Course Listings

Introduction to Mixed Methods Research

The objectives of the Epidemiology of Aging Lab supplement are to familiarize students with aging cohorts, prominent biases and methodological approaches to addressing them, commonly used statistical methods, and common areas of epidemiological research in aging populations.

Epidemiology of Aging

The objectives of the Epidemiology of Aging Lab supplement are to familiarize students with aging cohorts, prominent biases and methodological approaches to addressing them, commonly used statistical methods, and common areas of epidemiological research in aging populations.

Epidemiology of Aging Lab

The objectives of the Epidemiology of Aging Lab supplement are to familiarize students with aging cohorts, prominent biases and methodological approaches to addressing them, commonly used statistical methods, and common areas of epidemiological research in aging populations.

Grant Writing

Students will review funded and non-funded grant proposals for different types of NIH awards, with an emphasis on R01 research awards. Students will have an opportunity to have their own proposals reviewed by instructors and classmates. The instructor will prepare a research proposal with help from the students.

Life Course Research

This course examines life course research for health sciences. Emphasis will be placed on methodologies employed to estimate cumulative effects from earlier life exposures and biologic pathways to describe risks on health and disease across the life course.

Epidemiology Practicum

Students will explore an epidemiologic research question by reviewing relevant published literature, and then design and conduct appropriate data analysis using a pre-existing dataset.

Scientific Presentation

Students will learn the principles of scientific presentations, for the classroom, and for scientific meetings (both oral and poster presentations). Students will then prepare and deliver presentations based on their research project.

Health Policy 

Public health policy is what public officials within government, and by extension the citizens they represent, choose to do or not to do about public health problems. This course provides an overview of the US health policy landscape, and addresses the development of explicit health policies to promote certain health behaviors, policies aimed at public health safety, and policy issues related to emerging health and biomedical technologies.

Health Behavior/Global Health Practicum 

Students will learn about grant writing, project management, and preparation of manuscripts for publication and presentations for scientific meetings, and also work individually with a faculty mentor in preparing manuscripts using data from a specific health behavior intervention.

Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods

The aim of this course is to introduce graduate students to the strengths and appropriate use of qualitative research and analysis methods, with specific application to public health research and policy. The course will use a combination of didactic, group, interactive and applied techniques to teach knowledge and skills relevant to qualitative research. Lecture will present on the theory and ethical use of qualitative methods.

Dissemination and Implementation Science in Health: An Introduction

This course will emphasize the unique aspects of dissemination and implementation research, including the types of questions it seeks to answer, the outcomes examined and how they differ from other types of studies, the models and frameworks commonly used, and the qualitative and quantitative methods employed.

Special Topics in Public Health

Topics of special interest in public health. Topics may vary from quarter to quarter.

Independent Study in Public Health

Individual graduate study or research not covered by present course offerings. Study or research must be under the direction of a faculty member in the School of Public Health and approval must be secured from the faculty member and track director prior to registering. S/U grades only.

Dissertation Research in Public Health

Public Health doctoral program dissertation research units. 

Teaching Methods in Public Health

This course is for graduate students wanting to develop skills and knowledge to become a Teaching Assistant or as preparation for an academic teaching career. The course covers the practice and theory of educating others, curriculum and instructional design, and teaching best practices.

Biostatistical Methods in Clinical Trials

This graduate-level course will cover statistical aspects of clinical trial design, monitoring, analysis and ethics of human subjects research. Design and computations will be emphasized.

Courses (SDSU)

Epidemiology

Distribution and determinants of diseases; role of epidemiology in public health. Descriptive, analytic and experimental epidemiology.

Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.

Advanced Statistical Methods in Public Health

Applications of advanced statistical methods for analysis of public health and biomedical data. Topics include multiple linear regression, analysis of variance, logistic regression, and introduction to survival analysis.

Prerequisite: Public Health 602

Border and Global Public Health Surveillance

Data sources for border and global surveillance, including hospital system syndromic data. Methods of data quality control, data analysis, and alerting and communication of information.

Prerequisites: Public Health 601 and 602.

Units: 3

Seminar in Public Health

Concentration: Maternal and Child Health

Investigation of current problems in one of the fields of public health. May be repeated with new content. See Class Schedule for specific content. Maximum credit nine units of Public Health 700 applicable to a master’s degree. These units may be in a single concentration area or any of the public health concentration areas.

Prerequisites: Public Health 601, 602, and 603

Units: 3

Global Health I

Principles of global health. Challenges of urbanization and migration to include demography; main causes of morbidity and mortality, including infectious agents; reproductive health; cultural diversity; and global preparedness.

Prerequisites: Public Health 601 and 602

Units: 3

Seminar

Investigation of a particular topic or issue, emphasis on empirical research; topic to be announced in the Class Schedule. Maximum credit nine units applicable to a doctoral degree.

Prerequisite: Admission to the doctoral program.

Units: 1-9 over the course of two semesters

Global Health Practicum

An international research activity, program evaluation, participation in a multinational organization internship, or field work with government or non-governmental organizations. This practicum is required for completion of the Ph.D. in global health under supervision of program directors.

Prerequisites: Public Health 781, 800, 880.

Units: 3

Seminar: Program Planning and Evaluation in International Settings

Theory and skills to evaluate research and service programs in international settings to include methods in program planning and evaluation, distinctions between research and evaluation, special considerations in cross-cultural settings, and transadaptation of planning and evaluation materials.

Prerequisite: Public Health 780

Units: 3