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and timely feedback to the college in the form of Student Surveys COLLEGE OF PUBLIC of Instruction (SSI) as well as annual exit and alumni satisfaction surveys. Participation in the feedback process will assist in the College's College of accreditation process and will allow the administration and faculty to 131 Moulton Hall quickly identify and address any problems as they arise, thus enhancing Kent Campus the quality of the academic experience in the college. 330-672-6500 [email protected] Students who fail to complete the required surveys may be prevented www.kent.edu/publichealth from future term registration. College of Public Health Faculty Description • Beaird, Heather (2011), Associate Professor, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 2005 The mission of the College of Public Health is to advance public health • Benzigar, Sasikumar (2011), Associate Professor, Ed.D., University of by preparing leaders, scientists, and practitioners to collaborate with Cincinnati, 2014 community partners in conducting impactful research and practice to solve public health challenges. • Bhargava, Tina D. (2012), Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2012 • Bhatta, Madhav P. (2009), Professor, Ph.D., University of Alabama, Kent State University's College of Public Health was established in 2009 Birmingham, 2007 to educate and prepare students to meet the current and projected shortage of public health professionals in Ohio and the nation. It is one of • Brewer, Thomas W. (2002), Associate Professor, Ph.D., University at only two schools of public health in Ohio and the first to offer a Bachelor Albany, SUNY, 2003 of Science in Public Health degree. In addition to the bachelor's degree, • Chatfield, Sheryl L. (2015), Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of the college also offers a Master of Public Health, Master of Science in Mississippi, 2014 Clinical Epidemiology and a Doctor of Philosophy degree. The academic • Cheruvu, Vinay K. (2010), Associate Professor, Ph.D., Case Western programs integrate theory and practice to equip graduates with the Reserve University, 2012 knowledge and skills to address and solve the health challenges of the • Eng, Abbey L. (2006), Associate Professor, Ph.D., Bowling Green State 21st century. Faculty engage in innovative research that seeks answers University, 2007 to some of society's most challenging public health issues. Partners • Hoornbeek, John A. (2006), Professor, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, include local health departments, community organizations, health care 2004 institutions and businesses; those partnerships provide students with • Jefferis, Eric S. (2002), Professor, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, 2004 applied practical experiences in public health. • Kenne, Deric (2011), Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Akron, Undergraduate Programs 2010 • Knight, Kristina N. (2015), Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Kent State • Public Health - B.S.P.H. University, 2014 • Lanese, Bethany G. (2015), Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Wayne State Minors University, 2004 • Environmental Health Sciences • Laurene, Kimberly R. (2016), Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Bowling Green • Health Services Administration State University, 2010 • Public Health • Leahy, Peter J. (2016), Professor, Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1975 • Phillips, Lynette (2010), Professor, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Graduate Programs Chapel Hill, 2007 • Clinical Epidemiology - M.S. • Smith, Tara C. (2013), Professor, Ph.D., University of Toldeo, 2012 • Public Health - M.P.H. • Stedman-Smith, Maggie M. (2009), Associate Professor, Ph.D., • Public Health - Ph.D. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2008 • Step, Mary M. (2015), Associate Professor, Ph.D., Kent State Undergraduate Certificates University, 1998 • Public Health • Stephens, Margaret C. (2012), Professor, Ph.D., University of Akron, 1999 Accreditation Feedback Policy • Tomi, Laurel A. (2015), Lecturer, B.A., Kent State University, 1986 The College of Public Health at Kent State University has been accredited • VanGeest, Jonathan B. (2011), Professor, Ph.D., University of Illinois at by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) as a school of Chicago, 1998 public health. Being an accredited institution adds great value to degrees • Widuck, Cindy L. (1993), Associate Lecturer, B.S., Kent State conferred and ensures a comprehensive student experience. A continual University, 1998 self-evaluation program is required by CEPH for accreditation. At the • Woolverton, Christopher J. (1995), Professor, Ph.D., West Virginia core of this program, it is required that the college solicit and respond University, 1986 to feedback from our students. Accordingly, it is an expectation of the college that students earnestly participate in providing accurate

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• Zullo, Melissa D. (2009), Associate Professor, Ph.D., Case Western BST 62020 DATA MANAGEMENT AND LOGIC USING SAS® SOFTWARE Reserve University, 2009 3 Credit Hours (Slashed with BST 82020) This course introduces graduate students Biostatistics (BST) to SAS® software, reading external data into SAS software, use of SAS data step, basic SAS functions, logical data steps for data management, BST 50196 INDIVIDUAL INVESTIGATION IN BIOSTATISTICS 1-3 and different SAS procedures for creating summary reports, graphical Credit Hours displays, and conducting basic statistical analysis using the SAS (Repeatable for maximum 6 credits) Individual graduate investigation or software. SAS Lab sessions are designed to mimic real time challenges research in areas related to biostatistics. working with different kinds of data and learn how to meet such Prerequisite: Graduate standing; and special approval. challenges. By the end of the course, students will achieve competency in Schedule Type: Individual Investigation proper and efficient use of SAS software. Contact Hours: 1-3 other Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Grade Mode: Standard Letter-IP Schedule Type: Lecture BST 52019 BIOSTATISTICS IN PUBLIC HEALTH 4 Credit Hours Contact Hours: 3 lecture Provides students with an understanding of basic statistical methods Grade Mode: Standard Letter in public health research, as well as the skills to perform and interpret BST 63012 SURVIVAL ANALYSIS IN PUBLIC HEALTH 3 Credit Hours basic statistical procedures. Students learn how to use statistical Introduction in survival analysis for graduate students in public analysis software to analyze real data from public health-related studies. health. Covers survival functions, hazard rates, types of censoring and They then learn how to interpret the analysis and present the results to truncation. Methods of focus include life tables, Kaplan-Meier plots, public health professionals and educated lay audiences. Includes lab log-rank tests, Cox regression models and parametric survival models. component which enhances student awareness and informed usage Inference for recurrent event and competing risks models are also of SAS for public health analysis. Students learn how to input, read, covered. store, export, and modify data in SAS and be able to use common SAS Prerequisite: BST 52019 and 63014; and graduate standing. procedures to analyze public health data and conduct independent SAS Schedule Type: Lecture programming. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Schedule Type: Laboratory, Lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture, 1 lab BST 63013 EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS IN PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH Grade Mode: Standard Letter 3 Credit Hours Introduces students to experimental research methods, in public BST 60191 VARIABLE CONTENT SEMINAR IN BIOSTATISTICS 1-3 health settings. First introduces a number of quasi-experimental and Credit Hours experimental study designs, then identifies a number of statistical (Repeatable for credit) Seminar on current and important topics in methods that can be used to draw correct causal inferences from the biostatistics. Subject matter varies depending on the topic. study. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Prerequisite: BST 52019 and 63014; and graduate standing. Schedule Type: Seminar Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 1-3 other Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter BST 60192 APPLIED PRACTICE EXPERIENCE IN BIOSTATISTICS 3,6 BST 63014 APPLIED REGRESSION ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC HEALTH Credit Hours DATA 3 Credit Hours (Repeatable for credit) Observational and participation in public (Slashed with BST 83014) Focuses on developing student proficiency health activities of a public health agency, hospital or other approved in building and evaluating various regression models for public health organization. The student completes the field experience with joint studies. Topics covered include exploratory and descriptive methods, supervision from the university and approved organization or agency. simple and multiple linear regression models, predictor selection, binary Prerequisite: Graduate standing; and special approval. and multinomial logistic regression models, survival analysis, repeated Schedule Type: Practical Experience measures and generalized linear models. Contact Hours: 9-18 other Prerequisite: BST 52019; and graduate standing. Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory-IP Schedule Type: Lecture BST 60195 SPECIAL TOPICS IN BIOSTATISTICS 1-3 Credit Hours Contact Hours: 3 lecture (Repeatable for a maximum of 6 credit hours) Special topics to sample Grade Mode: Standard Letter new offerings on topics in biostatistics. BST 63015 CATEGORICAL DATA ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC HEALTH DATA Prerequisite: Graduate standing. 3 Credit Hours Schedule Type: Lecture (Slashed with BST 83015) Provides an applied introduction to the most Contact Hours: 1-3 lecture important methods for analyzing categorical data in public health. Topics Grade Mode: Standard Letter covered include contingency tables, logistic regression, generalized linear models, modeling matched pairs and clustered responses. Prerequisite: BST 52019 and EPI 52017; and graduate standing. Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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BST 73011 MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS IN PUBLIC HEALTH 3 Credit BST 83014 APPLIED REGRESSION ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC HEALTH Hours DATA 3 Credit Hours Multivariate statistical methods are designed to evaluate more than (Slashed with BST 63014) Focuses on developing student proficiency one variable at a time. An application-oriented introduction to essential in building and evaluating various regression models for public health multivariate statistical methods used in public health. Topics covered studies. Topics covered include exploratory and descriptive methods, include matrix theory, data screening and preliminary analyses, simple and multiple linear regression models, predictor selection, binary multivariate normal distributions, multivariate versions of the general and multinomial logistic regression models, survival analysis, repeated linear model (MANOVA, multivariate multiple regression, MANCOVA), measures and generalized linear models. discrimination and classification, canonical correlation analysis, and Prerequisite: BST 52019; and doctoral standing. methods of analyzing covariance and correlation structures (principal Schedule Type: Lecture components and factor analysis). Also introduces and explores methods Contact Hours: 3 lecture of handling missing data. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Prerequisite: BST 52019; and doctoral standing. BST 83015 CATEGORICAL DATA ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC HEALTH DATA Schedule Type: Lecture 3 Credit Hours Contact Hours: 3 lecture (Cross-listed with BST 63015) Provides an applied introduction to Grade Mode: Standard Letter the most important methods for analyzing categorical data in public BST 82020 DATA MANAGEMENT AND LOGIC USING SAS® SOFTWARE health. Topics covered include contingency tables, logistic regression, 3 Credit Hours generalized linear models, modeling matched pairs, mixed models for (Slashed with BST 62020) This course introduces graduate students categorical data and clustered responses. to SAS® software, reading external data into SAS software, use of SAS Prerequisite: BST 52019 and EPI 52017; and doctoral standing. data step, basic SAS functions, logical data steps for data management, Schedule Type: Lecture and different SAS procedures for creating summary reports, graphical Contact Hours: 3 lecture displays, and conducting basic statistical analysis using the SAS Grade Mode: Standard Letter software. SAS Lab sessions are designed to mimic real time challenges working with different kinds of data and learn how to meet such Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) challenges. By the end of the course, students will achieve competency in EHS 50060 PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY METHODS 3 Credit proper and efficient use of SAS software. Hours Prerequisite: Doctoral standing. This course introduces the student to the fundamental theory and Schedule Type: Lecture hands on use to track specimen collection and laboratory analysis. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Environmental specimens will be examined for their public health Grade Mode: Standard Letter importance using classical and modern techniques. The student will BST 83012 SURVIVAL ANALYSIS IN PUBLIC HEALTH 3 Credit Hours spend time learning classical laboratory methods and their modern use Covers survival functions, hazard rates, types of censoring and in the laboratory environment. Examples include culture and microscopic truncation. Methods of focus include life tables, Kaplan-Meier plots, identification of microorganisms, identification of disease vectors, log-rank tests, Cox regression models and parametric survival models. detection of newborn disease and detection of terrorism agents. Inference for recurrent event and competing risks models are also Prerequisite: PH 30006 or CHEM 10062 or CHEM 10971 or BSCI 30140 or covered. instructor approval. Prerequisite: BST 52019; and BST 63014 or 83014; and doctoral standing. Schedule Type: Combined Lecture and Lab Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 2 lecture, 1 lab Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter EHS 50109 LABORATORY SAFETY AND HYGIENE 3 Credit Hours BST 83013 EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS IN PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH (Cross-listed with PH 40109) Basic introduction to laboratory safety, 3 Credit Hours chemical hygiene, and biosafety. Includes the research compliance Designed to introduce students to experimental research methods, in programs of institutions (IBC, IACUC, IRB, RSC) and the OSHA Chemical public health settings. First introduces a number of quasi-experimental Hygiene Standard requirements and program responsibilities. General lab and experimental study designs, then identifies a number of statistical safety concepts are reviewed, along with chemical handling and storage, methods that can be used to draw correct causal inferences from the fumehoods and ventilation, hazardous waste disposal, radiation safety, study. Students are expected to develop two research proposals, first and lab design. Basic principles of biosafety are covered, BSL 1-4 levels, using quasi-experimental then an experimental design and develop a biosafety cabinets, select agents, bloodborne pathogens, NIH Guidelines, statistical analysis plan for each study. biosecurity and animal use. Prerequisite: BST 52019; and BST 63014 or 83014; and doctoral standing. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Schedule Type: Lecture Schedule Type: Field Experience, Lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Contact Hours: 2.67 lecture, .33 other Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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EHS 50196 INDIVIDUAL INVESTIGATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH EHS 60191 VARIABLE CONTENT SEMINAR IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 1-3 Credit Hours HEALTH SCIENCES 1-3 Credit Hours (Repeatable for maximum 6 credits) Individual graduate investigation or (Repeatable for a maximum of 6 credit hours) Seminar on current and research in areas related to environmental health sciences. important topics in environmental health sciences. Subject matter varies Prerequisite: Graduate standing; and special approval. depending on the topic. Schedule Type: Individual Investigation Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Contact Hours: 1-3 other Schedule Type: Seminar Grade Mode: Standard Letter-IP Contact Hours: 1-3 other EHS 52018 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH CONCEPTS IN PUBLIC HEALTH Grade Mode: Standard Letter 3 Credit Hours EHS 60192 PRACTICUM EXPERIENCE IN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH Provides a comprehensive overview of the core topics in environmental SCIENCES 3,6 Credit Hours health as related to public health. Observational and participation in public health activities of a public Prerequisite: Graduate standing. health agency, hospital or other approved organization. Students Schedule Type: Lecture complete the field experience with joint supervision from the university Contact Hours: 3 lecture and approved organization or agency. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Prerequisite: Graduate standing and special approval. EHS 53009 EMERGING ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH ISSUES AND Schedule Type: Practical Experience RESPONSE 3 Credit Hours Contact Hours: 9-18 other Provides an overview of emerging environmental health issues that will Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory-IP impact the public's health. EHS 60195 SPECIAL TOPICS IN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES Prerequisite: Graduate standing. 1-3 Credit Hours Schedule Type: Lecture (Repeatable for a maximum of 6 credit hours) Special topics to sample Contact Hours: 3 lecture new offerings on topics in environmental health sciences. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Prerequisite: Graduate standing. EHS 53012 OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH 3 Credit Hours Schedule Type: Lecture Survey of major concepts and issues relating health and safety in the Contact Hours: 1-3 lecture workplace. Emphasis is on the application of public health principles Grade Mode: Standard Letter and decision-making practices used by various worker populations for EHS 63010 APPLIED RISK ASSESSMENT 3 Credit Hours the prevention of injury and disease on the job. This course will cover Introduces the student to environmental and occupational hazards, protective equipment, hazardous conditions, environmental toxins, assessing the risks associated with hazard exposure. Standard principles risk assessment, prevention science approaches and workplace health of risk assessment are emphasized including methods of hazard promotion. identification and regulation, quantitative exposure measurement, dose Prerequisite: Graduate standing. and toxicity relationships and risk management. Analysis of public policy Schedule Type: Lecture regulatory guidance and health advisory watchdog recommendations are Contact Hours: 3 lecture evaluated. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Prerequisite: EPI 52017; and graduate standing. EHS 53014 BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH 3 Credit Schedule Type: Lecture Hours Contact Hours: 3 lecture The focus of this course is on preventing disease and injury while Grade Mode: Standard Letter improving the health of populations by looking “upstream “ at the EHS 63011 APPLICATION OF RISK ANALYSIS IN ENVIRONMENTAL built environment or those settings designed, created, and maintained HEALTH 3 Credit Hours by human efforts. Public health effects of community design will be Students are introduced to methods in risk analysis that are applied by explored, including transportation, land use, parks and green space in U.S. federal, state, and local agencies in their assessment of chemical the context of physical activity, food environments, air and water quality, toxicants. Linkages between risk assessment, risk management, and risk injury prevention, social capital and health disparities. Components of communication will be studied as components of this process, along with healthy communities will be explored in the home, workplace, schools, issues and controversies in the analysis of environmental health risks. and health care facilities. Students will examine strategies for creating Prerequisite: EPI 52017; and graduate standing. sustainable health places consistent with the ecological model, through Schedule Type: Lecture multidisciplinary collaboration, research, and policy to promote the health Contact Hours: 3 lecture of populations. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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EPI 52028 METHODS OF EVIDENCE BASED PUBLIC HEALTH 3 Credit Epidemiology (EPI) Hours EPI 50015 SCIENTIFIC WRITING FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH 3 Credit (Slashed with EPI 72028) Explores tools and techniques used to Hours quantitatively determine the effectiveness of public health interventions (Cross-listed with PH 40015) Course provides students the tools to in the social sciences. develop proficiency in scientific reading, to conduct presentations and Prerequisite: Graduate standing. to demonstrate skill in scientific writing, with the goal of preparing Schedule Type: Lecture clinical researchers to be able to communicate findings to the science Contact Hours: 3 lecture community and the general population. Course includes an examination Grade Mode: Standard Letter of the science literature in clinical trials research. EPI 53089 PLAGUES THAT SHAPED THE WORLD 3 Credit Hours Prerequisite: Graduate standing. (Slashed with EPI 73089) (Cross-listed with PH 43089) Course examines Schedule Type: Lecture the Bubonic plague, HIV/AIDS, Ebola and pandemic influenza outbreaks Contact Hours: 3 lecture to introduce students to the fundamentals of public health, establishing Grade Mode: Standard Letter epidemiological principles that explain how plagues erupt and propagate, EPI 50017 PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY 3 Credit Hours decimate populations and alter cultures. Inherent in the course's (Cross-listed with PH 40017) Introduction to the field of discussion are the social determinants that fuel plague outbreaks and pharmacoepidemiology, which uses epidemiology methods to understand slow recovery. Examples of emerging infectious diseases and threats of medication use and distribution at the population level. Course examines bioterrorism are discussed as new plagues for which creative solutions risk-benefit and epidemiology approaches to examining medication use are still required. Students take city excursions and a field trip to assess and therapeutic trials. Drug and device manufacturing to market are cultural changes resulting from historical plagues. explored. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Prerequisite: BST 52019 and EPI 52017; and graduate standing. Schedule Type: Lecture Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter EPI 60191 VARIABLE CONTENT SEMINAR IN EPIDEMIOLOGY 1-3 EPI 50018 REGULATORY AFFAIRS IN CLINICAL RESEARCH 3 Credit Credit Hours Hours (Repeatable for credit) (Slashed with EPI 80191) Seminar on current and (Cross-listed with PH 40018) Course provides the tools for students important topics in epidemiology. Subject matter varies depending on the to develop an understanding of the researcher and organization topic. responsibility in research and development of clinical trials products. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Students understand regulations from the government and industry, Schedule Type: Seminar privacy concerns, liability and ethical issues related to clinical trials Contact Hours: 1-3 lecture research. Examples from the field are explored in detail. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Prerequisite: EPI 52017. EPI 60192 APPLIED PRACTICE EXPERIENCE IN EPIDEMIOLOGY 3,6 Schedule Type: Lecture Credit Hours Contact Hours: 3 lecture (Repeatable for credit) Observational and participation in public Grade Mode: Standard Letter health activities of a public health agency, hospital or other approved EPI 50196 INDIVIDUAL INVESTIGATION IN EPIDEMIOLOGY 1-3 organization. Students complete a field experience with joint supervision Credit Hours from the university and approved organization or agency. (Repeatable for maximum 6 credits) Individual graduate investigation or Prerequisite: Graduate standing; and special approval. research in areas related to epidemiology. Schedule Type: Practical Experience Prerequisite: Graduate standing; and special approval. Contact Hours: 3-18 other Schedule Type: Individual Investigation Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory-IP Contact Hours: 1-3 other EPI 60195 SPECIAL TOPICS IN EPIDEMIOLOGY 1-3 Credit Hours Grade Mode: Standard Letter-IP (Repeatable for a maximum 6 credit hours) (Slashed with EPI 80195) EPI 52017 FUNDAMENTALS OF PUBLIC HEALTH EPIDEMIOLOGY 3 Special topics to sample new offerings on topics in epidemiology. Credit Hours Prerequisite: Graduate standing. (Slashed with EPI 72017) Introduces principles, methods and application Schedule Type: Lecture of epidemiology. Covers the history of epidemiology, concepts of Contact Hours: 1-3 lecture disease causation and prevention, measures of disease frequency and Grade Mode: Standard Letter excessive risk, epidemiologic study designs, causal inference, outbreak investigation and screening. Provides experience with calculation of rate standardization; measures of disease frequency, association and impact; and sensitivity and specificity of screening tests. Highlights applications of epidemiology to understanding of disease etiology, transmission, pathogenesis and prevention; evaluation and public policy development. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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EPI 63014 EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CHRONIC DISEASES 3 Credit Hours EPI 63018 OBSERVATIONAL DESIGNS FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH 3 (Slashed with EPI 83014) With a life course approach to chronic disease Credit Hours epidemiology, this course focuses on cardiovascular, respiratory, (Slashed with EPI 83018) Course provides students the skills to cerebrovascular diseases and cancer. Health and disease are addressed design, conduct and perform clinical epidemiology studies using an from a multicausal perspective, which includes individual behaviors; observational design. Students understand major concepts of clinical psychosocial issues; and sociodemographic, biological and physiological research, develop clinical research questions, and solve clinical research factors. Time points for prevention and intervention are identified. problems. Topics include study design, risk, causation, exposures, bias, Prerequisite: EPI 52017; and graduate standing. measurement and validity and disease prognosis. Schedule Type: Lecture Prerequisite: BST 52019 and EPI 52017; and graduate standing. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Schedule Type: Lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Contact Hours: 3 lecture EPI 63015 EPIDEMIOLOGY OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES 3 Credit Grade Mode: Standard Letter Hours EPI 63019 EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH 3 (Slashed with EPI 83015) Surveys the history, principles, methods Credit Hours and practice of infectious disease epidemiology, by (1) defining and (Slashed with EPI 83019) Principles of experimental designs as understanding infectious disease epidemiology surveys, (2) collecting they apply to clinical research and clinical trials are presented at an and measuring surveillance data, (3) interpreting epidemiology data intermediate level. Students understand randomized control trial designs and (4) predicting evidence-based outcomes. Primarily a course in and alternative designs. Study methodology, including randomization and epidemiology, students learn some infectious disease microbiology as blinding techniques, is covered. Topics include evidence-based medicine; well. risk prediction and risk scores; instruments and measurement; data Prerequisite: EPI 52017; and graduate standing. issues; and recruitment, retention and adherence. Schedule Type: Lecture Prerequisite: EPI 63018; and graduate standing. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Schedule Type: Lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Contact Hours: 3 lecture EPI 63016 PRINCIPLES OF EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH 3 Credit Grade Mode: Standard Letter Hours EPI 63020 ADVANCED EPIDEMIOLOGY AND CLINICAL RESEARCH (Slashed with EPI 83016) Course builds upon EPI 52017 to explore deeper METHODS 3 Credit Hours the concepts and methods in epidemiologic research. Reviews the (Slashed with EPI 83020) This advanced course focuses on why measures of disease frequency; association and impact; epidemiologic particular methods, study designs or approaches are used in particular reasoning and causal inference; and methods and techniques investigative scenarios in clinical research. Students develop an for designing, implementing, analyzing and interpreting various advanced understanding and application of epidemiology methods in epidemiologic study designs. Discusses advantages and limitations clinical research. of various study designs. Explores threats to validity, precision and Prerequisite: EPI 63018 and EPI 63019; and graduate standing. generalizability of epidemiologic studies. Schedule Type: Lecture Prerequisite: BST 52019 and EPI 52017; and graduate standing. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Schedule Type: Lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Contact Hours: 3 lecture EPI 63021 ETHICAL ISSUES IN PUBLIC HEALTH AND CLINICAL Grade Mode: Standard Letter RESEARCH 3 Credit Hours EPI 63017 EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS 3 Credit Hours (Slashed with EPI 83021) Introduces students to historical and (Slashed with EPI 83017) Provides practical instruction in the analysis contemporary ethical issues that arise during public health and clinical and interpretation of data from various epidemiologic study designs, or biomedical research studies. Broadly covers human subjects research, including cross-sectional, case-control and cohort studies. Reviews the responsible conduct of research and the good clinical practice statistical concepts and epidemiologic studies designs; outlines a guidelines. strategy for data analysis; and reviews relevant methodologic issues and Prerequisite: EPI 52017; and graduate standing. applies stratified analysis methods and multivariable regression models Schedule Type: Lecture to the studies. Develops an understanding of the underlying principles Contact Hours: 3 lecture and assumptions, practical application and correct interpretation of the Grade Mode: Standard Letter epidemiologic results. Provides hands-on experience on the application of EPI 63034 LONGITUDINAL DATA ANALYSIS 3 Credit Hours epidemiologic analysis methods and presentation of the results. (Slashed with EPI 73034) Statistical techniques for analyzing Prerequisite: BST 52019 and BST 63014 and EPI 52017 and EPI 63016; longitudinal, or repeated measures, data. Focuses primarily on and graduate standing. application of the various statistical models covered, with direct Schedule Type: Lecture application illustrated using standard statistical software. Topics covered Contact Hours: 3 lecture include univariate and multivariate analysis of variance for repeated Grade Mode: Standard Letter measures, mixed-effects models (HLM or multilevel models), covariance pattern models, generalized estimating equations (GEE), mixed-effects logistic regression models and missing data in longitudinal studies. Prerequisite: BST 52019 and BST 63014; and graduate standing. Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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EPI 63192 RESEARCH PRACTICUM IN CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY 1-6 EPI 73026 DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF HEALTH SURVEYS 3 Credit Hours Credit Hours Research practicum allows students to gain hands-on experience Covers survey design, variable construction, survey administration and conducting research in a clinical setting, such as a hospital or other data collection methods, variable coding and manipulation and data approved organization. Students complete the experience under the analysis. Students understand sampling methods and sample size. Large supervision of a field preceptor and faculty member. health surveys are discussed. Students gain practical experience through Prerequisite: EPI 63018 and EPI 63019; and graduate standing. design and implementation of a health survey, which can be used to Schedule Type: Practical Experience facilitate dissertation research or a publication. Contact Hours: 3-18 other Prerequisite: Doctoral standing. Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory-IP Schedule Type: Lecture EPI 63199 THESIS I 2-6 Credit Hours Contact Hours: 3 lecture Student must register for a total of 6 credit hours in the program. Student Grade Mode: Standard Letter may register for 2 to 6 hours in a single semester EPI 73027 BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF PUBLIC HEALTH 3 Credit Hours Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Integrates the sciences of biology and molecular biology into the Schedule Type: Masters Thesis principles and practice of public health. Implicit in this course are Contact Hours: 2-6 other learning objectives that establish the ecology of infectious disease, the Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory-IP impact of vaccines in disease prevention, and the role of environmental EPI 63299 THESIS II 2 Credit Hours toxins on human health and disease. Additionally, students propose Thesis students must continue registration in Thesis II each semester policy, regulations and legislation designed to protect human health until all degree requirements are met. within the realm of personalized medicine. Prerequisite: EPI 63199; and graduate standing. Prerequisite: Doctoral standing. Schedule Type: Masters Thesis Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 2 other Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory-IP Grade Mode: Standard Letter EPI 72017 FUNDAMENTALS OF PUBLIC HEALTH EPIDEMIOLOGY 3 EPI 73029 PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS 3 Credit Credit Hours Hours (Slashed with EPI 52017) Introduces principles, methods and application Introduces students to surveillance systems of both infectious and of epidemiology. Covers the history of epidemiology, concepts of non-infectious diseases as well as intentional and non-intentional disease causation and prevention, measures of disease frequency and injury. Students are exposed to the theory and practice of surveillance excessive risk, epidemiologic study designs, causal inference, outbreak illustrated with examples existing systems from around the world. investigation and screening. Provides experience with calculation of rate Culminates in a project where the student creates and evaluates a standardization; measures of disease frequency, association and impact; surveillance system of their own design. and sensitivity and specificity of screening tests. Highlights applications Prerequisite: Doctoral standing. of epidemiology to understanding of disease etiology, transmission, Schedule Type: Lecture pathogenesis and prevention; evaluation and public policy development. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Prerequisite: Doctoral standing. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Schedule Type: Lecture EPI 73033 ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY 3 Credit Hours Contact Hours: 3 lecture Comprehensive course on concepts in environmental epidemiology and Grade Mode: Standard Letter statistical methods in environmental epidemiology, including causal EPI 72028 METHODS OF EVIDENCE BASED PUBLIC HEALTH 3 Credit inference models. Hours Prerequisite: Doctoral standing. (Slashed with EPI 52028) Explores tools and techniques used to Schedule Type: Lecture quantitatively determine the effectiveness of public health interventions Contact Hours: 3 lecture in the social sciences. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Prerequisite: Doctoral standing. EPI 73034 LONGITUDINAL DATA ANALYSIS 3 Credit Hours Schedule Type: Lecture (Slashed with EPI 63034) Statistical techniques for analyzing Contact Hours: 3 lecture longitudinal, or repeated measures, data. Focuses primarily on Grade Mode: Standard Letter application of the various statistical models covered, with direct EPI 73025 EMERGING ISSUES IN INFECTIOUS DISEASE application illustrated using standard statistical software. Topics covered EPIDEMIOLOGY 3 Credit Hours include univariate and multivariate analysis of variance for repeated Investigates global emerging and reemerging infectious diseases. measures, mixed-effects models (HLM or multilevel models), covariance Students evaluate root causes of infectious disease emergence and pattern models, generalized estimating equations (GEE), mixed-effects predict outcomes. Data from primary literature is used to predict alternate logistic regression models and missing data in longitudinal studies. outcomes. Specific disease models are used to evaluate and compare Prerequisite: Doctoral standing. prevention, treatment and eradication strategies. Schedule Type: Lecture Prerequisite: Doctoral standing. 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EPI 73089 PLAGUES THAT SHAPED THE WORLD 3 Credit Hours EPI 80299 DISSERTATION II 15 Credit Hours (Slashed with EPI 53089)(Cross-listed with PH 43089) Course examines (Repeatable for credit) Second course of dissertation sequence the Bubonic plague, HIV/AIDS, Ebola and pandemic influenza outbreaks completing requirement of with 30 total hours of dissertation work. to introduce students to the fundamentals of public health, establishing Prerequisite: EPI 80199; and doctoral standing; and special approval. epidemiological principles that explain how plagues erupt and propagate, Schedule Type: Dissertation decimate populations and alter cultures. Inherent in the course's Contact Hours: 15 other discussion are the social determinants that fuel plague outbreaks and Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory-IP slow recovery. Examples of emerging infectious diseases and threats of EPI 83014 EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CHRONIC DISEASES 3 Credit Hours bioterrorism are discussed as new plagues for which creative solutions (Slashed with EPI 63014) With a life course approach to chronic disease are still required. Students take city excursions and a field trip to assess epidemiology, this course focuses on cardiovascular, respiratory, cultural changes resulting from historical plagues. cerebrovascular diseases and cancer. Health and disease are addressed Prerequisite: Doctoral standing. from a multicausal perspective, which includes individual behaviors; Schedule Type: Lecture psychosocial issues; and sociodemographic, biological and physiological Contact Hours: 3 lecture, 3 lab factors. Time points for prevention and intervention are identified. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Prerequisite: EPI 72017; and doctoral standing. EPI 80191 VARIABLE CONTENT SEMINAR IN EPIDEMIOLOGY 1-3 Schedule Type: Lecture Credit Hours Contact Hours: 3 lecture (Repeatable for a maximum of 6 credit hours) (Slashed with EPI 60191) Grade Mode: Standard Letter Seminar on current and important topics in epidemiology. Subject matter EPI 83015 EPIDEMIOLOGY OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES 3 Credit varies depending on the topic. Hours Prerequisite: Doctoral standing. (Slashed with EPI 63015) Surveys the history, principles, methods Schedule Type: Seminar and practice of infectious disease epidemiology, by (1) defining and Contact Hours: 1-3 lecture understanding infectious disease epidemiology surveys, (2) collecting Grade Mode: Standard Letter and measuring surveillance data, (3) interpreting epidemiology data EPI 80195 SPECIAL TOPICS IN EPIDEMIOLOGY 1-3 Credit Hours and (4) predicting evidence-based outcomes. Primarily a course in (Repeatable for a maximum of 6 credit hours) (Slashed with EPI 60195) epidemiology, students learn some infectious disease microbiology as Special topics to sample new offerings on topics in epidemiology. well. Prerequisite: Doctoral standing. Prerequisite: EPI 72017; and doctoral standing. Schedule Type: Lecture Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 1-3 lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter EPI 80196 INDIVIDUAL INVESTIGATION IN EPIDEMIOLOGY 1-3 EPI 83016 PRINCIPLES OF EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH 3 Credit Credit Hours Hours Individual graduate investigation or research in areas related to (Slashed with EPI 63016) Course builds upon EPI 52017 to explore deeper epidemiology. the concepts and methods in epidemiologic research. Reviews the Prerequisite: Doctoral Standing; and special approval. measures of disease frequency; association and impact; epidemiologic Schedule Type: Individual Investigation reasoning and causal inference; and methods and techniques Contact Hours: 3-9 other for designing, implementing, analyzing and interpreting various Grade Mode: Standard Letter-IP epidemiologic study designs. Discusses advantages and limitations EPI 80198 DIRECTED RESEARCH IN EPIDEMIOLOGY 1-15 Credit of various study designs. Explores threats to validity, precision and Hours generalizability of epidemiologic studies. (Repeatable for credit) Directed research or individual investigation in an Prerequisite: BST 52019 and EPI 72017; and doctoral standing. area of interest and with the guidance of a Kent State faculty member. Schedule Type: Lecture Prerequisite: Doctoral standing; and special approval. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Schedule Type: Individual Investigation, Research Grade Mode: Standard Letter Contact Hours: 1-15 other EPI 83017 EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS 3 Credit Hours Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory-IP (Slashed with EPI 63017) Provides practical instruction in the analysis EPI 80199 DISSERTATION I 15 Credit Hours and interpretation of data from various epidemiologic study designs, (Repeatable for credit) Registration for two semesters required, first including cross-sectional, case-control and cohort studies. Reviews semester dissertation work begins and continues until completion of statistical concepts and epidemiologic studies designs; outlines a Dissertation II and 30 hours of total dissertation work. strategy for data analysis; and reviews relevant methodologic issues and Prerequisite: Doctoral standing; and special approval. applies stratified analysis methods and multivariable regression models Schedule Type: Dissertation to the studies. Develops an understanding of the underlying principles Contact Hours: 15 other and assumptions, practical application and correct interpretation of the Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory-IP epidemiologic results. Provides hands-on experience on the application of epidemiologic analysis methods and presentation of the results. Prerequisite: BST 83014 and EPI 63016; and doctoral standing. Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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EPI 83018 OBSERVATIONAL DESIGNS FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH 3 HPM 52015 EMERGING ISSUES IN PUBLIC AND Credit Hours MANAGEMENT 3 Credit Hours (Slashed with EPI 63018) Course provides students the skills to An overview of emerging issues in the field of public health. design, conduct and perform clinical epidemiology studies using an Prerequisite: Graduate standing. observational design. Students understand major concepts of clinical Schedule Type: Lecture research, develop clinical research questions, and solve clinical research Contact Hours: 3 lecture problems. Topics include study design, risk, causation, exposures, bias, Grade Mode: Standard Letter measurement and validity and disease prognosis. HPM 52016 PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION 3 Credit Hours Prerequisite: BST 52019 and EPI 72017; and doctoral standing; and Public health administration comprises efforts to improve the health special approval. of communities. Provides an overview for public health administration Schedule Type: Lecture and practice, including organization, law, legislative relations, financing, Contact Hours: 3 lecture workforce issues, leadership and surveillance. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Prerequisite: Graduate standing. EPI 83019 EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH 3 Schedule Type: Lecture Credit Hours Contact Hours: 3 lecture (Slashed with EPI 63019) Principles of experimental designs as Grade Mode: Standard Letter they apply to clinical research and clinical trials are presented at an HPM 52017 HEALTHCARE LAW AND REGULATION 3 Credit Hours intermediate level. Students understand randomized control trial designs Healthcare is one of the most heavily regulated industries in the and alternative designs. Study methodology, including randomization and United States. In order to contain spiraling costs, the federal and blinding techniques, is covered. Topics include evidence-based medicine; state governments are focusing on individual provider conduct in the risk prediction and risk scores; instruments and measurement; data context of fraud, waste, and abuse scrutiny. This course covers the issues; and recruitment, retention and adherence. underlying theories behind healthcare law and regulation as well as Prerequisite: BST 52019 and EPI 72017; and doctoral standing; and specific provisions affecting the organization, delivery, and payment of special approval. primary health services. Administrators and clinicians will gain a basic Schedule Type: Lecture understanding of the regulatory environment and provisions impacting Contact Hours: 3 lecture their practice. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Prerequisite: HPM 52016; and graduate standing. EPI 83020 ADVANCED EPIDEMIOLOGY AND CLINICAL RESEARCH Schedule Type: Lecture METHODS 3 Credit Hours Contact Hours: 3 lecture (Slashed with EPI 63020) This advanced course focuses on why Grade Mode: Standard Letter particular methods, study designs or approaches are used in particular HPM 53003 HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS 3 Credit Hours investigative scenarios in clinical research. Students develop an Provides a systems approach to delivering health care and public health advanced understanding and application of epidemiology methods in services in the US. Includes an overview of public health, outpatient, clinical research. inpatient, managed care, long term care and health services for special Prerequisite: EPI 83018 and EPI 83019; and doctoral standing; and populations. special approval. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Schedule Type: Lecture Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter EPI 83021 ETHICAL ISSUES IN PUBLIC HEALTH AND CLINICAL HPM 53004 PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY, LAW AND ETHICS 3 Credit RESEARCH 3 Credit Hours Hours (Slashed with EPI 63021) Introduces students to historical and Provides a comprehensive review of health policymaking, public health contemporary ethical issues that arise during public health and clinical law and ethical principles as applied to public health decision making. or biomedical research studies. Broadly covers human subjects research, Prerequisite: Graduate standing. the responsible conduct of research and the good clinical practice Schedule Type: Lecture guidelines. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Prerequisite: EPI 72017; and doctoral standing. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture, 3 lab HPM 53005 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT FOR PUBLIC HEALTH Grade Mode: Standard Letter ORGANIZATIONS 3 Credit Hours Provides an overview of financial management of public health organizations. Topics include planning for public health program Health Policy and Management (HPM) budgeting, understanding costs and short and long term financing, HPM 50196 INDIVIDUAL INVESTIGATION IN HEALTH POLICY AND accountability and control, reporting results and financial statement and MANAGEMENT 1-3 Credit Hours financial conditions analysis. (Repeatable for maximum 6 credits) Individual graduate investigation or Prerequisite: Graduate standing. research in areas related to health policy and management. Schedule Type: Lecture Prerequisite: Graduate standing; and special approval. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Schedule Type: Individual Investigation Grade Mode: Standard Letter Contact Hours: 1-3 other Grade Mode: Standard Letter-IP

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HPM 53006 COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS IN PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAMS HPM 53011 PUBLIC HEALTH EVALUATION METHODS 3 Credit Hours 3 Credit Hours This course provides an in-depth review of major concepts, methods, Provides an overview of cost-benefit analysis as applied to the evaluation and issues involved in evaluating public health programs and policy of public health programs. Students apply principles of cost benefit interventions. Students learn skills needed to conduct and use analysis and related cost utility analysis to case studies in the public evaluations, with an emphasis on conceptual, methodological, health sector. organizational, political, and ethical aspects associated with public health Prerequisite: Graduate standing. evaluation. Topics will include development of evaluation questions, Schedule Type: Lecture types of program evaluation (process, formative, impact, outcome), Contact Hours: 3 lecture evaluation design (experimental, quasiexperimental, and nonexperimental Grade Mode: Standard Letter designs), collection of evaluation data, and dissemination of evaluation HPM 53007 PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAMS: PLANNING, results. Students gain practical experience through a series of exercises. IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION 3 Credit Hours Examples of effective methods and approaches will be elaborated for Overview of developing, implementing and evaluating public health multiple public health contexts. programs. Examines how public health programs can target different Prerequisite: Graduate standing. levels within a population, different determinants of health and strategies Schedule Type: Lecture and interventions. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Schedule Type: Lecture HPM 53012 NATIONAL HEALTH REFORM 3 Credit Hours Contact Hours: 3 lecture This course provides an overview of health reform in the United States, Grade Mode: Standard Letter starting with the history of health reform, the passage of the ACA, and HPM 53008 FOUNDATIONS FOR EFFECTIVE PUBLIC HEALTH the future of health reform. It includes political and policy discourse LEADERSHIP 3 Credit Hours leading up to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) its Intended to provide students with an initial exploration of the leadership passage, analysis of the law’s impact, Supreme Court rulings and other practices of public health leaders with an understanding of the basic skill legal challenges affecting the legislation, and the future of public health set necessary for successful leadership on a continuing basis. and health care in the context of health reform. The impact of health Prerequisite: Graduate standing. reform on health care financing, quality, and public health will also be Schedule Type: Lecture covered. Students will draw upon and apply an interdisciplinary literature Contact Hours: 3 lecture base to analyze health reform. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Schedule Type: Lecture HPM 53009 WHOLE SYSTEMS APPROACHES TO LEADING Contact Hours: 3 lecture ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE IN PUBLIC HEALTH 3 Credit Hours Grade Mode: Standard Letter Intended to provide students with an initial exploration and overview of whole systems approaches to organizational change in public health HPM 53013 SEX: A WICKED PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM 3 Credit settings, a more detailed working knowledge of key whole systems Hours methodologies, and a detailed working knowledge and practical Wicked problems is a term developed in the 1970s by systems thinkers experience with one of the most frequently used and favored whole and planners, Horst Rittel and Melvin Webber (1973), to describe complex systems approaches. social problems that are resistant to solution. The term has recently been Prerequisite: Graduate standing. applied to public health issues that have proven to be difficult to address Pre/corequisite: HPM 53008. and resistant to mitigation. Sexual and reproductive health behaviors, Schedule Type: Lecture attitudes, and cultural norms often produce problems at the individual Contact Hours: 3 lecture and population levels that meet the criteria for designation as wicked Grade Mode: Standard Letter problems. Effectively addressing these kinds of problems requires a correct understanding and application of public health principles and HPM 53010 COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT 3 Credit practices. Hours Prerequisite: Graduate standing. This course covers concepts and methods relevant to community health Schedule Type: Lecture needs assessment, such as systems thinking, the use of quantitative Contact Hours: 3 lecture and qualitative methods, primary and secondary data, and the role Grade Mode: Standard Letter of community assessment in current national policy, including the Affordable Care Act and on community health improvement. Students HPM 60191 VARIABLE CONTENT SEMINAR IN HEALTH POLICY AND will draw from multiple disciplines to assess health status and its MANAGEMENT 1-3 Credit Hours determinants (social, behavioral, and environmental), needs for health (Repeatable for a maximum of 6 credit hours) (Slashed with HPM 80191) services, and the capacity and resources of the local community. Seminar on current and important topics in health policy and Students will also learn to facilitate and evaluate the use of data for management. Subject matter varies depending on the topic. decision-making by partnerships, organizations and policy makers. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Schedule Type: Seminar Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 1-3 lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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HPM 60192 APPLIED PRACTICE EXPERIENCE IN HEALTH POLICY AND HPM 72030 GRANT WRITING IN PUBLIC HEALTH 3 Credit Hours MANAGEMENT 3,6 Credit Hours Doctoral students should take this course at the end of the program Observational and participation in public health activities of a public of study. Students in this doctoral level course for Public Health learn health agency, hospital or other approved organization. The student the basics of grant writing for federal (NIH) and non-federal funding completes the field experience with joint supervision from the university agencies with a particular emphasis on the components required of and approved organization or agency. most grant proposal submitted for funding. This includes rationale for Prerequisite: Graduate standing; and special approval. seeking funds, collaborations with community organizations, and working Schedule Type: Practical Experience with consultants and subcontractors. Participants also learn about the Contact Hours: 9-18 other basic sections of grant writing such as specific aims and hypotheses, Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory-IP developing your literature review, background and significance, research HPM 60195 SPECIAL TOPICS IN HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT design and methodology, developing a budget, and conducting research 1-3 Credit Hours with human subjects. Participants have the opportunity to write sample (Repeatable for a maximum of 6 credit hours) (Slashed with HPM 80195) grant proposals, learn about the review and scoring process and post- Special topics to sample new offerings on topics in health policy and award grant management. management. Prerequisite: Doctoral standing; and special approval. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Schedule Type: Lecture Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Contact Hours: 1-3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter HPM 73021 HEALTH CARE FINANCE 3 Credit Hours HPM 64002 GLOBAL HEALTH IMMERSION: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND Covers the financial environment of health services in the US, including 3 Credit Hours accounting principles, financial statement analysis, delivery models, (Slashed with HPM 84002) Participants explore a number of health management control processes of budgeting and capital project analysis, concerns, policies and challenges with global importance and managerial accounting, program development and financial plan. implications. Students investigate current global health policies and Prerequisite: Doctoral standing. themes, and become familiar with the major players in global health Schedule Type: Lecture including governmental and nongovernmental organizations and Contact Hours: 3 lecture multinational agencies. Presentations are given by experts currently Grade Mode: Standard Letter working in various regions of the world to solve such pressing global HPM 73022 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH problems as HIV/AIDS, postwar trauma, tuberculosis, refugee health, non- ORGANIZATIONS 3 Credit Hours communicable disease prevention and environmental contamination. Covers basic and advanced principles of strategic management of public Prerequisite: Graduate standing; and special approval. health organizations including service area analysis, internal environment Schedule Type: Lecture analysis, developing and evaluating strategic alternatives and quality Contact Hours: 3 lecture indicators. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Prerequisite: Doctoral standing. HPM 72015 EMERGING ISSUES IN PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY AND Schedule Type: Lecture MANAGEMENT 3 Credit Hours Contact Hours: 3 lecture (Slashed with HPM 52015) An overview of emerging challenges in public Grade Mode: Standard Letter health policy and management. Examples include pandemic H1N1 HPM 73031 PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY ANALYSIS 3 Credit Hours response, bio preparedness, national health care reform, public health Provides a framework for conducting public health policy analysis. financing challenges, global tuberculosis drug resistance. Applies concepts to case studies of health policies at the local, state and Prerequisite: Doctoral standing. Federal levels. Schedule Type: Lecture Prerequisite: Doctoral standing. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Schedule Type: Lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter HPM 80191 VARIABLE CONTENT SEMINAR IN HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT 1-3 Credit Hours (Repeatable for a maximum of 6 credit hours) (Slashed with HPM 60191) Seminar on current and important topics in health policy and management. Subject matter varies depending on the topic. Prerequisite: Doctoral standing. Schedule Type: Seminar Contact Hours: 1-3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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HPM 80195 SPECIAL TOPICS IN HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT HPM 84002 GLOBAL HEALTH IMMERSION: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND 1-3 Credit Hours 3 Credit Hours (Repeatable for a maximum of 6 credit hours) (Slashed with HPM 60191) (Slashed with HPM 64002) Participants explore a number of health Special topics to sample new offerings on topics in health policy and concerns, policies and challenges with global importance and management. implications. Students investigate current global health policies and Prerequisite: Doctoral standing. themes, and become familiar with the major players in global health Schedule Type: Lecture including governmental and nongovernmental organizations and Contact Hours: 1-3 lecture multinational agencies. Presentations are given by experts currently Grade Mode: Standard Letter working in various regions of the world to solve such pressing global HPM 80196 INDIVIDUAL INVESTIGATION IN HEALTH POLICY AND problems as HIV/AIDS, postwar trauma, tuberculosis, refugee health, MANAGEMENT 1-3 Credit Hours noncommunicable disease prevention and environmental contamination. Individual graduate investigation or research in areas related to health Prerequisite: Graduate standing; and special approval. policy and management. Schedule Type: Lecture Prerequisite: Doctoral standing; and special approval. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Schedule Type: Individual Investigation Grade Mode: Standard Letter Contact Hours: 3-9 other Grade Mode: Standard Letter-IP Public Health (PH) HPM 80198 DIRECTED RESEARCH IN HEALTH POLICY AND PH 10000 EXPLORING CAREERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH 1 Credit Hour MANAGEMENT 1-15 Credit Hours Provides an overview of the diverse career opportunities available in (Repeatable for credit) Directed research or individual investigation for the field. Explores various public health issues from the perspectives of doctoral students in the Health Policy and Management concentration. public health professionals from the core disciplines in public health: Prerequisite: Doctoral standing; and special approval. social behavioral sciences, environmental health, health policy and Schedule Type: Research management, epidemiology and biostatistics. Students learn about how Contact Hours: 1-15 other public health professionals approach issues and the types of professional Grade Mode: Standard Letter roles and activities they bring to addressing each issue. Prerequisite: None. HPM 80199 DISSERTATION I 15 Credit Hours Schedule Type: Lecture (Repeatable for credit) Registration for two semesters required, first Contact Hours: 1 lecture semester dissertation work begins and continues until completion of Grade Mode: Standard Letter Dissertation II and 30 hours of total dissertation work. Prerequisite: Doctoral standing; and special approval. PH 10001 INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HEALTH 3 Credit Hours Schedule Type: Dissertation An overview of the evolution and practices of the dynamic field of public Contact Hours: 15 other health in the United States and globally. Students are introduced to the Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory-IP structure and functions of public health organizations and public health practice. HPM 80299 DISSERTATION II 15 Credit Hours Prerequisite: None. (Repeatable for credit) Registration for two semesters required, first Schedule Type: Lecture semester dissertation work beings and continues until completion of 30 Contact Hours: 3 lecture hours. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Prerequisite: HPM 80199; and doctoral standing; and special approval. Schedule Type: Dissertation PH 10002 INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL HEALTH (DIVG) 3 Credit Contact Hours: 15 other Hours Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory-IP An overview of the biological, social and environmental contributors to health and diseases in populations around the world, including case HPM 81000 PUBLIC HEALTH LAW AND REGULATION 3 Credit Hours studies of selected infectious diseases, nutritional deficiencies and Enables participants to describe, apply, and explain key aspects health effects of environmental change. and principles of law, regulation, and policy relating to public health Prerequisite: None. issues and topics. Requires students to master the content material Schedule Type: Lecture for the course, and apply it to particular (a) topics or issues relating Contact Hours: 3 lecture public health. Students also are required to design and or conduct a Grade Mode: Standard Letter research project and explain their hypotheses, methods, findings and or Attributes: Diversity Global conclusions. Prerequisite: HPM 52016; and doctoral standing. Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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PH 10003 EXPLORING CAREERS IN GLOBAL HEALTH 1 Credit Hour PH 20195 SPECIAL TOPICS IN PUBLIC HEALTH 1-3 Credit Hours Course provides students with an introduction to global health and an (Repeatable for credit) Subject varies depending on the emerging issue. overview of the diverse career opportunities available in the field. The Prerequisite: None. global health sector is evolving as one of the primary career destinations Schedule Type: Lecture and is moving beyond the traditional roles of science, pharmacy, medicine Contact Hours: 1-3 lecture and nursing; additional areas also include communications, technology, Grade Mode: Standard Letter data scientists, finance, management, legal, linguistics, international PH 20392 COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER CERTIFICATION II- relations, and most important, cross functional skills are needed. INTERNSHIP (ELR) 3 Credit Hours Prerequisite: None. Internship course providing necessary contact hours for the Ohio Schedule Type: Lecture Community Health Worker Certification. Contact Hours: 15 lecture, 0 lab, 0 other Prerequisite: PH 23000. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Schedule Type: Practical Experience PH 10195 SPECIAL TOPICS IN PUBLIC HEALTH 1-3 Credit Hours Contact Hours: 9 other (Repeatable for credit) Subject varies depending on the emerging issue. Grade Mode: Standard Letter-IP Prerequisite: None. Attributes: Experiential Learning Requirement Schedule Type: Lecture PH 22001 PLAGUES AND PANDEMICS: HOW INFECTION SHAPED Contact Hours: 1-3 lecture CULTURE AND HISTORY 3 Credit Hours Grade Mode: Standard Letter Infectious diseases continue to affect us all in the present, and plagues PH 20000 PUBLIC HEALTH PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE I 1 Credit have shaped the course of history. From the Justinian plague in the 6th Hour Century to the decimation of Native populations in the US by smallpox Professional development course designed to expose future public to the 1918 influenza pandemic, human history has been influenced health leaders to the diverse field of public health and develop attainable by microbes—and our culture, in turn, can affect the generation of new career goals. Student will begin the development of personal goals plagues. This course is appropriate both for humanities majors looking and a portfolio of work that will build during the entire program. The for an introduction to infectious diseases as well as science majors understanding of public health as a profession will be fostered. looking to better understand infectious diseases in their historical and Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. cultural context, and the way these diseases have (and continue to) Schedule Type: Lecture shape history. Ultimately, students should be able to understand the Contact Hours: 1 lecture basics of infectious disease epidemiology and disease control within a Grade Mode: Standard Letter wide cultural and historical context. The course will encompass various PH 20001 ESSENTIALS OF EPIDEMIOLOGY 3 Credit Hours topics in microbiology and infectious disease, using primarily popular Students are introduced to the strategies adopted by public health non-fiction books on these subjects as sources. professionals to study distribution and identification of important Prerequisite: None. biologic, social and environmental determinants of diseases and health- Schedule Type: Lecture, Seminar related states in specific populations. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Prerequisite: None. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Schedule Type: Lecture PH 23000 COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER CERTIFICATION I 3 Credit Contact Hours: 3 lecture Hours Grade Mode: Standard Letter Students will be guided through the competencies of a Community PH 20010 INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS 3 Health Worker (CHW). Students will be introduced to soft skills and Credit Hours culture including but not limited to basic health care, community Provides an overview of informatics principles applied in public resources, advocacy, communication and service skills related to working health settings. Issues addressed include definitions, approaches, with communities. Lifespan development will also be covered including competencies, applications and the national health information network. but not limited to: Basic health information and education regarding Topical areas are digital literacy, electronic communication, system prevention and treatment throughout the lifespan. Prerequisite: None development, information use, project management, procurement, Schedule Type: Lecture accountability, research, data standards, databases, human resource Contact Hours: 3 lecture management, and confidentiality and security. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Prerequisite: None. PH 30000 PUBLIC HEALTH PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE II 1 Credit Schedule Type: Lecture Hour Contact Hours: 3 lecture Professional development course designed to further prepare future Grade Mode: Standard Letter public health leaders to the diverse field of public health. The career PH 20015 ZOMBIE OUTBREAK 3 Credit Hours portfolio will be further developed. Career goals will be re-evaluated Teaches the basic survival skills necessary to protect you, your family, and the strategies for goal attainment reassessed. The understanding and the public from a variety of natural and manmade “apocalypses”. of public health as a profession will be further developed. Graduate or Students apply the basics of emergency Public Health management to a professional education as an option will be discussed in greater detail. zombie outbreak. Prerequisite: PH 20000; and junior standing. Prerequisite: None. Schedule Type: Lecture Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 1 lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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PH 30002 INTRODUCTORY BIOSTATISTICS 3 Credit Hours PH 30012 COMMUNICABLE DISEASES 3 Credit Hours An introduction to statistical methodology in the field of public health. A survey of communicable diseases of global public health significance, Students learn the statistical skills to read scientific articles, understand including the epidemiology and forensics associated with disease the statistical methods used and interpret the results on their own. transmission, vaccination strategies and practices, and human responses Prerequisite: Any kent core mathematics; and critical reasoning course. to infectious disease. Students are introduced to infectious disease Schedule Type: Lecture pathogens and the practices and procedures for their surveillance, Contact Hours: 3 lecture handling and control. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Prerequisite: PH 20001 and 30007. PH 30004 PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH 3 Credit Hours Schedule Type: Lecture Approaches involved in defining public health problems and steps Contact Hours: 3 lecture involved in conducting research about these problems. Students are Grade Mode: Standard Letter introduced to how to evaluate published public health research. PH 30014 STRATEGIES FOR PREVENTION IN PUBLIC HEALTH 3 Prerequisite: PH 30002; and ENG 21011 or HONR 10297. Credit Hours Schedule Type: Lecture Provides a review of population strategies for and Contact Hours: 3 lecture disease prevention from a social-ecological perspective, highlighting the Grade Mode: Standard Letter importance of evidence-based, equitable, and ethical approaches. PH 30005 SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE THEORIES IN PUBLIC Prerequisite: PH 30007. HEALTH 3 Credit Hours Schedule Type: Lecture An overview of the contributions of the social and behavioral sciences Contact Hours: 3 lecture to human health behavior, including application of studies in the area Grade Mode: Standard Letter of health promotion, health protection and disease prevention in public PH 30015 UNITED STATES HEALTH CARE SYSTEM 3 Credit Hours health. Provides an overview of the U.S. healthcare delivery system, including Prerequisite: None. operations, stakeholders and the role of government with a particular Schedule Type: Lecture emphasis on public health’s role in health care. Students gain an Contact Hours: 3 lecture understanding of inpatient and outpatient services, the various roles of Grade Mode: Standard Letter healthcare professionals, private and public financing and the impact of PH 30006 INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND SAFETY managed care. The primary focus is the public . 3 Credit Hours Prerequisite: None. Introduction: the environment at risk; environmental epidemiology, Schedule Type: Lecture environmental toxicology, environmental policy and regulation, watershed Contact Hours: 3 lecture management, safe drinking water, wastewater management, vector- Grade Mode: Standard Letter born and zoonotic disease, air quality, solid and hazardous waste, food PH 30020 FUNDAMENTALS OF HEALTH PRIVACY 1 Credit Hour protection, radiation safety and injury prevention, occupational health and This course will provide an overview of compliance in healthcare privacy safety, total worker health, the built environment. and security within the context of the Health Insurance Portability and Prerequisite: None. Accountability Act (HIPAA). Current topics such as electronic health Schedule Type: Lecture records and the challenges posed by social media will be explored. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Prerequisite: None. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Schedule Type: Lecture PH 30007 PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF DISEASES 3 Credit Contact Hours: 1 lecture Hours Grade Mode: Standard Letter Provides an overview of concepts involved in biological mechanisms of PH 30025 FUNDAMENTALS OF HEALTHCARE COMPLIANCE 1 Credit disease at cell, individual and community levels, provides insight into Hour strategies used in preventing and controlling diseases at the population This course will provide an overview of fraud, waste, and abuse and/or community level within this framework. compliance in the healthcare industry. The practical and legal basis Prerequisite: None. for compliance programs will be explored as well as their creation, Schedule Type: Lecture implementation, and maintenance. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Prerequisite: None. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Schedule Type: Lecture PH 30009 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS AND Contact Hours: 1 lecture POLICY 3 Credit Hours Grade Mode: Standard Letter Develops a framework for understanding the regulatory structure of PH 30033 PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY AND DECISION-MAKING 3 Credit environmental and occupational health and safety regulations and policy Hours in the U.S. Federal, state, and local levels of government are reviewed as An introductory survey of the formulation to implementation of public well as major agencies and regulations. health policies for various public health issues, and the use of practical Prerequisite: PH 30006. administrative tools such as strategic planning, use of economic Schedule Type: Lecture evaluation tools and decision analysis. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Prerequisite: None. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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PH 30040 PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY SAFETY, SECURITY AND PH 30105 WATER AND WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT 3 Credit EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS 3 Credit Hours Hours Safe operations within the public health laboratory require specific Explores the issues surrounding water pollution and human health, and knowledge and skills sets. Upon completion of this course, the student the environmental treatment systems developed to provide safe water will (1) understand the public health laboratory infrastructure; (2) work and sewage disposal. Private water and sewage systems and public safely and responsibly with equipment and reagents to investigate water and sewage systems are studied. Federal and State regulations, laboratory-based public health problems; (3) define the laws, policies and including the Safe Drinking Water Act and Clean Water Act are reviewed. guidance documents related to public health laboratory activities; and (4) Field experiences are included. respond to simulated laboratory safety and security emergencies. Prerequisite: PH 30006. Prerequisite: PH 30006 and 30012. Schedule Type: Field Experience, Lecture Schedule Type: Combined Lecture and Lab Contact Hours: 2.67 lecture, .33 other Contact Hours: 1 lecture, 2 lab Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter PH 30106 ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY 3 Credit Hours PH 30101 SOLID AND HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT 3 Credit Basic toxicological principles applied to studies of environmental health Hours are surveyed. Basic concepts of toxicological testing, dose response, Solid and hazardous waste programs and practices are explored. animal and other models, dose curves, LD50's, risk assessment, threshold Pollution prevention, safety, sanitation practices, sustainability concepts, theories, classifications of harmful effects, environmental pathways, management, and regulations pertinent to solid and hazardous waste metabolism and elimination are reviewed. Biological effects and the such as RCRA, are discussed and studied. Consumption, garbage effect of select toxins on body systems are reviewed. Major groups handling, landfill design and disposal, sustainability concepts, reuse, of toxins and their effects are reviewed. Toxin behavior in air, water, recycling, composting and other waste strategies are presented. wastewater, soil and environmental media are studied. Hazardous waste and materials issues in the environment are introduced; Prerequisite: PH 30006. such as HW disposal, TSD Facilities, underground storage tanks, Schedule Type: Laboratory, Lecture “Superfund”, brownfields and related issues. Contact Hours: 2.8 lecture, .2 lab Prerequisite: PH 30006. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Schedule Type: Field Experience, Lecture PH 30110 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS MANAGEMENT 3 Credit Hours Contact Hours: 2.67 lecture, .33 other Covers the use of hazardous materials. Emphasis is on the safe Grade Mode: Standard Letter management of hazardous materials in the workplace and community, PH 30102 AIR QUALITY AND POLLUTION CONTROL 3 Credit Hours their procurement, storage, regulation, pollution problems, use, release, Basic survey of air pollution and its control. The respiratory system clean up, disposal, and their control, to prevent workplace and community and the bodies response to air pollutants of different types is reviewed health and safety problems. and related illnesses such as asthma are studied. The Clean Air Act, Prerequisite: PH 30006. NESHAPS and related regulations are surveyed. Ambient air quality Schedule Type: Field Experience, Lecture standards, the effect of climate and other air pollution concepts are Contact Hours: 2.67 lecture, .33 lab reviewed. Measurement and control methods for both particulate and Grade Mode: Standard Letter gaseous contaminants are surveyed. PH 30195 SPECIAL TOPICS IN PUBLIC HEALTH 1-3 Credit Hours Prerequisite: PH 30006. (Repeatable for credit) Subject varies depending on the emerging issue. Schedule Type: Field Experience, Lecture Prerequisite: None. Contact Hours: 2.67 lecture, .33 other Schedule Type: Lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Contact Hours: 1-3 lecture PH 30103 FOOD PROTECTION 3 Credit Hours Grade Mode: Standard Letter Topics in foodborne disease prevention and food sanitation relative to PH 31005 SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH AND HEALTH quality control, food service and processing systems are introduced. BEHAVIOR 3 Credit Hours Foodborne disease agents, microbiology, epidemiology and outbreak Provides students with an overview of the social determinants of health investigation techniques are explored. The regulatory process and behaviors and health outcomes. Students examine the relationships agencies at the wholesale, retail and food service levels are introduced. among the root causes of health disparities (education, income, Ohio food regulations are covered, including the Ohio Uniform Food Code. inequality, race-ethnicity, social status-class, and gender) and more Basic preparation of students to conduct food serve inspections and proximal causes of these disparities (e.g., access to and quality of foodborne disease investigations as part of agency regulatory programs. medical care, work conditions, lifestyles, living conditions, social capital). The opportunity to earn the National Restaurant Association, ServSafe These relationships are examined within ecological and multi-level Manager Certification is also provided. theoretical frameworks. Prerequisite: PH 30006. Prerequisite: PH 30005. Schedule Type: Field Experience, Lecture Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 2.67 lecture, .33 other Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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PH 32005 EMERGING ISSUES IN COMMUNITY HEALTH 3 Credit PH 35005 ADVOCACY AND ACTIVISM IN PUBLIC HEALTH 3 Credit Hours Hours Provides students with exposure to touchstone issues in public health Public health advocacy and activism are areas of increasing importance programming that have social and behavioral science implications. for those in public health at both national and international levels Topics reflect emergent priority areas and are expected to vary from because they offer more direct approaches to achieve lasting social semester to semester. Examples of current, emerging issues that may and political change. This course provides a foundation to the theory, be covered include the Healthy People 2020 initiative, leading health evidence-base and strategies that can be harnessed to bring about indicators, role of CDC, state and local health departments and NGOs in change to improve the lives and health of populations, and explains how promoting health behaviors, program recruitment, retention, evaluation activism has an essential role in public health policy and practice. and generalization challenges, ethical issues including informed consent Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. and voluntary change, funding challenges for prevention programs, grant Schedule Type: Lecture writing exposure, role of politics in public health programming, evidenced- Contact Hours: 3 lecture based practices and practice-based evidence. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Prerequisite: None. PH 35010 RACISM: A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS 3 Credit Hours Schedule Type: Lecture Across the US, an increasing number of communities have declared Contact Hours: 3 lecture racism as a public health crisis. This declaration is not based on an Grade Mode: Standard Letter isolated incident, rather, it is the acknowledgement that racism is PH 34001 PUBLIC HEALTH INTERVENTIONS I 3 Credit Hours structural and has been embedded within the institutional policies and Provides an overview of the planning and development of public health societal norms that are present in our everyday lives. This course will: interventions including environmental, social, and behavioral public Recognize racism in the US as a significant cause of poor health, disease, health issues from a social-ecological perspective, with attention to and persistent dis-ease among Black Americans; Explore the relationship evidence-based, theoretical, and ethical approaches. between racism and health through a historic accounting of social, Prerequisite: PH 30005. political, economic, and environmental conditions post-slavery through Schedule Type: Lecture current events; and, identify how, research, and advocacy can address Contact Hours: 3 lecture anti-Black racism and promote health equity. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Prerequisite: None. PH 34002 PUBLIC HEALTH INTERVENTIONS II 3 Credit Hours Schedule Type: Lecture Provides an overview of public health intervention implementation, Contact Hours: 3 lecture, 0 lab, 0 other evaluation, and sustainability, with examples of public health Grade Mode: Standard Letter interventions in practice and exploration into the future of public health PH 40000 PUBLIC HEALTH PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE III 1 Credit interventions. Hour Prerequisite: PH 34001. Professional development course designed to launch graduates into Schedule Type: Lecture the workforce or graduate school. The career portfolio, resume, and Contact Hours: 3 lecture cover letters will be finalized. Interviewing and application skills will be Grade Mode: Standard Letter developed. Working with a College of Public Health career counselor PH 35001 COMMUNITY-BASED PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE (ELR) 3 students will develop job search strategies and begin the application Credit Hours process. Students continuing their education in a graduate program will Course focuses on the fundamentals of applying community work on application materials. engagement, organization, and development principles to create Prerequisite: PH 30000; and senior standing. successful community public health interventions. Addresses work Schedule Type: Lecture in at-risk and diverse communities using methods optimal for public Contact Hours: 1 lecture health practice, including public health ethics, faith-based initiatives in Grade Mode: Standard Letter community health, community health assessment and measurement PH 40013 CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY BASICS 3 Credit Hours methods, coalition building, and frameworks for developing health The purpose of this course is to develop an understanding of clinical policy. Will also review the basic principles of health-related non-profit research, Good Clinical Practices, research environments, and methods organization management and support. Prerequisite: PH 30005 used in clinical research. The student will gain an understanding of the Schedule Type: Lecture, Practical Experience use of clinical investigation from the product development stage to the Contact Hours: 3 lecture application of investigations in contract research organization. Ethical Grade Mode: Standard Letter implications and regulatory issues will be examined. Attributes: Experiential Learning Requirement Prerequisite: PH 20001. Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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PH 40014 CLINICAL TRIALS MANAGEMENT 3 Credit Hours PH 40040 FORENSIC EPIDEMIOLOGY 3 Credit Hours Course examines the good clinical practices guidelines. Students learn Introduction to the principles and practices of investigative epidemiology. how to conduct and manage clinical trials; understand clinical trials Inherent to the course is the understanding of how public health law data; develop instruments and protocols; recognize quality control and impacts data collection and representation. Students learn the roles and data issues; know approaches to recruitment, retention and participant responsibilities of the criminal justice, public health, and first responder assessment; identify adverse events and measurement of response communities as they relate to the investigation of public health crimes. variables; and acquire skill in study close-out procedures. Additionally, students use real case studies to apply knowledge in the Prerequisite: PH 40013. investigation of mock public health crimes. Schedule Type: Lecture Prerequisite: Special approval. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Schedule Type: Lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Contact Hours: 3 lecture PH 40015 SCIENTIFIC WRITING FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH 3 Credit Grade Mode: Standard Letter Hours PH 40050 PUBLIC HEALTH AND FIRST RESPONDER LINKAGES 3 (Cross-listed with EPI 50015) Course provides students the tools to Credit Hours develop proficiency in scientific reading, to conduct presentations and Capstone experience meant to unite students of public health with their to demonstrate skill in scientific writing, with the goal of preparing professional partners. Students interact in the classroom and at the clinical researchers to be able to communicate findings to the science partners’ place of business to link theory and practice, gain real-world community and the general population. Course includes an examination knowledge and cement partnerships. of the science literature in clinical trials research. Prerequisite: PH 40040; and special approval. Prerequisite: ENG 21011 or HONR 10297. Schedule Type: Field Experience, Lecture Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 1 lecture, 2 other Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter PH 40060 PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY METHODS 3 Credit Hours PH 40017 PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY 3 Credit Hours This course introduces the student to the fundamental theory and (Cross-listed with EPI 50017) Introduction to the field of hands on use to track specimen collection and laboratory analysis. pharmacoepidemiology, which uses epidemiology methods to understand Environmental specimens will be examined for their public health medication use and distribution at the population level. Course examines importance using classical and modern techniques. The student will risk-benefit and epidemiology approaches to examining medication use spend time learning classical laboratory methods and their modern use and therapeutic trials. Drug and device manufacturing to market are in the laboratory environment. Examples include culture and microscopic explored. identification of microorganisms, identification of disease vectors, Prerequisite: PH 40013 and PH 40014. detection of newborn disease and detection of terrorism agents. Schedule Type: Lecture Prerequisite: PH 30006 or CHEM 10062 or CHEM 10971 or BSCI 30140 or Contact Hours: 3 lecture instructor approval. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Schedule Type: Combined Lecture and Lab PH 40018 REGULATORY AFFAIRS IN CLINICAL RESEARCH 3 Credit Contact Hours: 2 lecture, 1 lab Hours Grade Mode: Standard Letter (Cross-listed with EPI 50018) Course provides the tools for students PH 40092 INTERNATIONAL HEALTH PRACTICUM (ELR) 3-6 Credit to develop an understanding of the researcher and organization Hours responsibility in research and development of clinical trials products. (Repeatable for credit) A supervised internship in global/international Students understand regulations from the government and industry, health. privacy concerns, liability and ethical issues related to clinical trials Prerequisite: PH 10002; and junior or senior standing. research. Examples from the field are explored in detail. Schedule Type: Practical Experience Prerequisite: PH 40013 and PH 40014. Contact Hours: 10-20 other Schedule Type: Lecture Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory Contact Hours: 3 lecture Attributes: Experiential Learning Requirement Grade Mode: Standard Letter PH 40100 VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES 3 Credit PH 40020 DISASTER PREPAREDNESS 3 Credit Hours Hours College-level version of the FEMA “Are You Ready?” training designed to Presents a broad overview of major considerations related to human prepare average citizens to respond to emergency situations. Students health and the vector-borne diseases transmitted by rodents and learn how to appropriately prepare for and respond to natural and arthropods (insects and arachnids). Control measures, including contrived emergencies, such as floods, tornados, fires, terrorism, etc. rodent control, local mosquito control programs, and integrated pest Students prepare an emergency response kit for home use, using management (IPM) concepts with safe pesticide use are reviewed. materials from home or store, and learn how to shelter-in-place. Application of FIFRA regulations are presented. An overview of issues Prerequisite: None. associated with zoonotic diseases transmitted by animals, such Schedule Type: Lecture as rabies, and their control are also included. Vector and reservoir Contact Hours: 3 lecture relationships are explored. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Prerequisite: PH 30006. Schedule Type: Field Experience, Lecture Contact Hours: 2.67 lecture, .33 other Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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PH 40101 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY 3 Credit Hours PH 40196 INDIVIDUAL INVESTIGATION IN PUBLIC HEALTH 1-3 Introduction to workplace safety and industrial hygiene. The OSHA Credit Hours regulations and procedures are reviewed and workplace safety and (Repeatable for maximum 6 credits) Individual undergraduate health principles studied. Students learn how to anticipate, recognize, investigation or research on specific public health issues. evaluate and control workplace hazards. Safety issues are surveyed; such Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing; and special approval. as confined space, electrical LOTO, trenching, fall protection, walking Schedule Type: Individual Investigation and working surfaces. Industrial hygiene issues are surveyed; such Contact Hours: 1-3 other as air contaminants, hazard communication, respiratory protection, Grade Mode: Standard Letter ergonomics, noise control and bloodborne pathogens. Control measures PH 40200 THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT 3 Credit Hours for workplace hazards are discussed. Provides a basic understanding of the relationships between poor Prerequisite: PH 30006. housing and environmental health and safety problems. It explores the Schedule Type: Field Experience, Lecture physiological and psychological aspects of shelter. Students gain a Contact Hours: 2.67 lecture, .33 other basic understanding of housing codes, fire codes, zoning, and related Grade Mode: Standard Letter regulatory issues. Students explore housing related health problems; PH 40109 LABORATORY SAFETY AND HYGIENE 3 Credit Hours such as, indoor air quality, mold, asbestos, lead paint, and radon. (Crosslisted with EHS 50109) Basic introduction to laboratory safety, Manufactured housing parks and agricultural labor camp regulations chemical hygiene, and biosafety. Includes the research compliance are also reviewed. The role of EH in community planning is explored. programs of institutions (IBC, IACUC, IRB, RSC) and the OSHA Chemical Health issues with urban sprawl and community design problems, utility Hygiene Standard requirements and program responsibilities. General lab problems such as urban run-off and pest problems, and other issues safety concepts are reviewed, along with chemical handling and storage, are reviewed. Elements of healthy community, community planning fumehoods and ventilation, hazardous waste disposal, radiation safety, and environmental protection are introduced; such as new urbanism, and lab design. Basic principles of biosafety are covered, BSL 1-4 levels, walkable communities programs, environmental building design, green biosafety cabinets, select agents, bloodborne pathogens, NIH Guidelines, communities, urban gardening and LEED's. biosecurity and animal use. Prerequisite: PH 30006. Prerequisite: PH 30006. Schedule Type: Field Experience, Lecture Schedule Type: Field Experience, Lecture Contact Hours: 2.67 lecture, .33 other Contact Hours: 2.67 lecture, .33 other Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter PH 41000 ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND PH 40112 INSTITUTIONAL AND RECREATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL, SAFETY MANAGEMENT 3 Credit Hours OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY 3 Credit Hours Entails leadership and management principles in environmental and Introduces the environmental and occupational health and safety issues occupational health and safety (EOHS), and helps students develop skills unique to institutional settings and licensed facilities; such as, hospitals, needed to become an effective supervisor. Issues such as regulatory nursing homes, K-12 schools, universities, R&D, correctional facilities, structure, program and community planning, policy development, and childcare facilities; and in various recreational environments, such budgeting, staffing and staff development, strategic planning, training, as swimming pools, spas, bathing beaches, marinas, campgrounds, professionalism and assessment are reviewed. Board development, playgrounds and natural areas. dealing with difficult people and situations, legal, social, political, and Prerequisite: PH 30006. economic effects on EOHS programs are dealt with. Related issues such Schedule Type: Field Experience, Lecture as ethics, human resources, workers comp, court appearances, media Contact Hours: 2.67 lecture, .33 other relations and communications are reviewed. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Prerequisite: PH 30006 and 30102 and 30105 and 30106; and senior PH 40191 SEMINAR IN PUBLIC HEALTH 1-3 Credit Hours standing. (Repeatable for credit) Seminar on current and important topics in public Schedule Type: Lecture health. Subject matter varies depending on topic. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Prerequisite: None. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Schedule Type: Seminar Contact Hours: 1-3 other Grade Mode: Standard Letter PH 40195 SPECIAL TOPICS IN PUBLIC HEALTH 1-3 Credit Hours (Repeatable for credit)Subject varies depending on the emerging issue. Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 1-3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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PH 41092 FIELD EXPERIENCE IN MEETING THE BASIC HEALTH AND PH 43092 INTERNSHIP IN CLINICAL TRIALS RESEARCH (ELR) 3-6 HUMAN NEEDS (ELR) 3 Credit Hours Credit Hours (Repeatable for credit) Provides practical skills in simple, affordable The internship will place students in a clinical trials setting (e.g., contract appropriate technologies that can offer solutions for meeting basic research organization, hospital, or academic setting) where they can health and human needs in the developing world at the household and gain hands on experience conducting clinical trials and clinical research. community levels. Technologies are organized into five modules: 1) The internship is 300 hours and can be taken in the last one to two food, agriculture, and ; 2) water and sanitation; 3) alternative semesters. The purpose of the internship is to provide the student with household energy; 4) ; and 5) community development practical experiences that will make them marketable for a position in needs and resource assessment. All five modules cover appropriate clinical research upon graduation. technologies that while meeting the basic needs have significant impact Prerequisite: PH 40013 and PH 40014. on health of the individuals and communities. Principles of participatory Schedule Type: Practical Experience community development and sensitivity to cross-cultural, gender, and Contact Hours: 3-6 other ecological issues are emphasized throughout the training. Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory Prerequisite: Special approval. Attributes: Experiential Learning Requirement Schedule Type: Field Experience PH 44000 HEALTH DISPARITIES (DIVD) (WIC) 3 Credit Hours Contact Hours: 8 other Understanding the factors involved in health disparities at the national Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory and global level, and the impact of health disparities on public health. Attributes: Experiential Learning Requirement Prerequisite: ENG 21011 or HONR 10297; and 15 credit hours of public PH 42092 ENVIRONMENTAL, OCCUPATIONAL, HEALTH AND SAFETY health courses; and junior or senior standing. INTERNSHIP (ELR) 4-6 Credit Hours Schedule Type: Lecture The purpose of the environmental and occupational health and safety Contact Hours: 3 lecture internship is to supplement the student in-class learning experiences with Grade Mode: Standard Letter practical hand-on skills and work practice experiences that helps them Attributes: Diversity Domestic, Writing Intensive Course develop the environmental competencies required for success in the field. PH 44002 GLOBAL HEALTH IMMERSION: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND 3 Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing; and special approval. Credit Hours Schedule Type: Practical Experience Participants explore a number of health concerns, policies and challenges Contact Hours: 13.33-20 other with global importance and implications. Students investigate current Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory-IP global health policies and themes, and become familiar with the major Attributes: Experiential Learning Requirement players in global health including governmental and nongovernmental PH 43014 PUBLIC HEALTH AND MASS INCARCERATION 3 Credit organizations and multinational agencies. Presentations are given by Hours experts currently working in various regions of the world to solve such This course will examine incarceration using a public health lens. pressing global problems as HIV/AIDS, post-war trauma, tuberculosis, Students will examine the epidemiology of mass incarceration in the U.S., refugee health, non-communicable disease prevention and environmental infectious and chronic diseases of those incarcerated, incarceration as contamination. a self-sustaining epidemic with generations of imprisonment, access Prerequisite: PH 10001 and PH 10002; and junior or senior standing; and to health care of those behind bars and on release, and the contagion special approval. of punishment including collateral damage to children, families and Schedule Type: Lecture neighborhoods. The course will conclude with a public health model for Contact Hours: 3 lecture ending mass incarceration. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Prerequisite: None. PH 44003 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH ISSUES IN LOW- AND MIDDLE- Schedule Type: Lecture INCOME COUNTRIES 3 Credit Hours Contact Hours: 3 lecture Covers the important environmental health issues of concerns in low- and Grade Mode: Standard Letter middle-income countries and appropriate intervention strategies. Topics PH 43089 PLAGUES THAT SHAPED THE WORLD 3 Credit Hours include clean drinking water and sanitation, indoor air pollution, outdoor (Cross-listed with EPI 53089 and and EPI 73089) Course examines the air pollution, environmental management, sustainability and health. Bubonic plague, HIV/AIDS, Ebola and pandemic influenza outbreaks to Prerequisite: Public health or anthropology major; and junior or senior introduce students to the fundamentals of public health, establishing standing. epidemiological principles that explain how plagues erupt and propagate, Schedule Type: Lecture decimate populations and alter cultures. Inherent in the course's Contact Hours: 3 lecture discussion are the social determinants that fuel plague outbreaks and Grade Mode: Standard Letter slow recovery. Examples of emerging infectious diseases and threats of bioterrorism are discussed as new plagues for which creative solutions are still required. Students take city excursions and a field trip to assess cultural changes resulting from historical plagues. Prerequisite: None. Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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PH 44004 GLOBAL HEALTH IMMERSION: LATIN AMERICA 3 Credit PH 44020 PUBLIC HEALTH ETHICS IN PRACTICE, POLICY AND Hours RESEARCH 3 Credit Hours The principal objective of this summer intersession course is to Provides an introduction to public health ethics, including the key immerse students into the history, culture and public health systems foundations, concepts and frameworks for evaluating ethical issues in of Latin American countries Colombia Ecuador. Students will have the public health setting. the opportunity to visit major cities, i.e., Cali, Colombia, and Quito, Prerequisite: None. Ecuador, rural areas, and well-known tourist destinations (Cartagena, Schedule Type: Lecture Colombia, Otavalo, Ecuador). Students will gain an understanding of Contact Hours: 3 lecture current scientific research on tropical diseases of local public health Grade Mode: Standard Letter relevance, such as malaria. The course will focus on the basic biology PH 44025 PRINCIPLES OF PUBLIC HEALTH LEADERSHIP 3 Credit of disease, mechanisms of transmission (epidemiology), and efforts Hours to develop vaccines against malaria. The course is designed primarily Designed to introduce students to skill-sets and leadership practices for sophomores, juniors and seniors who are public health, nursing, or necessary for successful public health leadership, with an emphasis biological science majors. Master's level students will also be accepted. on leading positive and sustainable change in real world situations. It Knowledge of basic Spanish language is useful but not necessary. also familiarizes students with key aspects of partnership building and Prerequisite: None. advocacy for the purposes of improving health. Particular stills include Schedule Type: Lecture coalition/partnership development, health advocacy, team building, Contact Hours: 3 lecture mentoring and leadership. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Prerequisite: None. PH 44005 LEGAL ASPECTS OF HEALTH SERVICES MANAGEMENT 3 Schedule Type: Lecture Credit Hours Contact Hours: 3 lecture Provides an overview of legal and regulatory essentials in health services Grade Mode: Standard Letter management. Provides a historical perspective on legal aspects of PH 44092 INTERNSHIP IN PUBLIC HEALTH (ELR) 3-6 Credit Hours health care as well as an introduction to law, tort law, criminal aspects, (Repeatable for credit) Capstone internship experience in a public contracts, civil procedure and trial practice as related to health care. health setting under the supervision of a site preceptor and university Students examine how liability impacts corporate structures, health supervisor. Students gain experience in public health work. departments and health care professionals and examine issues related to Prerequisite: Senior standing; and special approval. patient consent, legal reporting requirements, labor relations and patient Schedule Type: Practical Experience rights. Contact Hours: 3-6 other Prerequisite: None. Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory Schedule Type: Lecture Attributes: Experiential Learning Requirement Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter PH 45092 SERVICE LEARNING PRACTICUM IN COMMUNITY-BASED PUBLIC HEALTH (ELR) 3 Credit Hours PH 44010 PUBLIC HEALTH PLANNING AND FINANCE 3 Credit Hours This course is designed to provide an opportunity for students to engage Introduces students to business planning of health services. Students in a variety of public health settings under the supervision of faculty. obtain skills in public health financial decision-making, including general The practicum experience is focused on developing skills needed to principles of public health accounting, budgeting and financial planning. implement change to improve population health, providing a setting Prerequisite: None. in which students may integrate and apply the skills and knowledge Schedule Type: Lecture acquired through their coursework. Students will be exposed to some of Contact Hours: 3 lecture the benefits and challenges encountered by public health professionals Grade Mode: Standard Letter on a routine basis. PH 44015 PUBLIC HEALTH MANAGEMENT 3 Credit Hours Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. Provides an overview of management and leadership concepts, principles Corequisite: PH 35001. and practice as applied to public health management. Students learn Schedule Type: Lecture, Practical Experience basic skills in team-building, developing board relationships, strategic Contact Hours: 1 lecture, 6 other planning, fiscal management, marketing, conflict resolution and Grade Mode: Standard Letter negotiation in healthcare management. Coursework integrates principles Attributes: Experiential Learning Requirement of ethics and professionalism, effective communication, managing PH 49000 CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE IN PUBLIC HEALTH (ELR) 3 complex and culturally diverse workplaces and the changing role of Credit Hours public health managers. Case studies of various strategies used in addressing various public Prerequisite: None. health issues are discussed within an evaluative framework. Schedule Type: Lecture Prerequisite: 21 credit hours of public health courses; and junior or senior Contact Hours: 3 lecture standing. 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PH 60172 PRACTICUM SEMINAR IN PUBLIC HEALTH 1 Credit Hour SBS 50020 SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE THEORIES 3 Credit (Repeatable 6 times for credit) Seminar component of the Practicum Hours Experience; course must be taken at the same time as the Practicum Examines fundamental social and behavioral science theoretical Experience; students prepare a final portfolio and seminar presentation frameworks that explain health behaviors with an emphasis on integrating theory and practice. application through universal prevention approaches to inform both Prerequisite: Graduate standing. research and program evaluation designs. Corequisite: PH 60192. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Schedule Type: Lecture Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 1 other Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory-IP Grade Mode: Standard Letter PH 60192 PRACTICUM EXPERIENCE 5 Credit Hours SBS 50030 SEMINAR IN SOCIAL AND BEHAVIOR SCIENCES 3 Credit (Repeatable for credit) Observational and participation in public Hours health activities of a public health agency, hospital or other approved Explores case studies in the social and behavioral sciences on topics that organization. The student completes the field experience with joint address the leading health indicators including substance use (alcohol, supervision from the university and approved organization or agency. tobacco and other drugs), obesity (physical activity and nutrition), HIV Prerequisite: Graduate standing. and STIs, mental health, injury, immunization and access to health care, Corequisite: PH 60172. and social determinants of health. Schedule Type: Practical Experience Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Contact Hours: 20 other Schedule Type: Seminar Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory-IP Contact Hours: 3 other PH 80199 DISSERTATION I 15 Credit Hours Grade Mode: Standard Letter (Repeatable for credit) Registration for two semesters required, first SBS 50196 INDIVIDUAL INVESTIGATION IN SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL semester dissertation work beings and continues until completion of 30 SCIENCES 1-3 Credit Hours hours. (Repeatable for credit) Individual graduate investigation or research in Prerequisite: Doctoral standing. areas related to social and behavioral sciences. Schedule Type: Dissertation Prerequisite: Graduate standing; and special approval. Contact Hours: 15 other Schedule Type: Individual Investigation Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory-IP Contact Hours: 1-3 other PH 80299 DISSERTATION II 15 Credit Hours Grade Mode: Standard Letter-IP (Repeatable for credit) Continuing registration required of doctoral SBS 53008 GRANT WRITING IN SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES students who have completed the initial 30 hours of dissertation and 3 Credit Hours continuing until degree requirements are met. Students learn the basics of grant writing for federal and non-federal Prerequisite: Doctoral standing. funding agencies with a particular emphasis on the components Schedule Type: Dissertation of most proposals for funding. This includes rationale for seeking Contact Hours: 15 other funds, collaborations with community organizations, and working with Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory-IP consultants and subcontractors. Participants also learn about the basic sections of grant writing such as specific aims and hypotheses, Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS) developing a literature review, background and significance, research design and methodology, developing a budget and conducting research SBS 50002 QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL with human subjects. Participants have an opportunity to write sample SCIENCES 3 Credit Hours grant proposals, learn about the review and scoring process and post- Introduces basic quantitative methods used in social and behavioral award grant management. scientific research. First we focus on the measurement of socio- Prerequisite: Graduate standing. behavioral phenomena and the relationship between measurement and Schedule Type: Lecture statistics. Next, we examine the interrelated roles of scientific theory Contact Hours: 3 lecture and the design of socio-behavioral research studies. Last, we focus on Grade Mode: Standard Letter building appropriate multiple linear regression and or analysis of variance statistical models to provide valid analysis of data collected in socio- behavioral research. Prerequisite: BST 52019; and graduate standing. Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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SBS 54634 SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH BEHAVIORS 3 SBS 60020 PROGRAM EVALUATION II: APPLICATION IN THE REAL Credit Hours WORLD 3 Credit Hours Overviews the social determinants of health and the dynamic interplay This course provides students with a more in-depth examination of between individual behaviors and community structures (systems program evaluation for Public Health professionals and the opportunity orientation) including public policy, social and built environments, to apply their evaluation knowledge and skills to an existing health commercial messages, access to services, cultural norms, psychosocial intervention. The content will delve deeply into formative and summative hazards, and poverty both as causal effects that either provide evaluation—including theoretical underpinnings, professional standards, opportunity or constraints to health. Also examines systems approaches research design and data collection and analysis. Students will be to preventing public health threats from issues including substance required to apply this knowledge to a selected program and produce an use (alcohol, tobacco and other drugs), physical inactivity, poor dietary evaluation proposal acceptable for submission to a funding agency. practices, unsafe sexual behaviors, violence and injury, and mental health. Prerequisite: HPM 53011; and graduate standing. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Schedule Type: Seminar Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter SBS 60030 CODING FOR QUALITATIVE RESEARCH 1 Credit Hour SBS 54700 COMMUNITY-BASED SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION (Slashed with SBS 80030) The purpose of this course is to provide FOR PUBLIC HEALTH PROFESSIONALS 3 Credit Hours students with a brief but thorough overview of the basic process of This course focuses on prevention science and its application to coding text-based, unstructured data for qualitative research projects. prevention implementation. It is the first of a series of curricula courses Focus is on coding for descriptive or basic qualitative research. we plan to offer on drug abuse prevention; these courses will add to Prerequisite: Graduate standing. the elective courses for master’s level students in the College of Public Schedule Type: Lecture Health. This course will be the “core” of this series—that is, students Contact Hours: 15 lecture will be required to complete this course before they take another course Grade Mode: Standard Letter in the series. The core course (Community –Based Substance Abuse SBS 60040 TRANSCRIBING INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP INTERVIEWS Prevention) provides foundational knowledge for substance abuse FOR QUALITATIVE RESEARCH 1 Credit Hour prevention. The other courses in the series focus on prevention in (Slashed with SBS 80040) The purpose of this course is to provide specific contexts (e.g., school-based, workplace, media based, etc.). students an overview of, and applied practice in transcribing audio- The course will enhance the knowledge and skills of public health recorded interview data as preparation for qualitative analysis professionals to enable them to implement evidence-based substance techniques. use prevention interventions and policies. Primary emphasis is on Prerequisite: Graduate standing. evidence-based interventions and policies and on implementation quality Schedule Type: Lecture and sustainability. Contact Hours: 15 lecture Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture SBS 60191 VARIABLE CONTENT SEMINAR IN SOCIAL AND Grade Mode: Standard Letter BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES 1-3 Credit Hours (Repeatable for a maximum of 6 credit hours) Seminar on current and SBS 54701 COMMUNITY-BASED PUBLIC HEALTH IMPLEMENTATION important topics in social and behavioral sciences. Subject matter varies SYSTEMS 3 Credit Hours depending on the topic. This course focuses on Public Health prevention science and its Prerequisite: Graduate standing. application to the implementation of substance use interventions. The Schedule Type: Seminar content focuses on community systems for addressing substance use Contact Hours: 1-3 lecture problems that affect whole communities. These community systems Grade Mode: Standard Letter incorporate evidence-based prevention interventions at various levels of influence within a socio-ecological perspective. Students will examine the SBS 60192 APPLIED PRACTICE EXPERIENCE IN SOCIAL AND development of community organizations that come together to address BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES 3,6 Credit Hours specific problems, and how they network and integrate with existing (Repeatable for credit) Observational and participation in public organizations that provide community services. The content draws from health activities of a public health agency, hospital or other approved the International Standards on Drug Use Prevention that were published organization. The student completes the field experience with joint by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2013; 2015) and the supervision from the university and approved organization or agency. European Drug Prevention Quality Standards published by the European Prerequisite: Graduate standing; and special approval. Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction (2011). Primary emphasis Schedule Type: Practical Experience is on evidence-based interventions and policies and on implementation Contact Hours: 9-18 other quality and sustainability. Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory-IP Prerequisite: SBS 54700; and graduate standing. SBS 60195 SPECIAL TOPICS IN SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES Schedule Type: Lecture 1-3 Credit Hours Contact Hours: 3 lecture (Repeatable for a maximum of 6 credit hours)Special topics to sample Grade Mode: Standard Letter new offerings on topics in social and behavioral sciences. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 1-3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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SBS 63010 QUALITATIVE METHODS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH SBS 73019 THEORY PREVENTION SCIENCE II 3 Credit Hours 3 Credit Hours This course examines the methods used by prevention science (Slashed with 83010) In this course, students will be guided through researchers to determine the effectiveness of public health programs. exploration of the uses and value of qualitative approaches to research Focus is on advanced formative, process, impact and outcome evaluation with humans through a combination of resource review and guided methods. Qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques used for applied practice. Students will be provided with information about various assessing program process and effects are discussed in the context of methodologies that comprise qualitative inquiry, and will engage in research evaluation. practice efforts to analyze provided data, and to assess the quality of Prerequisite: Doctoral standing. research reports. Schedule Type: Lecture Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Schedule Type: Lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Contact Hours: 3 lecture SBS 73020 ADVANCED METHODS IN PREVENTION SCIENCE 3 Grade Mode: Standard Letter Credit Hours SBS 63011 QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS 3 Credit Hours Focuses primarily on advanced quantitative methods in the application of (Slashed with SBS 83011) Students will be introduced to the process prevention science. and goals of qualitative data analysis relevant to research design and Prerequisite: Doctoral standing. study purpose, and will be provided opportunities to conduct coding and Schedule Type: Lecture other types of analysis of qualitative data using both computer assisted Contact Hours: 3 lecture and manual processes. Students will focus on descriptive or generic Grade Mode: Standard Letter approaches for both qualitative and mixed methods research. Students SBS 80020 PROGRAM EVALUATION II: APPLICATION IN THE REAL will additionally learn about and be provided opportunities for guided WORLD 3 Credit Hours practice in quality control measures that include creation of an audit trail, This course provides students with a more in-depth examination of "member checking," composition of analytic memos, and other forms of program evaluation for Public Health professionals and the opportunity researcher initiated documentation. to apply their evaluation knowledge and skills to an existing health Prerequisite: SBS 63010 or special approval. intervention. The content will delve deeply into formative and summative Schedule Type: Lecture evaluation—including theoretical underpinnings, professional standards, Contact Hours: 3 lecture measurement, research design and data collection and analysis. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Students will be required to apply this knowledge to a selected program SBS 65010 RACISM: A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS 3 Credit Hours and produce an evaluation proposal acceptable for submission to a Across the US, an increasing number of communities have declared funding agency. racism as a public health crisis. This declaration is not based on an Prerequisite: HPM 53011. isolated incident, rather, it is the acknowledgement that racism is Schedule Type: Seminar structural and has been embedded within the institutional policies and Contact Hours: 3 lecture societal norms that are present in our everyday lives. This course will: Grade Mode: Standard Letter Recognize racism in the US as a significant cause of poor health, disease, SBS 80030 CODING FOR QUALITATIVE RESEARCH 1 Credit Hour and persistent dis-ease among Black Americans; Explore the relationship (Slashed with SBS 60030) The purpose of this course is to provide between racism and health through a historic accounting of social, students with a brief but thorough overview of the basic process of political, economic, and environmental conditions post-slavery through coding text-based, unstructured data for qualitative research projects. the current events of 2020; and, identify how, research, and advocacy can Focus is on coding for descriptive or basic qualitative research; other address anti-Black racism and promote health equity. methodologies are reviewed based on student needs. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Prerequisite: Doctoral standing. Schedule Type: Lecture Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture, 0 lab, 0 other Contact Hours: 15 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter SBS 73018 THEORIES OF PREVENTION SCIENCE I 3 Credit Hours SBS 80040 TRANSCRIBING INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP INTERVIEWS Provides a background and theoretical review of prevention science as a FOR QUALITATIVE RESEARCH 1 Credit Hour multi-disciplinary field focusing on systematic inquiry on health behaviors (Slashed with SBS 60040) The purpose of this course is to provide including substance use (alcohol, tobacco and other drugs), physical students an overview of, and applied practice in transcribing audio- activity, dietary practices, mental health, violence and injury, and sexual recorded interview data as preparation for qualitative analysis behaviors. techniques, using both content-focused and conversation-analytic Prerequisite: Doctoral standing. approaches. Schedule Type: Lecture Prerequisite: Doctoral standing. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Schedule Type: Lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Contact Hours: 15 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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SBS 80100 EMERGING ISSUES IN PREVENTION SCIENCE 3 Credit SBS 83010 QUALITATIVE METHODS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH Hours 3 Credit Hours Survey of relevant challenges and issues facing prevention science (Slashed with SBS 63010) In this course, students will be guided through researchers. exploration of the uses and value of qualitative approaches to research Prerequisite: Doctoral standing. with humans through a combination of resource review and applied Schedule Type: Lecture practice. Students will be provided with information about various Contact Hours: 3 lecture methodologies that comprise qualitative inquiry, and will engage in Grade Mode: Standard Letter practice efforts to gather, process, and analyze data, and to assess the SBS 80191 VARIABLE CONTENT SEMINAR IN SOCIAL AND quality of research reports. BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES 1-3 Credit Hours Prerequisite: Doctoral standing. (Repeatable for a maximum of 6 credit hours) Seminar on current and Schedule Type: Lecture important topics in social and behavioral sciences. Subject matter varies Contact Hours: 3 lecture depending on the topic. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Prerequisite: Doctoral standing. SBS 83011 QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS 3 Credit Hours Schedule Type: Seminar (Slashed with SBS 63011) Students will be introduced to the process and Contact Hours: 1-3 lecture goals of qualitative data analysis relevant to research design and study Grade Mode: Standard Letter purpose, and will be provided opportunities to conduct coding and other SBS 80195 SPECIAL TOPICS IN SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES types of analysis of qualitative data using both computer assisted and 1-3 Credit Hours manual processes. Qualitative approaches potentially considered in this (Repeatable for a maximum of 6 credit hours) Special topics to sample course include grounded theory, phenomenology, descriptive or generic new offerings on topics in social and behavioral sciences. approaches, content analysis, mixed methods, and others depending on Prerequisite: Doctoral standing. needs and interests of students in the class. Students will additionally Schedule Type: Lecture learn about and practice quality control measures that include creation Contact Hours: 1-3 lecture of an audit trail, "member checking," composition of analytic memos, and Grade Mode: Standard Letter other forms of researcher initiated documentation. Prerequisite: SBS 83010 or special approval. SBS 80196 INDIVIDUAL INVESTIGATION IN SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL Schedule Type: Lecture SCIENCES 1-3 Credit Hours Contact Hours: 3 lecture Individual graduate investigation or research in areas related to social Grade Mode: Standard Letter and behavioral sciences. Prerequisite: Doctoral standing; and special approval. Schedule Type: Individual Investigation Contact Hours: 3-9 other Grade Mode: Standard Letter-IP SBS 80198 DIRECTED RESEARCH IN PREVENTION SCIENCE 1-15 Credit Hours (Repeatable for credit) Directed research or individual investigation for doctoral students. Prerequisite: Doctoral standing. Schedule Type: Research Contact Hours: 1-15 other Grade Mode: Standard Letter SBS 80199 DISSERTATION I 15 Credit Hours (Repeatable for credit) Registration for two semesters required, first semester dissertation work begins and continues until completion of Dissertation II and 30 hours of total dissertation work. Prerequisite: Doctoral standing; and special approval. Schedule Type: Dissertation Contact Hours: 15 other Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory-IP SBS 80299 DISSERTATION II 15 Credit Hours (Repeatable for credit) Second course of dissertation sequence completing requirement of with 30 total hours of dissertation work. Prerequisite: SBS 80199; and special approval. Schedule Type: Dissertation Contact Hours: 15 other Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory-IP

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