Legacy Courses

Applicable to students admitted fall semester of 2018 or before. Applicants interested in applying for the spring semester of 2019 or after, please refer to the New Master of Public Health Program Requirements page.

Core Courses

Elective Courses

Policy/Administration
Global/cultural Health
Epidemiology/Biostatistics/surveillance
Infectious Disease and Public Health
Public Health Nutrition

Culminating Experiences

Core Courses (18 credits)

Course Number	Course Name	Course Description	Semester Offered	Credits
HM 801	Introduction to Public Health	Introduction to public health philosophy and core knowledge areas. Ethical, legal and political considerations. Emphasis on principles and tools for population health, disease prevention and health promotion, health determinants, healthcare and public health systems.	Every Year: Fall, Spring, Summer	3
HM 802	Biostatistics for Public Health	Practical applications and methods using software (SAS, Epi-Info) for statistical analysis, database construction, data visualization and interpretation.	Every Year: Fall, Spring, Summer	3
HM 803	Epidemiology for Public Health	Distributions and determinants of disease in population. Epidemiologic research, quantitative methods, study designs pros/cons.	Every Year: Fall, Spring, Summer	3
HM 804	Public Health Policy & Administration	Structural, operational, leadership and components of health policy and public health administration. Community health assessment, advocacy and evaluation within public health agencies and programs. Major business systems used for administration of public health agencies and programs.	Every Year: Fall, Spring, Summer	3
HM 805	Social and Behavioral Aspects of Public Health	Concepts and methods of social and behavioral sciences applied to public health problems and issues.	Every Year: Fall, Spring, Summer	3
HM 806	Environmental Factors of Health	Biological, physical and chemical factors that affect health of populations. Regulatory approaches to environmental hazards. Potential impact of environmental agents on health and preventive management approaches.	Every Year: Fall, Spring, Summer	3

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Elective Courses (18 credits)

The elective credits are grouped by specific public health interests. Students are free to choose the elective credits that best suit their public health goals/interests, they are not restricted to selecting electives in a particular interest group. The MPH Foundational Courses from the new curriculum are also available to legacy students to take as elective courses.

MPH Foundational Courses

Course Number	Course Name	Course Description	Semester Offered	Credits
HM 807	Practical Application & Critical Thinking Synthesis in Public Health	Critical thinking, reading skills, explanations, problem solving, and decision making in public health using case studies. Questioning assumptions, identifying bias, determining causality, and application of the scientific method. Reporting guidelines and systematic literature reviews.	Every Year: Fall, Spring, Summer	3
HM 825	Transition to Graduate Academic Writing	Identify, analyze, and incorporate scholarly articles and published research studies to develop and organize writing skills within the genre of academic writing and scholarship.	Every Year: Fall, Spring, Summer (Summer '22 Cancelled)	1
HM 827	Principles of Public Health Leadership	Context, competencies and core leadership skills. Theories and research in public health and related organizations. Best practices, leadership styles, professional identity. Future leadership challenges.	Every Year: Fall, Spring, Summer	1
HM 828	Community Engagement in Public Health Practice	Methods, ethics, and issues in community engaged practice and scholarship.	Every Year: Fall, Spring, Summer	3
HM 853	Public Health Program & Intervention Evaluation	Introduce public health program evaluation methods/tools. Causal inference criteria, standard evaluation guides, procedural and outcome evaluation methods and needs assessment and performance monitoring methods. Integrates epidemiology, biostatistics and public health knowledge pertaining to program evaluation.	Summer 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Summer 2023	3
HM 854	Health Equity Framework for Public Health Practice	Social justice and health equity framework for the practice of public health with analysis of persistent health disparity across race, class, gender, and other forms of difference.	Summer 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Summer 2023	3
HM 880	Study Design and Research Methods for Public Health Practice	Examination of empirical and logical basis of public health research. Identification of research questions, study design, data collection and qualitative and quantitative approaches. Reporting of findings. Proposal writing. Ethical considerations in research.	Summer 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Summer 2023	3

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Public Health Policy/Administration

Course Number	Course Name	Course Description	Semester Offered	Credits
HM 833	Introduction to Pharmaceutical Counterfeiting and Public Health	General principles of counterfeiting, counterfeit pharmaceuticals, and how it affects public health. Scope, policy, supply chain management, and health effects are examined using current case examples.	Spring 2023	3
HM 836	Comparative Global Healthcare Systems	Public health and culture, environment, psychosocial and economic issues. Healthcare systems and health policies. Community health assessments.	Summer 2022	3
HM 840	Public Health Finance	Issues surrounding financial administration of health service organizations. Pragmatic side of healthcare finance, incorporating healthcare economics.	TBD	3
HM 841	Public Health Policy	U.S. healthcare delivery and financing systems and their contributions to improving health status.	Summer 2023	3

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Global and Cultural Public Health

Course Number	Course Name	Course Description	Semester Offered	Credits
HM 832	Global Public Health	Factors and dynamics that affect global public health. Application of public health principles and policies in international settings. Key international stakeholders and their roles in global public health.	Spring 2023	3
HM 837	Poverty and Public Health	Concepts of health and poverty and their interrelatedness from a global and public health perspective. Roles of international agencies, national policy, gender, socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, culture, access to resources, and conflict. Role of public health programs in the achievement and maintenance of healthy populations. Struggle to eliminate poverty.	Fall 2022	3
HM 838	Cultural Aspects of Public Health Practice	Cultural concepts that shape health and illness. Major issues and trends in global health. Cultural and socioeconomic factors related to work with diverse populations. Applications for public health practice.	TBD	3
HM 839	Water and Public Health: A Global Perspective	Role of water in public health, focusing on the global crisis of water quantity and quality.Specific water “hot spots” primarily the Middle East, Africa, Asia, the Western and Southern U.S., and Mexico.	Summer 2023	3
HM 847	Public Health in Ghana: A One Health Perspective	Major public health issues in Ghana from a One Health perspective; interface between Western and traditional health care beliefs and practices in Ghana; community engagement experience employing participatory research methods with emphasis on social justice and ethical conduct of research.	TBD	5
HM 862	Global Pandemics and Public Health Systems, Law, and Community Impacts	Public Health Systems and Response to Pandemics including Public Health Law and Ethics, Disease Transmission, Testing and Treatment, and Social and Community Context.	Summer 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Summer 2023	3
HM 873	Maternal and Child Health: A Global Public Health Perspective	Introduction to historical and cultural foundations of maternal and child global public health. Health care needs, health determinants and disparities, programs, policies and public health issues affecting women and children.	TBD	3

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Public Health Epidemiology/Biostatistics/Surveillance

Course Number	Course Name	Course Description	Semester Offered	Credits
HM 808	Public Health Surveillance	Introduction, history, and design of national, state and local public health surveillance systems for communicable diseases, chronic diseases, birth defects, injury, and disasters. Use of surveillance data sources.	Summer 2022	3
HM 842	Introduction to Public Health Informatics	Survey of information technology applications in the public health domain, functions and tools used to generate public health knowledge. Disease surveillance platforms and web-based public health education, ethical and legal issues surrounding data exchange.	Fall 2022	3
HM 845	Informatics and Information Technology	Information technology for health informatics systems, principles of relational database systems, operations, information systems, data sets, data standards and classification systems.	Spring 2023	3
HM 878	Applied Biostatistics for Public Health Practitioners	Intermediate techniques and applications of multivariable logistic and linear regression in public health. Interpretation of statistical models.	TBD	3
HM 889	Applied Epidemiologic Methods for Public Health Practitioners	Identification and conceptualization of public health problems. Generation of testable hypotheses and appropriate data sets. Interpretation of appropriate measures of associations. Evaluation of validity and generalizability of results and ethical issues surrounding the use of humans in epidemiological research. Real case studies are used to analyze study design including the role of chance, bias, misclassification, effect measure modification, interaction, and missing data.	TBD	3

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Infectious Disease and Public Health

Course Number	Course Name	Course Description	Semester Offered	Credits
HM 831	Communicable Disease in Public Health	Fundamentals of communicable disease transmission. Overview of methods for prevention and control of communicable disease. Agents and organisms of public health significance.	Fall 2022	3
HM 852	Outbreak Investigations in Public Health	Process for conducting public health outbreak investigations including the role of local, state, federal and international agencies. Legal, political, media and law enforcement issues.	Spring 2023	3
HM 863	Parasitic Diseases and Public Health in Developing Countries	Nature, impact and control of parasitic diseases in developing countries.	TBD	3
HM 864	Intersections of Human and Animal Health	Epidemiology and preventive medicine disease control methods for the control of infectious diseases and environmental health issues shared by animals and people.	Summer 2023	3
HM 871	Vaccine and Preventable Diseases of Public Health Importance	Vaccine-preventable diseases of importance to the public health and the global community. Basic epidemiology, surveillance, vaccine updates, status of the vaccination programs, associated cost, benefits, and related public health policies. Current controversies associated with national and international disease control, elimination, and eradication campaigns.	TBD	3
HM 881	Pathogenesis of Parasitic Infections Important to Public Health	Specific causes and progression of major parasitic diseases important to global public health; diverse aspects of the host’s responses to the invasion by these organisms; protective and pathogenic immune responses; development of clinical disease; role of chemotherapy development of clinical disease; effects of chemotherapeutic agents; epidemiological discussion of the importance of quantification of the pathology and clinical disease seen in populations.	Summer 2022	3

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Public Health Nutrition

Course Number	Course Name	Course Description	Semester Offered	Credits
HM 861	Introduction to Public Health Nutrition	Biological principles of nutrition and physical activity with public health focus. Nutritional issues in specific populations. Introduction to malnutrition, current issues in nutrition, role of nutrition in chronic diseases, and nutrition policy and intervention programs.	Spring 2023	3
HM 865	Vitamins and Minerals: Risks to Public Health	Introduction to public health issues in vitamin and mineral nutrition, including biological roles, human requirements, and consequences of deficiency and excesses. Current issues regarding specific micronutrient status in U.S. and worldwide. Current and proposed population-based interventions.	TBD	3
HM 876	Nutrition and Chronic Diseases: Living Longer and Healthier	Role of nutrition and physical activity in chronic diseases with emphasis on macronutrients. Relationship between obesity and health and socioeconomic disparities in the United States and current policies. Overview of nutrition transition and impact on developing nations.	Summer 2023	3
HM 877	Public Health Nutrition and the Life Stages	Effect of nutrition on growth and development. Role of public health interventions throughout life. Emphasis on at-risk populations in the United States and worldwide. Survey of current programs addressing specific public health nutrition concerns.	TBD	3
HM 882	Public Health Nutrition: Assessment and Development of Population-Based Interventions	Assessment of nutritional and physical activity on a population level. Identification of at-risk populations. Collection, interpretation and application of data for developing interventions and evaluating behavior change and health outcomes. Role of public health and national nutrition institutions.	Fall 2022	3

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Culminating Experience (6 credits)

Course Number	Course Name	Course Description	Semester Offered	Credits
HM 891	Introduction to Public Health Practicum	Preparatory work for practicum placement. Special projects arranged by an individual student and faculty member in areas supporting practicum placement.	Every Year: Fall, Spring, Summer	1
HM 892	Public Health Practicum	Professional practicum.	Every Year: Fall, Spring, Summer	3
HM 893	Public Health Capstone	Capstone experience.	Every Year: Fall, Spring, Summer	2