About the Program
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
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.
Declaring the Major
Although the major remains capped (impacted), the Department encourages all qualified students to apply. To qualify, students must have completed the prerequisites in math, biology, and the social sciences with a minimum passing grade in all of the prerequisites and a B minus minimum in Biology 1B. For further information regarding these prerequisites, please see the Major Requirements tab on this page.
Students should apply to declare a major in Public Health after completion of the lower division requirements which is generally at the end of the sophomore year. Transfer students should apply during the summer or fall semesters whenever they have completed the prerequisites. Generally, third year transfer students have completed their prerequisite coursework at community college and are ready to declare the major at the beginning of their first semester at UC Berkeley.
After completing the prerequisites, students should submit an application and application essay. For the application and detailed application instructions, please see the School of Public Health website . The application to declare the Public Health major includes the following:
- A review of an applicant's academic preparation (coursework and GPA)
- An application essay similar to the "Statement of Purpose" required by graduate applications to the School of Public Health. In the application essay, students should describe the pathway that led them to an interest in this field of study, their experience relevant to Public Health (including volunteering), and their long-term ambitions for what they are thinking about doing with a degree in Public Health. All applications will be reviewed by Public Health faculty.
While completing the prerequisites for Public Health, students should also be taking all necessary steps to prepare themselves to declare an alternate major. According to the Academic Senate regulations, a student should declare a major when they reach 60 units of coursework. Please keep this in mind when deciding a major. While the Department will do its best to bring in all qualified students, there is no guarantee that any one particular student will be admitted into the major. Therefore, students interested in the Public Health major should prepare a back-up major just in case they are not selected. Students hopeful of making a valuable contribution to public health can declare alternative majors such as Anthropology, Molecular and Cell Biology, Integrative Biology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Communications, Conservation Resource Studies, Earth and Planetary Science, the Interdisciplinary Studies (ISF) Major, American Studies, Social Welfare, or Psychology—just to list a few. Public health demands everyone's attention—there are myriad undergraduate majors here at Cal who will help students prepare to dedicate their professional life to this, literally vital, cause.
All students interested in the major, or the field of public health in general, are encouraged to consult with the Academic Adviser concerning possible alternatives.
Minor Program
There is no minor program in Public Health.
Major Requirements
In addition to the University, campus, and college requirements, listed on the College Requirements tab, students must fulfill the below requirements specific to their major program.
General Guidelines
- All courses taken to fulfill the major requirements below must be taken for graded credit, other than courses listed which are offered on a Pass/No Pass basis only. Other exceptions to this requirement are noted as applicable.
- No more than one upper-division course may be used to simultaneously fulfill requirements for a student's major and minor programs, with the exception of minors offered outside of the College of Letters and Science.
- A minimum grade point average (GPA) of 2.0 must be maintained in both upper- and lower-division courses used to fulfill the major requirements.
For information regarding residence requirements and unit requirements, please see the College Requirements tab.
Lower-division Prerequisites
All prerequisite courses must be completed before declaring the major.
Biological Sciences | ||
Select one of the following options: | 6 | |
Option 1 | ||
General Biology Lecture and Laboratory and General Biology Laboratory | ||
Option 2 | ||
Select two of the following: | ||
Introduction to Human Physiology | ||
The Immune System and Disease | ||
Plagues and Pandemics | ||
MCELLBI 61 | Course Not Available | |
Introduction to Human Nutrition | ||
Mathematics | ||
Select two of the following, or their equivalents: | ||
Calculus | ||
Calculus | ||
Methods of Mathematics: Calculus, Statistics, and Combinatorics | ||
Methods of Mathematics: Calculus, Statistics, and Combinatorics | ||
Analytic Geometry and Calculus | ||
Analytic Geometry and Calculus | ||
Precalculus | ||
Social Science | ||
Select three courses from at least two of the following areas: | ||
Psychology | ||
General Psychology | ||
or PSYCH 2 | Principles of Psychology | |
Sociology | ||
Introduction to Sociology | ||
SOCIOL 3 | Course Not Available | |
or SOCIOL 3AC | Principles of Sociology: American Cultures | |
or SOCIOL 5 | Evaluation of Evidence | |
Economics | ||
Introduction to Economics | ||
or ECON 2 | Introduction to Economics--Lecture Format | |
or ECON 3 | Course Not Available | |
Anthropology | ||
Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology | ||
or ANTHRO 3AC | Introduction to Social/Cultural Anthropology (American Cultures) | |
Political Science | ||
Introduction to Comparative Politics | ||
Introduction to Political Theory |
Upper-division Requirements
PB HLTH 142 | Introduction to Probability and Statistics in Biology and Public Health 1 | 4 |
PB HLTH 150A | Introduction to Epidemiology and Human Disease | 4 |
Select two of the following: | ||
Introduction to Environmental Health Sciences | ||
Introduction to Health Policy and Management | ||
Introduction to Community Health and Human Development | ||
Public Health Microbiology | ||
Electives: Select 12 additional upper-division units (see below for further information) |
1 | Alternatively, PB HLTH 141 Introduction to Biostatistics or STAT 131A Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Life Scientists can be used to fulfill this requirement. |
Electives
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 |
PB HLTH 143 | Course Not Available | 4 |
PB HLTH 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 151A | Linear Modelling: Theory and Applications | 4 |
STAT 151B | Linear Modelling: Theory and Applications | 4 |
STAT 152 | Sampling Surveys | 4 |
Infectious Diseases | ||
ESPM 145 | Course Not Available | 2 |
ESPM 146 | Course Not Available | 3 |
INTEGBI 131 | General Human Anatomy | 3 |
INTEGBI 132 | Survey of Human Physiology | 4 |
INTEGBI 137 | Human Endocrinology | 4 |
MCELLBI 102 | Survey of the Principles of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | 4 |
MCELLBI C114 | Introduction to Comparative Virology | 4 |
MCELLBI 130 | Course Not Available | 4 |
MCELLBI 140 | General Genetics | 4 |
MCELLBI 142 | Course Not Available | 4 |
MCELLBI 150 | Molecular Immunology | 4 |
MCELLBI C160 | Course Not Available | 4 |
PLANTBI 110 | Course Not Available | 4 |
Epidemiology | ||
CHEM 112A | Organic Chemistry | 5 |
DEMOG 110 | Introduction to Population Analysis | 3 |
GEOG 130 | Food and the Environment | 4 |
INTEGBI 131 | General Human Anatomy | 3 |
INTEGBI 132 | Survey of Human Physiology | 4 |
INTEGBI 140 | Biology of Human Reproduction | 4 |
MCELLBI 140 | General Genetics | 4 |
MCELLBI 152 | Course Not Available | 4 |
PB HLTH 112 | Global Health: A Multidisciplinary Examination | 4 |
Environmental Health Sciences | ||
CIV ENG 108 | Course Not Available | 3 |
CIV ENG 109 | Course Not Available | 3 |
CIV ENG 110 | Course Not Available | 3 |
CIV ENG 111 | Environmental Engineering | 3 |
CIV ENG 113N | Ecological Engineering for Water Quality Improvement | 3 |
CIV ENG 114 | Environmental Microbiology | 3 |
CHEM 112A | Organic Chemistry | 5 |
CHEM 112B | Organic Chemistry | 5 |
ECON/ENVECON C102 | Natural Resource Economics | 4 |
ENVECON 131 | Globalization and the Natural Environment | 3 |
ENVECON 152 | Advanced Topics in Development and International Trade | 3 |
ENVECON 153 | Population, Environment, and Development | 3 |
ENVECON 161 | Advanced Topics in Environmental and Resource Economics | 4 |
ENVECON C151/ECON C171 | Economic Development | 4 |
ENVECON/ECON C181 | International Trade | 4 |
ENE,RES 100 | Course Not Available | 4 |
ENE,RES 102 | Quantitative Aspects of Global Environmental Problems | 4 |
ENE,RES 130 | Course Not Available | 3 |
ESPM 155 | Sociology and Political Ecology of Agro-Food Systems | 4 |
ESPM C167 | Environmental Health and Development | 4 |
ESPM 168 | Political Ecology | 4 |
ESPM 169 | International Environmental Politics | 4 |
GEOG 123 | Postcolonial Geographies | 4 |
GEOG 130 | Food and the Environment | 4 |
GEOG 138 | Global Environmental Politics | 4 |
HISTORY 120AC | American Environmental and Cultural History | 4 |
IAS/ENVECON C175 | The Economics of Climate Change | 4 |
NUSCTX 166 & SOCIOL 121 | Nutrition in the Community and Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Social and Cultural Context | 7 |
SOCIOL 166 | Society and Technology | 4 |
Health Policy & Management | ||
CY PLAN 112A | Course Not Available | 3 |
CY PLAN 120 | Community Planning and Public Policy for Disability | 3 |
ECON 157 | Health Economics | 4 |
ESPM 102D | Climate and Energy Policy | 4 |
LEGALST 103 | Theories of Law and Society | 4 |
LEGALST 107 | Theories of Justice | 4 |
LEGALST C165/PUB POL C162 | Course Not Available | |
LEGALST 168 | Sex, Reproduction and the Law | 4 |
MEDIAST 102 | Effects of Mass Media | 4 |
PB HLTH 116 | Seminar on Social, Political, and Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine | 2 |
PB HLTH 126 | Health Economics and Public Policy | 3 |
PB HLTH 180 | The Evolution of Human Sexuality | 2 |
PB HLTH 181 | Poverty and Population | 3 |
PB HLTH 183 | The History of Medicine, Public Health, and the Allied Health Sciences | 3 |
PUB POL 101 | Introduction to Public Policy Analysis | 4 |
PUB POL 117AC | Race, Ethnicity, and Public Policy | 4 |
PUB POL 156 | Program and Policy Design | 4 |
PUB POL 179 | Public Budgeting | 4 |
POL SCI 103 | Congress | 4 |
POL SCI 150 | The American Legal System | 4 |
POL SCI 171 | California Politics | 4 |
SOC WEL 112 | Social Welfare Policy | 3 |
Community Health & Human Development | ||
ASAMST 143 | Asian American Health | 3 |
CHICANO 176 | Chicanos and Health Care | 3 |
NUSCTX 166 | Nutrition in the Community | 3 |
PB HLTH 103 | Drugs, Health, and Society | 2 |
PB HLTH 104A & PB HLTH 104B | Health Promotion in a College Setting and Health Promotion in a College Setting | 4 |
PB HLTH 105 | Policy, Planning, and Evaluation of Health Promotion in a College Setting | 3 |
PB HLTH 113 | Campus/Community Health Impact Program | 3 |
PB HLTH 114 | Course Not Available | 3 |
PB HLTH 14 | Healthy People: Introduction to Health Promotion | 4 |
PB HLTH 107 | Course Not Available | 2 |
PB HLTH C129 | The Aging Human Brain | 3 |
PB HLTH C155 | Sociology of Health and Medicine | 4 |
College Requirements
Undergraduate students in the College of Letters and Science must fulfill the following requirements in addition to those required by their major program.
For detailed lists of courses that fulfill college requirements, please see the College of Letters and Sciences page in this bulletin.
Entry Level Writing
All students who will enter the University of California as freshmen must demonstrate their command of the English language by fulfilling the Entry Level Writing Requirement. Fulfillment of this requirement is also a prerequisite to enrollment in all reading and composition courses at UC Berkeley.
American History and American Institutions
The American History and Institutions requirements are based on the principle that a U.S. resident graduated from an American university should have an understanding of the history and governmental institutions of the United States.
American Cultures
American Cultures is the one requirement that all undergraduate students at Cal need to take and pass in order to graduate. The requirement offers an exciting intellectual environment centered on the study of race, ethnicity and culture of the United States. AC courses offer students opportunities to be part of research-led, highly accomplished teaching environments, grappling with the complexity of American Culture.
Quantitative Reasoning
The Quantitative Reasoning requirement is designed to ensure that students graduate with basic understanding and competency in math, statistics, or computer science. The requirement may be satisfied by exam or by taking an approved course.
Foreign Language
The Foreign Language requirement may be satisfied by demonstrating proficiency in reading comprehension, writing, and conversation in a foreign language equivalent to the second semester college level, either by passing an exam or by completing approved course work.
Reading and Composition
In order to provide a solid foundation in reading, writing and critical thinking the College requires two semesters of lower division work in composition. Students must complete a first-level reading and composition course by the end of their second semester and a second-level course by the end of their fourth semester.
Breadth Requirements
The undergraduate breadth requirements provide Berkeley students with a rich and varied educational experience outside of their major program. As the foundation of a liberal arts education, breadth courses give students a view into the intellectual life of the University while introducing them to a multitude of perspectives and approaches to research and scholarship. Engaging students in new disciplines and with peers from other majors, the breadth experience strengthens interdisciplinary connections and context that prepares Berkeley graduates to understand and solve the complex issues of their day.
Unit Requirements
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120 total units, including at least 60 L&S units
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Of the 120 units, 36 must be upper division units
- Of the 36 upper division units, 6 must be taken in courses offered outside your major department
Residence Requirements
For units to be considered in "residence," you must be registered in courses on the Berkeley campus as a student in the College of Letters and Science. Most students automatically fulfill the residence requirement by attending classes here for four years. In general, there is no need to be concerned about this requirement, unless you go abroad for a semester or year or want to take courses at another institution or through University Extension during your senior year. In these cases, you should make an appointment to see an adviser to determine how you can meet the Senior Residence Requirement.
Note: Courses taken through UC Extension do not count toward residence.
Senior Residence Requirement
After you become a senior (with 90 semester units earned toward your B.A. degree), you must complete at least 24 of the remaining 30 units in residence in at least two semesters. To count as residence, a semester must consist of at least 6 passed units. Intercampus Visitor, EAP, and UC Berkeley-Washington Program (UCDC) units are excluded.
You may use a Berkeley summer session to satisfy one semester of the Senior Residence Requirement, provided that you successfully complete 6 units of course work in the Summer Session and that you have been enrolled previously in the College.
Modified Senior Residence Requirement
Participants in the UC Education Abroad Program (EAP) or the UC Berkeley-Washington Program (UCDC) may meet a Modified Senior Residence Requirement by completing 24 (excluding EAP) of their final 60 semester units in residence. At least 12 of these 24 units must be completed after you have completed 90 units.
Upper Division Residence Requirement
You must complete in residence a minimum of 18 units of upper division courses (excluding EAP units), 12 of which must satisfy the requirements for your major.
Student Learning Goals
Learning Goals for the Major
- Critical Thinking Skills:
- Describe the Public Health framework of the determinants of the health of populations
- Recognize the Public Health perspective of disease prevention and health promotion
- Explain how Public Health studies the interplay between biology, environment, and behavior
- Understand the basic concepts from the social and behavioral sciences in Public Health
- Quantitative Skills:
- Recognize commonly used measures of population health
- Identify commonly used methods of measuring risk
- Describe common study designs for assessing risk from exposures
- Assemble and display summary measures using graphs and tables
- Recognize the basics of statistical hypothesis testing
- Know how to calculate and interpret confidence intervals
- Communication Skills:
- Incorporate statistical and scientific findings into written materials
- Prepare fact sheets and other health education tools
- Know how to interpret Public Health reports and scientific literature
- Create and give presentations on Public Health issues
- Problem-Solving Skills:
- Research and summarize relevant Public Health literature
- Apply the “systems thinking” approach to issues in Public Health
- Identify problems in Public Health with “upstream-downstream” model
- Specialized Knowledge:
- Integrate human biology and genetics with Public Health issues
- Comprehend the basics of infectious disease
- Understand the basics of chronic disease
- Examine and assess environmental health issues
- Describe the organization and financing of the United States health care system
- Lifelong Learning Skills:
- Identify ethical issues of Public Health
- Be able to perform data collection and research
- Acknowledge the role of disparities in Public Health
Courses
Public Health
PB HLTH 14 Healthy People: Introduction to Health Promotion 4 Units
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.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Kodama
PB HLTH 14N Healthy People: Introduction to Health Promotion 3 Units
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.
Objectives & Outcomes
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.
Hours & Format
Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructors: Harris, Gamble
PB HLTH 24 Freshman Seminar in Public Health 1 Unit
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.
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required.
PB HLTH 39C Freshman/Sophomore Seminar 2 - 4 Units
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.
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions: Priority given to freshmen and sophomores.
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-4 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required.
PB HLTH 39E Freshman/Sophomore Seminar 2 - 4 Units
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.
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions: Priority given to freshmen and sophomores.
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-4 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required.
PB HLTH 39G Freshman/Sophomore Seminar 2 - 4 Units
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.
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions: Priority given to freshmen and sophomores.
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-4 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required.
PB HLTH 39H Freshman/Sophomore Seminar 2 - 4 Units
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.
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions: Priority given to freshmen and sophomores.
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-4 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required.
PB HLTH 39I Freshman/Sophomore Seminar 2 - 4 Units
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.
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions: Priority given to freshmen and sophomores.
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-4 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required.
PB HLTH 84 Sophomore Seminar 1 or 2 Units
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.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: At discretion of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring:
5 weeks - 3-6 hours of seminar per week
10 weeks - 1.5-3 hours of seminar per week
15 weeks - 1-2 hours of seminar per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 2.5-5 hours of seminar per week
8 weeks - 1.5-3.5 hours of seminar and 2-4 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required.
PB HLTH 97 Field Study 1 - 4 Units
Supervised experience relevant to specific aspects of public health in off-campus organizations. Regular individual meetings with faculty sponsor and written reports required.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Lower division standing
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
PB HLTH 98 Directed Group Study 1 - 4 Units
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
PB HLTH 99 Supervised Independent Study 1 - 4 Units
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of independent study per week
8 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of independent study per week
10 weeks - 1.5-6 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
PB HLTH C102 Bacterial Pathogenesis 3 Units
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.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 100, 102 or consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Portnoy
Also listed as: MCELLBI C103/PLANTBI C103
PB HLTH 103 Drugs, Health, and Society 2 Units
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.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Kodama
PB HLTH 104A Health Promotion in a College Setting 2 Units
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.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1.5 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
Instructor: Kodama
PB HLTH 104B Health Promotion in a College Setting 2 Units
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.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1.5 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
Instructor: Kodama
PB HLTH 105 Policy, Planning, and Evaluation of Health Promotion in a College Setting 3 Units
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).
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 14, 104A or 104B, and consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Kodama
PB HLTH 107 Violence, Social Justice, and Public Health 2 Units
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.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructors: Creighton, Kodama
PB HLTH 112 Global Health: A Multidisciplinary Examination 4 Units
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.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructors: Krishnan, Reingold
PB HLTH 113 Campus/Community Health Impact Program 3 Units
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.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
PB HLTH 116 Seminar on Social, Political, and Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine 3 Units
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.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam required.
Instructor: Potts
PB HLTH C117 Introduction to Global Health Disparities Research 2 Units
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.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Reingold
Also listed as: INTEGBI C195
PB HLTH 118 Nutrition in Developing Countries 3 Units
We will focus on low- and middle-income countries because they experience the greatest burden of malnutrition, and because they face a unique context of limited financial and government resources. In this course, we will discuss the effects of nutrition throughout the lifecycle in pregnancy, infancy, childhood, and adulthood. We will focus on nutrition broadly including issues of undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, and obesity. We will also analyze and evaluate actions taken to ameliorate the major nutritional problems facing vulnerable populations in low- and middle-income countries.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Instructor: Fernald
PB HLTH 126 Health Economics and Public Policy 3 Units
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.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Public Health major or consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Scheffler
PB HLTH C129 The Aging Human Brain 3 Units
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.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Jagust
Also listed as: NEUROSC C129
PB HLTH 140 Introduction to Risk and Demographic Statistics 4 Units
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.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: One year of calculus
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Tarter
PB HLTH 141 Introduction to Biostatistics 5 Units
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.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: High school algebra
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture, 1 hour of discussion, and 2 hours of laboratory per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 12.5 hours of lecture and 7.5 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
PB HLTH 142 Introduction to Probability and Statistics in Biology and Public Health 4 Units
Descriptive statistics, probability, probability distributions, point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing, chi-square, correlation and regression with biomedical applications.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: High school algebra
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Selvin
Formerly known as: 142A
PB HLTH 142AB Introduction to Probability and Statistics in Public Health and Biology 4 Units
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.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: High school algebra
Hours & Format
Summer:
4 weeks - 15 hours of lecture per week
6 weeks - 0 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 0 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: van der Laan
PB HLTH W142 Introduction to Probability and Statistics in Biology and Public Health 4 Units
Descriptive statistics, probability, probability distributions, point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing, chi-square, correlation, and regression with biomedical applications.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 7 weeks - 8 hours of web-based lecture per week
Online: This is an online course.
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Instructor: Lahiff
PB HLTH 144A Introduction to SAS Programming 2 Units
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.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 142 or consent of instructor
Credit Restrictions: This course (or equivalent) is required for students who plan to enroll in 251, Practicum in Epidemiological Methods. Enrollment is limited to School of Public Health students. If space permits, others may enroll with consent of instructor.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Lein
PB HLTH 144B Intermediate SAS Programming 2 Units
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.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 144A
Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to School of Public Health students. If space permits, others may enroll with consent of instructor.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Lein
PB HLTH 145 Statistical Analysis of Continuous Outcome Data 4 Units
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.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 142 or equivalent
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Lahiff
Formerly known as: 142B
PB HLTH 150A Introduction to Epidemiology and Human Disease 4 Units
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.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: A course in statistics, preferably 142
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 4 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructors: Abrams, Barcellos, Buffler
Formerly known as: 150
PB HLTH 150B Introduction to Environmental Health Sciences 3 Units
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.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 142 and 150A recommended. May be taken concurrently
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: K. Smith
Formerly known as: second half of 150
PB HLTH 150D Introduction to Health Policy and Management 3 Units
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.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Halpin
PB HLTH 150E Introduction to Community Health and Human Development 3 Units
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.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Third or fourth undergraduate standing or consent of instructor
Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Satariano
PB HLTH C155 Sociology of Health and Medicine 4 Units
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.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Sociology 1, 3, 3AC or consent of instructor
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for Sociology C115 after taking Sociology 155, Sociology C155/Public Health C155.<BR/>A deficient grade in Sociology 155 may be removed by taking Sociology C115/Public Health C155.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5-8 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Formerly known as: C155
Also listed as: SOCIOL C115
PB HLTH C160 Environmental Health and Development 4 Units
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.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Morello-Frosch
Also listed as: ESPM C167
PB HLTH 162A Public Health Microbiology 3 Units
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.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: One year each of college-level biology and chemistry
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructors: Buehring, Dailey
PB HLTH 162L Public Health Microbiology Laboratory 1 Unit
Laboratory to accompany 162A.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: One year each of college-level biology and chemistry. Students must take 162A concurrently or have taken it previously
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of laboratory per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 6 hours of laboratory per week
8 weeks - 4 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Loretz
PB HLTH 170B Toxicology 3 Units
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.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: M. Smith
PB HLTH 170C Drinking Water and Health 3 Units
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.
Objectives & Outcomes
Student Learning Outcomes: By the end of this course, students will be expected to:
Recognize the global occurrence of waterborne contaminants and related health impacts.
Understand water quality monitoring and control of key water quality constituents.
Appreciate the complexities of the regulatory process as it pertains to public drinking water systems in the US and abroad.
Read and synthesize published and unpublished sources of information regarding drinking water and health. Prepare a literature review in journal submission format.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Instructor: Smith
PB HLTH 180 The Evolution of Human Sexuality 2 Units
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.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Potts
PB HLTH 181 Poverty and Population 3 Units
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.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructors: Campbell, Potts, Prata
PB HLTH 183 The History of Medicine, Public Health, and the Allied Health Sciences 3 Units
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.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Knowledge of (and preferably a college level course which covered) basic aspects of (mammalian) physiology and anatomy. Graduate or upper division undergraduate status
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Hook
PB HLTH H195A Special Study for Honors Candidates in Public Health 3 Units
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.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Senior status; 3.3 overall GPA
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of independent study per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of independent study per week
8 weeks - 5.5 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. 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. Final exam not required.
PB HLTH H195B Special Study for Honors Candidates in Public Health 3 Units
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.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of independent study per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of independent study per week
8 weeks - 5.5 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. This is part two of a year long series course. Upon completion, the final grade will be applied to both parts of the series. Final exam not required.
PB HLTH 196 Special Topics in Public Health 1 - 4 Units
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.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Upper division standing
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
PB HLTH 197 Field Study in Public Health 1 - 4 Units
Supervised experience relevant to specific aspects of public health in off-campus organizations. Regular individual meetings with faculty sponsor and written reports required.
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Upper division standing
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
PB HLTH 198 Directed Group Study 1 - 4 Units
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Upper division standing
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per week
8 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
PB HLTH 199 Supervised Independent Study and Research 1 - 4 Units
Enrollment restrictions apply; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week
8 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Public Health/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
Faculty
Professors
Barbara Abrams, Professor. Obesity, maternal and child health, epidemiology, nutrition, health disparities, pregnancy.
Research Profile
John R. Balmes, Professor.
Joan R. Bloom, Professor. Health policy and management, cancer prevention, early detection and long term survival, public healthreducing disparities in access to health care.
Research Profile
Gertrude Case Buehring, Professor. Public health, use of cells in breast fluids for diagnostic purposes, viruses and human cancer, role of bovine leukemia virus in causing human breast cancer.
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Ralph A. Catalano, Professor. Public health, mental health services, economic antecendents, stress related illness.
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Vishnu Prakash Chaturvedi, Professor.
Jack Colford, MD PhD, Professor. Public health, epidemiology, infectious diseases, biostatistics, meta-analysis.
Research Profile
Ronald E Dahl, MD, Professor. Decision-making, adolescence, brain development, behavioral and emotional health, pubertal maturation, affective neuroscience, social neuroscience.
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William H. Dow, Professor. Health economics, international health, economic demography.
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Sandrine Dudoit, Professor. Genomics, classification, statistical computing, biostatistics, cross-validation, density estimation, genetic mapping, high-throughput sequencing, loss-based estimation, microarray, model selection, multiple hypothesis testing, prediction, RNA-Seq.
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Richard G. A. Feachem, Professor.
Sylvia Guendelman, PhD, Professor. Public health, maternal & child health, health and social behavior, health policy and management, specialty area in multicultural health.
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Eva Harris, Professor. Public health, infectious diseases.
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Ernest Hook, Professor. Public health, maternal and child health.
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William J Jagust, Professor. Neuroscience, cognition, brain aging, dementia, imaging, Alzheimer's disease.
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Michael L. B. Jerrett, Professor.
Nicholas P. Jewell, Professor. AIDS, statistics, epidemiology, infectious diseases, SARS, H1N1 influenza, adverse cardiovascular effects of pharmaceuticals, counting civilian casualties during conflicts.
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Meredith Minkler, Professor. Public health, health and social behavior, community health education.
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Linda Neuhauser, Professor. Communication, public health, health literacy, participatory design of health programs.
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Cheri A. Pies, Professor.
Malcolm Potts, Professor. Public health, maternal and child health, health and social behavior.
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Stephen Morris Rappaport, Professor.
Arthur L. Reingold, Professor. Public health, epidemiology, infectious diseases, biostatistics.
Research Profile
Lee Riley, Professor. Public health, infectious diseases, molecular epidemiology, global health, tuberculosis, drug-resistant infections, slum health.
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Richard M. Scheffler, Professor. Public health, health and social behavior, health policy and management, health services & policy analysis, internatioinal health.
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Steve Selvin, Professor. Public health, biostatistics.
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James P Seward, Professor. Public health, environmental health sciences.
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Stephen M. Shortell, Professor. Health care systems, strategy change and adaptation, organizational performance, organizational and managerial correlates of continuous quality improvement, health care outcomes, empirical analysis of physician-organizational relationship.
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Martyn T. Smith, Professor. Cancer, genomics, toxicology, molecular epidemiology, exposome.
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Kirk R. Smith, Professor. Climate change, public health, air pollution, environmental health science, international health.
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Ann Stevens, Professor.
Mark J. Van Der Laan, Professor. Statistics, computational biology and genomics, censored data and survival analysis, medical research, inference in longitudinal studies.
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Associate Professors
Colette Leslie Auerswald, Associate Professor.
Amin N Azzam, Ma MD, Associate Professor.
Lisa F Barcellos, PhD, Associate Professor. Public health, genetic epidemiology, human genetics, autoimmune diseases, multiple schlerosis, lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis.
Research Profile
Lia C. Haskin Fernald, PhD, Associate Professor. Poverty, obesity, child development, public health nutrition, global health, psychosocial and biological determinants of health, overweight, nutritional and epidemiologic transition, chronic disease, malnutrition, child health and development, early experience, inequality and health disparities, Latino health, Mexican-Americans and other immigrant groups, stress hormones, salivary cortisol.
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Darlene Francis, PhD, Associate Professor.
Jodi Halpern, Associate Professor. Public health, bioethics, patient autonomy.
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Denise Herd, PhD, Associate Professor. Public health, epidemiology, specialty area in multicultural health, behaviorial science.
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Alan Hubbard, PhD, Associate Professor.
Ann Keller, PhD, Associate Professor.
Claudia Landau, Associate Professor.
Barbara A. Laraia, Associate Professor.
Amani M. Nuru-Jeter, PhD, Associate Professor. Mental health, race/ethnicity, health, socioeconomic status, cardiovascular disease, birth outcomes, reproductive health, African-Americans, racial segregation.
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Emily J. Ozer, Associate Professor. Mental health, public health, health and social behavior, clinical and community psychology, adolescent development, school-based health promotion.
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Ndola Prata, MD MSC, Associate Professor. Community-base access to care, maternal mortality, population and family planning, safe abortion, adolescent reproductive health in developing countries, postpartum hemorrhage.
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Karen Sokal-Gutierrez, MD, Associate Professor. Nutrition, maternal-child health, early childhood health, oral health, child health in developing countries, children's health in child care, parenting education, health education for low literacy populations, health disparities.
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Herbert P Steinhardt, Associate Professor.
Assistant Professors
Jennifer Ahern, PhD, Assistant Professor. Mental health, epidemiology, social epidemiology, population health, neighborhood characteristics and health, methodological issues and novel methodological applications in social, traumatic events, substance use, behavioral health, birth outcomes and maternal health.
Research Profile
Lela Rose Bachrach, MD, Assistant Professor.
Julianna Deardorff, PhD, Assistant Professor. Adolescent health, puberty, sexual development, cultural factors, contextual factors.
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Amy B. Garlin, MD, Assistant Professor.
Seth M. Holmes, MD PhD, Assistant Professor. Immigration and migration, medical anthropology with foci on social theory and ethnography, social studies of medicine and science, social difference related to race, social difference related to socioeconomic status, social difference related to citizenship, social difference related to gender, social difference related to sexuality, the naturalization and normalization of social hierarchies and health disparities, social suffering and symbolic violence, urban and rural Latin America and North America, population health with focus on global health, population health with focus on health disparities, population health with focus on social determinants of health.
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Phuoc V. Le, MD MPH, Assistant Professor.
Kristine A. Madsen, MD MPH, Assistant Professor.
Mahasin S. Mujahid, Assistant Professor.
Maya Petersen, Assistant Professor.
Sarah A Stanley, PhD, Assistant Professor.
Adjunct Faculty
Genevieve M. Ames, PhD, Adjunct Faculty. Anthropology of health, healing, substance abuse, quantitative and qualitative methods, social organization theory.
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Heidi M. Bauer, Adjunct Faculty.
Kyle T Bernstein, Adjunct Faculty. HIV, STDs, Applied Epidemiology.
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Timothy T. Brown, Adjunct Faculty. Mental health, health economics, econometrics, social capital, dental economics.
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Suzan Carmichael, Adjunct Faculty.
Anand P Chokkalingam, Adjunct Faculty.
Binh An Diep, Adjunct Faculty.
Lori E. Dorfman, Adjunct Faculty.
Ellen Eisen, Adjunct Faculty. Methods in occupational epidemiology.
Research Profile
Maria L. Ekstrand, Adjunct Faculty. India, AIDS prevention, medication adherence, AIDS stigma, vulnerable populations.
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Joel W. Grube, Adjunct Faculty.
Nina Holland, Adjunct Faculty.
Susan Lee Ivey, MD, Adjunct Faculty. Public health, epidemiology, health disparities, community-based participatory research.
Research Profile
Douglas P. Jutte, MD MPH, Adjunct Faculty.
Lee A. Kaskutas, Drph, Adjunct Faculty.
Sangwei Lu, PhD, Adjunct Faculty. Pathogenesis, Salmonella, foodborne diseases.
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Marilyn C. Mcentyre, PhD, Adjunct Faculty.
Thomas E. Mckone, Adjunct Faculty.
Catherine Metayer, Adjunct Faculty.
Suellen Miller, PhD, Adjunct Faculty.
Alexandra M Minnis, PhD, Adjunct Faculty.
Doug Oman, PhD, Adjunct Faculty.
George W. Rutherford, Adjunct Faculty.
Edmund Yet Wah Seto, Adjunct Faculty.
Craig M. Steinmaus, Adjunct Faculty.
Dorothy Thornton, Adjunct Faculty.
Julia A. Walsh, Adjunct Faculty. Reproductive health, Immunization, socioeconomic benefits, cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-benefit analysis, economic evaluation, global health equity, market size estimation in poor countries, contraception, maternal mortality among the poor, neonatal mortality risk factors analysis, millenium development goals.
Research Profile
Sarah E Zemore, Adjunct Faculty.
Lecturers
Jennifer Breckler, Lecturer.
Hana Dan-Cohen, Lecturer.
Sara Hartley, Lecturer.
Contact Information
Assistant Dean, Student Services
Stefano Bertozzi, MD, PhD
417 University Hall
Phone: 510-643-8451
Associate Dean, Student Affairs
Joan R. Bloom, PhD
247E University Hall
Phone: 510-642-4458
Assistant Dean, Student Services
Andrea Rex
417P University Hall
Phone: 510-643-8452