Designed as the link between academic work in biostatistics and application in public health practice; and to prepare the student for a leadership role in public health.

The Well Managed Public Health Care Organization is an advanced course addressing effective senior management of public and private organizations focusing upon public health.

This course provides the opportunity to link academic work in public health finance and economics with application in public health practice and to prepare the learner for key leadership roles in public health. This will be accomplished through readings, case studies, exercises, and individual research relevant to the disciplines of the profession of public health finance and economics.

This course is designed to provide DrPH students the knowledge and skills to guide and critically review program evaluations in their roles as public health professionals and leaders. The course focuses on providing an overview of the key concepts, methods, and approaches to program evaluation with an emphasis on public health practice. Topics include approaches to program evaluation, defining evaluation questions, managing an evaluation, program evaluation standards, program evaluation designs, reporting and disseminating results and findings, and political issues of evaluation.

Designed to address contemporary topics of significance in the field of public health as well as the study of specific topics and problems. May be repeated three times.

An introductory seminar which covers the fundamental activities, principles, and ethics of the computer science profession. An overview of the discipline of computer science, examples of careers, the history of computing, and experience with elementary computing tools are included.

This course introduces students to the World Wide Web, languages and techniques used for web programming, data transfer over the Internet, and the tools available in the web environment.

This course focuses on the graphical human-machine interface, covering the principles of windowing systems, graphical interface design and implementation, and processing graphical data. There is an emphasis on medium-scale programming projects with graphical user interfaces using a high-level procedural programming language and concepts such as object-oriented design.

A basic course in the theory of counting and graph theory. Topics in enumerative combinatorics may include: generating functions, compositions, partitions, Fibonacci numbers, permutations, cycle structure of permutations, permutations statistics, Stirling numbers of the first and second kind, Bell numbers, or inclusion-exclusion. Topics in graph theory may include: Eulerian and Hamiltonian cycles, matrix tree theorem, planar graphs and the 4-color theorem, chromatic polynomial, Hall's marriage theorem, stable marriage theorem, Ramsey theory, or electrical networks.

The course is an introduction to modern operations research and includes discussion of modeling, linear programming, dynamic programming, integer programming, scheduling and inventory problems and network algorithms.