Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014
Introduction to personal and community health, drawing on physical and social sciences. Specific areas include stress, alcohol and drugs, nutrition, exercise, the environment, communication, and sexuality. Readings, lectures, and discussions explore key issues for students and examine those issues in the context of contemporary American society. Public health approaches to disease prevention and health promotion are explored for each topic.

Terms offered: Summer 2014 10 Week Session, Summer 2014 8 Week Session
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.

Terms offered: Spring 2017
This seminar provides an overview of the intersection between global health and social justice, with a specific focus on the ways in which inequity, specifically the conditions that lead to poverty, disproportionately affect health outcomes. Students will learn about the historical and theoretical underpinnings of global health, how social determinants affect medical outcomes and health policy, the principles of international law and health economics, and the structure of health delivery models. In the process, students will engage in topics related to social factors that impact health, including class, race, gender, and poverty. Class discussions will address contemporary global health priorities through the lens of human rights activism.

Terms offered: Spring 2014, Fall 2012, Fall 2010
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.

Terms offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Fall 2003
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.

Terms offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008
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.

Terms offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009
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.

Terms offered: Fall 2009
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.

Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
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.

Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014
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.

Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
Supervised experience relevant to specific aspects of public health in off-campus organizations. Regular individual meetings with faculty sponsor and written reports required.

Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015

Terms offered: Summer 2017 10 Week Session, Summer 2016 10 Week Session, Spring 2016

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
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.

Terms offered: Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Spring 2009
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.

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
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.

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
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.

Terms offered: Fall 2013, Fall 2011, Fall 2010
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).

Terms offered: Summer 2017 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2016 10 Week Session, Summer 2016 First 6 Week Session
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.

Terms offered: Summer 2017 First 6 Week Session, Spring 2017, Spring 2016
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.

Terms offered: Spring 2012, Fall 2008, Fall 2007
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.

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016
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.

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
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.

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Summer 2017 First 6 Week Session, Fall 2016
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.

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Summer 2016 8 Week Session, Spring 2016
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.

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013
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.

Terms offered: Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011
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.

Terms offered: Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2016 10 Week Session, Summer 2016 Second 6 Week Session
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.

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016
Descriptive statistics, probability, probability distributions, point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing, chi-square, correlation and regression with biomedical applications.

Terms offered: Summer 1996 10 Week Session
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.

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
Descriptive statistics, probability, probability distributions, point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing, chi-square, correlation, and regression with biomedical applications.

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
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.

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
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.

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
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.

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
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.

Terms offered: Summer 2019 First 6 Week Session, Fall 2017, Summer 2017 First 6 Week Session
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.

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Summer 2017 First 6 Week Session, Spring 2017
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.

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
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.

Terms offered: Summer 2017 First 6 Week Session, Spring 2017, Summer 2016
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.

Terms offered: Summer 2017 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
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.

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Summer 2017 First 6 Week Session, Fall 2016
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.

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Summer 2016 First 6 Week Session
Laboratory to accompany 162A.

Terms offered: Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Fall 1999
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.

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
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.

Terms offered: Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010
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.

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
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.

Terms offered: Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014
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.

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Summer 2016 Second 6 Week Session
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.

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Summer 2016 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2016
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.

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Summer 2017 8 Week Session, Spring 2017
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.

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016
Supervised experience relevant to specific aspects of public health in off-campus organizations. Regular individual meetings with faculty sponsor and written reports required.

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Summer 2017 First 6 Week Session, Spring 2017
Enrollment restrictions apply; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.