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Public Health

Overview
Courses

School of Public Health
Dean's Office: 417 University Hall, (510) 643-8451

Dean: Stefano Bertozzi, MD, PhD
School Website: School of Public Health

Undergraduate Program

The School of Public Health offers an undergraduate major through the College of Letters and Science . The goal of the major is to provide students with an interdisciplinary understanding of epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental health, health behavior, and health policy. These areas of emphasis range across the spectrum of natural science to social science. Students in the program will develop and apply knowledge from multiple disciplines for the promotion and protection of the health of the human population, giving due consideration to principles of human rights and cultural perspectives that abound in a multicultural country and world.

Lower Division Requirements

Biological Science Requirement: Biology 1B (required before declaration: minimum letter grade, B-); Biology 1A or two courses from the following: Molecular and Cell Biology 11, 32, 41, 50, 55, or 61; Nutritional Sciences 10
Mathematics Requirement: Two courses from the following (or equivalent): Mathematics 32, 16A, 16B, or H16B, 10A, 10B, 1A, 1B or H1B
Social Sciences Requirement: Three courses, drawn from at least two of the following groups: Psychology 1 or 2; Sociology 1, 3, 3AC, or 5; Economics 1, 2, or 3; Anthropology 3, 3AC, or 12AC; Political Science 2 or 4
Recommended: Public Health 14

Upper Division Requirements

Public Health 142, 150A, and two from the following: 150B, 150D, 150E, 162A
Twelve units of elective courses are required. Students who plan to continue to graduate school are strongly advised to concentrate elective units in only one or two areas of study. Most other courses in public health, including graduate level classes (but excluding the decal and group study courses), can also meet elective requirements.
- Biostatistics: DEMOG 110: Introduction to Population Analysis (3), MATH 53: Multivariable Calculus (4), MATH 54: Linear Algebra and Differential Equations (4), PH 143: Introduction to Methods in Computational Biology (4), PH 145: Statistical Analysis of Continuous-Outcome Data (4), STAT 134: Concepts of Probability (3), STAT 135: Concepts of Statistics (4), STAT 150: Stochastic Processes (3), STAT 151AB: Linear Modeling: Theory and Application (8), STAT 152: Introduction to Time Series (4)
- Infectious Diseases: ESPM 145: Arthropod-borne Zoonotic Diseases (2), ESPM 146: Medical/Veterinary Entomology (3), IB 131: General Anatomy (3), IB 132: Survey of Human Physiology (3), IB 137: General Endocrinology (4), MCB 102: Principles of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (4), MCB 114: Introduction to Comparative Virology (4), MCB 130: Cell Biology (4), MCB 140: General genetics (4) or MCB 142: Survey of General Genetics (4), MCB 142: Survey of General Genetics (4), MCB 150: Molecular Immunology (4), MCB 160: Introduction to Neurobiology (4), PMB 110: Biology of Fungi (4)
- Epidemiology: CHEM 112A, B: Organic Chemistry (10), DEMOG 110: Introduction to Population Analysis (3), GEOG 130: Food and the Environment (4), IB 131: General Human Anatomy (3), IB 132: Survey of Human Physiology (3), IB 140: Biology and Sociobiology of Human Reproduction (4), MCB 140: General Genetics (4), MCB 152: The Immune System (4), PH 112: Global Health: A Multidisciplinary Examination (4)
- Environmental Health Sciences: CE 108: Air Pollution Emission and Controls (3),CE 109: Indoor Air Quality (3), CE 110: Water Pollution Control and Treatment (3), CE 111: Environmental Engineering (3), CE 113N: Ecological Engineering for Water Quality Improvement (3), CE 114: Environmental Microbiology (3), CHEM 112A, B : Organic Chemistry (10), ECON C102/EEP C102: Natural Resource Economics (4), EEP 131: Globalization and the Natural Environment (4), EEP 152: Advanced Topics in Development and International Trade (3), EEP 153: Population, Environment, and Development (3), EEP 161: Advanced Topics in Environmental and Resource Economics (4), EEP C151/ ECON C171: Economic Development (4), EEP C181/ ECON C181: International Trade (4), ENR 102: Quantitative Aspects of Global Environmental Problems (4), ERG 100: Energy and Society (4), ERG 102: Quantitative Aspects of Global Environment Problems (4), ERG 130: Analysis of Environmental Data (3), ESPM 155: Sociology and Political Ecology of Agro-Food Systems (4), ESPM 167: Environmental Health and Development (4), ESPM 168: Political Ecology (3), ESPM 169: International Environmental Politics (4), GEOG 123: Postcolonial Geographies (4), GEOG 130: Food and the Environment (4), GEOG 138: Global Environmental Politics (4), HIST 120AC: Environmental and Cultural History of America (4), IAS C175/EEP C175: The Economics of Climate Change, ISF 100D: Introduction to Technology, Society, and Culture (4), NUTRISCI 166: Nutrition in the Community (3), PHC 172: Pharmacology and Toxicology (3), SOC 121: Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Social and Cultural Context (4), SOC 166: Society and Technology (4)
- Health Policy & Management: CY PLAN 112A: The Idea of Planning (3), CY PLAN 120: Community Planning and Public Policy for Disability (3), ECON 157: Health Economics (3), ESPM 102D: Resource and Environmental Policy (4), LS 103: Theories of Law and Society (4), LS 107: Theories of Justice (4), LS 165: Drug, Tobacco and Alcohol Policy (cross-listed with PP 162C) (3), LS 168: Sex, Reproduction and the Law (4), MASS COMM 102: The Effects of Mass Media (4), PH 116: Social, Political and Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine (2), PH 126: Health Economics and Public Policy (3), PH 180: Topics in Human Sexuality (2), PH 181 Population and Poverty (2-3), PH 183 History of Medicine and Public Health (3), PP 101: Introduction to Public Policy Analysis (4), PP 117AC: Race, Ethnicity and Public Policy (4), PP 156: Program and Policy Design (4), PP 179: Public Budgeting (4), PS 103: Congress (4), PS 150: The American Legal System (3), PS 171: California Politics (4), SW 112: Social Welfare Policy (3)
- Community Health & Human Development: AAADS 143: Asian American Health (3), CHICANO 176: Chicanos and Health Care (3), NUTRISCI 166: Nutrition in the Community (3), PH 103: Drugs, Health, and Society (2), PH 104 A/B: Health Promotion in a College Setting (2/2), PH 105: Policy, Planning and Evaluation of Health Promotion in a College Setting (3), PH 113: Campus/Community Health Impact Program (3), PH 114: Issues in Personal and Community Health Promotion (3), PH 14: Introduction to Public Health (4), PH107: Violence, Social Justice, and Public Health (2), PHC129: Aging and the Human Brain (3), PHC155: Sociology of Illness (3)

For more information, please visit the undergraduate page at the School of Public Health website .

Graduate Programs

The mission of the School of Public Health is to develop and apply knowledge from multiple disciplines for the promotion and protection of the health of the human population, giving due consideration to principles of human rights and cultural perspectives that abound in our multicultural country and world. The school carries out this mission with programs of teaching, research, and service. These programs, grounded in an understanding of the theory and mechanisms of the basic sciences, are integrated through a focus on communities that reach from the neighborhoods surrounding the campus to international settings.

Promotion and protection of the health of human populations require a scientific understanding of epidemiology, biostatistics, and the biological, physical, environmental, social, behavioral, informational, and administrative and policy sciences. In the School of Public Health, these and other disciplines focus on health problems of particular populations, selected diseases or disabilities, and issues associated with the application of resources to public health systems. SPH faculty, support resources, and curricula focus on both the fundamental disciplines and their applications to particular problems. Within the University and wider community, faculty strive to advance the understanding of the fundamental disciplines, apply them to problems faced by human populations, and provide the interdisciplinary context in which future public health practitioners and scholars may develop needed skills and capacities.

The program of study leading to the professional MPH degree is based on a series of foundation courses. In addition, MPH students concentrate in one of the following areas: Biostatistics, Environmental Health Sciences, Epidemiology, Epidemiology/Biostatistics, Health and Social Behavior, Health Policy and Management, Health Services and Policy Analysis, Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, Interdisciplinary, Maternal and Child Health, and Public Health Nutrition. The Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) curriculum is based on a comprehensive body of knowledge in the field of public health and its related disciplines, and the investigation of significant problems in public health practice.

Programs of study leading to the following academic degrees are administered by groups of faculty from the School of Public Health and other departments:

Biostatistics : MPH, MA, PhD
Environmental Health Sciences: 2-year MPH, 11-month MPH, MS, MS in Global Health and Environment, PhD, MCP/MPH, Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency Program (with UCSF)
Epidemiology : 11-month MPH, MS, PhD
Epidemiology/Biostatistics : 2-year MPH, MCP/MPH, MSW/MPH, MBA/MPH, MPP/MPH, MJ/MPH
Health and Social Behavior : 2-year MPH, MSW/MPH, MCP/MPH
Health Policy and Management : 11-month MPH, 2-year MPH, MPP/MPH, MBA/MPH, MCP/MPH
Health Services and Policy Analysis : PhD
Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology : 2-year MPH, PhD in Infectious Diseases and Immunity
Interdisciplinary : MPH
Maternal and Child Health : 2-year MPH, 11-month MPH, MSW/MPH
Public Health Nutrition : MPH

Applications for admission to the School of Public Health are accepted for the fall semester only, because of the sequencing of courses. To apply for graduate study, you must complete the UC Berkeley Graduate Application for Admission & Fellowships as well as the SOPHAS application (the centralized application service for public health). Both applications must be electronically submitted online by December 1. Application instructions are available on the School of Public Health's website .

PB HLTH 14 Healthy People: Introduction to Health Promotion 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.

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.

Instructor: Kodama

PB HLTH 14N Healthy People: Introduction to Health Promotion 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Term course may be offered: Summer

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 6 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week for 8 weeks.

This course introduces students to the basic theories and skills of personal and community health promotion within a public health context. Using a broad multi-disciplinary perspective, the course will examine selected health topics with particular attention to individual and group behaviors and their implications for personal and community health.

Course Objectives: 1. To introduce students to the depth and scope of issues embraced by the theory and practice of public health.
2. To provide an overview of the meaning, principles, ethics and scope of personal and community health promotion.
3. To help students identify ways that individuals can take action to maximize their own health and create health-promoting environments.
4. To provide an opportunity for students to critically explore selected health issues from a multi-disciplinary perspective.
5. To provide an opportunity for students to apply the above concepts to a scholarly examination of a health issue in their own community, and to create positive, healthy change in their own community.

Instructors: Harris, Gamble

PB HLTH 24 Freshman Seminar in Public Health 1 Unit

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring

Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.

Hours and format: 1 hour of lecture/discussion per week.

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.

Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

PB HLTH 39C Freshman/Sophomore Seminar 2 - 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring

Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.

Hours and format: Seminar format. 1 hour of seminar per week per unit.

Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower-division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.

Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Priority given to freshmen and sophomores.

PB HLTH 39E Freshman/Sophomore Seminar 2 - 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring

Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.

Hours and format: Seminar format. 1 hour of seminar per week per unit.

Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Priority given to freshmen and sophomores.

PB HLTH 39G Freshman/Sophomore Seminar 2 - 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring

Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.

Hours and format: Seminar format. 1 hour of seminar per week per unit.

Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Priority given to freshmen and sophomores.

PB HLTH 39H Freshman/Sophomore Seminar 2 - 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring

Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.

Hours and format: Seminar format. 1 hour of seminar per week per unit.

Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Priority given to freshmen and sophomores.

PB HLTH 39I Freshman/Sophomore Seminar 2 - 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring

Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.

Hours and format: Seminar format. 1 hour of seminar per week per unit.

Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Priority given to freshmen and sophomores.

PB HLTH 84 Sophomore Seminar 1 or 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer

Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.

Hours and format: 1 hour of seminar per week per unit for 15 weeks. 1 and 1 half hours of seminar per week per unit for 10 weeks. 2 hours of seminar per week per unit for 8 weeks. 3 hours of seminar per week per unit for 5 weeks.

Prerequisites: At discretion of instructor.

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.

Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

PB HLTH 97 Field Study 1 - 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring

Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.

Hours and format: Variable format.

Prerequisites: Lower division standing.

Supervised experience relevant to specific aspects of public health in off-campus organizations. Regular individual meetings with faculty sponsor and written reports required.

Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

PB HLTH 98 Directed Group Study 1 - 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring

Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.

Hours and format: Variable format.

Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.

PB HLTH 99 Supervised Independent Study 1 - 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer

Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.

Hours and format: 1 to 4 hour of Independent study per week for 15 weeks. 1.5 to 6 hours of Independent study per week for 10 weeks. 1.5 to 7.5 hours of Independent study per week for 8 weeks. 2.5 to 10 hours of Independent study per week for 6 weeks.

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.

PB HLTH C102/MCELLBI C103/PLANTBI C103 Bacterial Pathogenesis 3 Units

Department: Public Health; Molecular and Cell Biology; Plant and Microbial Biology

Course level: Undergraduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: 100, 102 or consent of instructor.

This course for upper division and graduate students will explore the molecular and cellular basis of microbial pathogenesis. The course will focus on model microbial systems which illustrate mechanisms of pathogenesis. Most of the emphasis will be on bacterial pathogens of mammals, but there will be some discussion of viral and protozoan pathogens. There will be an emphasis on experimental approaches. The course will also include some aspects of bacterial genetics and physiology, immune response to infection, and the cell biology of host-parasite interactions.

Instructor: Portnoy

PB HLTH 103 Drugs, Health, and Society 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.

Introduces undergraduates to concepts basic to understanding and analyzing relationships between drugs, health, and society. Using a broad multi-disciplinary perspective, examines legal and illegal drugs and their effects on personal and community health. Prevention of drug problems at the policy, community, organization, and individual levels will be examined.

Instructor: Kodama

PB HLTH 104A Health Promotion in a College Setting 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.

Hours and format: 1.5 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.

Topics include health promotion, medical self-care, and delivery of health care service. Through a combined theory and practice approach, topics are covered as they apply to the campus community. The course is divided into three sections corresponding to particular campus health field experiences in which students may be involved.

Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Kodama

PB HLTH 104B Health Promotion in a College Setting 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring

Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.

Hours and format: 1.5 hour of lecture per week and 1 hour of seminar every other week.

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.

Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Kodama

PB HLTH 105 Policy, Planning, and Evaluation of Health Promotion in a College Setting 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: 14, 104A or 104B, and consent of instructor.

Theory and practice of policy, planning, implementation, and evaluation of health promotion programs in a college setting. Comparison of different methodologies (peer education, teaching, problem-posing, organizational change), content areas (stress, nutrition, alcohol and drugs, AIDS, sexuality, women's health, self-care, health services), and settings (clinical, classroom, living room, campus).

Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Kodama

PB HLTH 107 Violence, Social Justice, and Public Health 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

This course addresses violence as a public health issue, using an interdisciplinary public health approach to enable undergraduate students to explore and analyze violence from personal, social, community, and political perspectives. Beginning with individual experiences of violence and its impact, the course will go on to focus on gender- and race-based violence, firearms, poverty, youth, and collective violence; students will learn to apply public health strategies to identify causes of violence and develop practical community-based plans to prevent violence and promote safety.

Instructors: Creighton, Kodama

PB HLTH 112 Global Health: A Multidisciplinary Examination 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.

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.

Instructors: Krishnan, Reingold

PB HLTH 113 Campus/Community Health Impact Program 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

This course looks at the issues of substance abuse, HIV prevention, and sexual health, particularly in relation to underpresented groups, including African-American, Chicano/Latino, and LGBT communities. It covers principles of public health, community engagement, social justice, and health promotion. Students have the chance to participate in community outreach and develop basic outreach and health educator skills.

PB HLTH 116 Seminar on Social, Political, and Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring

Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.

An interdisciplinary approach to health and medicine administered through the Health and Medical Apprenticeship Program (HMAP). Guest lecturers will speak on the social, political, and ethical aspects of health and medicine; students will then discuss and present analyses of the reading materials as well as issues raised by the speakers.

Formerly known as Interdepartmental Studies 130. Instructor: Potts

PB HLTH C117/INTEGBI C195 Introduction to Global Health Disparities Research 2 Units

Department: Public Health; Integrative Biology

Course level: Undergraduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 1 hour of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.

This course is designed to prepare trainees in the UC Berkeley "Minority Health/Global Health" (MH/GH) program to conduct a ten-week infectious disease research project in a disease-endemic country. The course provides a background in neglected tropical disease research, international research ethics, and the conduct of health research in low-resource settings.

Instructor: Reingold

PB HLTH 126 Health Economics and Public Policy 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 6 hours of lecture/discussion per week for 8 weeks. 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: Public Health major or consent of instructor.

This course focuses on a selected set of the major health policy issues and uses economics to uncover and better understand the issues. The course examines the scope for government intervention in health markets.

Instructor: Scheffler

PB HLTH C129/NEUROSC C129 The Aging Human Brain 3 Units

Department: Public Health; Neuroscience

Course level: Undergraduate

Term course may be offered: Fall. Offered odd-numbered years.

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.

The course will survey the field of the human brain, with introductory lectures on the concepts of aging, and brief surveys of normal neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neurochemistry, and neuropsychology as well as methods such as imaging, epidemiology, and pathology. The neurobiological changes associated with aging will be covered from the same perspectives: neuropsychology, anatomy, biochemistry, and physiology. Major neurological diseases of aging including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease will be covered, as will compensatory mechanisms, neuroendocrine changes with aging, depression and aging, epidemiology of aging, and risk factors for decline.

Instructor: Jagust

PB HLTH 140 Introduction to Risk and Demographic Statistics 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: One year of calculus.

Statistical and evaluation methods in studies of human mortality, morbidity, and natality. History of statistical terminology and notation, critical appraisal of registry and census data, measurement of risk and introduction to life tables. Computational systems and the analysis of mass data.

Instructor: Tarter

PB HLTH 141 Introduction to Biostatistics 5 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Term course may be offered: Summer

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture, 1 hour of discussion, and 2 hours of laboratory per week.

Prerequisites: High school algebra.

An intensive introductory course in statistical methods used in applied research. Emphasis on principles of statistical reasoning, underlying assumptions, and careful interpretation of results. Topics covered: descriptive statistics, graphical displays of data, introduction to probability, expectations and variance of ramdom variables, confidence intervals and tests for means, differences of means, proportions, differences of proportions, chi-square tests for categorical variables, regression and multiple regression, an introduction to analysis of variance. Statistical software will be used to supplement hand calculation. Students who successfully complete Public Health 141 are prepared to continue their biostatistics course work in 200-level courses. With the approval of their degree program, MPH students may use Public Health 141 to fulfill the biostatistics course requirement (contact program manager for approval). Public Health 141 also fulfills the biostatistics course requirement for the Public Health Undergraduate Major.

PB HLTH 142 Introduction to Probability and Statistics in Biology and Public Health 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: High school algebra.

Descriptive statistics, probability, probability distributions, point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing, chi-square, correlation and regression with biomedical applications.

Formerly known as 142A. Instructor: Selvin

PB HLTH 142AB Introduction to Probability and Statistics in Public Health and Biology 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Term course may be offered: Summer

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 15 hours of lecture/laboratory per week for 4 weeks. 15 hours of lecture/laboratory per week for 4 weeks.

Prerequisites: High school algebra.

This course will provide an intense, fast-paced presentation of material contained in 142A-142B, which are offered during the regular academic year. Topics from 142A include descriptive statistics, probability, probability distributions, point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing, chi-square, correlation and regression with biomedical applications. The following topics from 142B will also be covered: analysis of variance, multiple regression, and nonparametric statistics.

Instructor: van der Laan

PB HLTH W142 Introduction to Probability and Statistics in Biology and Public Health 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 8 hours of web-based lecture per week for 7 weeks. This is an online course.

Descriptive statistics, probability, probability distributions, point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing, chi-square, correlation, and regression with biomedical applications.

Instructor: Lahiff

PB HLTH 144A Introduction to SAS Programming 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture, 3 hours of laboratory, and 2 hours of work outside of class per week for 8 weeks.

Prerequisites: 142 or consent of instructor.

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.

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. Instructor: Lein

PB HLTH 144B Intermediate SAS Programming 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture, 3 hours of laboratory, and 2 hours of work outside of class per week for 8 weeks.

Prerequisites: 144A.

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.

Enrollment is limited to School of Public Health students. If space permits, others may enroll with consent of instructor. Instructor: Lein

PB HLTH 145 Statistical Analysis of Continuous Outcome Data 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of laboratory/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: 142 or equivalent.

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.

Formerly known as 142B. Instructor: Lahiff

PB HLTH 150A Introduction to Epidemiology and Human Disease 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: A course in statistics, preferably 142.

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.

Formerly known as 150. Instructors: Abrams, Barcellos, Buffler

PB HLTH 150B Introduction to Environmental Health Sciences 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: 142 and 150A recommended. May be taken concurrently.

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.

Formerly known as second half of 150. Instructor: K. Smith

PB HLTH 150D Introduction to Health Policy and Management 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall and summer

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 6 hours of lecture/discussion per week for 8 weeks. 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

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.

Instructor: Halpin

PB HLTH 150E Introduction to Community Health and Human Development 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: Third or fourth undergraduate standing or consent of instructor.

This course will consist of a survey of the major social, cultural, and bio-behavioral patterns of health and well-being among individuals, families, neighborhoods, and communities. The course also will address the design, implementation, and evaluation of leading social and behavioral interventions and social policies designed to improve community and population health. This course will satisfy one of the core requirements for the undergraduate major in public health.

Satisfies the American Cultures requirement

Instructor: Satariano

PB HLTH C155/SOCIOL C115 Sociology of Health and Medicine 4 Units

Department: Public Health; Sociology

Course level: Undergraduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 to 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.

Prerequisites: Sociology 1, 3, 3AC or consent of instructor.

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.

Students will receive no credit for C115 after taking 155, C155 or Public Health C155. Formerly known as C155.

PB HLTH C160/ESPM C167 Environmental Health and Development 4 Units

Department: Public Health; Environ Sci, Policy, and Management

Course level: Undergraduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.

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.

Instructor: Morello-Frosch

PB HLTH 162A Public Health Microbiology 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall and summer

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of demonstration/discussion/laboratory per week.

Prerequisites: One year each of college-level biology and chemistry.

Introduction to properties of microorganisms; their relationships with humans in causing infectious diseases and in maintaining health. With 162L, satisfies most requirements for a laboratory course in microbiology. May be taken without 162L.

Instructors: Buehring, Dailey

PB HLTH 162L Public Health Microbiology Laboratory 1 Unit

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall and summer

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of demonstration/discussion/laboratory per week.

Prerequisites: One year each of college-level biology and chemistry. Students must take 162A concurrently or have taken it previously.

Laboratory to accompany 162A.

Instructor: Loretz

PB HLTH 170B Toxicology 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.

Introduction to toxicology covering basic principles, dose-response, toxicity testing, chemical metabolism, mechanisms of toxicity, carcinogensis, interpretation of toxicological data for risk assessment, and target organ toxicity.

Instructor: M. Smith

PB HLTH 170C Drinking Water and Health 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week.

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. A field trip to a local water treatment plant in included.

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.

Instructor: Smith

PB HLTH C170B/NUSCTX C119 Advanced Toxicology 3 or 4 Units

Department: Public Health; Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology

Course level: Undergraduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 to 4 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology 110.

The application of toxicology to answer questions about safety and risk. Using a case-study approach, participants will learn how to interpret toxicological data and apply their knowledge to evaluating the risk presented by exposures to toxic chemicals, including drugs and environmental contaminants. Discussion of current topics of controversy in the field of toxicology.

Instructor: M. Smith

PB HLTH 180 The Evolution of Human Sexuality 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.

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.

Instructor: Potts

PB HLTH 181 Poverty and Population 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

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.

Instructors: Campbell, Potts, Prata

PB HLTH 183 The History of Medicine, Public Health, and the Allied Health Sciences 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Knowledge of (and preferably a college level course which covered) basic aspects of (mammalian) physiology and anatomy. Graduate or upper division undergraduate status.

This course will examine the historical developments of social and scientific responses to human disease from their beginnings to their current roles as major forces in modern society. It will consider the evolution of diagnoses, treatment, and prevention of human morbidity and death from both a humanistic and scientific perspective. It invites pre-medical, pre-dental, and other students preparing for careers in public health, nursing, optometry, or the other health sciences, students interested in public policy and health-related law, and students of history or the other humanities who wish an overview of medicine and health from a broad historical perspective.

Instructor: Hook

PB HLTH H195A Special Study for Honors Candidates in Public Health 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer

Grading: Letter grade. This is part one of a year long series course. A provisional grade of IP (in progress) will be applied and later replaced with the final grade after completing part two of the series.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Independent study per week for 15 weeks. 5.5 hours of Independent study per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Independent study per week for 6 weeks.

Prerequisites: Senior status; 3.3 overall GPA.

Regular individual meetings with a faculty advisor culminating in a thesis at completion of H195B. H195A will concentrate primarily on researching a topic in public health. H195B will concentrate on development and writing up results in the form of a thesis. Students must enroll for both semesters of the sequence.

PB HLTH H195B Special Study for Honors Candidates in Public Health 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer

Grading: Letter grade. This is part two of a year long series course. Upon completion, the final grade will be applied to both parts of the series.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Independent study per week for 15 weeks. 5.5 hours of Independent study per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Independent study per week for 6 weeks.

PB HLTH 196 Special Topics in Public Health 1 - 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 1 to 4 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Upper division standing.

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.

Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

PB HLTH 197 Field Study in Public Health 1 - 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring

Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.

Hours and format: 1 to 4 hour of Independent study per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Upper division standing.

Supervised experience relevant to specific aspects of public health in off-campus organizations. Regular individual meetings with faculty sponsor and written reports required.

Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

PB HLTH 198 Directed Group Study 1 - 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer

Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.

Hours and format: 1 to 4 hour of Directed group study per week for 15 weeks. 1 to 4 hour of Directed group study per week for 8 weeks. 1 to 4 hour of Directed group study per week for 6 weeks.

Prerequisites: Upper division standing.

Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

PB HLTH 199 Supervised Independent Study and Research 1 - 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Undergraduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer

Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.

Hours and format: 1 to 4 hour of Independent study per week for 15 weeks. 1 to 4 hour of Independent study per week for 8 weeks. 1 to 4 hour of Independent study per week for 6 weeks.

Enrollment restrictions apply; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.

Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

PB HLTH 200A Current issues in Public Health Ethics: Research and Practice 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing.

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.

Instructor: Halpern

PB HLTH 200C Public Health Core Breadth Seminar 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture per week plus optional 45-minute discussion.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing.

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.

Instructors: Minkler, Shortell, Smith

PB HLTH 200C1 Health Policy and Management Breadth Course 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 4 hours of web-based lecture.

Health policy and management applies concepts from economics, organizational behavior, and political science to the structure, financing, and regulation of the public health and health care delivery systems. This breadth course is designed to give MPH students a basic set of competencies in the domains central to the field.

Instructor: Robinson

PB HLTH 200C2 Environmental Health Sciences Breadth Course 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 4 hours of web-based lecture.

This course will give an introduction to 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, including those related to climate change. The basic principles of toxicology, exposure assessment, risk assessment, risk perception, and environmental health policy will be presented. The overall role of environmental risks in the pattern of human disease, both nationally and internationally, will be covered.

Instructors: Bates, K. Smith

PB HLTH 200C3 Health and Social Behavior Breadth 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Health and social behavior uses theory and research from the behavioral sciences to explain the causes and health effects of salutary and risky behavior.

Instructor: Catalano

PB HLTH 200D Applied Public Health: Putting Theory Into Practice 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: 142, 200C, and 250A.

This course trains students in applied public health through discussion, lectures, guest speakers, cases, and field trips. Students integrate learning from previous courses with work experience. Cases emphasize current national/global public health issues and practice. At course completion, students will be able to: Demonstrate the capacity to identify, research, and respond to real-life public health challenges; work effectively and efficiently in problem-solving groups; professionally present the results of their effort to large groups for feedback and evaluation.

Instructors: Braff, Rundall, Winkelstein

PB HLTH W200E Health Policy and Management Breadth Course 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall and summer

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 4 hours of web-based lecture per week for 5 weeks, 8 hours of lecture per week for 1 week. 4 hours of web-based lecture per week for 5 weeks and 8 hours of lecture per week for 1 week. This is an online course.

Instructor: Fulton

PB HLTH W200F Environmental Health Sciences Breadth Course 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 4 hours of web-based lecture per week for 7 weeks. This is an online course.

This survey course covers the breadth of hazards from chemical, biological, and physical agents of concern to environmental health professionals. Lectures are presented by experts on particular topics that emphasize the activities involved in professional practice.

Instructor: K. Smith

PB HLTH W200G Health and Social Behavior Breadth 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Terms course may be offered: Spring and summer

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 5 hours of web-based lecture per week for 7 weeks. This is an online course.

Health and social behavior uses theory and research from the behavioral sciences to explain the causes and health effects of salutary and risky behavior.

Instructor: Chang

PB HLTH 201E Public Health Interventions: Theory, Practice, and Research 2 or 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Previous experience with health interventions and doctoral student status or consent of instructor.

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.

Instructors: Neuhauser, Syme

PB HLTH 201F Community-Based Research and Interventions to Promote Health: Theory and Methods 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing.

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.

Instructor: Ozer

PB HLTH 202B Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Health Status and Behavior 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

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.

Instructor: Herd

PB HLTH C202B/ESPM C254 Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Health Status 3 Units

Department: Public Health; Environ Sci, Policy, and Management

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Instructor: Morello-Frosch

PB HLTH 202G Advanced Alcohol Research Seminar 1 Unit

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.

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.

Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructors: Cherpitel, Kaskutas

PB HLTH W202 Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Health Status 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 6 hours of web-based lecture per week for 7 weeks. This is an online course.

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.

Instructor: Morello-Frosch

PB HLTH 203A Theories of Health and Social Behavior 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Background in social and behavioral sciences. Consent of instructor.

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.

Instructor: Holmes

PB HLTH 204A Mass Communications in Public Health 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

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.

PB HLTH 204D Community Organizing and Community Building for Health 3 or 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.

This course emphasizes community organizing and community building as major approaches to creating healthy communities and fostering broader social change. It further examines the role of public health practitioners as change agents, stressing in particular the values and ethical issues that arise within the context of diverse and multicultural communities. Both advancement of theoretical knowledge and the development of skills in applying such knowledge in the areas of community organizing and community building will be stressed. This is a Service Learning Course, and students wishing to undertake a concurrent field project can earn an additional optional unit of credit.

Instructor: Minkler

PB HLTH 204F Culture, Public Health Practice, and Eliminating Health Disparities: From Ideas to Action in the 21st Century 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: Graduate students in Public Health or by consent of instructor.

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.

Instructor: Nazeeri-Simmons

PB HLTH 204G Research Advances in Health Disparities: Multidisciplinary Perspectives 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

A critical overview of major theories and research findings on health disparities from a multidisciplinary perspective. It will focus on applying major theoretical approaches from Public Health, Anthropology, Social Welfare, and other disciplines to understand and address health disparities. These approaches include social determinants of health, lifecourse perspectives, health as a human right, stress and bio-social perspectives, social contruction of disease, and healthcare access and quality.

Instructor: Herd

PB HLTH W204 Mass Communication in Public Health 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall and summer

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 6 hours of web-based lecture per week for 5 weeks and 30 hours of lecture for 1 week. 6 hours of web-based lecture per week for 5 weeks and 30 hours of lecture per week for 1 week. This is an online course.

The purpose of this course is to provide students with an understanding of how the media can be used to promote healthy public policy. The primary focus of the course is on "media advocacy." Students will learn how to frame issues from a public health perspective. In learning more about how the media operate, they will be better equipped to work effectively with journalists.

Instructor: Dorfman

PB HLTH 205 Program Planning, Development, and Evaluation 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: Public health students.

Basic elements and considerations in planning health programs; case material will be drawn from health settings, with emphasis on multidisciplinary planning. Assessment of problems, setting goals and objectives, designing activities, implementation and evaluation.

PB HLTH W205 Program Planning, Development, and Evaluation 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 6 hours of web-based lecture per week for 7 weeks. This is an online course.

The purpose of this course is to provide students with the necessary skills to plan health programs. We will examine the principles and methods underlying program planning. Multi-disciplinary, collaborative planning will be emphasized. Program planning applications will be emphasized throughout the course by using case studies, specific illustrations, and online planning exercises.

Instructor: Dublin

PB HLTH 206 PH Nutrition Core Course: Critical Issues in Public Health Nutrition 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: Master of Public Health students.

This course will introduce first-year public health nutrition and other MPH students to critical issues in public health nutrition, and provide them with critical thinking skills to analyze these issues using scientific literature. Students will build group facilitation skills, library research skills, and professional advocacy skills. Second-year public health nutrition students and a panel of PHN graduates will speak to the students about valuable skills and competencies needed for work in public health nutrition.

Instructor: Fernald

PB HLTH 206A Nutrition Status, Physical Activity, and Chronic Conditions 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture/discussion per week. 2 hours of lecture/discussion per week. 15 hours of lecture/discussion per week. 15 hours of lecture/discussion per week. 15 hours of lecture/discussion per week. 2 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

Concepts, methods, and limitations in the determination of nutritional status; application of methodologies for determining and interpreting data; technical, social, and political implications of nutritional assessments and related community needs.

Instructor: Laraia

PB HLTH 206B Food and Nutrition Policies and Programs 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Terms course may be offered: Spring and summer

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week. 15 hours of lecture/discussion per week for 3 weeks. 15 hours of lecture/discussion per week for 3 weeks. 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

This course examines the historical origins of food and nutrition improvement programs in the United States, including the political and administrative conditions that led to the development of these programs. It also examines the goals, design, operations, and effectiveness of some of these programs: Food Stamp Program, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), the National School Lunch Program, the School Breakfast Program, Head Start, the Child Care Food Program, and the Elderly Nutrition Program.

Instructor: Fernald

PB HLTH 206C Nutritional Epidemiology 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 15 hours of lecture/discussion per week for 3 weeks. 15 hours of lecture/discussion per week for 3 weeks.

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.

Instructor: Block

PB HLTH 206D Food and Nutrition Programs and Policies in Developing Countries 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

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.

Instructor: Fernald

PB HLTH 207A Public Health Aspects of Maternal and Child Nutrition 2 or 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: Course in epidemiology required; previous coursework in biology and nutritional science highly recommended.

Nutrition plays a vital role in human reproduction and child growth and development. This course provides an overview of the major nutritional issues faced by women of childbearing age, infants, children, and adolescents in the United States and around the world, with selected topics explored in greater depth. Nutritional problems are multi-factorial and occur at multiple levels and we will study them from a variety of viewpoints (biological, pyschological, socio-cultural, economic, political, and behavioral) as well as from individual and population perspectives. Participants in the course will become acquainted with nutritional research, policies, and interventions designed to enhance reproduction, growth, and development. This course will also explore health disparities in maternal and child nutrition in both a domestic and international context.

Instructor: Abrams

PB HLTH 208A Public Health Aspects of Nutritional Care: In Hospital Setting 5 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Summer

Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.

Hours and format: 8 hours of lecture/discussion and 32 hours of laboratory per week for 10 weeks.

Prerequisites: Admission to MPH Nutrition Internship and Nutritional Science 161, Nutritional Science 161L or equivalent.

The nutritional care of people with major diseases is reviewed, observed, and practiced in various Bay Area hospitals. Current nutritional therapies of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, renal diseases, liver diseases, gastro-intestinal disorders, and trauma are reviewed. The organization and delivery of nutritional care services in hospital settings.

PB HLTH 208B Public Health Aspects of Nutritional Care: In Selected Facilities 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Summer

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 1 hour of lecture/discussion and 8 hours of fieldwork per week.

Prerequisites: Completion of 208A or consent of instructor.

The organization and delivery of nutrition care services facilities such as health departments, ambulatory health care settings, child care and education facilities, skilled nursing facilities, and senior nutrition programs. Included are nutrition education and counseling, food service, nutrition assessments, consultation, and training.

Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Formerly known as Social and Administrative Health Sciences 256B.

PB HLTH 210 Maternal and Child Health Specialty Area Core Course 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.

The core course in maternal and child health will provide an integrated approach to issues, programs, and policies in the field of maternal and child health. The following concepts will be explored and addressed in depth: 1) the foundation of maternal and child health, including an overview of the field, history, and foundation of MCH practice and programs, and attention to financing of these programs; 2) MCH data sources, uses of data, and related issues; and 3) policies and practices in MCH (including discussions with community professionals to address practical problems, public policy concerns, current issues in MCH, and current research in MCH). In addition, major health problems facing women, children, and adolescents will be explored, including how and why these are distributed in these populations.

Instructor: Pies

PB HLTH 210B Adolescent Health 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing.

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.

Instructor: Deardorff

PB HLTH 210C Needs Assessment in Maternal and Child Health 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of seminar/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: Graduate student in Public Health.

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.

Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Formerly known as 210B. Instructor: Guendelman

PB HLTH 210D Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing in epidemiology or consent of instructor.

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.

Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Eskenazi

PB HLTH 212A International Maternal and Child Health 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

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.

Instructor: Miller

PB HLTH 212C Migration and Health: A U.S.-Mexico Binational Perspective 2 - 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.

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.

Instructor: Guendelman

PB HLTH 212D Global Health Core Course 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Qualified seniors may enroll with prior consent of instructor.

This is a graduate level survey course on selected topics in international health designed to introduce students to key areas of the specialty. The course will review the main contributors to the global burden of disease and discuss current interventions and possible approaches for the future. The primary goal of the course is to transfer knowledge and experiences that will prepare public health students to evaluate international health projects and better prepare themselves for international health work. The focus is on developing countries with the most challenging large-scale health problems, where physical and systems infrastructure as well as human resources are poorly developed. The course provides students with the tools to make their own assessments. Complex ethical and political issues pervading this field will also be addressed throughout the course.

Instructors: Campbell, Hosang, Potts, Prata, Walsh

PB HLTH 212E Private Sector Health Services in Developing Countries 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing.

This course will serve students intending to conduct research, policy work, or program implementation in health services in developing countries. Topics covered will include definition and typology of private sector in various countries, theories of private sector regulation, motivation, and research. Methodological and practical issues in measuring provider importance, quality, and in influencing the activities of actors in private health delivery will be explored from viewpoints of both research and programmatic intervention.

Instructors: Montagu, Prata

PB HLTH 213A Family Planning, Population Change, and Health 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

Course examines the determinants of family size and the role played by contraception, voluntary sterilization, and induced abortion in the transition to small families. It looks at the factors controlling access to fertility regulation in developed and developing countries and discusses the factors that have made for successful family programs as well as those that have generated controversy. The course looks at the relationship between family planning and the health of women and children and at the role of family size in economic development and environmental problems. It looks at advances in family planning, organization, and promotion of services and discusses ethical issues facing providers.

Instructors: Campbell, Potts, Prata

PB HLTH 216A Biological Embedding of Social Factors 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

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.

Instructor: Francis

PB HLTH 217C Aging and Public Health 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

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.

Instructor: Satariano

PB HLTH C217D/NEUROSC C217D Biological and Public Health Aspects of Alzheimer's Disease 3 Units

Department: Public Health; Neuroscience

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of seminar/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

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.

Instructor: Jagust

PB HLTH 218B Evaluation of Health and Social Programs 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week.

The study of concepts, methods, rationale, and uses of evaluation research as they apply to health and social programs.

PB HLTH W218 Evaluation of Health and Social Programs 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 6 hours of web-based lecture per week for 7 weeks. This is an online course.

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.

Instructor: Paleo

PB HLTH 219A Advanced Methods: Qualitative Research 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: Doctoral student in public health or a related discipline, or consent of instructor.

An overview of the theoretical and methodological components involved in various aspects of qualitative research.

PB HLTH 219C Community-Based Participatory Research in Public Health 3 - 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

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.

Instructor: Minkler

PB HLTH 219D Social and Behavioral Health Research: Introduction to Survey Methods 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

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.

Instructor: Karriker-Jaffe

PB HLTH 219E Introduction to Qualitative Methods in Public Health Research 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.

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.

Instructor: Miller

PB HLTH W219 Social and Behavioral Health Research: Introduction to Survey Methods 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 6 hours of web-based lecture per week for 7 weeks. This is an online course.

This course provides students with a thorough tool kit for designing survey questionnaires and for implementing telephone, face-to-face, mail, and internet surveys. The two three-hour, weekly class sessions are designed to convey practical knowledge with a case study approach used to complement the topical lectures. An SPSS laboratory also is given each semester.

Instructor: Karriker-Jaffe

PB HLTH 220 Health Policy Decision-Making 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussions per week.

Introduction to federal-level health policy and analysis of government capacity in addressing major issues in health policy. The course explores structural impediments to reform in the US, regulatory decision-making -- particularly decision-making under conditions of uncertainty, and basic tools of policy analysis. Students will apply these tools in a seminar paper that analyzes a proposed or existing health policy or program.

Instructor: Sentell

PB HLTH 220C Health Risk Assessment, Regulation, and Policy 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: 250A, 270A-270B recommended. Graduate standing.

This course introduces the basic scientific components of environmental and occupational health risk assessment and describes the policy context in which decisions to manage environmental health risks are made. The course presents the quantitative methods used to assess the human health risks associated with exposure to toxic chemicals, focusing on the four major components of risk assessment: hazard identification, dose-response assessment, exposure assessment, and risk characterization. Students use these tools to develop their own risk assessment for an environmental health problem. The course also provides a broad overview of occupational and environmental health regulations with consideration of how hazard, risk, cost, and benefits are considered. Current political controversies about environmental policy will be examined.

Instructors: Hammond, McKone

PB HLTH 220D Health Policy Advocacy 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

A graduate seminar in practice-based means to advocate for health policy. This course focuses on data based strategies using persuasive written and oral communication skills necessary to preserve and/or improve the health status of populations. Students will develop research, organization, and coalition-building skills necessary to produce an effective advocacy campaign. The course identifies the roles of those involved in the making of policy and demonstrates the use of appropriate channels and technologies to influence health policy change.

Instructor: Snyder

PB HLTH 220E Global Health Policy 2 or 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing.

This course will provide an intensive introduction to current topics in international health policy. Students in the course will become familiar with the major actors, institutions, and regimes that shape international health policy. The course will also introduce students to theories of governance as they apply to international settings and evaluate the relative roles of state actors, NGOs, and international regimes in producing key health policy outcomes. The course will cover several current issues in international health and will require students to critically assess the state of policy with respect to these issues. Using Bardach's method for policy analysis, students will analyze current policies and propose policy alternatives with an assessment of the tradeoffs implied in choosing a given policy option over its competitors.

Instructor: Keller

PB HLTH 220F Health Workforce and Public Policy 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing.

This course focuses on three interrelated issues: How do we determine when we have too many or too few health care workers to provide high quality and cost effective care? What are the factors that determine the supply and distribution of health care workers? What are the methods that can be used to increase the performance and productivity of health care workers? We will review recent evidence on the supply, quality, and cost of the health workforce in California, the U.S., and globally. Approaches to the public and private financing of medical education will also be analyzed. This course is taught in a seminar format with lectures, visiting speakers, and student presentations.

Instructor: Scheffler

PB HLTH 220G Politics, Policy, and Democracy in Environmental Health 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

This course provides an intensive introduction to environmental health policy in the United States and emphasizes the respective roles of science, policy, and politics in shaping environmental health protection. Students who complete this course will understand the basic tools for gaining policy leverage over environmental health problems and be able to critically assess the capacity of public institutions to address key environmental health issues.

Instructor: Keller

PB HLTH 221 Mental Health Policies, Programs, and Services 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

This course provides a foundation for understanding mental illness and mental health services and the evolution and current state of our thinking about them. It presents the most frequent varieties of mental illness and addresses their frequency of occurrence, and it addresses the social disability from mental illness and the societal response to mental illness. It also considers treatments, services, effectiveness, quality of care, and financing, as well as considering financing, legal issues, and special concerns and services for children and youth. In addition, the course provides a forum to critically examine the knowledge base on mental illness, epidemiology, policies, programs, and services as it presents major controversies and highlights the best available evidence.

Instructor: Snowden

PB HLTH 221B Understanding and Overcoming Health Care Disparities 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

In this class, we will construct a framework to formulate explanations for health care disparities and to construct responses that have the potential for a policy-oriented, and therefore widespread, response. Taking advantage of selected developments in social science theory and research that can provide insight into how health care disparities come about, we will draw from anthropological and psychological theories of cultural orientation, cultural framing of problems, and cultural identity; as well as drawing from psychological theories of stress and coping. We also will draw from sociological theories of individual and community poverty, and theories characterizing health care system design and service delivery.

Instructor: Snowden

PB HLTH 222A Health Care Technology Policy 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

The course examines the public policy institutions and processes influencing innovation, regulation, and payment for biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices. Topics include technology transfer and patent law, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review for safety and efficacy, insurance coverage policy at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), coverage, payment, and benefit by private insurers for new technology, and cost-effectiveness analysis. Special topics vary from year to year. Examples and case studies are drawn from all three of the technology sectors.

Instructor: Robinson

PB HLTH 222B Health Care Technology Strategy 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

This class will familarize the student with core principles and case examples of strategic decision-making related to the development, pricing, distribution and purchasing of biomedical technologies such as biopharmaceuticals and implantable medical devices. We will consider the perspectives of product developers/manufacturers, investors, and purchasers/users (e.g., insurers, hospitals).

Instructor: Robinson

PB HLTH 223A Introduction to the Health Care System 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

An intensive introduction that will provide students with an understanding of the structure, financing, and special properties of health services delivery. The course will analyze the larger management and policy issues that drive reform efforts.

Instructor: Raube

PB HLTH 223B Cases in Health Management 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

This is an advanced course in health management. It is intended for master's degree students in the Division of Health Policy and Management who have already completed their field residency. The course consists of analyses and discussions of cases highlighting complex managerial issues in health care delivery, E-health, biotechnology, and other health-related organizations. The cases used in the class will provide the student with real-world management problems, choices, and information. The key task for the student is to develop solutions to problems and propose actions using the information in the case. The case discussions will draw on the student's knowledge of health organizations and current health policies and the skills the student has acquired in operational management, strategic management, ethical analysis, health politics and policy analysis, and interpersonal communication.

Instructor: Rundall

PB HLTH 223C Strategic Management and the Organization of Health Services 2 or 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture and additional group work.

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.

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, with particular attention given to continuous quality improvement/total quality management approaches. The course will cover a wide variety of health care organizations including physician group practices, health systems, hospitals, HMOs, suppliers, pharmaceutical and biotech companies. The course builds on Business Administration 205: Organizational Behavior and 223A: Medical Care Organization.

Instructors: Shortell, Oxendine

PB HLTH 223D Foundations of Health Policy and Management 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing in Health Policy and Management or consent of instructor.

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.

Instructors: Oxendine, Solomon

PB HLTH 223E Capstone Seminar in Health Policy and Management 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing in HPM and completion of 297 internship.

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.

Instructor: Solomon

PB HLTH 223F Effective Public Health Negotiations 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture/practice per week.

The ability to secure enduring agreements is an essential skill for a successful public health leader. This course integrates lecture and experiential components to expose students to major theories and specific tactics that underlie effective negotiating. It offers the opportunity to develop the skills needed to build awareness of personal styles. Students will be evaluated on their understanding of relevant theory and their ability to apply it in individual and team-based negotiations.

Instructors: MacPherson, Oxendine

PB HLTH W223 Strategic Management and the Health Sector 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 6 hours of Web-based lecture per week for 7 weeks. This is an online course.

The overall purpose of this course is to assist the student in managing healthcare organizations from a strategic perspective. This is accomplished by systemically addressing systemwide, organization-wide, group- and individual-level issues in strategy formulation, content, implementation, and performance. The course will cover a wide variety of health care organizations including physican group practices, health systems, hospitals, HMOs, suppliers, pharmacoutical and biotech companies.

Instructor: Shortell

PB HLTH 224A Health Care Organizations and Management 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

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.

Instructor: Bloom

PB HLTH 224C Advanced Health Care Organizations and Environments 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: 224A or consent of instructor.

This course examines major theories and frameworks for analyzing health care organizations. Emphasis is given to the application and testing of theories in the health care sector. Theories to be examined include bureaucracy, contingency theory, culture and climate, resource dependence, institutional theory, and theories of change and innovation. The seminar will rely on extensive student participation.

Instructor: Bloom

PB HLTH W224 Health Care Organizations and Management 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 6 hours of web-based lecture per week for 7 weeks. This is an online course.

Today, the health care system consists of a mixture of organizational forms that plan, regulate, and deliver medical care and other health services. The objective of this course is to consider 1) the structure of these organizations and the factors that affect their performance, as well as their growth and decline and 2) the role that health care managers play in the organizations in which they work.

Instructor: Bloom

PB HLTH 225 Legal Basis for Health Care Delivery 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. No legal experience or training required.

This is a course for nonlawyers in legal issues in the organization and delivery of health care, including regulation, fraud and abuse, physician arrangements, Medicare, managed care, privacy, malpractice, patient dumping, health care organizations, contracts, etc. Students will gain an appreciation of the interaction of law, policy, and health care delivery. Case studies, including an extended contract negotiation and medical-legal cases, will focus on the application and communication of legal principles in complex but common health care decision-making situations.

Instructor: Lipman

PB HLTH 226A Health Economics 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1.5 hours of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

This course introduces students to the economics of health and health care. In addition to familarizing students with the language and tools of health economics, the course will provide an overview of key institutional features of the health economy as well as important research findings in the field. These will be used to evaluate the economic logic and incentives in competing proposals for health care reform.

Instructor: Robinson

PB HLTH 226B Microeconomics of Health Care Policy 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1.5 hours of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: A recent graduate course in microeconomics, a second-level undergraduate course in microeconomics, or consent of instructor.

An economic and policy analysis of the health care system. It examines integration of the health care delivery system and the impact of competition and regulation on providers and patients. Alternative models of health care system reform are presented and analyzed.

Instructor: Dow

PB HLTH 226C Public Health and the Economy 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

An introduction to the literature that suggests that the performance of a regional economy affects the health of the population it supports. Controversies in the theoretical and empirical literature are discussed. The implications of the work for public health practice are discussed.

Instructors: Catalano, Dow

PB HLTH 226D Global Health Economics 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing and knowledge of health policy and consent of instructor.

This class is a survey of different health care systems in western and eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Canada, Japan, Taiwan, and China. Other countries will be added to meet the interests of students. The course examines the structure and financing of the health system in each country and assesses the effectiveness, efficacy, and equity of each systems. Students will make a presentation on a country's health system and write a paper.

Instructor: Scheffler

PB HLTH 227A Health Care Finance 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing.

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.

Instructors: Robinson, Safer

PB HLTH 227B Advanced Health Care Finance 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: 227A or a master's level course in finance.

This course covers finance and strategic financial management in the health services and products industry, including provider organizations (e.g., hospitals, physician groups), 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, cost behavior, pricing and service decisions, planning and budgeting, management control, debt and equity financing, risk and return, capital budgeting and project risk assessment, for-profit and non-profit organization, mergers and acquisitions.

Instructor: Robinson

PB HLTH 229 Public Health and the Law 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. No previous legal experience or training necessary.

This is an introductory course for nonlawyers in selected aspects of the law relating to public health. Major attention is paid to fundamental legal principles and legal reasoning, recurring legal issues confronted by health professionals, and the use of law to advance a public health agenda. Emphasis is placed on giving students tools to use when they encounter law-related problems in their professional careers. The course is intended for students in all divisions of the School of Public Health.

Instructors: Ashe, Simpson

PB HLTH 230 Advanced Health Politics 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: 220A or consent of instructor.

Critical analysis of selected issues in health policy. Topics include political ideology and health policy, interest group politics in health, Marxist and materialist interpretation of health policy, and the politics of health care technology, implementation, bureaucracy, and health professions.

Instructor: Halpin

PB HLTH 231A Analytic Methods for Health Policy and Management 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: 142 or equivalent (basic probability and statistics).

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.

Instructor: Dow

PB HLTH 232 Doctoral Seminar in Public Health Applications of Time Series Analysis 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Doctoral standing or consent of instructor.

An introduction to time-domain analyses of potential interest to public health researchers and practitioners. Applications in forecasting and hypothesis testing will be demonstrated.

Instructor: Catalano

PB HLTH C234/CHEM C234/ESPM C234 Green Chemistry: An Interdisciplonary Approach to Sustainability 3 Units

Department: Public Health; Chemistry; Environ Sci, Policy, and Management

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 20 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.

Prerequisites: One year of chemistry, including a semester of organic chemistry, or consent of instructors based on previous experience.

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.

Instructors: Arnold, Bergman, Guth, Iles, Kokai, Mulvihill, Schwarzman, Wilson

PB HLTH C240A/STAT C245A Biostatistical Methods: Advanced Categorical Data Analysis 4 Units

Department: Public Health; Statistics

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall. Offered odd-numbered years.

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Statistics 200A (may be taken concurrently).

This course focuses on statistical methods for discrete data collected in public health, clinical and biological studies. Lectures topics include proportions and counts, contingency tables, logistic regression models, Poisson regression and log-linear models, models for polytomous data and generalized linear models. Computing techniques, numerical methods, simulation and general implementation of biostatistical analysis techniques with emphasis on data applications.

PB HLTH C240B/STAT C245B Biostatistical Methods: Survival Analysis and Causality 4 Units

Department: Public Health; Statistics

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring. Offered even-numbered years.

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Statistics 200B (may be taken concurrently).

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.

Instructor: van der Laan

PB HLTH C240C/STAT C245C Biostatistical Methods: Computational Statistics with Applications in Biology and Medicine 4 Units

Department: Public Health; Statistics

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall. Offered even-numbered years.

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Statistics 200A or equivalent (may be taken concurrently).

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.

Instructor: Dudoit

PB HLTH C240D/STAT C245D Biostatistical Methods: Applications of Statistics to Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 Units

Department: Public Health; Statistics

Course level: Graduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of laboratory per week.

Prerequisites: Statistics 200A-200B or Statistics 201A-201B (may be taken concurrently) or consent of instructor.

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.

Instructor: Dudoit

PB HLTH C240E/STAT C245E Statistical Genomics 4 Units

Department: Public Health; Statistics

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.

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.

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.

Instructors: Dudoit, Huang, Nielsen, Song

PB HLTH C240F/STAT C245F Statistical Genomics 4 Units

Department: Public Health; Statistics

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.

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.

Instructors: Dudoit, Huang, Nielsen, Song

PB HLTH 241 Statistical Analysis of Categorical Data 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion/laboratory per week.

Prerequisites: 142 or consent of instructor.

Biostatistical concepts and modeling relevant to the design and analysis of multifactor population-based cohort and case-control studies, including matching. Measures of association, causal inference, confounding interaction. Introduction to binary regression, including logistic regression.

Instructor: Jewell

PB HLTH 242A Biometrical Data Analysis--Pathological Incomplete Data and Pattern Recognition 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring. Offered odd-numbered years.

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: 140, 142, and 145 or consent of instructor.

Survey of classical methods; mixture, clustered, grouped, incomplete, Cox-model, and truncated data simulation and analysis.

Instructor: Tarter

PB HLTH 242B Biometrical Data Analysis--Model Free Curve Estimation 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring. Offered even-numbered years.

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: 140, 142, and 145 or consent of instructor.

Generalized histograms and Gram-Charlier expansions; series inclusion and stopping rules, multiplier and weighting techniques, nonparametric regression, variance reduction, smoothing, and equiprobability contour estimation methods and other graphical methods.

Instructor: Tarter

PB HLTH C242C/STAT C247C Longitudinal Data Analysis 4 Units

Department: Public Health; Statistics

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring. Offered even-numbered years.

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: 142, 145, 241 or equivalent courses in basic statistics, linear and logistic regression.

The course covers the statistical issues surrounding estimation of effects using data on subjects followed through time. The course emphasizes a regression model approach and discusses disease incidence modeling and both continuous outcome data/linear models and longitudinal extensions to nonlinear models (e.g., logistic and Poisson). The primary focus is from the analysis side, but mathematical intuition behind the procedures will also be discussed. The statistical/mathematical material includes some survival analysis, linear models, logistic and Poisson regression, and matrix algebra for statistics. The course will conclude with an introduction to recently developed causal regression techniques (e.g., marginal structural models). Time permitting, serially correlated data on ecological units will also be discussed.

Instructors: Hubbard, Jewell

PB HLTH 243A Special Topics in Biostatistics 1 - 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 1 to 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: 240A and 240B.

Current issues in biostatistics research. Topics will vary from term to term depending on student demand and faculty availability. Possible topics are bioassay, meta-analysis, compartmental models, biostatistical consulting, covariance structure models, bootstrap and jackknife methods, artificial intelligence techniques in biostatistics.

PB HLTH 243C Information Systems in Public Health 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

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.

Instructor: Van Brunt

PB HLTH 243D Special Topics in Biostatistics: Adaptive Designs 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Prior biostatistics or statistics course or consent of instructor.

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.

Instructor: van der Laan

PB HLTH 245 Introduction to Multivariate Statistics 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: 145 or equivalent or consent of instructor.

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.

Instructor: Lahiff

PB HLTH C246A/STAT C249A Censored Longitudinal Data and Causality 4 Units

Department: Public Health; Statistics

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring. Offered odd-numbered years.

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: 240B, Statistics 200A-200B or consent of instructor.

This course examines optimal robust methods for statistical inference regarding causal and non-causal parameters based on longitudinal data in the presence of informative censoring and informative confounding of treatment. Models presented include multivariate regression models, multiplicative intensity models for counting processes, and causal models such as marginal structural models and structural nested models. Methods will be illustrated with data sets of practical interest and analyzed in the laboratory section. This course, appropriate for advanced masters and Ph.D. students, provides exposure to a number of ongoing research topics.

Instructor: van der Laan

PB HLTH 248 Statistical/Computer Analysis Using R 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Statistics 200A (may be taken concurrently) or 142, 145, and 245.

The material presented will focus on learning the programming language R, which will be taught in the context of reviewing and introducing a number of statistical methods. Four topic areas will be presented focusing on implementation; these are descriptive methods, simulation techniques, linear models, and estimation. The goal of the course is to provide a package of statistical techniques along with new and advanced computer tools for implementation.

Formerly known as 249. Instructor: Selvin

PB HLTH 250A Epidemiologic Methods I 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 12 hours of lecture/laboratory per week for 6 weeks.

Prerequisites: 142 (may be taken concurrently).

Principles and methods of epidemiology: study design, selection, and definition of cases and controls; sampling, data collection, analysis, and inference. Discussion session provides an opportunity to apply methods to problem sets and to discuss issues presented in lectures.

Instructors: Reingold, Smith

PB HLTH 250B Epidemiologic Methods II 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: 250A or an equivalent introductory course in epidemiology or advanced degree (M.D., Ph.D., D.V.M.) in a biomedical field.

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.

Instructor: Ahern or Colford (alternating years)

PB HLTH 250C Epidemiologic Theory 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 4 hours of lecture and 2 hours of practicum per week.

Prerequisites: 241, 245, 250B, or consent of instructor.

This course is a continuation of 250B. The course covers many of the same topics as 250B but explores them in greater breadth and depth. Topics that follow from 250B include causal inference; the interrelation between measures of disease frequency; the theory that underlies case-control studies and the practical issues that relate to implementation of case-control studies; and further exploration of the quantitative aspects of bias, confounding, propensity scores, and measurement error. An introduction to the theory of ecological studies and mixed model analysis also are provided. Readings are primarily from the epidemiologic methods literature, and problems are based on the evaluation of published data. The course is divided into a series of modules that range in length from 1-4 weeks: causal inference/models of causality; epidemiologic measures of disease occurrence and their inter-relations; standardization of rates; bias and validity--general consideration; misclassification/measurement error; confounding; matching; case-control studies; ecological studies.

Instructor: Tager

PB HLTH W250 Epidemiologic Methods I 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 6 hours of web-based lecture per week for 7 weeks. This is an online course.

Prerequisites: Concurrent or previous enrollment in an introductory biostatistics course (e.g., W142).

This introductory graduate course presents the principles and methods of epidemiology, including descriptive and analytic approaches to assessing the distributions of health, disease, and injury in the population and factors that influence those distributions. Through the combination of lecture, readings, and discussion of problem sets, students without prior coursework in epidemiology will acquire the core competencies in epidemiology expected of all MPH graduates.

Instructor: Tager

PB HLTH 251A Practicum in Epidemiologic Methods I 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: 250A; 145 or 241B concurrently; consent of instructor.

A two-semester sequence intended for students in the Epidemiology/Biostatistics MPH program and other qualified graduate students. This is a practicum course in research design data analysis. Students select a research question and learn practical skills to analyze a large database in order to answer the research question. The course teaches use of CMS and SAS in performing univariate analyses; students also learn critically to review scientific literature. Students are required to complete computer assignments, an oral presentation of a literature review with handouts for class, a final presentation (as would be presented at a scientific meeting), and a final report in a style for a publishable manuscript.

Instructor: Eskenazi

PB HLTH 251C Causal Inference and Meta-Analysis in Epidemiology 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

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.)

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.

Instructors: A. Smith, Steinmaus

PB HLTH 251D Applied Epidemiology Using R 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

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.

Instructor: Aragon

PB HLTH 252 Epidemiological Analysis 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: 245, 250A, or consent of instructor.

This course consists of two distinct components: (1) advanced treatment of epidemiologic methods: matched data, spatial analysis, logistic and Poisson regression models; (2) survival analysis: Kaplan-Meier estimation, survival distributions, parametric and semi-parametric survival analysis models. Students are encouraged to concurrently enroll in 248L which carries the prerequisite of a working knowledge of the statistical computing language R.

Instructor: Selvin

PB HLTH 252A Applied Sampling and Survey Design and Analysis 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall. Offered even-numbered years.

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture per week for 2 units; an additional computer laboratory of 2 hours required per week for 3 units.

This course will cover the basic principles and methods of sampling and survey design. The weekly lecture will cover the principles of sampling and include a discussion of various case studies. The computer laboratory will consist of exercises that develop skills for using computers to draw samples and to solve sampling problems. The material covered in the computer laboratory session will generally correspond to the topics covered in the preceding class meetings.

Instructor: Piazza

PB HLTH 252B Modeling the Dynamics of Infectious Disease Processes 2 - 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 3 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Calculus (e.g. Math 1A-1B), statistical programming packages (247, 249, or equivalent)

This course will cover the basic tools required to both critically read modeling papers and to develop and use models as research tools. Emphasis will be placed on using models to understand infectious disease processes and to evaluate potential control strategies. The class meeting will consist of both lecture material covering conceptual issues and a computer lab to apply these concepts using standard infectious disease models.

Instructor: Porco

PB HLTH 252C Intervention Trial Design 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: 245 and 250A (may be taken concurrently).

Students learn (through lectures and graded student presentations and projects) to design clinical and population-level field trials. Topics: formulation of a testable hypothesis; identification of appropriate populations; blinding (including indices for assessment); randomization (including traditional and adaptive randomization algorithms); sample-size estimation; recruitment strategies; data collection systems; quality control and human subjects responsibilities; adverse effects monitoring; improving participant adherence; use of surrogate outcomes.

Instructor: Colford

PB HLTH 252D Introduction to Causal Inference 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of discussion/lecture per week.

Prerequisites: 241 or C240A (can be taken concurrently); 245 or similar course covering multivariable linear and logistic regression analysis; for epidemiology students, 250C, or consent of instructor.

This course presents a general framework for causal inference using directed acyclic graphs, non-parametric structural equation models, and counterfactuals. Marginal structural models and causal effect estimation using inverse probability of treatment weighting, G-computation, and targeted maximum likelihood are introduced. In two-part presentations, students will define and implement research questions.

Instructor: Petersen

PB HLTH 253A Topics in Disease Surveillance 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring. Offered even-numbered years.

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Session per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

Ways of doing surveillance for infectious and non-infectious diseases; how the reasons for doing surveillance determine the system selected; and how to evaluate whether or not a given surveillance is providing the data needed to meet various goals. The impact of various biases on the conclusions derived from surveillance data will be explored.

Instructor: Rutherford

PB HLTH 253B Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture per week.

Prerequisites: Prior degree or courses in biomedical sciences and consent of instructor.

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.

Instructor: Reingold

PB HLTH C253/DEVP C232 Foundations of Public Health 2 Units

Department: Public Health; Development Practice

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.

The seminar will introduce core disciplines and concepts in public health, using a case-based, integrated approach. Examples of cases discussed include: respiratory disease and air pollution; tobacco control and prevention of smoking-related conditions; disease elimination or eradication via childhood immunization; environmental control and prevention of schistosomiasis; behavior change and prevention of HIV/AIDS; and novel economic approaches to improving healthcare delivery to impoverished groups.

Instructors: Reingold, Smith

PB HLTH 253D Behavior and Policy Science in HIV Treatment and Prevention 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

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.

Instructors: Ekstrand, Morin

PB HLTH 253E Ethical Challenges in Public Health Interventions: Catastrophic and Routine 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

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.

Instructor: Kayman

PB HLTH 253F Foundations of Public Health 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.

Instructors: Reingold, Smith

PB HLTH 253G Sexual Health Promotion and Sexually Transmitted Disease Control 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Graduate students, undergraduates with consent of instructor.

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.

Instructor: Bernstein

PB HLTH 254 Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Session per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: 250A.

Epidemiological methods for designing, conducting, and interpreting epidemiological studies of persons occupationally or environmentally exposed to chemical and physical agents.

Formerly known as 254B. Instructor: A. Smith

PB HLTH 255A Social Epidemiology 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. 142, 145, and 250A-250B recommended.

This course is designed to introduce students to the field of social epidemiology and its role in understanding the social determinants of population health and health disparities. This course will provide a systematic and selected overview of literature in the field covering the history and development of the field of social epidemiology, theoretical perspectives, major topical areas, conceptual approaches, and current controversies related to theory, research methods, and research findings. Three principles will be emphasized throughout the course: 1) the ecological model, 2) the lifecourse approach, and 3) causality. These principles will provide a framework for the critical analysis of scholarly journal articles and the synthesis of information across content areas. This is a breadth course intended to provide an overview of the field of social epidemiology; and expose students to relevant areas of study. This is not a methods course.

Instructor: Nuru-Jeter

PB HLTH 255C Mental Health and Psychopathology 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Open to doctoral students or with consent of instructor.

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.

Instructor: Ozer

PB HLTH 255D Methods in Social Epidemiology 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

This course is designed to review, evaluate, and apply methods currently used in the field of social epidemiology. The course aims to teach approaches to forming clear research questions, and selecting the best method(s) to answer the questions posed. Initially we will discuss approaches to defining clear and specific research questions. We will then discuss recent controversies around the meaning of questions posed in social epidemiology, and the ability of currently used methods to answer questions in social epidemiology. Finally we will review, evaluate, and apply a range of different methods that are or could be used to answer questions in social epidemiology, again emphasizing the types of questions answered by these methods, and their ability to address the challenges to effectively answering questions in social epidemiology. There will be a mixture of discussion and lecture depending on the topic, with student participation and questions strongly encouraged.

Instructors: Ahern, Hubbard

PB HLTH 255E Structural Inequalities and Reproductive Health 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: 250A or equivalent, background in reproductive health.

This course will address the role that structural inequalities assume in shaping reproductive health disparities. We will examine relevant epidemiological research, review and critique public health interventions, and discuss how research in this area can inform policy. The course will be organized around three modules, each linked to reproductive health: poverty, gender-based violence, and migration. Within each module, students will examine measurement, research design, and ethical challenges.

Instructors: Dunbar, Krishnan, Minnis

PB HLTH 256 Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology and Human Health in the 21st Century 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture, 1 hour of laboratory (wet/comp), journal review per week.

Prerequisites: College-level biology course or consent of instructor. Introductory biostatistics recommended.

This course will cover basic principles of human/population genetics and molecular biology relevant to understanding approaches to molecular and genetic epidemiology: approaches to genome-wide association studies; application of biomarkers to define exposures; recent developments in genomics, epigenomics and other -omics, including next generation sequencing technology and genomics in personalized medicine and health. Hands-on computer and wet laboratory will provide experience with modern research tools.

Instructors: Barcellos, Holland

PB HLTH 257 Outbreak Investigation 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring

Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.

Hours and format: 1 hour of seminar per week and field work outside class time.

Prerequisites: 250A, 250B, or an equivalent introductory course in epidemiologic methods.

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.

Instructor: Reingold

PB HLTH 257B Public Health Preparedness & Emergency Response 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours lecture/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: Completion of one semester of graduate public health curriculum or in public health practice.

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), detecting and monitoring public health threats, post-disaster sampling, surveys, rapid needs assessments, public health emergency incident management system, emergency operations planning and exercises, infectious disease emergency readiness, environmental health emergency readiness, mental health emergency readiness, special needs and vulnerable populations, essentials of public health leadership during a disaster, essentials of crisis risk communication, essentials of investigating outbreaks, disaster medicine and mass casualty care, and personal and community disaster preparedness.

Instructor: Aragon

PB HLTH N257 Outbreak Investigations 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Summer

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 1 hour of seminar per week and field work outside class time. 15 hours of lecture and 15 hours of laboratory per week for 2 weeks.

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.

This intensive course covers the essential knowledge, skills, and abilities to conduct an epidemiologic field investigation including concepts for controlling infectious diseases; the epidemiologic approach and steps to public health action; conducting an outbreak investigation; conducting post-diseaster rapid health assessments; field sampling design and implementation; field survey design and implementation; design and management of field database systems; and analysis of outbreak modules using a computer laboratory. The computer lab component will emphasize basic analysis and interpretation.

Instructor: Aragon

PB HLTH W257 Public Health Preparedness and Emergency Response 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 6 hours of web-based lecture per week for 7 weeks. This is an online course.

Prerequisites: Completion of one semester of graduate public health curriculum, or in public health practice.

Instructor: Aragon

PB HLTH 258 Epidemiology of Neoplastic Diseases 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: 150A or 250.

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.

Instructor: Buffler

PB HLTH 258B Ethical Issues in Epidemiology Research 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring. Offered even-numbered years.

Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

Ethical issues are as important for the field of epidemiology as they are for all human endeavors. Of special concern to epidemiologists are: informed consent, privacy and confidentiality, academic freedom, contractual obligations, beneficence and non-maleficence, scientific misconduct, and fraud. These are but a few of the issues being addressed currently by epidemiologists and which will be considered in this course.

Instructor: Buffler

PB HLTH 259A History of Epidemiology 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring. Offered alternate years.

Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

This course traces the development of epidemiological methodology and theory from the "Golden Age" of Greece in the sixth century B.C. to modern practice at the turn of the 21st century. Consideration will also be given to historical events such as major epidemics and important research activities. The course provides students preparing for academic careers in epidemiology the background to teach and research the field. Case studies will be a major vehicle for accomplishing the course objectives. Original readings will be discussed.

Instructors: Winkelstein, Jr.

PB HLTH 259B Practical Applications of Epidemiologic Methods in Developing Countries 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

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.

Instructor: Reingold

PB HLTH 260A Principles of Infectious Diseases 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Upper division course preparation in biology.

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.

Instructors: Riley, Swartzberg

PB HLTH 260B Principles of Infectious Diseases 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Prerequisites: Upper division course preparation in biology.

Instructors: Riley, Swartzberg

PB HLTH 260C Infectious Disease Laboratory 2 or 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture and 6 hours of laboratory per week. This course is split into 2 modules, each 7.5 weeks. Students may take a single module for 2 units.

Prerequisites: 260A or consent of instructor.

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.

Instructors: Loretz, Sensabaugh

PB HLTH 260E Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases 2 - 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and hours of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: 150A.

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.

Instructor: Riley

PB HLTH 260F Infectious Disease Research in Developing Countries 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring. Offered alternate years.

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.

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.

Instructor: Harris

PB HLTH 261 Advanced Medical Virology 3 - 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 4 hours of lecture/discussion per week.

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.

Analysis of viral and host factors that play a role in viral diseases of medical importance. Four units of credit given to doctoral students who write a research proposal on a topic other than that proposed for their dissertation.

Instructor: Liu

PB HLTH 262 Molecular and Cellular Basis of Bacterial Pathogenesis 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week and 1 hour of literature review.

Prerequisites: 260A, 260B, or consent of instructor.

This course for graduate students will explore the molecular and cellular basis of bacterial pathogenesis. The emphasis will be on model bacterial pathogens of mammals. The course also will include some aspects of bacterial genetics and physiology, immune response to infection, and the cell biology of host-parasite interactions. Taught concurrently with. Students enrolled in 262 also will be required to attend a weekly discussion of the primary literature, both current and classic. Each student will be required to present one paper.

Instructor: Portnoy

PB HLTH 263 Public Health Immunology 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: 260A (prior or concurrent). Graduate standing. Public Health majors by consent of instructor.

This course will be the principal immunology course for students in the field of public health. It is designed to teach both the basic biology of the human immune system and its response in health and disease, especially the specific response of the human immune system to major human pathogens. Four areas will be explored: 1) components of the immune system (spectrum of cell types and cell products); 2) different arms of the immune system including humoral, cell-mediated, innate, and mucosal immunity; 3) specific immune response to infection caused by viral, bacterial, fungal, and parasitic pathogens; and 4) disorders of the immune system unrelated to infectious disease. Through this course, students should not only gain a basic understanding of the human immune system, but also learn the functions and responses of the human immune system to diseases of infectious and non-infectious nature, and the relevance of these interactions in the context of public health problems.

Students will receive no credit for 263 after taking Molecular and Cell Biology 150. Instructor: Stanley

PB HLTH 264 Current Issues in Infectious Diseases 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 1 hour of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Second-year Infectious Diseases MPH students only.

Examination of scientific, social, and policy dimensions of issues involving infectious diseases. Students select one topic for in-depth analysis and present findings in a public debate. Topics vary from year to year.

Formerly known as 264A-264B. Instructor: Sensabaugh

PB HLTH 265 Molecular Parasitology 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 10 weeks.

Prerequisites: Upper division courses in molecular biology, parasitology, biochemistry, immunology, microbiology, or consent of instructor. Familiarity with reading primary research is recommended.

Advanced course in the molecular aspects of parasite immunology, molecular biology, genetics, biochemistry, and genomics. For each parasite, the following areas will be covered: biology; disease spectrum; epidemiology; pathogenesis, immunology; and vaccine development. The lectures will focus on "state-of-the-art" research in relation to molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis, parasite adaptations for survival within the host, and strategies for drug and vaccine development and disease control and prevention. Course content will rely heavily on current literature.

Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Harris

PB HLTH 266 Viruses and Human Cancer 2 - 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring. Offered even-numbered years. Offered even-numbered years.

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Course in basic virology or microbiology.

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.

Instructor: Buehring

PB HLTH 266A Foodborne diseases 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 1.5 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of microbiology.

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.

Instructor: Lu

PB HLTH 267B Characterization of Airborne Contaminants 4 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 3 hours of field/laboratory per week.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing in environmental health sciences or consent of instructor.

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.

Instructor: Hammond

PB HLTH 267D Health Impact Assessment 3 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Health Impact Assessment (HIA) refers to a diverse set of analytic and communicative practices that aim to inform and improve social decisions in order to improve the environmental, economic, and social conditions required for optimal propulation health. This course provides an introduction to HIA with a focus on the need for and application of HIA to land use and transportation planning and development. The objectives of the course include understanding and comparing the range of practices used to conduct Health Impact Assessments in the U.S. and internationally; identifying the opportunities and obstacles for using the environmental impact assessment as vehicles for health analysis; and development and application of environmental health assessment tools to inform decision-making as part of a class project.

Instructor: Seto

PB HLTH C269C/BIO ENG C279 Occupational Biomechanics 4 Units

Department: Public Health; Bioengineering

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Spring

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/fieldwork per week.

Overview of ergonomics and occupational biomechanics. Course covers pathophysiology and risk factors of upper extremity and back loading at work, measurement of force and posture, models for risk assessment, anthropometry applied to task and workstation design, tool design, and structure of successful ergonomics programs. Students will conduct a detailed job analysis and design a workplace intervention.

Instructor: Rempel

PB HLTH 269D Ergonomics Seminar 2 Units

Department: Public Health

Course level: Graduate

Term course may be offered: Fall. Offered alternate years.

Grading: Letter grade.

Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites: 269C or consent of instructor.

Readings and lectures in occupational biomechanics. Topics to be covered are muscle, tendon, and joint biomechanics, material handling models, mechanisms of injury, hand tool design, and instrumentation issues. Students will prepare critical reviews of recent publications and design an engineering intervention to reduce work-related risk factors.

Instructor: Rempel

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