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PHS 5500 - Special Topics in Public Health
Special Topics courses in Public Health Sciences..
Prerequisites: Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
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PHS 5600 - Quantitative Data Analysis in Public Health
Undergraduate level course primarily for 5 year BA/BS/MPH students, and others with Instructor consent. The course will introduce Public Health students to tools needed to utilize SPSS for quantitative data analysis. Instruction will include lectures, case study discussions and individual projects. Attendance, participation, a midterm exam and final presentation are required. Pre-requisites: Instructor Permission
Credits: 1
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PHS 5610 - Health Promotion and Health Behavior
Seminar to introduce undergraduates to graduate level work. Public Health is a multi-disciplinary field that attempts to help individuals and communities prevent illness and maintain & improve health. Explores the social and behavioral aspects of health as well as the relationship between health behavior and community, society and the global environment. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
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PHS 5620 - Built Environment & Public Health: Local to Global
How do sidewalks, block parties, food deserts, and transit systems impact our health? This course maps the intersections between architecture, urban planning, and public health that shape the built environment, health and well being of our local and global communities. Lectures and learning applications will present the evidence and its limits on topics such as food security, age-friendly cities, obesity, social equity and vulnerable population.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5621 - Healthy Communities
The Healthy Communities Seminar is an elective planning and public health course that explores the interconnections between these fields and equips students with skills and experiences to plan healthy communities.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5630 - Healthy Appalachia: A Community-based Participatory Research Partnership
This course will introduce undergrads to a graduate level course. It will examine the relationship between Appalachian culture, economic development, education and health in far Southwest Virginia and explore the process for the design and implementation for collaborative, community-based research. It will expose the student to the methodologies of community organizing, partnership development and community based research. Prerequisites: Instructor Permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5640 - Advanced Management Communication
Develops writing and speaking skills while increasing student understanding of how managers communicate with diverse audiences. Covers communication with the public, investors, and employees. Special topics include media relations, communication ethics, and crisis communications. Practice for communication events such as speaking at a press conference, briefing a small group, telling professional anecdotes, and preparing for a media interview.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5701 - Topics in Regulatory & Translational Science
Provides an overview of key background, issues & topical considerations in regulatory science & translational activities. It is aimed at graduate & post-graduate clinicians, researchers & public health students who have a desire to raise their understanding about the regulatory framework for the development of new products, as well as emerging trends in research & development of products to improve human health.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 1
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PHS 5810 - West Indies Health Care: Disaster Preparedness, St. Kitts & Nevis
The participants in this course held in the West Indies, will study the fundamentals of emergency care and disaster preparedness through exploration of existing preparedness infrastructures in St. Kitts and Nevis.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5815 - Social Determinants of Child Health
Participants will learn and apply the tenets of social determinants of child health as they explore and analyze child asthma challenges in St. Kitts and Nevis. Culturally respectful engagement will be emphasized in the assessment of existing resources and the development of community-based health education materials sensitive to the priorities of the indigenous people of St. Kitts and Nevis.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5817 - Global Public Health Policy, Ethics & Governance
Public Health challenges increasing cross national boundaries & require global strategies & orgs. to address them. Provides an intro to global pub. hlth. policy through site visits & seminars with hlth profs. at such international orgs in Geneva as the WHO & the UN. Explore the impact of the contextual factors that influence the global burden of disease, including political, econ, env. & cultural aspects of globalization.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
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PHS 5820 - Ethical & Methodological Issues in Public Health Research
Course reviews both quant & qual methods but its emphasis will be on qual methods. How do these different research traditions relate to each other? The course will be closely integrated with the Public Health Practicum/Field Placement. This methods course will help to initiate & guide the work done in the field research projects .
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
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PHS 5821 - Practicum in Public Health Field Research/ South Africa
Students will participate each day in an ongoing, real-world research project. Projects will be highly multi-disciplinary & may include questions, theory & methods from anthropology, epidemiology, health systems, political science, sociology, gender studies, education psychology & dev. studies. If approved by MPH Director, course may be used in lieu of PHS 8900 for MPH Degree seeking students.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
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PHS 5825 - Global Public Health: Challenges and Innovations
Covers principles, measurements, cross-cutting themes, the burden of diseases, & innovative efforts to improve global health. Explores links between health & development, culture, the environment, poverty, education, & demographic characteristics. A combination of lectures, case studies & other small group activities are used. Students develop an appreciation of how global health pertains to their lives & learn about career opportunities.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5840 - Human Subjects Research: Methodology, Ethics & Regulations
Course will introduce undergrads to graduate level research & study. Explores methodological, ethical & regulatory issues in research involving human subjects. Responsible conduct of research, clinical research, hist. & phil. framework of research ethics, the role of IRB, informed consent, assessing risks & benefits, research involving vulnerable populations, protecting participant safety & privacy, comm. based research, & FDA research.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 1
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PHS 5950 - Statistical Bioinformatics in Medecine
Provides an introduction to bioinformatics and discusses important topics in computational biology in medicine, particularly based on modern statistical computing approaches. Reviews state-of-the-art high-throughput biotechnologies, their applications in medicine, and analysis techniques. Requires active student participation in various discussions on the current topics in biotechnology and bioinformatics.
Prerequisites: Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
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PHS 5960 - Supervised Independent Research
Supervised Independent Research
Credits: 1 to 3
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PHS 6101 - Current Issues in Health Policy
This 1 credit seminar will examine current issues in U.S. health policy and will include areas surrounding access and coverage to health services, the cost of health care, quality measures within the health care delivery system, and health reform initiatives. Students will examine the current literature within health policy and be responsible for formal and informal presentations. Prerequisites: Instructor Permission.
Credits: 1
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PHS 6600 - Quantitative Data Analysis in Public Health
The course will introduce Public Health students to tools needed to utilize SPSS for quantitative data analysis. Instruction will include lectures, case study discussions and individual projects. Attendance, participation, a midterm exam and final presentation are required. Pre-requisites: Instructor Permission
Credits: 1
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PHS 6620 - Built Environment & Community Health
An elective interdisciplinary Public Health and Planning Health course that explores the connections between the built environment and community health. The course teaches students about four main areas at the intersection of the built environment and comm. health: planning and public health foundations, natural and built environment, vulnerable populations and health disparities, health policy & global impacts. Prerequisites: Instructor Permission.
Credits: 1
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PHS 6630 - Healthy Appalachia: A Community-based Participatory Research Partnership
This course will examine the relationship between Appalachian culture, economic development, education and health in far Southwest Virginia and explore the process for the design and implementation for collaborative, community-based research. It will expose the student to the methodologies of community organizing, partnership development and community based research. Prerequisites: Instructor Permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 7000 - Introduction to Biostatistics
Covers the fundamentals in medical statistics including descriptive statistics, estimation, hypothesis testing, precision, sample size, correlation, problems with categorization of continuous variables, multiple comparison problems, and interpreting of statistical results. Covers the basics of SAS programming so that students can create, run, and debug SAS programs. Prerequisites: PHS 7170, Graduate in PHS programs or instructor permission.
Credits: 3 to 4
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PHS 7001 - Introduction to Biostatistics II
An illustration of the indications, limitations, assumptions, and appropriate applications of analytical methods in a variety of biomedical settings. Students will learn how to determine which analytic technique would be best suited for a variety of translational and clinical research, evaluation, and policy study designs. Prerequisite: Instructor permission;: PHS 7000.
Credits: 3
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PHS 7010 - Fundamentals of Epidemiology
Introduces the field of Epidemiology and the methods of epidemiologic research. Students learn how to interpret, critique, and conduct epidemiologic research, including formulating a research question, choosing a study design, collecting and analyzing data, controlling bias and confounding, and interpreting study results. May be open to undergraduates as PHS 5010 with instructor permission. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in the PHS program or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 7015 - Qualitative Methods for Community and Global Health
This course advances methodological and cultural competency in the design and implementation of community health qualitative research investigations. Coursework provides opportunities to practice specific methodologies such as surveys, interviews, focus groups, case studies, and historiographies in accordance with standards of rigor (e.g., reliability, generalizability, validity).
Credits: 3
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PHS 7020 - Epidemiological and Translational Research
This course lays the foundation of epidemiological and translational research. Focus is on core epidemiologic research methodology fundamental to biomed discovery process that integrates bench, bedside, and community partners in advancing PH. Topics include study design (clin trials & observational studies), epidemiologic data analysis, statistical and causal inference, and scientific validity. Entrepreneurship, legal & ethic issues in context. Prerequisites: PHS 7010 & Instructor Permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 7034 - Food & Drug Law
This course considers the Food & Drug Administration as a case study of an administrative agency that must combine law and science to regulate activities affecting public health and safety. Prerequisites: Instructor Permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 7050 - Public Health Law, Ethics, & Policy
Required fall course for Community & Public Health track. Explores the legitimacy, design, and implementation of a variety of policies aiming to promote public health and reduce the social burden of disease and injury. Highlights the challenge posed by public health’s population-based perspective to traditional individual-centered, autonomy-driven approaches to bioethics and constitutional law. Other themes center on conflicts between public health and public morality and the relationship between public health and social justice. Illustrative topics include mandatory immunization, screening and reporting of infectious diseases, prevention of lead poisoning, food safety, prevention of firearm injuries, airbags and seat belts, mandatory drug testing, syringe exchange programs, tobacco regulation, and restrictions on alcohol and tobacco advertising. May be open to undergraduates as PHS 5050 with instructor permission. Prerequisites: Instructor permission.
Credits: 2
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PHS 7053 - Health Law Survey
This course is designed to provide a survey of the spectrum of topics generally considered part of “health law”. It will introduce the various institutions and players involved in health care delivery and the legal relationships between those institutions at both the sate and federal level..
Credits: 3
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PHS 7060 - Program Planning and Evaluation
Provides an overview of the principles and methods of evaluation in public health and health informatics. Covers evaluation paradigms, program planning, evaluation plan design, and use of evaluation findings. Frequent tools in evaluation (surveys, focus groups, and interviews) will be discussed in depth. Students will have the opportunity to design and conduct an evaluation for an existing program in public health or application in health informatics. May be open to undergraduates as PHS 5060 with instructor permission. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 7070 - Introduction to Health Care Informatics
Explores nature and functions of health informatics, the current state of the science, present and future applications, and major issues for research and development. Includes information processing and management, decision support, computer-based patient records and information systems, standards and codes, databases, outcomes research, and the generation and management of knowledge. Also surveys current developments in instructional technology. May be open to undergraduates as PHS 5070 with instructor permission. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in the PHS program or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 7080 - International Health Policy
Addresses the questions of what makes a good health system, how we know whether a health system is performing well, and what makes a health system fair through a comparison of the financing, delivery, and operation of health systems throughout the world. Focuses on differences both in health system performance (as measured by death, disability, morbidity, access, and patient satisfaction) and in health system inputs. May be open to undergraduates as PHS 5080 with instructor permission. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 7090 - Health Care Economics
Reviews principles of economics most relevant to analyzing changes in health care provision and applies those principles to current health care institutions and their performance, trends in health care service delivery, and methods of forecasting future trends. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in the PHS program or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 7100 - Health Care Policy and Management
Focuses on the evolution of the American health care system from a health policy and values perspective, emphasizing the current health care system. Reviews unsuccessful legislative attempts to implement a national health program and discusses current issues surrounding the financing and organization of the delivery of health care under various economic and political frameworks. Prerequisite:Enrolled in PHS program or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 7110 - Health Survey Methods
Covers the theory and practice of survey research. Topics include surveys as a scientific method; sampling theory; the construction, testing, and improvement of survey instruments; interviewer training; the organization of field work; coding and data quality control; data analysis; and the preparation of survey reports. Cross-listed as SOC 5110. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in the PHS program or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 7120 - Comparative Effectiveness and Outcomes
Introduces students to the techniques needed for the evaluation of health outcomes from the perspectives of the patient, the physician, the health care provider, and society. Presents measurement and evaluation of survival, functional status, quality of life, and health values. Evaluates the efficacy, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of devices, interventions, and processes of care. Prerequisite: PHS 7000 and 7001 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 7125 - Outcomes Research & Quality Evaluation
Reviews topics in health services research, outcomes research, & quality improvement methodologies. Major themes include observational research methods applied to assess to the efficacy, effectiveness, & cost-effectiveness of devices, interventions, & health care delivery systems, & the use of quality improvement methodologies to improve productivity, increase efficiency, & improve patient outcomes.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
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PHS 7146 - Global Health Law & Policy
This seminar will investigate the many and competing challenges to develop a standardized global health policy.
Prerequisites: Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
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PHS 7170 - Introduction to SAS
Covers the basics of SAS programming so that students can create, run, and debug SAS programs on a PC or Unix environment to manipulate data sets into analyzable data. To achieve this, students will need to practice some SAS programming and learn how to detect, diagnose, and correct mistakes.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 1
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PHS 7175 - Geographic Analysis in Public Health
Geographic information systems (GIS) is a technology with unique & valuable applications for policy makers, planners, practitioners, & managers in many fields, including public health & health care. GIS software & applications enable visualizing and analyzing health data in ways never before possible. This course provides hands-on experience using GIS software in the context of health applications.
Credits: 1
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PHS 7180 - The Practice of Public Health I
This course addresses cross-cutting public health competencies in Communication, Professionalism, and Diversity and Culture, and includes sessions with public health officials in practice. The course also will focus on effective written and oral communication.
Credits: 1
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PHS 7181 - Research in Public Health
Focuses on how to conduct public health research. Research in Practice students concentrate on quant & qual research methodologies for the collection, analysis & interpretation of data. Health Policy, Law & Ethics students concentrate on the analysis of health information & data relevant to policy issues and the evaluation of policy options. Students develop their culminating experience research protocols.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 1
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PHS 7184 - Global Health Policy and Practice
The Policy & Practices in Global Health Course will enhance the students’ understanding of the social, political, and economic context of common global health challenges and issues. The course will review case studies that review organizations’ responses to global health challenges and their successes and failures.
Credits: 3
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PHS 7185 - Global Health Research Methodologies
A curriculum of practice approach will imbue within students the skills & methods of global health practitioners. Global health will take on the broadest definition to include not only medical practice by health professionals, but also the complex socio-technical system that affects public health worldwide. We will use the Water & Health in Limpopo (WHIL) Project as a study for a broader understanding of how this system works in the real world
Credits: 3
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PHS 7190 - The Practice of Clinical Research
Lectures by guest speakers in the field of health evaluation sciences that will help the masters-level student learn about opportunities in the field and prepare for his or her own research. Speakers will vary depending on availability and topical issues. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in the PHS program.
Credits: 0
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PHS 7191 - Practice of Clinical Research 2nd Sequence
2nd course in a series. Lectures by guest speakers in the field of public health sciences will help the masters-level student learn about opportunities in the field and prepare for his or her own research. Speakers will vary depending on availability and topical issues. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in the MS-CR program. Prerequisites: Instructor Permission.
Credits: 1
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PHS 7200 - U.S. Healthcare: Policy, Organization, and Administration
Examines the U.S. health care system from health policy, health systems, and health administration perspectives, with an emphasis on current challenges facing the financing, administration, and delivery of health services. Using a case-based method, the course will employ lecture, discussion, and student-led group projects that encourage analysis of real-world scenarios in today’s complex health and medical environments. May be open to undergraduates as PHS 5200 with instructor permission. Prerequisite: PHS 7090 and PHS 7100, or acceptable substitute in health policy, economics, or financing; or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 7210 - Community Engagement for Research and Policy
This course is designed to expose students to community-based factors that influence the health of populations and individuals. The principal objective of the class is to provide the rationale for meaningful engagement of diverse communities and introduce effective strategies that will enhance research and policy protocols designed to improve health status.
Credits: 1
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PHS 7212 - Community Health Assessment and Strategic Planning
Concentrate on designing & completing comm hlth assessments & associated strategic planning to improve priority areas identified in these assessments. Emphasis will be on field work with local health departments. Students should be able to work independently as well as work well within multi-disciplinary groups.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 2
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PHS 7213 - Community Health Assessment and Strategic Planning II
This course builds on community health assessment strategies used in PHS 5212 to do fieldwork with local health departments. This course is open to student who were in PHS 5212 as wll as those who were not.
Credits: 2
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PHS 7250 - Public Health Ethics: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
This interdisciplinary seminar focuses on the ethical dimensions of the choices societies and individuals make when addressing threats to and responsibilities for the public’s health. A range of philosophical theories and contemporary positions are examined to explore the complex concepts of “public” and “health.” Investigated are the impact of various understandings of the public, not only as a numerical population that can be defined and measured, but also as a political group that operates under legally defined obligations and relationships, and as a “communal” public with diverse cultural and moral beliefs. The various methods and content of public health ethics, including utilitarian perspectives and the role of the Code of Ethics for public health professionals are also examined. May be open to undergraduates as PHS 5250 with instructor permission. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 7251 - Health of the Public: Policy, Management & Leadership
This course will examine the current health care and public health systems, with particular focus on the impact of evidence-based medicine and public health, qualify, and financing. Topics include the influence of medical and nonmedical determinants of health, and the impact of the changing practice of medicine on physicians and patients.
Credits: 3
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PHS 7310 - Clinical Trials Methodology
Covers the design and analysis of Phase I-III clinical trials. Topics include choice of study population and endpoints, choice of study design and sample size estimation, randomization and masking, patient recruitment, data collection and quality control, data monitoring committees, data analysis, and the interpretation and reporting of results. Cross-listed as STAT 5310. Prerequisite: Instructor permission; PHS 7000 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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PHS 7360 - Health Disparities
This seminar will explore the core issues and theoretical frameworks for the development of health policy and public health interventions to address health disparities. Students will examine the current epidemiological and social science evidence on both health status disparities and healthcare disparities among racial and ethnic minority populations, including data on mortality, longevity and life expectancy, quantitative and demographic analysis and access, and utilization of health services. The course also will explore the complex and poorly understood reasons for health disparities, which may largely reflect socioeconomic differences, differences in health-related risk factors, environmental factors, direct and indirect consequences of discrimination, and differences in access to health care. Finally, students will consider multifaceted ways to address disparities that focus on health care providers; health care delivery issues, such as access; and health system policies and regulations, such as insurance and quality improvement measures. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 7380 - Environmental Health: Principles and Practices
Interdisciplinary approach to understanding, assessing, and controlling environmental factors that impact public health. Practical examples are used to help public health professionals understand how epidemiology, health surveillance, and exposure surveillance can be used to determine the potential for health problems that result from various environmental factors, and how monitoring and control techniques can reduce the impact of the environment on human health. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 7385 - Environmental Health: Epidemiologic Perspectives
This course offers an intro to environmental health with a focus on environmental epidemiology. Through case studies on air, soil and water pollutants, students will examine concepts of study design, exposure assessment and issues of validity. Provides hands-on introduction to GIS. At course completion, students will be prepared to critically review published literature and assist in the design and conduct of environmental health research.
Credits: 3
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PHS 7410 - Database Management: Analyses with Secondary Data
In this course students will utilize SAS to access, evaluate, and interpret public health data from large databases and draw basic inferences. Students will develop skills to formulate and answer research questions related to clinical research and health policy. The course will also explore how the publci health infrastructure collects, processes, maintains, and disseminates data.
Credits: 3
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PHS 7420 - Clinical Decision Support Systems
Provides an overview of computer-based clinical decision support, focusing primarily on systems for assisting health care professionals in applying biomedical knowledge to patient care. Prerequisites: PHS 7070 and Instructor Permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 7440 - Bayesian Analysis
Provides intro to Bayesian methods with emphasis on medeling and applications. The topics to be covered include methods for forming prior distributions such as conjugate and noninformative priors, derivation of posterior and predictive distributions and their moments, and development of Bayesian models including linear regression, generalized linear models and hierarchical models.
Credits: 3
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PHS 7450 - Database Design and Implementation
Introduces the basic principles of database design, focusing on databases that support clinical practice and/or investigation. Topics include an introduction to basic database types, DBMS functionality, modeling approaches (with a focus on E-R modeling), normalization, using SQL, and an overview of available DBMSs and design tools. Course methods include a mix of lecture format, small-group discussion, and hands-on activities. A laboratory component will facilitate greater hands-on experience in data management with widely available software tools. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 7470 - Management and Quality in Health Care Organizations
Provides an understanding of the history, theory, principles, major components, and techniques for quality management, including Six Sigma, in the health care industry. Exposes students to techniques to lead and facilitate effective teams. Also provides practical applications of tools and techniques for quality improvement, such as control charting, statistical process control (SPC), and the use of benchmarking and report cards. May be open to undergraduates as PHS 5470 with instructor permission. Prerequisite: Instructor permission; understanding of basic statistics.
Credits: 2
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PHS 7500 - Special Topics in Public Health
Examination of topical issues and current problems and research in various areas of public health. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 7610 - Health Promotion and Health Behavior
Public Health is a multi-disciplinary field that attempts to help individuals and communities prevent illness and maintain and improve health. These health promotion activities are accomplished through the development of programs and policies and associated study of these activities. Although we recognize that there are many factors that impact individuals and population health outcomes, this course will explore the social and behavioral aspects of health as well as the relationship between health behavior and community, society and the environment. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 7700 - Social Production of Health and Disease
The seminar explores health and disease in socio-cultural, political-economic, and historic contexts, with a particular focus on health disparities. The course is interdisciplinary (including anthropology, sociology, nursing and public health).
Credits: 3
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PHS 7701 - Topics in Regulatory & Translational Science
Provides an overview of key background, issues & topical considerations in regulatory science & translational activities. It is aimed at graduate & post-graduate clinicians, researchers & public health students who have a desire to raise their understanding about the regulatory framework for the development of new products, as well as emerging trends in research & development of products to improve human health.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 1
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PHS 7815 - Social Determinants of Child Health
Participants will learn and apply the tenets of social determinants of child health as they explore and analyze child asthma challenges in St. Kitts and Nevis. Culturally respectful engagement will be emphasized in the assessment of existing resources and the development of community-based health education materials sensitive to the priorities of the indigenous people of St. Kitts and Nevis.
Credits: 3
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PHS 7820 - Proposal Writing for NIH Research Grants
Highly interactive, participatory weekly seminar & workshop provides structured guidance & support over the semester for fellows or faculty who are committed to preparing a new application for an NIH research grant that is clinically oriented (i.e., not basic science). Students develop Specific Aims Section and Research Approach Section for an original research proposal in accordance with guidelines of the NIH.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission; Graduate Study Design or Epidemiology course; Graduate Statistics or Biostatists course; Research Problem and Study Purpose identified; Know literature well in research area
Credits: 3
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PHS 7830 - Grant Writing and Presentation Skills
This course is designed to provide an overview of grant writing with practical “How To” exercises to prepare the student to become successful in applying for funds to sponsor research and/or public health projects. As part of the course, the student will also become skillful in preparing oral and abstract presentations related to obtaining grants as well as disseminating results of research funded by grants.
Credits: 1
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PHS 7840 - Human Subjects Research: Methodology, Ethics & Regulations
Explores methodological, ethical & regulatory issues in research involving human subjects. Responsible conduct of research, clinical research, historical & philisophical framework of research ethics, the role of IRB, informed consent, assessing risks & benefits, research involving vulnerable populations, protecting participant safety & privacy, comm. based research, FDA research, & research involving biological specimens.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 1
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PHS 7950 - Statistical Bioinformatics in Medicine
Provides an introduction to bioinformatics and discusses important topics in computational biology in medicine, particularly based on modern statistical computing approaches. Reviews state-of-the-art high-throughput biotechnologies, their applications in medicine, and analysis techniques. Requires active student participation in various discussions on the current topics in biotechnology and bioinformatics. Prerequisites: Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
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PHS 8120 - Qualitative Research Methods
This course introduces naturalistic and interpretive qualitative approaches to the systematic study of health-related phenomena. Epistomological principles that underlie interpretive and naturalistic research will be practically applied to research designs and IRB protocol development. Coursework provides opportunities to practice specific methodologies in accordance with standards of rigor (e.g., reliability, generalizability, validity).
Prerequisite: Good standing as graduate student in the relevant program, Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
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PHS 8125 - Qualitative Data Analysis
This course teaches students how to interpret qualitative data by applying systematic coding processes. Analyzing qualitative data involves reading through the interview or focus group transcripts and other data, developing codes, applying and revising those codes through an iterative review of data, and drawing connections between discrete pieces of data to determine research participant meaning.
Prerequisite: PHS 8120, GNUR 8120, PHS 7015
Credits: 3
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PHS 8815 - Social Determinants of Child Health in St. Kitts (Field Placement)
Participants will learn and apply the tenets of social determinants of child health as they explore and analyze child asthma challenges in St. Kitts and Nevis. Culturally respectful engagement will be emphasized in the assessment of existing resources and the development of community-based health education materials sensitive to the priorities of the indigenous people of St. Kitts and Nevis.
Credits: 3
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PHS 8821 - Practicum in Public Health Field Research/ South Africa (Field Placement)
Students will participate each day in an ongoing, real-world research project. Projects will be highly multi-disciplinary & may include questions, theory & methods from anthropology, epidemiology, health systems, political science, sociology, gender studies, education psychology & dev. studies. If approved by MPH Director, course may be used in lieu of PHS 8900 for MPH Degree seeking students.
Credits: 3
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PHS 8880 - Practicum
Practicum
Credits: 2
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PHS 8890 - M.P.H. Field Placement
M.P.H. Field Placement Prerequisite: Graduate standing in the PHS program.
Credits: 3
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PHS 8900 - Practicum/Field Placement
The field placement is a planned, supervised & evaluated work experience with an organization that contributes to the health of a community. Students apply skills learned in the program to a real-world setting & work toward achieving competencies. Placements are selected based on the interests & needs of the student. A min of 200 hours is required; placements may occur during an academic year, one semester or over summer.
Credits: 1-3
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PHS 8910 - Topical Research (Thesis only)
Topical Research Prerequisite: Graduate standing in the PSH program.
Credits: 5
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PHS 8930 - Culminating Experience
The culminating experience project should demonstrate application of knowledge acquired in the MPH program to a real-world public health issue. Students write a paper & create a poster for presentation describing their projects. Students also take a review test of basic material from the core public health disciplines & complete a competency self-assessment to obtain feedback on their progress & accomplishments achieved by the end of the program. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission.
Credits: 1-3
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PHS 8950 - Supervised Clinical Research I
Supervised Clinical Research
Credits: 3
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PHS 8960 - Supervised Independent Research I
Supervised Independent Research
Credits: 1 to 6
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PHS 8961 - Biostatistical Consulting Practice
This course is targeted to students who are interested in practical data analyses. It will provide them a real-life opportunity to work with clinical investigators, under the guidance of a biostatistical faculty member. Each student will be assigned at least one project and guided individually by a faculty member.
Credits: 1
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PHS 8998 - Non-Topical Research
Non-Topical Research
Credits: 1 to 12
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PHS 8999 - Non-Topical Research
Non-Topical Research
Credits: 1 to 12
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PPOL 6775 - The Rulemaking Gauntlet
This course surveys the administrative and analytic requirements for federal rulemaking so as to prepare students to navigate the gauntlet, and also to use it to achieve policy goals.It also examines how agencies use analysis as a weapon (either a sword or a shield) as well as a variety of specialized analyses that regulatory agencies sometimes undertake, either in response to statutory requirements (e.g., regulatory flexibility analysis).
Credits: 3
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PHSE 5500 - Special Topics in Public Health Science Ethics
Special Topics courses in Public Health Science Ethics.
Credits: 3
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PHSE 7650 - Ethics & Law of Human Subject Research
This two-credit course, specifically designed to be interdisciplinary, is open to grad students in bioethics, nursing, public health sciences, law students, & medical school junior faculty & fellows. Grades will be based on papers, participation, & projects. Topics to be covered include: federal regulations governing research, ethical norms of HSR, responsible conduct of research, international & public health research & history of research ethic
Credits: 2
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PHSE 7651 - Practicum - Ethics & Law of Human Subjects Research
This one credit practicum is designed to provide students taking PHS 7650 an opportunity for first-hand experience with the practices and procedures of human subjects protections and other research ethics applications (e.g., IRB review, policy development, etc.).
Credits: 1
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PHSE 8110 - Clinical Ethics
This course will begin with an exploration of common modes of ethical deliberation about clinical moral questions, then focus more intensely on a variety of moral issues that regularly arise within clinical medicine in such areas as reproduction, the care of children, disability, end of life, organ transplantation, and others. Format for sessions will include brief didactic presentations, but will center on class discussion and ethical analyses.
Credits: 3
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PHSE 8650 - Ethics & Law of Human Subject Research
We will begin with a brief look at the origins of the current system for regulating human subjects research and the ethical and legal frameworks that have evolved to assist with that regulation. We will explore central issues like risk-benefit assessment, informed consent, confidentiality, diversity in subject populations and how subjects are recruited and retained. We will look at issues like stem cell research and genetic engineering, etc.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission. Open to medical residents, medical school junior faculty, law students, and graduate students in bioethics, nursing, and public health sciences.
Credits: 3
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PHSE 8960 - Supervised Independent Research
Student will work on a supervised independent research project related to the their area of study or expertise with a member of the PHS faculty.
Credits: 1 to 6
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PPOL 5025 - Wise Interventions: Social Psychology and Public Policy
Course will provide an overview of classic and contemporary psychological interventions aimed at improving human welfare. It will examine the role of psychological factors in social reforms in healthcare, the workplace, education, intergroup relations, and other domains. Theory, empirical evidence, policy implications, and policy implementation will be emphasized.
Credits: 3
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PPOL 5035 - Leading and Managing Diverse Groups
This course will focus on interpersonal, organizational, and societal factors leaders must negotiate to lead effectively in socially diverse environments. Students will be exposed to cases and empirical research that will enable them to (1) develop well-articulated positions on diversity-related issues and (2) form strategies to promote sustainable settings for productive exchange among diverse groups of individuals.
Credits: 3
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PPOL 5060 - International Financial Institutions
What are the IFIs and how have they influenced development policy and country outcomes? What factors do internal and external politics play in their operation and the panopoly of international aid efforts? Are groups like “50/60 years in enough” and the Meltzer report right? Come explore IFIs (the IMF, the World Bank, and the Multilateral Development Banks) in a seminar setting examining policy in practice.
Cross-listed with PLIR 5060.
Credits: 3
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PPOL 5225 - uAcademy for Conscious Change
An experiential learning course and social venture incubator integrating and applying contemplative practice, mindful leadership skills, conscious social change methodologies and social entrepreneurship frameworks in the development of new ideas to solve local and global social issues. The uAcademy provides future change leaders with the skills to invest in their own self-understanding and initiate social change with impact at home and abroad.
Credits: 3
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PPOL 5240 - Anti-Terrorism and the Role of Intelligence
Course examines the intelligence failures prior to 9/11 and the Iraq war, and the critical reports composed after the events, to determine what improvements may be needed to avoid a recurrence and to pre-empt future terrorist attacks against the United States.
Credits: 3
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PPOL 5460 - The Politics of the Budgetary Process
This course examines the politics and processes of federal budgeting, and the role the budget plays in national economic policy making. Topics covered include the historical development of the budget and fiscal policy; the creation of the executive budget; the politics of the budgetary process through appropriations, entitlements, and tax policy; and the relationship between fiscal and monetary policy. Crosslisted with PLAP 5460
Credits: 3
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PPOL 5500 - Special Topics
Courses examine special topics in public policy and/or leadership
Credits: 3
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PPOL 5600 - Education Policy
Education policy has taken center stage in a variety of national, state and local policy debates. To make sense of the policy process, we will explore the goals of policies and the extent to which the intention, implementation and ultimate effects of the policies align. How can theory and empirical analysis inform our understanding of the best ways for policy to improve outcomes for students?
Credits: 3
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PPOL 5660 - Design and Leadership
The aim of this course is to give students a fundamental and practical understanding of leadership and the role that design plays in exercising leadership and mobilizing the resources of a group. This is a course designed for students currently being educated in the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning. The purpose is to increase significantly one’s individual capacity to sustain the demands of leadership and to
Credits: 3
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