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Population Sciences (POP HLTH) 1

POP HLTH/ENVIR ST 471 — INTRODUCTION TO POPULATION HEALTH 3 credits. SCIENCES (POP HLTH) Impact of environmental problems on human health; biological hazards to human health from air and water ; radiation; pesticides; noise; problems related to food, occupation and environment of the work place; POP HLTH 370 — INTRODUCTION TO : LOCAL TO accidents. Physical and chemical factors involved. Enroll Info: None GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES Requisites: Junior standing 3 credits. Course Designation: Breadth - Biological Sci. Counts toward the Natural Introduces principles of public health. Uses local and Sci req problems as examples to introduce and evidence-based Level - Intermediate public health, with a focus on closing the gap between science and L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S practice. Enroll Info: None Sustain - Sustainability Requisites: None Repeatable for Credit: No Course Designation: Breadth - Either Social Science or Natural Science Last Taught: Spring 2021 Level - Intermediate POP HLTH/ENVIR ST 502 — AND HUMAN HEALTH L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S 3 credits. Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2021 Toxicologic, controlled and epidemiologic studies on major air pollutants. Overview of study methods, lung physiology and pathology; air pollution POP HLTH/C&E SOC/SOC 380 — CONTEMPORARY POPULATION sources, types, meteorology, sampling methods, controls and regulations. PROBLEMS FOR HONORS Enroll Info: None 3 credits. Requisites: Junior standing Designed to identify, examine the nature and evaluate the evidence Course Designation: Breadth - Biological Sci. Counts toward the Natural regarding key population problems affecting modern societies in Sci req the developed and developing world. Emphasizes the development Level - Advanced of demographic models as a tool to frame, define and investigate L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S these problems. Examples of problems studied include: relations Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement between population growth and environment, population growth Sustain - Sustainability and socioeconomic development, population and emergence of new Repeatable for Credit: No . Enroll Info: None Last Taught: Fall 2020 Requisites: C&E SOC/SOC 360 or concurrent enrollment POP HLTH/NURSING 525 — NURSING LEADERSHIP FOR GLOBAL Course Designation: Breadth - Either Humanities or Social Science HEALTH Level - Intermediate 2-3 credits. L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S Honors - Honors Only Courses (H) Designed to prepare undergraduate and graduate nursing students Repeatable for Credit: No for leadership in global health (GH) by examining their GH goals in a Last Taught: Fall 2012 framework that integrates knowledge from nursing with contemporary GH knowledge. Directed toward improving health of the global population POP HLTH/B M I 451 — INTRODUCTION TO SAS PROGRAMMING FOR as a whole, the framework addresses health trends, practice frameworks, POPULATION HEALTH the ecological model, ethics, nursing leadership roles, concepts of 2 credits. partnership and evidence-based practice. Enroll Info: None Use of the SAS programming language for the management and analysis Requisites: None of biomedical data. Enroll Info: None Repeatable for Credit: No Requisites: Declared in the Population Health, Epidemiology or Clinical Last Taught: Fall 2016 Investigation graduate program. POP HLTH/ECON/PUB AFFR 548 — THE ECONOMICS OF HEALTH CARE Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework 3-4 credits. requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Analysis of the health care industry. Markets for hospitals and physicians' Last Taught: Fall 2020 care, markets for health manpower, and the role of health insurance. Enroll Info: None Requisites: ECON 301, ECON 311, or PUB AFFR 880 Course Designation: Breadth - Social Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Sustain - Sustainability Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2021 2 Population Health Sciences (POP HLTH)

POP HLTH/B M I 551 — INTRODUCTION TO FOR POP HLTH/M M & I 603 — CLINICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH POPULATION HEALTH MICROBIOLOGY 3 credits. 5 credits.

Designed for population health researcher. Topics include descriptive Describe microorganisms of clinical and public health significance, statistics, elementary probability, probability distributions, one- and discuss issues and controversies of specimen receiving and processing, two-sample normal inference (point estimation, hypothesis testing, bacteremia, serodiagnosis of infectious agents, antimicrobial confidence intervals), power and sample size calculations, one- and two- susceptibility testing, laboratory management, and novel approaches to sample binomial inference, underlying assumptions and diagnostic work. detect infectious agents. Enroll Info: None Enroll Info: None Requisites: None Requisites: Declared in the Population Health, Epidemiology or Clinical Course Designation: Level - Intermediate Investigation graduate program. Not open to students with credit for L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S STAT/B M I 541 Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework Repeatable for Credit: No requirement Last Taught: Spring 2019 Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2020 POP HLTH/NUTR SCI 621 — INTRODUCTION TO NUTRITIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY POP HLTH/B M I 552 — REGRESSION METHODS FOR POPULATION 1 credit. HEALTH 3 credits. Techniques used to evaluate relationships of diet to health and in human populations; integration of knowledge gained with results Introduction to the primary statistical tools used in epidemiology and of animal and clinical studies toward understanding dietary risk or health services research; multiple linear regression, logistic regression protective factors for disease. Includes advanced diet assessment and and survival analysis. Enroll Info: None basic epidemiologic approaches. Enroll Info: None Requisites: STAT/B M I 541 or POP HLTH/B M I 551 Requisites: STAT 301 and NUTR SCI 332, or graduate/professional Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework standing requirement Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework Repeatable for Credit: No requirement Last Taught: Spring 2021 Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2020 POP HLTH/HIST SCI/MED HIST 553 — INTERNATIONAL HEALTH AND GLOBAL SOCIETY POP HLTH/M&ENVTOX/ONCOLOGY/PHM SCI/PHMCOL-M 625 — 3 credits. TOXICOLOGY I 3 credits. Major problems in international health from 1750 to the present. Focus on disease epidemiology and ecology; political economy of health; Basic principles of toxicology and biochemical mechanisms of toxicity migration; ; race, ethnicity, and health care; international health in mammalian species and man. Correlation between morphological and research; cross-cultural healing; mental and ; growth of functional changes caused by toxicants in different organs of the body. international health organizations. Enroll Info: None Enroll Info: None Requisites: Junior standing Requisites: (BIOCHEM 501 or 508) and (ANAT&PHY 335, 435, or Course Designation: Breadth - Either Humanities or Social Science (BIOCORE 485 486)) and PATH 404; or graduate/professional standing Level - Intermediate Course Designation: Breadth - Biological Sci. Counts toward the Natural L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S Sci req Repeatable for Credit: No Level - Advanced Last Taught: Fall 2019 L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement POP HLTH/ENVIR ST 560 — OF GLOBAL Repeatable for Credit: No ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE Last Taught: Fall 2020 3 credits.

Covers contemporary methods of impact assessment in a framework to address global environmental health threats (e.g., global climate change, deforestation and biodiversity loss, and urban sprawl). Issues dovetail well (but do not overlap) with Introduction to Environmental Health. Enroll Info: None Requisites: Junior standing Course Designation: Breadth - Social Science Level - Advanced L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2019 Population Health Sciences (POP HLTH) 3

POP HLTH/M&ENVTOX/PATH/PHM SCI/PHMCOL-M 626 — TOXICOLOGY POP HLTH 645 — GLOBAL HEALTH FIELD COURSE II 1-6 credits. 3 credits. A faculty-led field experience that exposes students to global health Survey of the basic methods and fundamental biochemical mechanisms work through discussion, observational activities and participation in of toxicity. Toxicity in mammalian organ systems, techniques for applied public health activities. Students will gain knowledge about evaluating toxicity, as well as mechanisms of species specificity, and health and disease, learn and practice cross-cultural skills, and explore environmental interactions (with toxicant examples) are presented. Enroll interdisciplinary approaches to health. Enroll Info: None Info: None Requisites: None Requisites: PHMCOL-M/POP HLTH/M&ENVTOX/ONCOLOGY/PHM SCI/ Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework PHMCOL-M 625 requirement Course Designation: Breadth - Biological Sci. Counts toward the Natural Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions Sci req Last Taught: Spring 2014 Level - Advanced L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S POP HLTH 650 — SPECIAL TOPICS Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement 1-6 credits. Repeatable for Credit: No Variable content course. Enroll Info: None Last Taught: Spring 2021 Requisites: Graduate/professional standing POP HLTH/GENETICS/MD GENET 636 — Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework 1 credit. requirement Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions Provides an introduction to public health genomics through a review Last Taught: Spring 2021 of fundamental principles of genetics, the use of genetic information in clinical and research settings, and its implications for disease POP HLTH/B M I 651 — ADVANCED REGRESSION METHODS FOR management and prevention, and . Explores policies POPULATION HEALTH that guide public health and discusses current ethical, legal, and social 3 credits. implications of these policies. Enroll Info: None Extension of to observational data with unequal Requisites: (Junior standing and ZOOLOGY/BIOLOGY/BOTANY 151) or variance, unequal sampling and propensity weights, clusters and graduate/professional standing longitudinal measurements, using different variance structures, mixed Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework linear models, generalized linear models and GEE. Matrix notation will be requirement introduced and underlying mathematical and statistical principles will Repeatable for Credit: No be explained. Examples use data sets from ongoing population health Last Taught: Spring 2021 research. Enroll Info: None POP HLTH 640 — FOUNDATIONS IN GLOBAL HEALTH PRACTICE Requisites: POP HLTH/B M I 552 1 credit. Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement An interdisciplinary course designed to prepare students for specific Repeatable for Credit: No global health field experiences. Enroll Info: None Last Taught: Fall 2020 Requisites: None Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework POP HLTH/B M I 652 — TOPICS IN BIOSTATISTICS FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY requirement 1-3 credits. Repeatable for Credit: No Each module will adopt an in-depth focus on a biostatistical method of Last Taught: Summer 2021 particular relevance to epidemiology such as measurement error, missing POP HLTH 644 — INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL data, intermediate variables, complex study designs, meta-analysis, HEALTH AND DISEASE splines, propensity scores, causal inference, spatial statistics and 1 credit. resampling. One or more modules will be offered every spring semester. Enroll Info: None Addresses a variety of global health topics through study of a specific Requisites: POP HLTH/B M I 552 country. Consider health data, health systems, historical and cultural Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework information, and concepts of cultural competence and cultural humility. requirement Enroll Info: None Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions Requisites: None Last Taught: Spring 2015 Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions Last Taught: Spring 2020 4 Population Health Sciences (POP HLTH)

POP HLTH 699 — INDEPENDENT READING POP HLTH 712 — INTEGRATING AND PUBLIC HEALTH 1-5 credits. 1 credit.

To gain additional information on specific research problems or advanced Provides an introduction to public health and opportunities to meet and training in the areas covered by department staff. Enroll Info: None discuss key concepts with an exciting variety of physician leaders who Requisites: Consent of instructor have integrated medicine public health in their careers. Enroll Info: None Course Designation: Level - Advanced Requisites: Graduate/professional standing L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement requirement Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Summer 2021 Last Taught: Fall 2020

POP HLTH/I SY E 703 — QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE: EVALUATION AND POP HLTH 713 — EPIDEMIOLOGY OF HIV/AIDS ASSURANCE 1 credit. 1-3 credits. Provides an overview of the AIDS pandemic in the and Implementation, oversight, and management of quality-oriented activities worldwide. Topics covered include a review of the epidemiology of AIDS, in health care settings. Overview of current and historical activities, the natural history of HIV disease, strategies to prevent and treat HIV, approaches, and issues confronting health care related to quality and local and global health impact with a focus on historically significant assessment, assurance, and improvement. Enroll Info: None milestones as well as promising current and future research. Enroll Info: Requisites: Graduate/professional standing None Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework Requisites: Graduate/professional standing requirement Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework Repeatable for Credit: No requirement Last Taught: Fall 2018 Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Summer 2019 POP HLTH/MEDICINE/NURSING 705 — SEMINAR IN INTERDISCIPLINARY CLINICAL RESEARCH EVIDENCE POP HLTH 718 — PRINCIPLES OF GLOBAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS 2 credits. 2 credits.

Exploration of interdisciplinary clinical research questions including Addresses and analyzes differences in health status and methods strategies for assessing the evidence and conducting a systematic of organizing and providing health services in countries with varying review of research. An interdisciplinary perspective is emphasized levels of development and types of socio-political systems. Develops throughout the course. Enroll Info: None an understanding of the various avenues of international cooperation in Requisites: SOC/POP HLTH 797 and STAT/B M I 542 health. Enroll Info: None Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework Requisites: Graduate/professional standing requirement Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework Repeatable for Credit: No requirement Last Taught: Summer 2021 Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2020 POP HLTH 709 — TRANSLATIONAL AND OUTCOMES RESEARCH IN HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE POP HLTH 721 — CONSPIRACIES IN PUBLIC HEALTH 3 credits. 2 credits.

Seeks to review the conceptualization of translational and outcomes Skepticism and conspiracism can be barriers to successful research in health and health care settings; to illustrate basic concepts implementation of public health and medical interventions such as and methods in research as applied to current issues in health and , fluoridation of water, and HIV treatment. Conversations health care settings; and to understand the diverse perspectives that between people with opposing viewpoints, whether face-to- face or via can be used to inform translational and outcomes research in different social media, often devolve to disparagement and dismissal. Awareness organizations, including those based within communities. Enroll Info: of or experience with such exchanges causes us to avoid tackling None such "hot button" topics with friends, colleagues, and members of Requisites: Consent of instructor our communities. While it is all too easy to believe people who adopt Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework conspiracy theories to be members of the fringe, research has shown requirement that medical conspiracy theories are widely known, broadly endorsed, Repeatable for Credit: No and highly predictive of many common health behaviors. Prepares health Last Taught: Spring 2021 professionals to educate communities about important public health and medical interventions. Enroll Info: None Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2021 Population Health Sciences (POP HLTH) 5

POP HLTH 728 — CLIMATE CHANGE MEDICINE POP HLTH 784 — PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE AND ANALYTICS 2 credits. 3 credits.

Climate change threatens human health through multiple exposure Learn applied techniques for assessment and pathways, from heatwaves, storms and air pollution episodes,to surveillance. Population health data (including census, natality, mortality, influences on infectious diseases, and . Gain hospital discharge, behavioral risk factor) are retrieved for analysis and thorough and up to date review of these health links and learn present interpretation. Enroll Info: None strategies for preparedness and prevention. Medical students will be Requisites: Graduate/professional standing introduced to a "Health in all Policies" approach that is essential to Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework optimize the potential for medical interventions to address the health requirement risks from climate change, as well as potential health benefits from Repeatable for Credit: No mitigating the root causes of climate change. Enroll Info: None Last Taught: Spring 2020 Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework POP HLTH/M&ENVTOX 789 — PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL requirement HEALTH: A SYSTEMS THINKING APPROACH Repeatable for Credit: No 3 credits. Last Taught: Spring 2021 Provides an overview of the field of environmental health, using POP HLTH 729 — PREPAREDNESS IN PUBLIC HEALTH a systems thinking approach. Systems thinking recognizes that 2 credits. environmental health problem solving is complex and that solutions in one area may have positive or negative impacts on other areas. Provides an overview of various types of public health emergencies and An introduction to the history of environmental health within the disasters including the organizations and disciplines that prepare and field of public health from the local to the federal and global level. respond to natural and unnatural emergencies. Gain an understanding Introduces multiple disciplines, methods and approaches to numerous of how public health officials, public health practitioners, state and environmental health topics. Includes introduction to methods and local health department staff, health care personnel and emergency tools necessary for assessing human health risks from a variety of responders plan for and respond to public health emergencies. The role of environmental hazards and exposures found in air, land, and water with the physician will specifically be explored. Enroll Info: None a focus on physical and chemical risks. Additional details regarding Requisites: Graduate/professional standing specific hazard, exposure and health outcome data and their relationship Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework to environmental health risk assessment, environmental health decision- requirement making and management form a public health practice perspective will Repeatable for Credit: No be discussed. Enroll Info: None Last Taught: Spring 2020 Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework POP HLTH/ENVIR ST 739 — CLIMATE CHANGE, HUMAN AND requirement PLANETARY HEALTH Repeatable for Credit: No 2 credits. Last Taught: Spring 2019

Provide tools to identify and address real-world global environmental POP HLTH/KINES 791 — PHYSICAL ACTIVITY EPIDEMIOLOGY health issues, stemming from climate change, habitat destruction leading 3 credits. to disease spillover events, food insecurity, and urban design. Enroll Info: None Recommendations for and surveillance of physical activity in the Requisites: Graduate/professional standing U.S., and associations with health and disease at the population level. Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework Emphasis on measurement techniques, study design and research requirement considerations. Enroll Info: None Repeatable for Credit: No Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Last Taught: Spring 2021 Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement POP HLTH 750 — EPIDEMIOLOGY Repeatable for Credit: No 3 credits. Last Taught: Spring 2020

Covers current knowledge on cancer occurrence and control in human POP HLTH 794 — BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF POPULATION HEALTH populations. Design and analysis approaches appropriate for cancer 2 credits. epidemiology will also be discussed. Familiarity with basic biological and epidemiologic concepts is desirable. Enroll Info: None Covers the physiology, biology and biochemistry of selected disease Requisites: Graduate/professional standing processes deemed to be important in population health sciences by Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework virtue of their clinical significance including incidence, mortality and requirement morbidity. Enroll Info: None Repeatable for Credit: No Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Last Taught: Spring 2020 Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2019 6 Population Health Sciences (POP HLTH)

POP HLTH 795 — PRINCIPLES OF POPULATION HEALTH SCIENCES POP HLTH 801 — EPIDEMIOLOGY OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES 1-3 credits. 3 credits.

Introduction to multiple determinants of health including medical Introduces basic methods to studying the epidemiology of infectious care, , the physical environment and individual diseases and reviews infectious diseases of major public health behavior, and their interactions. Also covered will be the definition and importance. Covers the basics of microbiology, immunology, and measurement of population health, economic concepts in population laboratory-based methods and the principles of , health, and ethical and managerial issues in population health outbreak investigation, mathematical models of disease transmission, improvement. Enroll Info: None and prevention strategies. The etiology, epidemiology, prevention, and Requisites: Graduate/professional standing treatment of ancient, modern, and emerging infectious diseases will be Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework examined. Enroll Info: None requirement Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Repeatable for Credit: No Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework Last Taught: Fall 2020 requirement Repeatable for Credit: No POP HLTH 796 — INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH Last Taught: Spring 2021 3 credits. POP HLTH 802 — ADVANCED EPIDEMIOLOGY: ETIOLOGY AND Introduces students to a variety of perspectives, substantive areas and PREVENTION methodological approaches to health services research that provide the 3 credits. foundation for understanding the structure, process and outcomes of the U.S. health care system. Enroll Info: None Addresses the epidemiological basis for understanding the etiology Requisites: Graduate/professional standing and prevention of major diseases. Integrate information about disease Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework patterns, epidemiological methods, and published studies to identify requirement research questions and design a project. Enroll Info: None Repeatable for Credit: No Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Last Taught: Spring 2021 Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement POP HLTH/SOC 797 — INTRODUCTION TO EPIDEMIOLOGY Repeatable for Credit: No 3 credits. Last Taught: Fall 2012

Design, implementation and interpretation of epidemiologic studies; POP HLTH 805 — ADVANCED EPIDEMIOLOGY: CAUSAL INFERENCE IN emphasis on methodologic problems in the measurement of disease EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES frequency, natural history and risk factors. Enroll Info: None 3 credits. Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework Focuses on the use of viewpoints and design/analytical tools to render requirement possible the estimation of causal effects in epidemiologic studies. Repeatable for Credit: No Students learn about the rationale and use of study designs/analytic Last Taught: Fall 2020 tools that build upon but are substantially different from the most common approaches used in epidemiologic research (experimental POP HLTH 798 — EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS studies, case-control studies, and cohort studies). Enroll Info: None 3 credits. Requisites: SOC/POP HLTH 797 and POP HLTH 798 Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework The main emphasis is the design and interpretation of epidemiologic requirement studies. Includes hands-on experience in the evaluation of epidemiologic Repeatable for Credit: No evidence, the analysis of epidemiologic data, and the discussion of Last Taught: Fall 2020 strategies aimed to improve study validity and efficiency. Enroll Info: None POP HLTH 806 — ADVANCED EPIDEMIOLOGY: PRACTICE OF Requisites: Graduate/professional standing EPIDEMIOLOGY Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework 3 credits. requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Apply and extend methodologic knowledge learned in prior courses in the Last Taught: Spring 2021 Population Health Sciences epidemiology methods sequence to selected key activities of a practicing epidemiologic researcher, including: study implementation; scientific writing and presentation; manuscript and grant peer-reviewing; measurement validation, simulation studies and sensitivity analyses; and, commonly-used epidemiology field instruments and methods. Enroll Info: None Requisites: SOC/POP HLTH 797 and POP HLTH 798 Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2021 Population Health Sciences (POP HLTH) 7

POP HLTH/OBS&GYN 807 — REPRODUCTIVE AND PERINATAL POP HLTH 820 — GRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINAR EPIDEMIOLOGY 1 credit. 2 credits. Presentations by graduate students, professors, public health Provides an overview of the current knowledge and research in professionals and experts designed to cover the depth and breadth of reproductive and perinatal epidemiology. Through reading of the primary research in the field of population health. Enroll Info: None and secondary literature, examine issues related to topics such as Requisites: Graduate/professional standing fertility, preconception health, and perinatal outcomes including maternal Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework morbidity and mortality, pregnancy loss, and infant outcomes. Current requirement evidence-based strategies designed to improve reproductive and Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions perinatal outcomes are reviewed. Long-term health implications of Last Taught: Spring 2021 pregnancy and infant health are considered. Enroll Info: None Requisites: SOC/POP HLTH 797 POP HLTH 845 — SEMINAR IN HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework ECONOMICS requirement 1-3 credits. Repeatable for Credit: No Provides an overview of current topics in health and mental health POP HLTH 810 — GLOBAL HEALTH EPIDEMIOLOGY economics. The main objectives of this seminar is to acquaint students 2 credits. with important current topics, literature, and scholarship in this field. Enroll Info: None Explores the relationship between globalization and health and provides Requisites: Graduate/professional standing an understanding of: (a) indicators and determinants of health and Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework health disparities across populations, from less to more developed requirement countries; (b) the application of epidemiology to evaluate population Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions health, identify global public health priorities, monitor progress toward Last Taught: Fall 2016 public health goals, and develop and evaluate interventions to improve global health and reduce health disparities; and (c) some practical and POP HLTH 847 — CARDIOVASCULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY ethical considerations in global health research. Exposure to the "One 1 credit. Health" perspective and to research and clinical work of University of The main emphasis is the discussion of the population distribution, Wisconsin-Madison faculty members working in the field of global health health impact, risk factors, treatment, and prevention of cardiovascular epidemiology, and is designed to identify ways that epidemiology can diseases. Enroll Info: None contribute to improvements in global health. Enroll Info: None Requisites: SOC/POP HLTH 797 Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2019 Last Taught: Fall 2020 POP HLTH/ECON 848 — POP HLTH 819 — SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS AND HEALTH 1-3 credits. 3 credits. Health economics issues including demand, supply and pricing, market Provides an overview and synthesis of research utilizing social network structure, medical malpractice, technological change, value of life, role of analysis in relation to health, drawing on studies by sociologists, insurance, and other aspects of uncertainty. Enroll Info: None economists, computer scientists, physicians and health services Requisites: Graduate/professional standing researchers. Enables students to understand how social network data Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework are collected and processed; how to calculate appropriate network requirement measures; how to apply statistical modeling of social network effects on Repeatable for Credit: No health behavior. Surveys social network studies related to substance use, Last Taught: Spring 2020 smoking, contraception, AIDS, obesity and many other health conditions. Also looks at the social networks of health organizations in relation to patient outcomes. Prior coursework in data analysis and statistical methods is recommended. Enroll Info: None Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2019 8 Population Health Sciences (POP HLTH)

POP HLTH/AN SCI/GENETICS 849 — GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY POP HLTH/A A E/ENVIR ST/PUB AFFR 881 — BENEFIT-COST ANALYSIS 3 credits. 3 credits.

This course will provide an introduction to genetic epidemiology. Topics Presents the welfare economics underpinnings for evaluating the social will include a general overview of genetics and Mendelian and complex benefits and costs of government activities. Issues such as uncertainty, inheritance, as well as various elements of study design, including the social discount rate, and welfare weights will be discussed; case participant ascertainment; phenotype definition; biologic sample studies from the environmental, social policy, and agricultural areas will selection; genotyping, sequencing, and quality control; measurement of be studied. Enroll Info: None covariates, and choice of analytic methods. We will briefly discuss some Requisites: Graduate/professional standing and (PUB AFFR 818 and of the original study designs and then focus on current study designs 880), or POP HLTH/I SY E 875, or A A E 635 for the remainder of the class. Additional emerging topics will be briefly Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework touched upon. Students will complete short homework assignments to requirement enforce concepts learned during lectures, discuss journal articles, and Repeatable for Credit: No prepare a very short grant application for the mid-term project. In the Last Taught: Fall 2020 final weeks of class, students will work together to analyze data from a real genetic study, prepare tables, interpret the findings, and present their POP HLTH 904 — SPECIAL TOPICS IN EPIDEMIOLOGY project to their peers. Enroll Info: None 1-3 credits. Requisites: Graduate/professional standing In-depth focus on current areas of epidemiologic investigation. Each Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework semester one or more modules (e.g., cardiovascular, cancer, infectious requirement diseases, women's health, international, etc.) will be offered. Enroll Info: Repeatable for Credit: No None Last Taught: Fall 2020 Requisites: Graduate/professional standing POP HLTH/I SY E 875 — COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS IN HEALTH Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework AND HEALTHCARE requirement 3 credits. Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions Last Taught: Fall 2018 Basic ideas and tools of cost effectiveness analysis as applied in evaluating medical technologies. Addresses special problems and POP HLTH 915 — INTERNATIONAL HEALTH SYSTEMS AND POLICY methods in assessing diagnostic technologies, including ROC analysis, 2 credits. and in measuring health for technology assessment. Uses "classical" and Designed as an independent study with four modules: International current journal literature. Enroll Info: None Performance; Health Systems in the Context of Global Requisites: SOC/POP HLTH 797 and POP HLTH/B M I 552 Health Needs; Health Systems in High Income Countries; and the Politics Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework of Health System Development and Reform. Enroll Info: None requirement Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Repeatable for Credit: No Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework Last Taught: Spring 2018 requirement POP HLTH 876 — MEASURING HEALTH OUTCOMES Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions 3 credits. Last Taught: Summer 2021

Provides a comprehensive understanding of health outcome measures, POP HLTH 917 — GENERAL PREVENTIVE MEDICINE AND PUBLIC including generic health status measures, disease-specific measures, and HEALTH ELECTIVE consumer reports of the quality of care. Enroll Info: None 4 credits. Requisites: Graduate/professional standing The 4th year public health elective will introduce the student to the role Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework of physicians working in various fields of public health. Students can requirement work with faculty from the Department of Population Health Sciences, Repeatable for Credit: No Wisconsin Division of Public Health or Wisconsin State Laboratory of Last Taught: Fall 2020 on a public health or project. The student will have the opportunity to select a health issue in Wisconsin, conduct a literature review, analyze relevant data, interpret the results, and write a report. Enroll Info: None Requisites: Declared in the Medical program with 4th year standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2018 Population Health Sciences (POP HLTH) 9

POP HLTH/KINES 955 — SEMINAR - PHYSICAL ACTIVITY EPIDEMIOLOGY 1 credit.

Current research developments in physical activity epidemiology. Enroll Info: None Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions Last Taught: Spring 2019

POP HLTH 990 — RESEARCH 1-8 credits.

Research supervised by individual faculty members. Enroll Info: None Requisites: Consent of instructor Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions Last Taught: Summer 2021