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UGPH 0515
Global Communicable and Noncommunicable Diseases (3)
This course is divided into two parts: Part I focuses on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and their risk factors, emphasizing those significantly contributing to the global disease burden. Part II addresses critical topics related to the identification, control, and prevention of emerging and well-known infectious diseases, particularly in tropical and developing countries. The course considers clinical presentations, transmission modes, geographic distribution, and prevention from an epidemiologic perspective, and assesses global disease control programs and policies.
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UGPH 0521
Culture and Health (3)
This course examines theoretical, ethical, and applied elements of culture as it relates to health, combining diverse cases to highlight the need for cultural awareness and competency in global health contexts. It explains concepts and perspectives on culture and health, situating culture as integral to achieving health goals. Participants examine public health problems within a social and cultural context and explore the role of culture in the research, development, and implementation of public health initiatives. Public health professionals must account for the cultures of the people they serve, recognizing cultural blind spots. The course reviews examples of successes and failures in accounting for culture in public health campaigns and actions.
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UGPH 0560
Foundation In Maternal and Child Health (3)
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of Maternal and Child Health (MCH), focusing on the health and well-being of mothers, children, and families. The course introduces students to the main conceptual frameworks, theories, knowledge, research, and methods in the field of MCH. Students will explore historical, theoretical, and practical aspects of MCH, including key public health concepts and methods used to address MCH issues and support health equity across the lifespan.
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UGPH 0561
Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice in the United States (3)
Introduction to major topics of U.S. sexual and reproductive health, informed by reproductive justice framework. Critical analysis of research and measurement, including contraception, abortion, adolescent childbearing, STIs, and sex education.
Recommended corequisite: PHCO 0502
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UGPH 0580
Social Determinants of Health (3)
This course will provide an overview of the social determinants of health, focusing on how social and economic conditions affect a person's health. The course will explore multiple social determinants of health including social integration, racial discrimination, and adverse childhood experiences as they impact the health and well-being of various populations. The course will end with examining interventions to achieve health equity.
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UGPH 0600
Introduction to Global Public Health (3)
This course provides an overview of global public health, emphasizing the impacts of weak health systems, inadequate infrastructure, economic dependencies, climate, geography, vector biology, and war on communicable and noncommunicable diseases, as well as mental, maternal, and environmental health. It aims to develop a health care workforce conversant with global health concerns and to build knowledge networks and research capacities to address information gaps.
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UGPH 0605
Qualitative Research Methods (3)
This course focuses on qualitative research methods in public health. Qualitative research is an approach to understanding the "whole person" or his/her "lived experience." Qualitative methods emphasize "making meaning" of a social phenomenon, behavior, or target population of interest that is not easily measurable or quantifiable. The methods of qualitative research include: case studies, ethnography, grounded theory, narratives, and phenomenology. The course will begin with an introduction to the origins and foundations of qualitative methods and proceed to cover these topics: formulating research questions, ethical issues, access, designing the study, sampling, data collection, data analysis, and writing the report. There are various methods for data collection in qualitative research: focus groups, interviews (I.e., open-ended, semi-structured, in-depth), observation, and document review. The focus of this course will be on learning the basic approaches, concepts, content, and skills associated with qualitative research in urban public health. In addition, students will learn how to choose among the five designs for qualitative methods and learn the tools and approaches to qualitative analysis.
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UGPH 0621
Public Health and Health Disparities (3)
As members of the public health community, we have a role to play in
shaping how people think about and work to eliminate health disparities. This course examines
how social, economic, environmental, cultural, and lifestyle factors contribute to differences in
morbidity and mortality in racial and ethnic minorities and the medically underserved. We will
also examine social determinants of population health.
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UGPH 0630
Global Food Systems and Policy (3)
This course focuses on the challenges faced by food systems locally and globally, and critically analyzes the design, evaluation, and impact of programs and policies aimed at addressing those challenges.
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UGPH 0640
LGBTQ Health: Global History and Context (3)
The course introduces students to the historical context of LGBTQ health and health disparities through the lens of the manifestation of dominant patriarchal systems that produce those disparities.
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UGPH 0642
LGBTQ Health and Health Disparities (3)
This course examines the core interdisciplinary theories, knowledge, research, and methods evidenced in understanding LGBTQ health and disparities in the LGBTQ population. Students will be introduced to the main conceptual frameworks used to study LGBTQ individuals, communities, and populations across the lifespan both in the United States and globally.
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UGPH 0644
Methods for Hard-to-Reach Populations (3)
This course provides students with tools to design and conduct research among LGBTQ+ communities and other communities that health systems have classified as hidden and hard to reach. Intended for students who have completed introductory epidemiology and biostatistics courses, this course provides in-depth information about innovative public health strategies for sampling, recruitment and retention, academic/community partnerships, and research design. The course will provide students with the skills to maximize effective research and public health practice with communities experiencing persistent and profound health disparities who have been traditionally been under-researched and under-served.
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UGPH 0646
Transgender Health (3)
People who are transgender, gender queer or gender nonconforming are
becoming more visible in society. Despite the increased visibility of transgender people and the significant
social, political and medical advances regarding sexual orientation and gender identity, gender queer,
nonconforming/binary and people that identify as transgender face severe discrimination, stigma,
systematic and structural oppression, and violence. This course will examine the health and daily life of
people that are transgender, gender queer or gender nonconforming. Students will hear from experts in
the field, hear personal stories from adults, parents of transgender, gender queer or gender
nonconforming children and adolescents, and participate in events produced by the transgender
community. At the completion of the course, students will have a working knowledge of the health and
the structural factors (e.g., discrimination, transphobia, harassment, laws, barriers to health services, as
well as the social, political and medical advances) that have shaped the lives of transgender people.
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UGPH 0648
Public Health Aspects of HIV Prevention and Care (3)
This course considers the evolution of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States (US) health systems using a public health lens and with consideration to population-based health promotion strategies. Students will learn about the history of HIV/AIDS as manifested in the US; biomedical aspects of the disease including HIV testing and treatment; epidemiological, social, and behavioral factors associated with HIV/AIDS; as well as public health policies and calls to action. Students will examine, analyze, apply, and evaluate theoretical paradigms and research, drawn from public health and interrelated disciplines. The course utilizes a biopsychosocial framework that emphasizes on evidence-supported HIV prevention and care. The course uses an experiential learning approach..
Prerequisite: PHCO 0505
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UGPH 0670
Global Food and Culture (3)
This course will provide students with the framework of what drives people to eat the foods they do, allowing them to gain insight into the broader factors that influence nutrition and health outcomes of populations around the world. The overarching aim of this course is to provide students with a deeper understanding of the cultural, social, environmental, political and economic determinants that affect the food choices, nutrition and health of populations globally. Students will learn cultural concepts that relate to food, they will examine how different farming and food systems influence the foods that populations have access to, and they will learn about the diverse dietary patterns from around the globe, and how they might influence health outcomes.
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UGPH 0680
Urban Public Health (3)
The course provides the student with basic information about how cities
`workż and the background needed to better promote health in urban settings. Cities are
ultimately about their residents and visitors, and the many interactions among them within
complex urban ecosystems. The course describes the multiple social and physical
environments of cities and the ways by which class, power, oppression, socioeconomic status,
development, and the natural and built environments interact to influence the health and wellbeing
of urban populations and subpopulations.
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UGPH 0711
Leadership and Management I: Organizations Contributing to Public Health (3)
The first of three Leadership & Management courses in the DrPH program focuses on building students' understanding of the macro-organizational factors that influence organizational behavior, creating well designed strategic plans, developing budgets, analyzing and recommending remedies for organizational failures, and emerging issues influencing the field of public health such as the expansion of AI in public health and healthcare. Guest speakers who are leaders in public health and related sectors join for several class sessions.
Prerequisite: Doctoral student standing.
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UGPH 0712
Creating Interventions for Impact (3)
This course provides a foundation to rigorously identify and define targets for public health intervention, develop organizing conceptual frameworks, and refine these targets as new information emerges. It covers basic design and implementation principles from the technology sector, adapting them to create innovative public health interventions in collaboration with targeted communities and stakeholders. The course also offers a foundation in selecting appropriate assessment, evaluation, and research techniques in rapidly changing social, economic, and technological contexts.
Prerequisite: Doctoral student standing.
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UGPH 0715
Leadership and Management II: Organizations Contributing to Public Health (3)
Leadership and management are essential to the success of all organizations and professional fields. For organizations that aim to contribute to improvements in public health, leadership and management are necessary in fulfilling organizational missions and achieving impact. The focus of this course will include a chance for participants to build systems thinking capacity, develop strategies for influencing organizations within complex macro environments, and practical skills for all aspects of organizational leadership and management. The course will center the need for recruiting, retaining, and developing diverse professionals within organizations. Participants will also have an opportunity to explore their own leadership goals, to work collaboratively with the other members of the DrPH program and to directly engage with leaders who will join as guests.
Prerequisite: Doctoral student standing and UGPH 0711.
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UGPH 0716
Evaluation and Evidence for Public Health (3)
Through this course, students will understand and the significant role of program evaluation in developing evidence for public health policy and program decisions. With a grounding in impact, implementation, and cost-benefit evaluation, students will demonstrate mastery by developing an evaluation design and an outline for a request for proposals for their dissertation. Throughout, students will make connections between the methods and how to apply them to their dissertation as well as their current role. The course emphasizes what is needed to ensure evaluation methods are sound, root them in the literature and rigorous methods, and include equitable approaches to studying Social Determinants of Health.
Prerequisite: Doctoral student standing.
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UGPH 0723
Leadership and Management III: Organizations Contributing to Public Health (3)
The third and final Leadership & Management course extends the concepts and tools learned in the first two courses to a broad, multi-sectoral exploration of public health. Students will learn more complex budgetary skills including how to calculate ROI and SROI for public health organizations/programs. Students will also engage in a leadership project and develop plans for their Applied Practice Experience and will work on enhancing their own positioning as leaders. Guest speakers include leaders from multiple sectors.
Prerequisites: UGPH 0711 and UGPH 0715. Doctoral student standing.
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UGPH 0724
Policy, Power, and Advancing Public Health (3)
This course will help students learn to analyze the public health care policy environment, understand power and dynamic decision-making, white supremacy and misogyny and the role of racism and sexism in driving poor health policy, and acquire the tools to craft and win effective public health policy.
Prerequisite: Doctoral student standing.
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UGPH 0744
Methods for Hard to Reach Populations (3)
This course provides students with tools to design and conduct research among LGBTQ+ communities and other communities that health systems have classified as hidden and hard to reach. This offering provides in-depth information about innovative public health strategies for sampling, recruitment and retention, academic/community partnerships, and research design, and offers DrPH students an opportunity to design public health research and practice proposals. The course will provide students with the skills to maximize effective research and public health practice with communities experiencing persistent and profound health disparities who have been traditionally been under-researched and under-served.
Prerequisite: Doctoral student standing.
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UGPH 9000
Introduction to the United Nations (3)
Introduces students to the historical, theoretical, and practical foundations of the United Nations and discuss the UN's influence as an intergovernmental organization for public policy and international norm setting in the areas of security, peacekeeping, human rights, and development.
UGPH 9000 is a required course for students enrolled in the United Nations and Global PH certificate program.
Cross-listed with 16:790:525. This course is offered by the Rutgers School of Graduate Studies.
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