Public Health Studies (PUBH) 1 PUBH 504 Public Health Theories & Frameworks PUBLIC HEALTH STUDIES This course provides students with a solid foundation in behavioral and social science theory, research, and interventions as they pertain to (PUBH) public health. Content will provide exposure to a broad range of theories, including the theoretical foundations of social science applications for PUBH 500 Foundations of Public Health help-seeking, gender, race, ethnicity and social class. These theories will This course will provide a topical overview of the inter-disciplinary field be discussed using examples of their applications to numerous public of public health and provides grounding in the public health paradigm. health problems including HIV/AIDS, violence, cancer, cardiovascular Through a series of lectures and recitation sessions, students will learn diseases, obesity, and diabetes. about the history of public heatlh and the core public health sciences Taught by: Dominique Ruggieri including behavioral and social sciences, biostatistics, epidemiology, Course offered summer, fall and spring terms environmental health, and policy and management. Other topics include Activity: Lecture ethics in public health, context analyses (specifically sociographic 1.0 Course Unit mapping and urban health), community participation in research, public PUBH 505 Public Health Policy & Administration health promotion, and the prevention of chronic and infectious diseases. This course is an introduction to health policy and management. It Course usually offered in fall term examines both the historical and current state of health policy in America Also Offered As: NURS 570 and integrates these concepts within the context of public health Activity: Lecture practice. We will examine key concepts in understanding US health care 1.0 Course Unit organization, financing and delivery, our current political and economic PUBH 501 Introduction to Biostatistics debate on health care reform, exmamining the role and management Introduction to Biostatistics This course is designed to provide a broad issues of public health departments, and case studies in public health overview of biostatistics methods as well as applications commonly used policy and management. for public health research. Topics covered include measurement and Taught by: Courtney Summers categorizing variables, use and misuse of descriptive statistics, testing Course offered summer, fall and spring terms hypotheses, and applying commonly used statistical tests. An emphasis Activity: Lecture will be placed on the practical application of data to address public health 1.0 Course Unit issues, rather than theoretical and mathematical development. Students PUBH 506 Methods for Public Health Practice will learn how to choose and apply statistical tools to data sources, This is a course designed around modules whose objective is to provide when and how statistical tools can be used to analyze data, and how to students with greater familiarity in a range of methods essential to interpret others' quantitative studies. Students will gain experience using public health practice. The course will be framed around an indepth online datasets and the STATA statistical software package. capacity and needs assessment and community public health planning One-term course offered either term in Philadelphia. Topics covered will include data collection and Activity: Lecture evaluation, both quantitative and qualitative, uses of informatics in 1.0 Course Unit public health, analysis of vital statistics, working with communities, PUBH 502 Introduction to the Principles and Methods of Epidemiology methods for developing and facilitating solutions to public health This course will provide an introduction to the principles and methods problems, including concepts of advocacy and policy formation and of epidemiology as a research science. The course introduces the development of interventions. The course demonstrates how core student designs applied to human populations, including randomized public health competency areas in data analysis and communication trials and observational studies (cohort, case-control, cross-sectional, provide foundations for applications for both practice and practice-based ecological). Homework and in- class assignments focus on building skills research. in locating, assessing, and synthesizing evidencefrom the epidemiologic Taught by: Sara Solomon literature, with an emphasis on critical thinking, causal inference, and Course offered summer, fall and spring terms understanding bias and confounding. Activity: Lecture One-term course offered either term 1.0 Course Unit Activity: Lecture PUBH 507 Public Health Law & Ethics 1.0 Course Unit What is best - or, at least, seems best -- for the public's health is not PUBH 503 Environmental and Occupational Health always consistent with society's view of what is legal, ethical, or good This course will provide a broad introduction to the scientific basis of policy. This course introduces key concepts of legal, ethical, and policy occupational and environmental health. Content will address issues in analysis and attempts to demonstrate with current examples how these the ambient, occupational and global environments as well as the tools, forces empower, guide, and constrain public health decision-making and concepts and methods used in environmental health. actions. The course will combine lecture, Socratic dialogue, and group Taught by: Marilyn Howarth discussion in an informal setting. The course will feature guest lectures One-term course offered either term by several distinguished experts from Penn and from other universities. Activity: Lecture Taught by: Evan Anderson 1.0 Course Unit Course offered summer, fall and spring terms Activity: Lecture 1.0 Course Unit 2021-22 Catalog | Generated 08/18/21 2 Public Health Studies (PUBH) PUBH 508 Capstone Seminar I PUBH 521 Program Evaluation in Public Health The Capstone is a culminating experience required for graduation in the There are many public health programs developed to promote change Master of Public Health Program. In two Capstone seminars, students and improve individual and community health. The question most funders will have an opportunity to synthesize the knowledge and public health and organizations have for public health programs is: Did it work? And competencies they have developed through their coursework. Capstone how do we know? This course is designed to review the practices of students will apply their knowledge and skills to public health problems evaluation planning and methods of measurement. Students learn in a chosen area of interest. They will engage their peers in scholarly how evaluation can provide practical tools for identifying public health discussion, drawing from relevant scientific literature and public health problems, program development, program implementation, including experience in order to begin to develop a common grounding and identity taking a reflective practice approach, ensuring equity and fairness in as public health professionals. The Capstone incorporates two semester- program delivery (i.e., combating disparities), and generally promoting long seminars and a research project. over the course of the Castone, public health through effective and efficient programmatic efforts. This students will develop, propose, revise, implement, and present their course builds upon Methods for Public Health Practice and students projects. As their projects successfully come to fruition they will also will be allowed to design an evaluation of the program designed in this adivse their junior colleagues still in the proposal stage. course or to choose another program. Note: This course satisfies the RTE Two terms. student may enter either term. requirement for the Generalist Track. Activity: Lecture Taught by: Samantha Matlin 1.0 Course Unit Course offered spring; odd-numbered years PUBH 509 Capstone Seminar II Prerequisite: PUBH 506 This course is the second of two Capstone courses related to the Activity: Lecture culminating project required for graduation in the Master of Public Health 1.0 Course Unit Program. MPH students apply their knowledge and skills to public health PUBH 523 Epidemics: Social causes and consequences of outbreaks, problems in a chosen area of interest under the guidance of a Capstone emergencies, threats Mentor. Public health demands both critical thinking and quick decision-making-- Two terms. student may enter either term. often without the benefit of all the data we desire. Take this course Activity: Lecture to learn how other public health professionals (and lawyers/doctors/ 1.0 Course Unit activists/educators/policymakers) have responded, both successfully PUBH 517 Geography & Public Health and disastrously, to evolving health threats. Using a case-based method, This course will provide an introduction to GIS in public health research the course will probe true public health emergencies, considering the and practice. Through a series of lectures and labs students will explore (limits of) information available to scientists; the public response; theories linking health and the environment, spatial analysis and spatial political/economic considerations; media coverage; policy/programmatic epidemiology, and applications of GIS-related data collection and response; and health/social outcomes. The course will tackle cases analysis. from infectious disease and social epidemiology, and will cover: outbreak Course usually offered in fall term