This course will introduce students to basic concepts in disease mapping and data visualization using a variety of software packages. These will include Excel from Microsoft, EpiInfo from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), QGIS from the open-source QGIS Project, and more. Students will use these tools to gain experience producing figures and tables appropriate for publication in epidemiologic manuscripts.

This course is to be a practical introduction to public health at the national, state, and local levels. This course is intended for students in the Master of Health Administration, PhD in Gerontology, and PhD in Epidemiology & Biostatistics.

This course is designed to orient students to leadership and teamwork process involved in clinical and translational research and to train students to function effectively in team settings. Students will be assigned to multidisciplinary teams with a designated principal investigator. Each team will be assigned to develop an integrated multidisciplinary grant application to address an assigned clinical research topic.

This course will provide students the opportunity to gain first hand public health experience by participating in projects in a community setting. Number of credit hours, associated contact hours, and assignments to be determined in consultation with the instructor.

A survey course on the leading chronic diseases in the U.S., including cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes with focus on surveillance and risk factors.

This course provides students with the understanding of advanced issues in the design, analysis, and interpretation of epidemiologic studies. The course text and associated readings will focus on study designs and the methodologic approaches to addressing bias, confounding, and error in the design of population-based health research. The development of a systematic approach for evaluating evidence from epidemiologic studies as it relates to demonstrating causality will be emphasized.

This course will provide an overview of the field of pharmacoepidemiology and its relationship to health care research. Various topics including methodology and analytical issues relevant to the conduct of pharmacoepidemiologic research will be covered. Time will also be spent reviewing existing papers in the field of pharmacoepidemiology.

This course will engage in readings, projects, lectures and/or discussions to address current topics of special interest or concerns. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 semester hours.

This course will engage students in readings, projects, lectures and/or discussions to address current topics of special interest or concerns. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 credit hours.

This course will acquaint students with the major issues and challenges of working in the area of maternal and child health.