a poster on their choice of a topic related to climate change and health. Health Implications of Climate Change: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: The material will be presented with minimal expectation of a background in physical science, although some additional reading may be needed for students with no university science courses. A background in epidemiology is also helpful, but not necessary Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructors: Jerrett, Morello-Frosch Also listed as: ESPM C282 Health Implications of Climate Change: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 271D Global Burden of Disease and Comparative Risk Assessment 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2013 The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) database utilized by provides estimates of illness, injury, and death by disease type, age, sex, and world region in a consistent and coherent manner. The course will explore the ways such a detailed database makes possible a wide range of new types of analysis of health priorities and the relationship of database will also be introduced. This seminar will also provide an opportunity for reading and discussion of the basic assumptions, data limitations, critiques, and methodological difficulties of the GBD. It is intended to be a true seminar relying heavy on class participation. The homework assignments will be greatly facilitated by use of computer spreadsheets. Global Burden of Disease and Comparative Risk Assessment: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Introductory epidemiology (250A or equivalent) is recommended Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: K. Smith Global Burden of Disease and Comparative Risk Assessment: Read Less [-] Public Health (PB HLTH) 87 PB HLTH 271E Science and Policy for Environment and Health 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021 Scientific knowledge and analyses are important to the development of public policies that address the impact of the environment on health. The limits of existing knowledge and uncertainties in research results create significant challenges in applying science to answer critical questions. This course critically examines how scientific information is used in policy decisions. Case studies of current issues address characterization of scientific knowledge, interpretation of science in policy contexts, scientific integrity, and factors in addition to science that influence decisions. Assignments prepare students to effectively translate technical knowledge for multi-disciplinary and lay audiences and to participate in public policy proceedings. Core materials address differences between regulatory and market-based approaches; emerging paradigms including the precautionary principle and environmental justice; and key elements of risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis. Science and Policy for Environment and Health: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Kyle Science and Policy for Environment and Health: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 271G Health Implications of Climate Change 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2021 This course explores the Public Health effects of global climate change: physical basis of climate change, including causes & projections; burden of disease stemming from global climate change, emphasis on impacts in the developing world, global & local equity issues, interaction between climate change mitigation/adaptation activities & existing global health initiatives; direct exposures (extreme heat, drought, precipitation, sea- level rise), indirect exposures (vector-borne & zoonotic diseases, ecosystem disruption, water quantity & quality, land arability & food production, population displacement). After taking this course, students will be well positioned for further work on global environmental change and health. Health Implications of Climate Change: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Remais Health Implications of Climate Change: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 271H Greener Solutions: A Safer Design Partnership 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020 Green chemistry seeks to promote the design and adoption of safer chemicals and materials. The development and adoption of safer chemicals and materials depends on solving a number of design and selection challenges. The Greener Solutions course pairs interdisciplinary teams of 3-5 graduate students with a partner organization seeking to solve these challenges in a specific application. This 3-unit interdisciplinary, project-based course is intended for graduate students in public health, chemistry, environmental studies, and engineering. The course draws on students’ disciplinary expertise and teaches new skills to identify safer alternatives to hazardous chemicals currently used in a product or manufacturing process. Greener Solutions: A Safer Design Partnership: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructors: Schwarzman, Hart-Cooper Greener Solutions: A Safer Design Partnership: Read Less [-] 90 Public Health (PB HLTH) PB HLTH W272C Applied Spatial Data Science for Public Health 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021 This course will cover the theory and methods behind the analysis of patterns of health and disease in space. Students will increase their proficiency in the application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to public health data, and will learn how to perform a wide variety of space and space-time analyses. The course will introduce statistical techniques for describing, analyzing and interpreting layers of mapped health data, including the acquisition and classification of remote sensing data. Applied Spatial Data Science for Public Health: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Course Objectives: Apply appropriate spatial statistics to diverse locational data; Describe several statistical techniques useful for analyzing and interpreting mapped data in public health applications; Describe the rationale for geographical analysis and spatial epidemiology; Formulate a research question that is answerable using spatial techniques; Identify strengths and weaknesses of mapped data and spatial analyses; Provide examples of impactful spatial analyses from the literature; Report results of spatial analyses in a manner that is clear and understandable to both technical and non-technical audiences. Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Completion of PBHLTH W272A or permission of instructor is required to enroll in this course. Furthermore, this course requires extensive use of R. At least 50 hours of experience programming in R is strongly recommended. Similarly, this course will cover spatial regression analysis. As such, students are expected to be familiar with general linear regression Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week Online: This is an online course. Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Readhead Applied Spatial Data Science for Public Health: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 273 Environmental Determinants of Infectious Disease 3 Units Terms offered: Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018 The course takes a global perspective, examining the environmental phenomena that influence the transmission of infectious diseases. The epidemiological significance of environmental processes are explored, including weather, climate extremes, hydrology, development projects, and land usage change. Analytical tools are discussed and critiqued with respect to their ability to resolve the role of environmental factors in shaping disease distributions and pathogen fate, transport, and persistence. Environmental Determinants of Infectious Disease: Read More [+] Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Remais Environmental Determinants of Infectious Disease: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 275 Current Topics in Vaccinology 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2016, Spring 2014 This is an advanced level course designed to cover current issues related to the biological and analytical aspects of vaccine development and utilization. Latest developments in recombinant vaccine technology, vaccine delivery systems, "naked DNA" vaccines, "designer" vaccines, new adjuvants, anti-tumor vaccines, epidemiological approaches to assess vaccine efficacy, effectiveness, and safety will be discussed and covered. Current Topics in Vaccinology: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: 250A, 260A, and 264 or consent of instructor Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructors: Riley, Enanoria Current Topics in Vaccinology: Read Less [-] Public Health (PB HLTH) 91 PB HLTH 277A Public Health Maps and Spatial Analysis 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023 Students will acquire geospatial skills and apply them in the context of structural inequity, health disparities, and racial justice. Geospatial skills will be applied to public health problems that continue to demonstrate differences in health exposures, risks, and adverse outcomes for BIPOC living in the US, as well as to contribute to much poorer outcomes in the US than in other high income countries. The main learning objective in the course is to understand the importance of place in the display, analysis, and reporting of health data at local, national, and global scales. Each week, case studies will provide context for the specific ways in which place matters when thinking about public health and health services delivery. Public Health Maps and Spatial Analysis: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Course Objectives: Communicate information related to an important health issues including their geographic and demographic contexts. # How: Use the ESRI StoryMap Builder to incorporate short narratives, maps, infographics, and images into a web-based interactive communication tool. Demonstrate the ability to design, implement, and apply spatial data to determine and display relative prevalence of diseases. # How: Create maps and perform kernel density and cluster/hot spot analysis for a specific disease # How: Create a dashboard to illustrate the location and incidence of disease cases Illustrate how maps were used to contribute to structural racism by relating historic redlining maps to current health inequities. # How: Create a social vulnerability index from demographic and health indicators, and map the index by county # How: Compare a current map that illustrates social vulnerabilities to historic redlining maps from the Federal Housing Administration. Illustrate the limitations of political boundaries (census areas, cities, counties), in predicting disease prevalence, and equity issues associated with health risks. # How: Use appropriate classification schema to overcome the “Modifiable Areal Unit Problem” Predict concentrations of an environmental contaminant where data are missing # How: Use Kriging to interpolate values in an area that has some missing data. Report survey data cartographically. # How: Develop and execute a geo-enabled survey on a public health issue # How: Create an interactive map of survey results Rules & Requirements Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for PB HLTH 277A after completing PB HLTH 177A. A deficient grade in PB HLTH 277A may be removed by taking PB HLTH 177A. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1.5 hours of lecture and 3 hours of discussion per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructors: Smith, Ivey Public Health Maps and Spatial Analysis: Read Less [-] PB HLTH W277 Applied GIS for Public Health Practice 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021 This course will familiarize students with the principles, methods, and techniques necessary to apply Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in diverse public health practice settings. Case studies will be presented to introduce the application of GIS technologies for rendering disease surveillance maps, developing effective spatial data visualization, creating compelling and credible spatial risk maps, and acquiring and processing positioning information for health applications. Applied GIS for Public Health Practice: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for PB HLTH W272B after completing PB HLTH 272B. A deficient grade in PB HLTH W272B may be removed by taking PB HLTH 272B. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 6 hours of web-based lecture per week Online: This is an online course. Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructors: Smith, C, Casey, Midekisa, Sturrock Formerly known as: Public Health W272B Applied GIS for Public Health Practice: Read Less [-] 92 Public Health (PB HLTH) PB HLTH 278 Health Policymaking and 4+1 Competency Development 2 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022 This course will provide 4+1 MPH students with a “homeroom,” a space to grow as a cohort, meet outstanding competencies, and be introduced to the internship process. The lion share of competencies addressed will be in Advocacy and Policymaking. Health Policymaking and 4+1 Competency Development: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Course Objectives: 1. Compare the organization, structure and function of health care, public health, and regulatory systems across national and international settings. 2. Explain basic principles and tools of budget and resource management. 3. Discuss multiple dimensions of the policy-making process, including the roles of ethics and evidence. 4. Evaluate policies for their impact on public health and health equity. 5. Propose strategies to identify stakeholders and build coalitions and partnerships for influencing public health outcomes. 6. Advocate for political, social, or economic policies and programs that will improve health in diverse populations. 7. Communicate audience-appropriate public health content, both in writing and through oral presentation. 8. Apply systems thinking tools to a public health issue. Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: 4+1 Student in first semester of program Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Flagg Health Policymaking and 4+1 Competency Development: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 281 Public Health and Spirituality 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021 This course presents a brief introduction to the emerging field of spirituality and health. We examine scholarly and scientific views of links between spirituality, religion, and health. Topics include highlights and overviews of the rapidly emerging scientific evidence base, public health relevance, collaborations with faith-based organizations, and other practical applications. Public Health and Spirituality: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Completion or concurrent enrollment in at least one other course in public health, or consent of instructor Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 10 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Oman Public Health and Spirituality: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 285A Public Health Injury Prevention and Control 2 Units Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020 Injuries are a major and often neglected health problem with substantial human and economic costs. Injuries are the leading cause of death from the first year of life to age 45, and the leading cause of lost potential years of life. This course provides an historical and conceptual framework within which to consider injuries (both intentional and unintentional) as social, and public health problems. Through review of epidemiology and intervention studies, course work will consider the causes and consequences of traumatic injury within developmental, social and economic contexts. Particular emphasis is placed on alternative strategies for injury prevention and on the relative benefits of intervention at different levels. Public Health Injury Prevention and Control: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Consent of instructor Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Instructor: Ragland Public Health Injury Prevention and Control: Read Less [-] Public Health (PB HLTH) 95 PB HLTH 290B Health Issues Seminar - Online 1 - 3 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023 This course explores the phenomenon and consequences of vaccine hesitancy and opposition through the disciplines of history, sociology, social welfare, anthropology, philosophy, literature, journalism, public health, and law. Health Issues Seminar - Online: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Students may enroll in multiple sections of this course within the same semester. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-3 hours of seminar per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Health Issues Seminar - Online: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 290C Changemaker Microcourse 1 Unit Terms offered: Spring 2023 This Changemaker Microcourse will focus on developing critical analysis and practical public health skill building related to making change as a public health professional. Changemaker Microcourse: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Students may enroll in multiple sections of this course within the same semester. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 5 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Changemaker Microcourse: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 291A Preparation for Public Health Practice 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022 Series of skills-based workshops and sessions to introduce students to specialized leadership competencies needed in the public health workplace. These workshops complement the School of Public Health’s (SPH) core curriculum and are selected based on the Council on Linkages between Academia and Public Health Practice, and regular feedback from public health practitioners, faculty and students. Workshop facilitators include UC Berkeley faculty, public health practitioners and consultants with expertise in the topic areas. Designed to teach the core public health skills relevant to pre-internship preparation and prepare students for professional success. Cases draw on past scenarios/ challenges experienced in the PH field. Preparation for Public Health Practice: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of workshop and 1 hour of discussion per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Letter grade. Preparation for Public Health Practice: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 292 Seminars for M.P.H. Students 1 - 4 Units Terms offered: Summer 2023 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2023, Fall 2022 Current topics and special issues in the health field. Seminars for M.P.H. Students: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of seminar per week Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of seminar per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Seminars for M.P.H. Students: Read Less [-] 96 Public Health (PB HLTH) PB HLTH 293 Doctoral Seminar 1 - 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022 Discussion and analysis of dissertation research projects, as well as of conceptual and methodological problems in planning and conducting health research. Doctoral Seminar: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of seminar per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Doctoral Seminar: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 297 Field Study in Public Health 1 - 12 Units Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016 Supervised experience relevant to specific aspects of public health in off- campus organizations for graduate students. Regular individual meetings with faculty sponsor and written reports required. Field Study in Public Health: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-12 hours of fieldwork per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only. Field Study in Public Health: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 298 Group Study 1 - 8 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022 Group Study: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-8 hours of independent study per week Summer: 6 weeks - 1-8 hours of independent study per week 8 weeks - 1-8 hours of independent study per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Group Study: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 299 Independent Research 1 - 12 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Summer 2016 10 Week Session, Spring 2016 Independent study and research. Independent Research: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-12 hours of independent study per week Summer: 6 weeks - 1-12 hours of independent study per week 8 weeks - 1-12 hours of independent study per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Graduate Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Independent Research: Read Less [-] Public Health (PB HLTH) 97 PB HLTH 375A School of Public Health Schoolwide Pedagogy Course 2 Units Terms offered: Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022 Skill development and professional preparation for graduate student instructors in public health courses. Preparing for and leading discussion sections. Designing writing prompts. Preparing and creating problem sets. Working with students one-on-one. Grading students' writing and exams. Self assessment. Developing a course syllabus. Use of technology in public health classes. Required for first-time public health GSIs who are not participating in an SPH divisional pedagogy course. School of Public Health Schoolwide Pedagogy Course: Read More [+] Objectives & Outcomes Course Objectives: Assess student learning and grading student work fairly, consistently, and efficiently; Build confidence in your abilities to teach. Create and evaluate the effectiveness of discussion section plans that employ active learning strategies; Critically reflect upon teaching and learning experiences and explain your choices as a teacher; Describe and utilize a variety of teaching strategies and evaluation methods, ncluding: Develop a “toolbox” of teaching articles, resources and activities for future use; and, Develop learning objectives for classroom activities and assignments; Develop skills and demonstrate strategies to facilitate a more inclusive learning environment to meet the needs of diverse students Develop skills in giving constructive feedback to peers on teaching; Engage in collaborative learning to identify, discuss, evaluate and engage in teaching strategies designed for online or in-person class sessions; Identify your teaching strengths and areas for development; Reflect on your own identity, positionality and power and the role it plays in the classroom by learning about racism, anti-racism, inclusion, implicit bias, stigma, etc. Utilize feedback and assessment tools to improve teaching; Rules & Requirements Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Professional course for teachers or prospective teachers Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only. Instructors: Lachance, Sheats Formerly known as: Public Health 333 School of Public Health Schoolwide Pedagogy Course: Read Less [-] PB HLTH 375B Instructional Techniques in Biostatistics 2 Units Terms offered: Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017 Discussion and practice of techniques in teaching biostatistics as applied to public health topics. Instructional Techniques in Biostatistics: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Professional course for teachers or prospective teachers Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only. Instructor: Lahiff Formerly known as: Public Health 300 Instructional Techniques in Biostatistics: Read Less [-]