QNME 0506
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (varies)
This course introduces students to current public health issues and methods of public health through the weekly reading, analysis, and discussion of the Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report.
Prerequisites: All M.P.H. core courses.
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QNME 0542
Seminar in Critical Review of Recent Injury Research (3)
This seminar is intended for students who have taken the introductory injury courses offered and who wish to expand their knowledge
in current research.
Prerequisites: PHCO 0502, PHCO 0504, QNME 0622, and URHA 1686.
Passannante
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QNME 0545
Cost Effectiveness in Public Health and Medicine (3)
What is the value of implementing a screening program, adopting a new health technology, or instituting a new preventive health program?
How do the costs compare to the benefits? This course will introduce students to the practice
of decision analysis,
including cost-effectiveness analysis, in public health and medicine.
Prerequisites: PHCO 0502 and PHCO 0504.
Sinha
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QNME 0584
Computing II: Epi Info (1)
Epi Info is a public domain software
package freely distributed to public health practitioners and researchers worldwide. Using Epi Info for Microsoft
Windows®, students
will develop and computerize questionnaires for bioterrorism investigation; analyze data from acute and chronic
disease studies to produce epidemiologic statistics, maps, and graphs;
and construct a menu for a permanent information system.
Prerequisites: PHCO 0502 and PHCO 0504.
Fried
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QNME 0587
Introduction to SAS for Data Analysis in Public Health (2)
During this course students learn how to create basic Excel tables and graphs and create a simple database and enter data, import databases into SAS, and conduct data analysis using SAS.
Prerequisites: PHCO 0502 and PHCO 0504. Students are also expected to know the basics of MS Windows (e.g. use of the mouse, selecting, copying, cutting, and pasting files and text; working with more than one application window at a time, etc.) and MS Office (e.g. basic formatting in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; entering data and performing simple calculations in Excel, etc.).
Kim, Rajan
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QNME 0607
Public Health Nutrition (3)
The course provides an introduction to the concepts,
methods, and practice of public health nutrition.
Topics will include major nutrition
problems prevalent in developed and poor countries.
Bogden and department faculty
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QNME 0610
Case Studies in Epidemiology and Public Health (3)
Provides vicarious
experience in epidemiology and public health practice through a variety of scenarios
encompassing infectious disease, chemical and radiological outbreaks, chronic diseases, and emerging infections. The course teaches public health competencies and encourages active participation in the learning experience.
Prerequisites: PHCO 0502 and PHCO 0504.
Thomas, Halperin
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QNME 0611
Design of Epidemiological Studies and Clinical Trials (3)
Students will learn what constitutes a good experiment--one that proves a point while avoiding waste of resources and unnecessary risks. Students will learn principles of experimental design.
Each student submits
a study protocol.
Prerequisites: PHCO 0502 and PHCO 0504.
Marcus
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QNME 0612
Linear Models: Regression and Analysis of Variance (3)
This is a practical introduction to the linear statistical methods
that are commonly
used in public health research. A statistical computer package such as SAS, STATA, or SPSS will be used for exercises.
Prerequisite: PHCO 0504 or equivalent.
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QNME 0613
Life Tables and Survival Analysis (3)
When hazards occurring
over time are of interest
and incomplete observations exist, the group of methods presented in this course may be very useful.
An introduction to theory and applications is presented.
Prerequisite: PCHO 0504. A thorough knowledge of precalculus mathematics is assumed; calculus is strongly recommended but not required.
Kim
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QNME 0614
Categorical Data Analysis (3)
This is a practical introduction to methods for analysis of frequency tabulations that are commonly
used in public health research. Exercises will be based on public health literature. A statistical computer
package such as SAS, STATA, or SPSS is used for computation.
Prerequisites: QNME 0612, PHCO 0504 or equivalent, (strongly recommended that QNME 0614 be taken after QNME 0612).
Davidow
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QNME 0615
Epidemiology and Control of Chronic and Infectious Diseases (3)
The use of this course in the medical perspective focuses on the individual patient or healthy person. The use of this course in the public health perspective focuses on communities and populations. The course covers epidemiology, prevention, and control of chronic and infectious diseases.
Prerequisite: PHCO 0502.
Najem
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QNME 0616
Advanced Topics in Infectious and Chronic Diseases Epidemiology (3)
This is an advanced-level course. Using practical and detailed examples, it explores
topically important issues in epidemiology to provide a framework for future self-learning and field research
experiences. It applies principles to analyze relevant
literature critically. The course presents
advanced selected topics with an emphasis on infectious
disease epidemiology.
Prerequisites: All M.P.H. core courses, and QNME 0611.
Weiss
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QNME 0621
Survey Research Methods and Questionnaire Design (3)
Introduces students
to the basics of survey research and provides them with skills necessary to conduct their own research. An understanding of statistics and computers is
essential in this course. Computers are used throughout
the semester for various tasks, including electronic communication, formatting of instruments, data entry, data analysis, and class presentations.
Prerequisites: PHCO 0502 and PHCO 0504.
Passannante
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QNME 0622
Injury Control and Prevention (3)
This survey course provides students with a broad-based understanding of the various psychosocial, political, and economic causes and consequences of injury, and presents an exploration of the tools of injury surveillance and prevention. In the course, injury will be considered as a public health problem,
one where its determinants reside in the community, and where prevention
efforts are most effective when directed toward the community.
Prerequisites: All M.P.H. core courses.
Lavery
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QNME 0629
Meta-Analysis (3)
This is a beginning course in meta-analysis. Meta-analysis refers to the quantitative analysis of outcomes of primary studies. Meta-analysis consists of a collection of techniques that attempt
to analyze and integrate effect sizes (indices of the association between an independent variable and a dependent variable) that accrue from research
studies. This
course is concerned with the conduct of a meta-analysis and how to interpret and use the results.
The class will take a two-pronged approach and consider how to read and critically analyze a meta-analytic report
and how to conduct a meta-analysis. Class sessions will involve
discussion on the benefits and problems associated with this procedure, the steps to performing a quality analysis,
the place of meta-analysis within the scientific method, and ways to tell a good meta-analysis from a poor one. Also included are the specific steps to conduct a meta-analysis. Topics will include how to formulate a meta-analytic research
question, how to conduct an exhaustive literature search, how to code moderating variables, how to calculate effect
sizes, how to analyze effect size distributions, and how determine the right model for analysis.
Prerequisite: PHCO 0504 or graduate-level statistics course.
Holly
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QNME 0636
Principles and Practices of Infectious Disease Diagnosis Part A: Bacteria and Parasites (3)
Provides public health students
with basic knowledge
of infectious disease pathology, diagnosis, treatment, and risk factors. In addition, students will be introduced to basic laboratory methods, which are used to diagnose
infectious disease and to access public health risk.
Prerequisites: PHCO 0502, PHCO 0504, or clinical degree (eg. M.D., D.M.D., R.N., etc.).
Kloser, Kreiswirth
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QNME 0637
Principles and Practices of Infectous Disease Diagnosis Part B: Viruses and Fungi (3)
Provides public health students with basic knowledge of infectious disease, pathology, diagnosis, treatment, and risk factors. In addition, students will be introduced to basic laboratory methods that are used to diagnose infectious diseases and to access public health risk.
Prerequisites: PHCO 0502, PHCO 0504, or clinical degree (eg. M.D., D.M.D., R.N., etc.).
Kloser, Kreiswirth
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QNME 0638
Tuberculosis (TB): A View from the Trenches (3)
Presented
for students pursuing
degrees in public health and/or medicine and whose intent is to broaden their knowledge
base in the field of tuberculosis. Students will be provided with a foundation necessary
for entry-level positions
in the field of TB control. This course is
designed to allow students
the opportunity to identify areas of interest
in TB for further in-depth
study.
Wolman
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QNME 0641
GIS in Public Health (3)
Geographic information systems (GIS) are
transforming the ways
in which we assess, visualize, and present data. Policymakers, practitioners, and managers in countless fields are using GIS more than ever before to make important
decisions that affect the
lives of numerous populations. The use of GIS
in the public health and
health care sectors has
become imperative for the assessment of, for example, access of disadvantaged populations to health services, point and nonpoint sources of water pollution, spatial patterns in disease rates, and
health disparities by socioeconomic status. As GIS continues to become a more
valuable and widely used tool
for improvement of health across all populations, it is becoming increasingly important for those entering the
fields of public health, health
care, and medicine to be proficient with GIS. The course provides an extensive
overview of GIS concepts and introduces students to ESRI's ArcMap software, the primary and most powerful GIS software used by professionals and academics alike. Exercises and assignments using ArcMap deal with health care and public health data, problems,
and scenarios. At
the end
of the course, students will be proficient with ArcMap, GIS principles, and will be able
to apply GIS software
to today's fundamental public health themes and problems.
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QNME 0642
Radiology Informatics I (3)
This course provides an overview of current topics in health care information systems focusing on those most pertinent to radiology
informatics. Special emphasis will be placed on medical imaging principles
and the fundamentals of PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System)
and RIS (Radiology Information Systems) as important tools intrinsic to modern health care delivery systems.
Prerequisite: PHCO 0504.
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QNME 0643
Radiology Informatics II (3)
This course continues
to expand on topics introduced
in Radiology Informatics I. Special emphasis
will be placed on PACS operation and PACS-based imaging informatics, stressing applications for global patient care and successful 21st-century
information management.
Prerequisites: PHCO 0504 and QNME 0642.
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QNME 0653
Violence in America: Programs and Policy (3)
Examines the public health approaches to the
study and prevention of violence in its various forms. The course will
begin with an interdisciplinary review of theories
of violence and victimization and basic concepts
of research methodology. Following
these introductory sessions, the study and prevention of violence will be examined
using the steps of the public health model as the organizing
framework.
Boyle
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