The course covers qualitative research skills to discern how and why humans behave relative to their health, and emphasizes planning, design, and evaluation. Students gain an understanding of qualitative research techniques by articulating a phenomenon of interest, identifying a target population, employing proper data collection strategies, and selecting proper techniques for results verification.
This course introduces students to disparities in health care and public health in the United States and around the world that occur as a result of demographic and socioeconomic factors. Students will explore the existence and impact of these disparities on individual and population health. Students will integrate knowledge to develop culturally appropriate strategies to improve health and minimize population health disparities.
This course introduces the making, understanding, and consequences of public health and healthcare policies and systems. Students will assess the design and performance of the health care system, including organization, financing, and delivery in the United States. Students will explore fundamental concerns--such as cost, access, and quality--that shape the development of health policy and health systems worldwide, and compare approaches to understand advantages and disadvantages. Students will explore the population-level impacts of health policy with systems-level view.
This course introduces the use of statistics in public health. Topics include descriptive statistics, probability distributions, parameter estimation, hypothesis testing, regression models, and sample size and power considerations. Students develop the skills necessary to perform, present, and interpret statistical analyses using statistical software.
This course introduces students to the broad field of public health, professional roles, and the basic principles of disease prevention and health promotion among communities and populations. Students examine historical trends in the field, the 10 Essential Public Health Services, and how public health services are designed and delivered within the public health infrastructure. The course introduces students to the upstream causes of morbidity and mortality across the lifespan and how the public health system in the United States addresses these causes.
The MPH is a professional degree that prepares students as practitioners who are responsive to contemporary challenges in public health at local, regional, national and global levels. MPH graduates are proficient in the best practices of design, planning, and implementation of health research, programs, and services.