HBSP 0581
Adult Psychopathology for Public Health (3)
This course is designed as an introduction and overview of current knowledge regarding adult psychopathology, including mental disorders, symptoms of mental disorders, psychological distress, substance use, and related behaviors (e.g., suicide). The course will address foundational topics such as definitions of mental disorders, psychological distress, substance use, and related behaviors; standard approaches to diagnosis and assessment; key causal mechanisms; epidemiology; course; and risk and protective factors.
Prerequisite: PHCO 0502.
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HBSP 0582
Alcohol Use, Society & Health (3)
This course introduces the role that alcohol plays in our lives, its impact on society and public health, and the effectiveness of alcohol policies and regulations, interventions, and treatments.
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HBSP 0600
Health Behavior and Policy Research Design and Methods (3)
This course serves as an introduction to research methods and is designed to acquaint students with methods to conduct health behavior and health policy research. The course explores major research methods and techniques. While the emphasis will be on quantitative methods, qualitative methods are also introduced.
Prerequisite: PHCO 0504.
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HBSP 0602
Long Term Effects of Childhood Inequality and Early Life Adversity (3)
This course introduces students to a life course perspective on population health and aging, focusing on the long-term impact of childhood health disparities. It uses interdisciplinary frameworks, including epidemiology, psychology, sociology, and economics, to explore health-wealth dynamics and intergenerational disadvantage, primarily in the U.S. and low-income countries, with emphasis on the evaluation of long-run implications of public health interventions and policies in light of these life cycle effects.
Prerequisites: PHCO 0502 and PHCO 0504.
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HBSP 0603
Mental Health and Aging (3)
This course provides an overview of theory and research in mental health for older populations, focusing on psychological, social, and biological aspects. It equips students with knowledge and skills to understand the aging process and common biopsychosocial issues that present in later life. Topics include the epidemiology, etiology, assessment, and treatment of psychological disorders in older adults, and the social, cultural, and political contexts of aging.
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HBSP 0605
Aging: Legal Challenges and Policy Opportunities (3)
This course examines the unique legal and policy challenges facing older adults in the United States, focusing on such marginalized populations of women, people of color, immigrants, LGBTQ+ seniors, and veterans.
Prerequisite: PHCO 0501
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HBSP 0620
Public Health Ethics and Law (3)
This course examines the U.S. legal system's key elements influencing public health, including the Constitution, federal, state, and local laws, administrative law, and judicial decisions. It explores government power, its legal limits, and ethical dimensions. Core public health issues and current events are analyzed within this legal framework to understand tools available to the government to address threats to public health.
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HBSP 0621
Health Care Economics (3)
This course introduces economic concepts applied to the health care sector, focusing on resource efficiency and equity in distribution. Topics include the performance of the health care economy, demand for health services and teh production of 'good health', costs and benefits of resource use, health insurance decisions, government roles, and health care reform, aiming to assess and improve health care efficiency and equity.
Prerequisite: PHCO 0501.
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HBSP 0622
Health Politics and Policy (3)
This course offers an in-depth analysis of U.S. government institutions and processes affecting health policy. It examines how American governmental arrangements influence health policy development, reviews several case studies, and identifies key lessons. The course also addresses fundamental challenges faced by health policymakers globally and explores various policy instruments to address these issues.
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HBSP 0623
Cross National Comparisons of Health Systems and Policy (3)
This course extends beyond comparative health systems discussed in core public health courses to examine how various nations respond to challenges posed by evolving healthcare systems. Students analyze national policy variations, explore pros and cons of these approaches, and draw implications for U.S. policy debates. The course provides students with a deeper understanding of diverse strategic approaches to major societal health policy issues, enhancing their comprehension of the complexities and dynamics of healthcare reform.
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HBSP 0624
Population Health and Public Policy (3)
This course examines selected population health problems and how they are shaped by the social, economic, and residential circumstances of individuals, their political environments, and their health behaviors. Particular emphasis of the course is to explore public policy initiatives to address the health problems under consideration, and to evaluate their success and unintended consequences.
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HBSP 0625
Issues in Private and Public Health Insurance (3)
This course explores issues related to the role of private and public health insurance in the health care sector. It focuses on institutional features of the private and public health insurance systems, the theory underlying the population's demand, and potential behavioral responses. Students evaluate the private and public insurance systems to identify changes to improve the efficiency and equity of these markets.
Prerequisite: HBSP 0621 or HSAP 0615.
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HBSP 0630
Topics in Health Systems and Health Care Policy (3)
This course covers selected topics related to the performance and structure of health care systems, and the possible policy responses to address perceived shortcomings in health system performance.
Prerequisite: Varies depending on the topics for the semester.
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HBSP 0640
Seminar in Health Education Topics (1-3)
This seminar is used to address timely public health problems and issues that are not ordinarily dealt within department courses.
Prerequisite: PHCO 0505.
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HBSP 0652
Program Planning and Evaluation (3)
This course provides students with the hands on skills needed to plan, implement, and evaluate public health and health promotion programs in various settings. Students develop and plan an evaluation for a program for a health problem in a population at risk.
Prerequisite: PHCO 0505.
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HBSP 0653
Modifying Health Behaviors: Theory and Practice (3)
This course familiarizes students with the more commonly used, and scientifically supported, health behavior modification theories and models that facilitate successful behavior change within and across diverse populations/communities as well as the principles of learning theory that underlie these health behavior modification theories and models.
Prerequisite: PHCO 0505.
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HBSP 0654
Public Health Communication/Risk Communication (3)
This course familiarizes students with health communication theories and applications in public health campaigns, interventions and programs.
Prerequisite: PHCO 0505.
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HBSP 0655
Social Marketing (3)
This course focuses on the planning and application of theory-based social marketing strategies for promoting behavior change and achieving program goals and objectives.
Prerequisite: PHCO 0505.
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HBSP 0660
Dissemination and Implementation Research for Health Promotion (3)
This course provides an introduction to dissemination and implementation (D&I) research or science, a growing field of study that examines the process by which evidence-based interventions are adopted, implemented, and sustained in community or clinical settings. In particular, this course will focus on how D&I can promote health and reduce health inequities.
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HBSP 0680
Mental Health Services and Systems (3)
This course introduces students to US health services and systems that address mental health and substance use, including historical trends, care access/quality, prevention and treatment, stigma, disparities, and current issues.
Prerequisite: PHCO 0501 and PHCO 0502.
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HBSP 0681
Stigma and Mental Health (3)
This course provides an overview of how stigma and discrimination impact mental health across structural, interpersonal, and individual levels in the US and around the world.
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HBSP 0682
Understanding Suicide: Risk, Prevention & Intervention (3)
This course provides an overview of suicide risk, prevention, and interventions at individual and population levels, considering diverse identities. It addresses theories, epidemiology, history, and communication strategies to combat stigma.
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HBSP 0683
Social-Ecological Approaches to Suicide Prevention (3)
This course will introduce students to a novel social-ecological model of suicide prevention that prioritizes policy and commercial determinants of health. Students will analyze the role commercial actors, government policies, and social and political norms play in amplifying or mitigating suicide risk.
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HBSP 0700
Advances in Public Health Theories (3)
This course provides an overview of applied public health theories, concepts, and methods in the field of public health practice, policy, and research. Students will cultivate an understanding of modern paradigms to understand public health problems. Its emphasis will be on multidisciplinary and holistic theories related to the social determinants of health and how psychosocial, cultural, environmental, and political factors affect the health of populations and communities over the life course.
Prerequisite: Doctoral student standing.
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HBSP 0701
Grant Writing for Public Health, Behavioral and Biomedical Research (3)
This course offers an introduction to grant-writing, with a focus on the behavioral, social science, and public health portfolio at the National Institutes of Health. Students will learn about the funding opportunities offered by NIH, the grant submission process, and the grant review process. Although the focus is on NIH, students will gain knowledge, practice skills, and cultivate effective professional habits that will facilitate positive grant submission outcomes for funding agencies worldwide.
Prerequisite: Doctoral student standing.
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HBSP 0703
Evaluation and Research Designs for Public Health Interventions (3)
This course provides students with the necessary knowledge for understanding and conducting behavioral health intervention research. This course presents research designs and procedures as well as data analytic techniques that are commonly used in the social and behavioral sciences. An in-depth understanding of the material presented in this course is requisite for accurately interpreting behavioral health literature and conducting behavioral health intervention research.
Prerequisites: Doctoral student standing and successful completion of a graduate level statistics course.
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HBSP 0713
Public Health Ethics and Law (3)
This course examines key elements of the U.S. legal system that govern and influence public health, including the Constitution, federal, state and local laws, administrative law, and judicial decisions. The legal foundations of public health determine the tools available to government to address public health threats. This class examines government power, its legal limits, ethical dimensions of various topics, and core public health issues, including current events, in the context of this legal framework.
Prerequisite: Doctoral student standing.
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HBSP 0722
Mixed Methods Research for Public Health (3)
This course introduces students to a variety of methodological approaches to conducting public health research with a specific focus on mixed methods. The course reviews both qualitative and quantitative methods before discussing the integration of these two methodological approaches into a mixed methods study design. The topics presented in this course will mirror the research process beginning with developing a research question, identifying the appropriate research methods, and implementing the proposed study.
Prerequisite: Doctoral student standing and BIST 0714.
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HBSP 0723
Health Politics and Policy (3)
This course provides an in-depth analysis of the government institutions and processes that affect U.S. health policy The course explores how the institutional arrangements of American government work with respect to the development of health policy and reviews health policy case studies to identify lessons from them. The course explores fundamental challenges that face health policymakers in all countries and the array of policy instruments that can be deployed to address them.
Prerequisite: Doctoral student standing.
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HBSP 0724
Population Health and Public Policy (3)
This course covers selected population health problems, including the leading risk factors for premature death and explores the underlying circumstances, monetary and non-monetary incentives, and behaviors of individuals that contribute to such problems. In doing so, students will identify underlying causal mechanisms that lead to health problems and understand the role of policy. This course will also integrate discussions of current health policy initiatives.
Prerequisite: Doctoral student standing.
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HBSP 0725
Effectively Teaching and Training Adults (3)
The course focuses on traditional and innovative teaching approaches to facilitating learning in academic, organizational or community settings, taking into consideration the characteristics of the adult learner. This course is designed to give students the opportunity to put theory and research into practice via active learning experiences, primarily in the academic setting. Specifically, students develop a syllabus for a course or training program, facilitate an in-person or an online lesson, and evaluate teaching methods.
Prerequisite: Doctoral student standing.
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HBSP 0726
Intermediate Survey Research Methods (3)
This course introduces students the principles of survey design that are the basis of standard practices in the field. The course uses the concept of total survey error as a framework to discuss sampling, modes of data collection, field operations, sources of bias, the impact of nonresponse, and the effect of question structure, wording, and context on respondent response. The practical focus of this course is the development and application of a research instrument.
Prerequisite: Doctoral student standing.
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