Course Description This advanced graduate course equips students with the biostatistical knowledge and skills essential for conducting, interpreting, and critically evaluating public health research and practice. Students explore descriptive and inferential statistics, probability, sampling distributions, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, power and sample size determination, and advanced techniques including regression analysis, ANOVA, non-parametric methods, survival analysis, […]

Course Description This advanced graduate course explores the principles, theories, and practices of effective leadership in public health. Students examine classical and contemporary leadership models, the unique challenges of leading in complex public health systems, and the development of personal leadership competencies such as vision-setting, strategic thinking, communication, collaboration, conflict resolution, and ethical decision-making. Emphasis […]

Course Description This graduate course offers a comprehensive examination of environmental factors influencing the health and safety of communities in the 21st century, from local neighborhoods to global scales. Students analyze the associations and interrelationships among chemical, physical, and biological hazards and their impacts on human health. Core topics include air, water, food, waste management, […]

Course Description This accelerated graduate course focuses on the practical application of epidemiologic methods to solve real-world public health problems. Students build on foundational epidemiologic principles to design, implement, and interpret studies; conduct disease surveillance; investigate outbreaks; assess risk factors; and evaluate interventions. Emphasis is placed on measures of disease frequency and association, study designs […]

PUBH 6100: Environmental Health Course Description This accelerated graduate course provides a foundational understanding of environmental health sciences and their critical role in public health. Students explore the interrelationships between human populations and the natural and built environments, focusing on major hazards (biological, chemical, physical), exposure pathways, toxicology, risk assessment, and management strategies. Key emphases […]

Course Description This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the major social and behavioral theories used in public health research and practice. Students examine individual, interpersonal, community, and ecological models that explain health-related behaviors and guide the development of effective health promotion and disease prevention programs. Key topics include the role of theory in understanding […]

Week 1: Introduction to SBIRT and Substance Use Epidemiology Discussion: Introduce yourself and discuss your prior experience (or lack thereof) with substance use screening in clinical practice. Why is SBIRT important in advanced nursing practice today? Respond to at least two peers. Assignment: Complete a self-paced introductory SBIRT overview module (e.g., free online training) and […]

PUBH 8034 provides a comprehensive overview of environmental factors that affect the health and safety of 21st-century communities. Students examine associations and interrelationships between chemical, physical, and biological hazards in the environment and their impact on human health. Concepts cover food, water, air, waste, radiation, noise, pests, population growth, injury and physical hazards, and climate […]

Course Catalog DescriptionPUBH 6330 provides a practical, hands-on approach to the analysis, design, and development of relational databases with a strong emphasis on healthcare applications. Students begin with requirements gathering from healthcare scenarios (e.g., patient records, clinical trials, population health tracking, billing, or quality reporting), proceed to conceptual and logical database design, and then implement […]

Psychotic disorders change one’s sense of reality and cause abnormal thinking and perception. Patients presenting with psychotic disorders may suffer from delusions or hallucinations or may display negative symptoms such as lack of emotion or withdraw from social situations or relationships. Symptoms of medication-induced movement disorders can be mild or lethal and can include, for […]