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BIOSTAT503 Introduction to Biostatistics

• Fall term(s)
• 4 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Boehnke, Michael L
• Offered every year
• Prerequisites: Elementary algebra
• Description: Fundamental statistical concepts related to the practice of public health: descriptive statistics; probability; sampling; statistical distributions; estimation; hypothesis testing; chi-square tests; simple and multiple linear regression; one-way ANOVA. Use of computer in statistical analysis.
• Syllabus for BIOSTAT503 (PDF, 94686 bytes, last modified on Monday, December 10, 2012)

BIOSTAT553 Applied Biostatistics

• Fall term(s)
• 4 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Nan, Bin
• Prerequisites: Calculus
• Description: Fundamental statistical concepts related to the practice of public health: descriptive statistics; probability; sampling; statistical distributions; estimation; hypothesis testing; chi-square tests; simple and multiple linear regression; one-way ANOVA. . Taught at a more advanced mathematical level than Biostat 503. Use of the computer in statistical analysis.
• Syllabus for BIOSTAT553 (PDF, 61123 bytes, last modified on Thursday, September 20, 2012)

BIOSTAT560 Statistical Methods in Epidemiology

• Fall term(s)
• 4 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Tsodikov, Alexander
• Prerequisites: Epid 503 or Epid 601 or Epid 600; AND Biostat 523
• Description: Statistical methods commonly used in environmental epidemiology. Emphasis on choosing appropriate statistical methods and subsequent interpretation. Topics include probability, measures of association and risk, sample size calculations, SMR and PMR analysis, logistic regression and survival analysis.
• Syllabus for BIOSTAT560 (PDF, 36458 bytes, last modified on Thursday, August 09, 2012)

BIOSTAT578 Practical Projects

• Fall, Winter, Spring, Spring-Summer, Summer term(s)
• 1-4 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Prerequisites: NONE
• Description: Practical projects in consultation and statistical analysis of data in research studies with health investigators. Course requirements include an approved practical work experience related to Biostatistics in consultation with a faculty advisor. May be elected more than once. Enrollment limited to Biostatistics majors with at least two full terms of prior registration.

BIOSTAT600 Introduction to Biostatistics

• Fall term(s)
• 1 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Schaubel, Douglas; Welch, Kathy
• Prerequisites: Admission to a degree program in Biostatistics
• Description: The purpose of this course is to review basic applied statistical concepts and tools and to introduce the SPH computer network and statistical software.
• Syllabus for BIOSTAT600 (PDF, 7198 bytes, last modified on Tuesday, February 21, 2012)

BIOSTAT601 Probability and Distribution Theory

• Fall term(s)
• 4 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Wang, Lu; Li, Yi
• Prerequisites: Three terms of calculus
• Description: Fundamental probability and distribution theory needed for statistical inference. Probability, discrete and continuous distributions, expectation, generating functions, limit theorems, transformations, sampling theory.
• Syllabus for BIOSTAT601 (PDF, 85345 bytes, last modified on Tuesday, December 18, 2012)

BIOSTAT605 Intro to SAS Statistical Programming

• Fall term(s)
• 1 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Prerequisites: One course in introductory statistics; Co-requisite Biostat 601 or equivalent or Perm. Instr
• Description: This course provides incoming master's students in biostatistics with basic experience in SAS programming for data set creation and manipulation, an introduction to SAS macros, and SAS matrix manipulation.
• Syllabus for BIOSTAT605 (PDF, 18613 bytes, last modified on Tuesday, February 21, 2012)

BIOSTAT610 Readings in Biostatistics

• Fall, Winter term(s)
• 1-4 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Prerequisites: One of Biostat 503, Biostat 524, Biostat 553 or Biostat 601/Biostat 602
• Description: Independent study in a special topic under the guidance of a faculty member. May be elected more than once. Enrollment is limited to biostatistics majors.

BIOSTAT615 Statistical Computing

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Kang, Hyun Min
• Prerequisites: None
• Description: A survey of key algorithms for statistical computing and its applications in Biostatistics. The course will cover fundamental computational techniques for dynamic programming, sorting, and searching, as well statistical methods for random number generation, numerical integration, function optimization, Markov-Chain Monte Carlo, and the E-M algorithm. Enables students to understand numerical results produced by a computer and to implement their own statistical methods.
• Syllabus for BIOSTAT615 (PDF, 77346 bytes, last modified on Saturday, December 08, 2012)

BIOSTAT617 Theory and Methods of Sample Design (Soc 717 and Stat 580 and SurvMeth 617)

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Lepkowski, James M
• Prerequisites: Three or more courses in statistics, and preferably a course in methods of survey sampling
• Description: Theory underlying sample designs and estimation procedures commonly used in survey practice.
• This course is cross-listed with Stats 580 Soc 717 SurvMeth617 in the Rackham department.
• Syllabus for BIOSTAT617 (PDF, 25749 bytes, last modified on Thursday, September 13, 2012)

BIOSTAT619 Clinical Trials

• Fall term(s)
• 2 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Braun, Thomas
• Prerequisites: Biostatistics 601 or equivalent or Perm. Instr. One course Introductory Statistics
• Description: This course is designed for individuals with a strong quantitative background that are interested in the scientific, policy, design and management aspects of clinical trials. Topics include types of clinical research, bias and random error, study design, ethics, treatment allocation, randomization and stratification quality control, power and sample size, group sequential monitoring, crossover designs and meta-analysis.
• Syllabus for BIOSTAT619 (PDF, 24691 bytes, last modified on Tuesday, February 21, 2012)

BIOSTAT642 Introduction to Functional MRI

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Not offered 2013-2014
• Description: This course presents the basic skills to design and analyze functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiments. We start by reviewing the basic Matlab and Unix skills necessary to manipulate image data. Next we introduce the principles of MRI and the nature of the Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent (BOLD) effect, including artifacts that corrupt the BOLD signal. We cover blocked and event-related designs, and how to optimize statistical power of design. We cover subject safety.
• Syllabus for BIOSTAT642 (PDF, 13970 bytes, last modified on Tuesday, February 21, 2012)

BIOSTAT645 Time Series Analysis with Biomedical Applications

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Johnson, Timothy
• Not offered 2013-2014
• Prerequisites: Biostat 602, Biostat 650 or Perm. Instr
• Description: Introduction to statistical time series analysis with an emphasis on frequency domain (spectral) methods and their applications to biomedical problems. Topics include autocorrelation, stationarity, autoregressive and moving average processes, power spectra, periodgrams, spectral estimation, linear filters, complex demodulation, autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models, cross-correlation, cross-spectra, coherence, time and frequency domain linear regression. The methods will be illustrated in applications to various areas of public health and medical research such as environmental health, electrophysiology, and endocrinology.
• Syllabus for BIOSTAT645 (PDF, 23694 bytes, last modified on Tuesday, February 21, 2012)

BIOSTAT650 Applied Statistics I: Linear Regression

• Fall term(s)
• 4 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): LI, Yun
• Prerequisites: BIOSTAT601
• Description: Graphical methods, simple and multiple linear regression; simple, partial and multiple correlation; estimation; hypothesis testing, model building and diagnosis; introduction to nonparametric regression; introduction to smoothing methods (e.g., lowess) The course will include applications to real data.
• Syllabus for BIOSTAT650 (PDF, 203503 bytes, last modified on Tuesday, August 21, 2012)

BIOSTAT652 Design of Experiments

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Raghunathan, Trivellore
• Prerequisites: Biostat 651
• Description: Planning of experiments, use of contrasts in analysis of complete and incomplete block designs. A unified approach to analysis of designs through use of eigen-values and eigenvectors of the association matrix. A-D-E optimality criteria factorial exponents; efficiency of a design, confounding, fractional replication, response-surface designs, rotability criterion, mixture designs, analysis of two-way designs, analysis when blocks are random, applications in biological and biomedical problems.
• Syllabus for BIOSTAT652 (PDF, 68766 bytes, last modified on Friday, April 19, 2013)

BIOSTAT664 Special Topics in Biostastics

• Fall, Winter term(s)
• 1-4 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Johnson, Timothy
• Prerequisites: Permission of instructor
• Description: Master's level seminar designed to provide an extensive review of a number of substantive and methods and skill areas in biostatistics. Readings, discussion, and assignments are organized around issues of mutual interest to faculty and students. Reviews and reports on topics required in the areas selected. May be elected more than once.
• Syllabus for BIOSTAT664 (PDF, 39412 bytes, last modified on Monday, December 17, 2012)

BIOSTAT666 Statistical Models and Numerical Methods in Human Genetics

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Abecasis, Goncalo
• Prerequisites: Biostat 602 or Perm. Instr.
• Description: Introduction to current statistical methods used in human genetics. Topics will include sampling designs in human genetics, gene frequency estimation, the coalescent method for simulation of DNA sequences, linkage analysis, tests of association, detection of errors in genetic data, and the multi-factorial model. The course will include a simple overview of genetic data and terminology and will proceed with a review of numerical techniques frequently employed in human genetics.
• Syllabus for BIOSTAT666 (PDF, 35043 bytes, last modified on Tuesday, December 04, 2012)

BIOSTAT675 Survival Time Analysis

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Murray, Susan
• Prerequisites: Biostat 602 and Biostat 650
• Description: Concepts and methods for analyzing survival time data obtained from following individuals until occurrence of an event or their loss to follow-up. Survival time models, clinical life tables, survival distributions, mathematical and graphical methods for evaluating goodness of fit, comparison of treatment groups, regression models, proportional hazards models, censoring mechanisms.
• Syllabus for BIOSTAT675 (PDF, 71019 bytes, last modified on Friday, August 10, 2012)

BIOSTAT680 Applications of Stochastic Processes I

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Wen, William
• Prerequisites: Biostat 601 and Math 450 or equiv
• Description: Conditional distributions, probability generating functions, convolutions, discrete and continuous parameter, Markov chains, medical and health related applications.
• Syllabus for BIOSTAT680 (PDF, 22891 bytes, last modified on Tuesday, February 21, 2012)

BIOSTAT682 Applied Bayesian Inference

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Berrocal, Veronica
• Prerequisites: Biostat 602, Biostat 650 and Biostat 651
• Description: Introduction to Bayesian Inference. Bayesian large sample inference, relationship with maximum likelihood. Choice of model, including prior distribution. Bayesian approaches to regression generalized linear models, categorical data, and hierarchical models. Empirical Bayes methods. Comparison with frequentist methods. Bayesian computational methods. Assessment of sensitivity to model assumptions. Emphasis on biomedical applications.
• Syllabus for BIOSTAT682 (PDF, 75320 bytes, last modified on Tuesday, August 28, 2012)

BIOSTAT695 Analysis of Categorical Data

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Johnson, Timothy
• Prerequisites: Biostat 602 and Biostat 660
• Description: Regression models for the analysis of categorical data: logistic, probit and complementary log-log models for binomial random variables; log-linear models for cross-classifications of counts; regression models for Poisson rates; and multinomial response models for both nominal and ordinal responses. Model specification and interpretation are emphasized, and model criticism, model selection, and statistical inference are cast within the framework of likelihood based inference.
• Syllabus for BIOSTAT695 (PDF, 32684 bytes, last modified on Thursday, August 09, 2012)

BIOSTAT803 Biostatistics in Cancer Seminar

• Fall term(s)
• 1 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Taylor, Jeremy
• Prerequisites: Perm. Instr.
• Description: The purpose of this class is to describe biostatistical research that is occuring in collaboration with cancer researchers, and to provide exposure to the field of cancer research. Activities inlcude seminars on statistical methods in cancer; presentations of cancer research; presentations of articles from statistical literature; discussion of cancer clinical tiral protocals and grant proposals; and visits to research laboratories. Students formally in the training program are expected to enroll in this course every semester. The course is open to students not participating in the training grant. It is open to both PhD and Masters students.
• Syllabus for BIOSTAT803 (PDF, 24323 bytes, last modified on Tuesday, December 04, 2012)

BIOSTAT820 Readings in Biostatistics

• Fall, Winter, Spring-Summer term(s)
• 1-4 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Description: Students assigned special topics for literature study under guidance of individual faculty members. May be elected more than once. Enrollment limited to biostatistics majors.

BIOSTAT830 Advanced Topics in Biostatistics

• Fall, Winter term(s)
• 1-4 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Jiang, Hui
• Description: Advanced training in biostatistical methods primarily for doctoral students. Format will include lectures, readings, presentations and discussions in an area of special interest to students and faculty, such as stopping rules and interim analysis in clinical trials, conditional and unconditional inference and ancillarity, or nonparametric regression.
• Syllabus for BIOSTAT830 (PDF, 67113 bytes, last modified on Wednesday, June 13, 2012)

BIOSTAT855 Regression Models in Complex Sample Design Settings (JPSM/MPSM 895)

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Elliot, Michael
• Not offered 2013-2014
• Prerequisites: BIOSTAT617, BIOSTAT650, BIOSTAT651, or instructor permission
• Description: This course examines a range of statistical regression analysis techniques for modeling survey data, and presents methods to compensate for design features for complex sample survey data. Course topics include likelihood estimation and testing; application of likelihood methods to linear and generalized linear models, including logistic, probit, generalized (multinomial) logit, Poisson, and negative binomial models; time-to-event (survival analysis) models; regression models for longitudinal data; and propensity score and Bayesian regression modeling.
• Syllabus for BIOSTAT855 (PDF, 33416 bytes, last modified on Tuesday, February 21, 2012)

BIOSTAT866 Advanced Topics in Genetic Modeling

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Abecasis, Goncalo
• Not offered 2013-2014
• Prerequisites: Biostat 601, Biostat 602, Biostat 666 or Perm. Instr.
• Description: Advanced topics in quantitative genetics with emphasis on models for gene mapping, pedigree analysis, reconstruction of evolutionary trees, and molecular genetics experiments, computational mathematics, and statistical techniques such as Chen-Stein Poisson approximations, hidden Markov chains, and the EM algorithm introduced as needed.

BIOSTAT870 Analysis of Repeated Measurements

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Zhang, Min
• Prerequisites: Math 417, Biostat 602, Biostat 651 and one of Biostat 690, Biostat 851, or Biostat 890
• Description: Mixed model analysis of variance; multivariate profile analysis; linear mixed effects models with unbalanced designs, time-varying covariates, and structured covariance matrices; maximum likelihood (ML), restricted maximum likelihood (REML), and Bayes estimation and inference; nonlinear mixed effects models.
• Syllabus for BIOSTAT870 (PDF, 33609 bytes, last modified on Monday, December 24, 2012)

BIOSTAT895 Analysis of Multivariate Categorical Data

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Song, Peter Xuekun
• Not offered 2013-2014
• Prerequisites: Biostat 651 and Biostat 695 or Perm. Instr.
• Description: Probability models for two-way tables; multi-factor, multi-response framework; product multinomial distribution theory; Taylor series estimates of variance, weighted least squares and Wald statistics; constraint equations; models for characterizing interactions; step-wise variable selection; factorial designs with multinomial responses; repeated measurement experiments; log-linear models; paired-choice and bioassay experiments; life-table models.

BIOSTAT990 Dissertation/Pre-Candidacy

• Fall, Winter, Spring-Summer term(s)
• 1-8 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Prerequisites: (1-8 Full term, 1-4 Half term)
• Description: Election for dissertation work by doctoral student not yet admitted to status as a candidate.

BIOSTAT995 Dissertation Research for Doctorate in Philosophy

• Fall, Winter, Spring-Summer term(s)
• 1-8 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Prerequisites: Admission to Doctoral Program(1-8 Full term, 1-4 Half term)
• Description: Election for dissertation work by doctoral student who has been admitted to status as a candidate.

EHS500 Principles of Environmental Health Sciences

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Basu, Niladri; Neitzel, Richard
• Description: This course provides a broad overview of some of the most important and current challenges to human health from environmental and occupational risk factors while teaching the basic knowledge and multi-disciplinary skills used to assess, control, and prevent them. We will address specific threats, such as outdoor and indoor air pollution, toxic metals, pesticides, radiation and occupational stressors; analyze impacts on specific diseases and injuries, such as cardiovascular disease, asthma, cancer, musculoskeletal injuries and impaired child development;; and introduce emerging threats, such as the hormone-mimicing potential of plastic chemicals and the impact of global climate change on heat-related mortality and shifting patterns of infectious disease. Emphasis will also be given to understanding the worsening environmental health impacts of industrialization on developing countries, the effects of globalization, such as the growing movement of hazardous industries, products, and wastes across borders. and the rise of the environmental justice movement. The course fulfills the MPH core competency in environmental health and is also open to students in LSA and other UM graduate schools. A basic understanding (high school level) of human biology and chemistry is recommended.

EHS506 Principles of Toxicology

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Richardson, Rudy
• Prerequisites: Biology, Organic Chemistry, Grad Standing or Perm. Instr.
• Description: Principles underlying the chemical, physiological and anatomical basis of toxicity. Dose-response relationships, toxicokinetics, and biotransformation, mechanisms of cellular injury and death, organ system toxicity, developmental toxicology, genotoxicity and toxicogenomics, and chemical carcinogenesis. Principles will be illustrated where appropriate with specific examples of toxicity from environmental contaminants and pharmaceutical agents.

EHS513 Pathologic Basis of Disease

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Not offered 2013-2014
• Description: This course will examine the major pathological processes of humans and mammals elicited by chemical, biological and physical entities of interest to practitioners of Public Health. Specifically, the pathophysiological mechanisms of disease will be examined with a view to understanding the cellular, biochemical and molecular processes that cover injury, degeneration and regeneration.

EHS547 Food Science

• Fall term(s)
• 2 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Aaronson, Susan
• Offered every other year
• Last offered Fall 2009
• Prerequisites: Organic Chemistry
• Description: An examination of food composition and the chemical and physical changes that result from food processing, preparation and cooking. Discussion of foods as complex systems containing a wide variety of chemicals including nutrients, phytochemicals, functional ingredients, natural or transferred toxins and additives. Discussion of changes in chemicals with different types of food preservation. Consideration of health risks associated with dietary exposure to selected nutrients and other chemicals. Exploration of the role of sensory analysis related to food acceptance. Overview of important regulations related to the content of food products.

EHS550 Introduction to Occupational and Environmental Health

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Meeker, John
• Prerequisites: Grad Status or Senior Standing
• Description: Discussion of the basic concepts of occupational and environmental hygiene; recognition and evaluation of chemical,physical and biological hazards; the human environment; control hierarchies, strategies and technologies; personal protection; criteria and standards; the international dimension; and ethical issues. The course provides basic underpinnings of the nature of theory and practice in occupational and environmental hygiene, and thus provides a structural framework for thinking about the field, identifying linkages between disciplines and specialties, and providing a platform for more advanced study in the individual areas listed. The course is offered as a three-credit course in both the regular term and in the OJ/OC format.

EHS570 Water Quality Management

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Xi, Chuanwu
• Description: Principles of science and engineering used in the evaluation and control of water quality. Includes current legislation, types of pollution, sources and nature of pollution, introduction to water quality management practices, water supply and treatment, hydrologic concepts, effects of waste discharge on receiving waters, lake management, and water quality criteria and standards.

EHS572 Environmental Impact Assessment (NRE 514)

• Fall term(s)
• 2 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Batterman, Stuart
• Prerequisites: EHS 574, Grad Status
• Description: A comprehensive framework for predicting and evaluating environmental impacts is presented. The course emphasizes the theory, application, integration and evaluation of models simulating transport and fate of contaminants in air, surface and ground water, and soil. Case studies and computer exercises demonstrate contemporary exposure and health risk assessment problems.
• This course is cross-listed with NRE514 in the NRE department.

EHS574 Environmental Chemistry

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Ault, Andrew
• Prerequisites: College Chemistry including Organic Chemistry and Calculus
• Description: Environmental chemistry of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere and soils. Review of physical and chemical hazards and sources, distribution, transformations, routes to man of environmental contaminants. Human exposure assessment procedures and applications in health risk analysis programs.

EHS578 Practical Projects

• Fall, Winter, Spring, Spring-Summer, Summer term(s)
• 1-4 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Prerequisites: None
• Description: Practical Projects in the application of theory and principles of Environmental Health Sciences in public health settings. Course requirements include an approved practical work experience related to Environmental Health Sciences in consultation with a faculty advisor. May be elected more than once. Enrollment limited to Environmental Health Sciences majors with at least two full terms of prior registration.

EHS583 Radiation Biology

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Ljungman, Mats
• Prerequisites: Biology
• Description: Integration of current knowledge about radiation effects processes on mammals, with particular emphasis on mechanisms of radiogenic cancer. Quantitative evaluation of relations between characteristics of various radiation exposures and somatic and genetic effects in humans. Radiation protection and therapeutic measures. Lectures and a student research paper.

EHS588 Environmental Law (SNRE 475)

• Fall, Winter term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Description: Introduces students to Environmental Law and the impact of the legal process on decisions that affect the environment. Topics include common law tort actions, toxic tort actions, statutory controls of pollution and other environmentally harmful activities. Additional areas include administrative agency structure and performance, Constitutional rights to environmental quality and more.

EHS600 Professional Perspectives in Environmental Health

• Fall term(s)
• 2 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Maynard, Andrew
• Prerequisites: Grad Status, Completion of approved internship, research or practical experience
• Description: This project-oriented course provides the student the opportunity to integrate academic principles, practical skills and concepts in environmental health as related to the broader scope of public health. Students will carry out a 2 credit hour applied group project, having to synthesize their acquired knowledge from different courses and subplans to address real world problems. Students will provide oral presentation (intermediary and final) and written reports on the conducted project. This culminating capstone course will be elected during the professional students last fall term in residence.
• Syllabus for EHS600 (PDF, 141280 bytes, last modified on Tuesday, January 24, 2012)

EHS601 Foundations in Environmental Health Sciences

• Fall term(s)
• 4 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Meeker, John; Peterson, Karen; Rozek, Laura
• Description: This course provides the foundations to environmental health including toxicology, exposure assessment, risk analysis and nutrition sciences by addressing key concepts and fundamental competencies. Instruction is through a combination of lectures and in-depth case studies.
• Course Goals: The goals of this course are to provide training in the core environmental health diciplines in preparation for upper-level coursework.
• Competencies: 1. Apply knowledge of chemical properties and biological mechanisms to explain and predict responses to exposures and stressors, including direct and indirect effects on human health and safety. 2. Recognize adverse health consequences of common environmental, occupational and dietary exposures. 3. Demonstrate an understanding of the role of research on causation in the identification, analysis and control of environmental hazards. 4. Specify and utilize exposure and health risk assessment methods. 5. Specify approaches to assess, prevent and control environmental hazards that are risks to human health. 6. Demonstrate an introductory knowledge of policies, laws, regulations and guidelines that are relevant to selected environmental health issues. 7. Facilitate risk management and risk communication. 8. Effectively communicate occupational, environmental and nutritional health information in written and oral communication forms.

EHS616 Introduction to Toxicological Pathology

• Fall term(s)
• 2 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Prerequisites: Physiology and EHS 511 or equivalent.
• Description: This course will provide and introduction to the histologic damage produced by chemical toxicants. A combination of lectures, student-led discussions and slide-reading sessions will be used to integrate concepts of toxicological mechanism, physiology and pathologic outcome. Emphasis will be place on molecular methods and mechanisms used for the diagnosis and investigative toxicological pathology. The pathology associated with chemicals that damage the major organ systems of humans and mammals will be discussed. During the two credit hours of didactic class presentations student will lead discussions on the pathologic effects of chemicals on cells, tissues and organs and the pathophysiologic outcome. This course is intended for advanced graduate students in the life sciences.

EHS622 Mechanisms of Developmental Toxicology

• Fall term(s)
• 2 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Harris, Craig
• Prerequisites: Grad Status, Biochem 515 or equiv
• Description: Integration and analysis of scientific information to enhance understanding and elucidate biochemical and molecular mechanisms in developmental toxicology. Course emphasis is on student discussions of the theoretical and practical aspects of embryology as related to biochemical, physiological and molecular mechanisms of embryotoxicity based on readings from the scientific literature.

EHS623 Mechanisms of Reproductive Toxicology

• Fall term(s)
• 2 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Loch Caruso, Rita
• Prerequisites: Grad Status, Biochemistry, Physiology
• Description: Analysis and integration of scientific information to enhance understanding of molecular and cellular mechanisms of reproductive toxicity. Emphasis is on student discussion of theoretical and practical aspects of mechanistic studies based on assigned reading from the scientific literature.

EHS630 Principles of Nutritional Science

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Mancuso, Peter
• Prerequisites: Organic Chemistry, biochemistry or concurrent enrollment
• Description: This course is the foundation of nutrition science and metabolism. Macronutrients, their function, metabolism and relation to health and disease are reviewed in detail. In addition, the digestion, absorption, transport, utilization and storage of nutrients in humans are taught. Lastly, this course aims to integrate biochemical and physiological aspects of energy and nutrient utilzation, nutrient interactions and metabolic regulation in humans.

EHS636 Clinical Nutrition I

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Han-Markey, Theresa
• Prerequisites: EHS 630
• Description: Study of clinical nutrition skills with an emphasis on disease pathophysiology and current intervention approaches. Basic nutritional approaches for management of various gastrointestinal diseases such as reflux, ulcer, inflammatory bowel and diverticular disease, rationale, and evidence for efficacy will be taught. Current controversies are briefly introduced. Clinical nutrition screening, assessment, use of clinical laboratory data, and physical assessment are also introduced. Medical nutrition therapy in various diseases incorporates case study instructional modules. Diseases covered include malnutrition, starvation, metabolic stress, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, pulmonary and neoplasm.

EHS639 Pathophysiology of Obesity

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Mancuso, Peter
• Prerequisites: EHS 630, EHS 631, EHS 640
• Description: This course provides a framework for understanding the etiology and pathophysiology of obesity and adverse health outcomes. Course lectures and discussions will include the contribution of physiologic and behavioral factors that influence appetite, food intake, and the development of obesity. Students will also be introduced to pathophysologic consequences of weight gain and the contribution of eating disorders in the development of specific diseases. The course content will emphasize the influence of physiologic factors that contribute to food consumption and the consequences of obesity.

EHS640 Nutritional Assessment

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Cole, Suzanne
• Prerequisites: EHS 630, Nutrition Science
• Description: Didactic and laboratory presentation of anthropometric, biochemical, dietary and physical activity methods for determining nutritional status across all ages of the life cycle. Students will have the opportunity to identify, plan, and implement a simple nutritional assessment research project, with subsequent data management, analysis and interpretation.

EHS642 Community Nutrition

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Cole, Suzanne
• Prerequisites: EHS 630
• Description: An analysis of community programs with primary attention on goals, objectives, implementation and evaluation. Individual’s work on a problem in the area of food assistance or nutrition education programs is carried out under the tutorial guidance of an appropriate staff member. Regular conferences are arranged to measure progress and a report is prepared.

EHS652 Evaluation of Chemical Hazards

• Fall term(s)
• 3-4 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Zellers, Edward
• Offered every year
• Last offered Fall 2009
• Prerequisites: Previous or concurrent enrollment in biostatistics course
• Description: Concepts and techniques related to the evaluation of occupational exposures to gases, vapors, and aerosols. Emphasis on operating mechanisms and practical aspects of industrial hygiene air-monitoring equipment, characterizing exposure distributions, and developing sampling strategies. Lectures, laboratory exercises, demonstrations, problems, technical reports, and reading. Primarily for students in occupational health and safety.

EHS658 Physical Hazards

• Fall term(s)
• 1 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Neitzel, Richard
• Prerequisites: Graduate Standing or Perm. Instr.
• Description: Lectures, discussions, demonstrations on the health effects, measurements methods, regulations, and control technologies related to physical health hazards encountered in occupational settings, including temperature extremes, noise, vibration, and lasers and other forms of non-ionizing radiation (rf, microwave, IR, visible, and UV).
• Syllabus for EHS658 (PDF, 128881 bytes, last modified on Tuesday, January 22, 2013)

EHS662 METHODS IN NUTRITIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Villamor, Eduardo
• Prerequisites: BIOSTAT513 or BIOSTAT 523 (or equivalent); AND EPID503 (or equivalent); AND PHYSIO502 (or equiv)
• Description: This course focuses on the design, conduct, analysis and interpretation of epidemiologic studies addressing diet, human health and disease. The course will review methodological issues in quantitative epidemiological studies, including dietary assessment methods, sources of variation in the diet, energy intake, measurement error, anthropometry and body composition, biomarkers of dietary intake, dietary patterns analysis, and gene-diet interactions. Students will advance their knowledge in nutrition research from a population perspective and gain experience in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of dietary intake data. Didactic lectures, active participation by students, computer exercises, and homework are utilized to allow students to gain hands-on experience on nutritional epidemiologic data analyses. Intended for second year graduate students (Masters and Ph.D.); knowledge in nutrition is highly desirable although not required.
• Course Goals: The goals of this course include providing students with tools to collect, analyze, and interpret data on the effect of diet on human health and disease (see course description).
• Competencies: C1: Suggest appropriate dietary assessment methods under different epidemiologic research scenarios / I C2: Identify sources of variation in dietary data / I C3: Perform epidemiological analyses of dietary data / A C4: Recognize and adjust for confounding by total energy intake when conducting epidemiologic analyses of diet and health / A C5: Identify body composition analysis methods for specific research scenarios / I C6: Critically assess scientific literature on diet and human health/disease / A
• This course is cross-listed with EPID662 in the SPH - Epidemiology department.

EHS665 Communicating Science through Social Media

• Fall, Winter term(s)
• 2 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Maynard, Andrew
• Prerequisites: This course is open to all first and second year SPH MPH students
• Description: This course is aimed at teaching participants how to connect effectively with a non-expert audience when conveying complex science-based information using the medium of a public science blog. Through practical experience, analysis and reader-feedback, the course teaches communication skills that will be applicable to a wide range of situations.
• Course Goals: Through the medium of a science blog, this course is designed to teach participants how to collate, synthesize and translate scientific evidence into information that a non-expert audience can access, understand and act on.
• Competencies: C1: Critique and synthesize scientific evidence, including evidence review (HBHE Competency 3e) C2: Communicate complex information to a non-expert audience in writing, in a style that engages and connects with the reader. C3: Tailor public health communication content and style to different audiences by understanding where an audience is coming from and what they are looking for. C4: Use social media to engage effectively with stakeholders on public health issues. C5: Strike an appropriate balance between conveying information and providing expert opinion through communication C6: Translate research findings into public health practice, including dissemination of proven interventions (HBHE competency 3f)
• This course is cross-listed with HBHED665 in the department.
• Syllabus for EHS665 (PDF, 65297 bytes, last modified on Friday, June 15, 2012)

EHS672 Life cycle assessment: Human health and environmental impacts

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Jolliet, Olivier
• Prerequisites: None
• Description: This 3-hour course describes how consumption and products affect environmental risks and impacts on human health and on ecosystems. Based on a life cycle approach, this course will first provide an overview of the impacts generated by consumers and by the students themselves. How to carry out Life Cycle Assessment (LCA ) of products and services will then be presented. For the Life Cycle Impact Assessment phase, a special focus will be given to the characterization of comparative risks of toxics substances on human health and ecosystems. This leads to discussion of the potentials and limitations of LCA compared to other assessment tools such as risk assessment and environmental impact assessment. Practical case studies will be taken from multiple consumption domains, from agriculture and food production up to electronic services.
• Syllabus for EHS672 (PDF, 67077 bytes, last modified on Wednesday, July 11, 2012)

EHS673 Epidemiology of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Villamor, Eduardo
• Prerequisites: BIOSTAT 553 or equivalent; EPID 503 or equivalent; PHYSIO 502 or equivalent
• Description: This course will survey both classic and emerging literature describing the DOHaD paradigm from an epidemiological perspective. Discussions will emphasize methodological issues on DOHaD research, including study design, biases, data analyses, and scientific writing. The course will have a structured discussion and journal club format. In addition, each student will write a critical review paper on a DOHaD topic (or an original research paper if data are available).
• Course Goals: The course will provide students with an opportunity to critically examine and discuss methodological issues around study design and analysis, to understand key concepts of the DOHaD hypothesis, to explore some of the biological mechanisms underlying the associations between early life exposures and later health, and to gain experience in writing a manuscript for publication.
• Competencies: The students that have taken this class are expected to be able to: Identify sources of bias in DOHaD research and anticipate their potential effects on estimates of association Weight evidence on DOHaD according to the relative methodological strength of epidemiological reports Distinguish strengths and limitations of twin studies and randomized trials in DOHaD epidemiology Link indicators used in epidemiological studies with the underlying biological processes they intend to measure Integrate evidence from different sources into conceptual frames on DOHaD topics Understand different strategies for analysis of epidemiological data in DOHaD research Envision potential "next steps" to follow (what should be the next study) to build a complete conceptual frame on given DOHaD topics Structuring, writing, and preparing for submission an original research or review paper on DOHaD
• This course is cross-listed with EPID 673 in the SPH - Epidemiology department.

EHS687 Computational Toxicology

• Fall term(s)
• 2 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Johnson, Dale; Richardson, Rudy
• Prerequisites: Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biology, Introductory Toxicology
• Description: Inquiry-based, hands-on problem solving in toxicology using computational approaches. After each lecture, students work in groups to solve toxicity-related problems in novel ways. Students will identify a problem, create a group project around the problem, and present a computationally based solution to the problem by the end of the semester.
• Course Goals: 1. Present principles of computational toxicology 2. Present principles of predictive toxicology using computational tools 3. Provide opportunities for learning computationally based approaches for solving complex toxicological problems
• Competencies: Students will be able to do the following: 1. Understand the basic principles of computational toxicology 2. Understand predictive toxicology using chemical structures and databases 3. Solve complex problems in new ways

EHS688 Topics in Environmental Health Sciences

• Fall, Winter term(s)
• 1 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Description: Seminars in contemporary environmental health topics and issues. Presentations by noted authorities from industry, labor organizations, governments, and academia.

EHS697 Readings

• Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer term(s)
• 1-3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Prerequisites: Perm. Instr
• Description: Supervised study/review of a selected topic in environmental health, occupational health, nutrition and/or toxicology. May be elected more than once for a maximum of six credits.

EHS698 Research

• Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer term(s)
• 1-6 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Prerequisites: Perm. Instr.
• Description: Original research investigation of a special topic in environmental health, occupational health, nutrition and/or toxicology. May be elected more than once for a maximum of six credits.

EHS699 Master's Thesis

• Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer term(s)
• 1 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Prerequisites: Perm of Thesis Advisor
• Description: This course shall be elected by students enrolled in Master’s degree programs that require a formal written thesis as a condition of program completion. The thesis shall be defended in front of the student’s thesis committee. The course grade will reflect the student’s accomplishments relative to the thesis and its defense. The course is to be elected only once.

EHS717 Toxicological Pathology Laboratory

• Fall, Winter term(s)
• 1 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Prerequisites: EHS 616 or Perm. Instr.
• Description: This laboratory course will provide an introduction to the histopathology associated with chemical exposures. Students will perform routine histological maneuvers on tissues from rats treated with “unknown” chemicals. Following microscopic inspection of tissues, students will describe the pathological process produced in each tissue and will identify the class of (or specific) chemical to which the organism was exposed.

EHS757 Occupational Health Aspects of Industrial Processes

• Fall term(s)
• 2 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Prerequisites: EHS 550 or equiv and Perm. Instr.
• Description: Observation and discussion of selected industrial processes, potential hazards, and controls. Potential hazards include chemical, physical, biological, and ergonomic. Emphasis on application and integration of different aspects of occupational health management. Field trips to various industrial plants. Guest lectures and student-lead discussions. Intended for second-year Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Medicine students.

EHS796 Special Topics in Environmental Health Sciences

• Fall, Winter term(s)
• 1-3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Prerequisites: None
• Description: Lecture, seminars and readings selected on a current or emerging topic or theme in the environmental health sciences. The specific material and format will vary by semester and instructor.

EHS801 Research and Communication in the Environmental Health Sciences

• Fall term(s)
• 2 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Dolinoy Cipolla, Dana; Dolinoy Cipolla, Dana
• Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
• Description: 'Research and Communication in the Environmental Health Sciences' is an upper graduate-level course designed for Doctoral Students. Other students and post-doctoral fellows/auditors are welcome, if space allows. The course will cover research and communication skills essential to graduate school success and a professional career in the environmental health sciences. EHS 801 will consist of lectures, discussion sessions, journal clubs, homework assignments, group activities, and several presentations. Guest lecturers will include Departmental Faculty and University communication specialists. Students will be strongly encouraged to integrate their own dissertation aims into all aspects of the seminar.

EHS869 Doctoral Seminar in Occupational and Environmental Health

• Fall term(s)
• 1 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Richardson, Rudy
• Prerequisites: EHS Doctoral Student Status
• Description: Integrative discussions of dissertation research projects, presentation of research findings, in-depth literature reviews/critiques, and manuscript reviews in occupational and environmental health.

EHS899 Advanced Research

• Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer term(s)
• 1-6 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Prerequisites: Perm. Instr.
• Description: Original investigations of a specific topic in environmental health, occupational health, nutrition and/or toxicology. Designed for doctoral students performing research prior to passing their qualifying exam. May be elected more than once.

EHS990 Dissertation/Pre-Candidacy

• Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer term(s)
• 1-8 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Description: Election for dissertation work by doctoral students not yet admitted to status as candidate.

EHS995 Dissertation Research for Doctorate in Philosophy

• Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer term(s)
• 8 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Description: Election for dissertation work by doctoral students who have been admitted to status as candidate.

EPID299 Independent Research for Undergraduates

• Fall, Winter term(s)
• 1-3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Last offered Winter 2013
• Prerequisites: Perm. Instr.
• Description: Students do an independent microbiology research project under the supervision of afaculty member in the Hospital and Molecular Epidemiology program.
• Course Goals: To teach students how to carry out scientific research in microbiology.
• Competencies: Students are judged in how well they carry out their research projects, the effort they put into the process, and their grasp of the larger research goals.

EPID399 Independent Research for Undergraduates

• Fall, Winter term(s)
• 1-3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Last offered Winter 2013
• Prerequisites: Perm. Instr. and at least Junior status
• Description: Students do an independent microbiology research project under the supervision of a faculty member in the Hospital & Molecular Epidemiology program.

EPID460 Introduction to Bacterial Pathogenesis

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Marrs, Carl F
• Offered every year
• Last offered Fall 2012
• Prerequisites: Introductory Microbiology and Biochemistry or Perm. Instr.
• Description: This course covers the basics of the biochemistry, molecular biology, and genetics of chemotaxis and flagella, pili and adhesins, extracellular proteases, bacterial toxins, invasion and intracellular growth, phase and antigenic variation, gene transfer, LPS, iron, M-proteins, capsules, chemotherapy, antibiotic resistance and global regulation of virulence elements.
• Syllabus for EPID460 (PDF, 28117 bytes, last modified on Friday, July 23, 2010)

EPID504 Polymicrobial Communities Laboratory

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Rickard, Alex
• Last offered Fall 2011
• Prerequisites: Permission of the Instructor
• Description: This laboratory course provides an opportunity for students to become familiar with approaches and techniques to studying microbial diversity. Techniques to describe microbial diversity at the structural, behavioral, and ecosystem level will be addressed. Emphasis will be placed on approaches to understand diversity within the human microbiome and environmental systems as well as the interactions between them.
• Course Goals: The course has three main goals: (1) Familiarize students with techniques to study the microbial diversity of the human body as well as the diversity of specific environmental systems that interact with the human body. These include drinking water biofilms and microorganisms in food. Research techniques that will be studied include culturing and sampling techniques, genetic approaches (e.g. cloning, 16S rRNA gene sequencing), microscopy and imaging as well as use of model systems such as Robbins devices and flow cells. (2) Introduce the concept of functional microbiomics, and describe and perform laboratory techniques to investigate microbial diversity. Approaches to discover and interrogate cell-cell interactions between microorganisms will be introduced. (3) Support students in the development of a model system or project in order to perform a discovery-based or hypothesis-based study of the microbial composition of an polymicrobial environmental sample.
• Competencies: 2.A. Biological Variability Knowledge 1. The nature and complexity of inter-individual variability (biological, biochemical, and physiological) as it affects the study of a disease process. 2. D. Human Physiology and Pathology Knowledge 1. The biochemical and cellular basis for normal and pathological functioning 2. Interaction among anatomical systems and organs in health and disease. 3. The most important chronic, infectious, and degenerative diseases of humans in terms of the public's health 4. Pathobiology of major diseases integrated with the principles of epidemiology. 5. The impact of host characteristics (e.g., immune response, nutrition, presence of other diseases or infections) on disease outcomes
• This course is cross-listed with Pilot course so not yet cross-listed but upper-level undergraduate students and graduate students from other departments will be considered. in the Pilot course so not yet cross-listed but upper-level undergraduate students and graduate students from other departments will be considered. department.

EPID505 Polymicrobial Communities in Human Health and Disease

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Rickard, Alex
• Last offered Fall 2011
• Description: Regions of focus for the study of the human microbiome (image taken from http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/hmp/ ) This course provides an opportunity for students to become familiar with the concept that humans contain more than just an organized assemblage of mammalian cells. In addition to our human cells, there are numerous microbial inhabitants- many are bacteria. Indeed, on a per-cell basis, these bacteria outnumber human cells by at least an order of magnitude. How resident bacteria interact with one another and with transient (often pathogenic) bacterial species is important to understand because these interactions can promote health or potentially aid the transition towards disease. One such example of these interactive polymicrobial communities can be found in dental plaque, where 400 species of bacteria can cohabitate, and their physical and chemical interactions play a role in the colonization of pathogenic species. In this case, disease can be manifested as periodontitis. Other examples of microbial communities of the body that will be studied in this course include skin/wounds, the upper-respiratory tract, the gut and the urogenital tract. Overall, this course will describe the microbial ecology of the human body and driving forces promoting the transition from those communities associated with health to disease-causing communities. Special emphasis will be given to cutting-edge laboratory techniques when exploring the microbial ecology of the human body. This course will culminate with a broad overview of the current understanding of the human microbiome and potential associated social ramifications of future research.
• Course Goals: The course has three main goals: (1) Familiarize students with the microbial ecology of the human body and highlight the recent National Institutes of Health strategic initiative that focused on the human microbiome (http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/hmp/). Special focus will be given to particular regions of the human body, including the oral cavity, respiratory tract, gut, urogenital tract and skin. (2) Introduce the concept of functional microbiomics and describe laboratory techniques to investigate the microbial diversity of regions of the body. Furthermore, approaches to discover and interrogate cell-cell interactions between resident and pathogenic species will be introduced. Research techniques that will be studied include classic genetic approaches (e.g. 16S rRNA gene sequencing), more complex genetic techniques (e.g. denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis and metagenomic sequencing) and approaches to image in-vivo and in-vitro multi-species communities (e.g. electron microscopy and confocal laser scanning microscopy). (3) Support students in the development of a discovery-based or hypothesis-based study of the microbial composition of a particular region of the human body. This will be presented in the form of an original research proposal that will incorporate current findings from other human microbiome research and will use these findings to study the given region of the body in health and disease.
• Competencies: 2. D. Human Physiology and Pathology Knowledge 1.The biochemical and cellular basis for normal and pathological functioning 2.Interaction among anatomical systems and organs in health and disease. 3.The most important chronic, infectious, and degenerative diseases of humans in terms of the public's health 4.Pathobiology of major diseases integrated with the principles of epidemiology. 5.The impact of host characteristics (e.g., immune response, nutrition, presence of other diseases or infections) on disease outcomes

EPID506 Health of Nations: Introduction to International Health

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Monto, Arnold S; Harlow, Sioban
• Offered every year
• Last offered Fall 2012
• Prerequisites: Grad Status
• Description: This course presents an overview of mortality and disease occurrence in terms of geographic, cultural, nutritional and environmental factors. Reviews health indicators such as infant mortality and economic factors associated with development. Discusses health problems of developing countries and describes programs and organizations involved in addressing them. This course is required for students in the International Health track in Epidemiology but can also be taken by non International Health students.

EPID509 Evolution, Behavior and Public Health

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Foxman, Betsy
• Offered every other year
• Last offered Fall 2012
• Description: This course will teach the core principles of evolutionary biology and the special challenges of applying them to problems in psychology and public health. The course will begin with the subset of core principles of evolutionary biology that have particular applications in psychology and public health. Some of the early classes will be divided into subsections so we can match teaching to the backgrounds of students from different areas. It will then survey the fast growing field of evolutionary medicine, what it offers to psychology and public health already, and new applications that are likely to be especially useful. Most of the detailed examples will be from infectious disease and evolutionary aspects of behavioral disorders and behaviors that influence disease susceptibility. The course will close by addressing the challenges of formulating and testing evolutionary hypotheses about why natural selection left our bodies vulnerable to diseases, emphasizing how new research questions emerge from an evolutionary perspective, and new methodologies for rigorously testing evolutionary hypotheses about disease. At the conclusion of the course, participants will understand how core principles of evolutionary biology have been and can be applied to public health problems, and they will have a moderately developed critical capacity for assessing research reports in the area.
• Course Goals: Introduce students to basic principles of evolutionary theory, especially as they apply to health and disease, with special emphasis on infectious diseases and behavioral and mental disorders.
• Competencies: Be able to define and give examples of the relevant core evolutionary concepts. Demonstrate familiarity with the techniques and methods used in evolutionary biology. Demonstrate ability to formulate and plan studies to test evolutionary hypotheses. Be able to critically review and analyze applications of evolutionary theory in the scientific literature.
• This course is cross-listed with Psychology 515 in the LS&A department.

EPID511 Introduction to Public Health Genetics

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Richards, Julia; Marrs, Carl F
• Offered every year
• Last offered Fall 2012
• Prerequisites: Grad status or perm instructor
• Description: This course is designed for those interested in a basic understanding of human genetics who have had only a very limited exposure to biologic sciences. This course will cover the basics of genetics at both the molecular and population level. In addition to the basic science, some ethical, legal, and social implications of genetics research will be examined. Examples relevant to public health will be emphasized.
• Syllabus for EPID511 (PDF, 64899 bytes, last modified on Thursday, October 23, 2008)

EPID512 BIOLOGIC BASIS OF DISEASE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGISTS

• Fall term(s)
• 2 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Wells, Eden
• Prerequisites: None
• Description: This course will examine the major pathological processes of interest to practitioners of Public Health. Specifically, the physiological mechanisms of disease will be examined with a view to understanding the cellular, biochemical and molecular processes that underlie diseases of major public health impact.
• Course Goals: Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this course students should be able to: 1. Define the biologic bases of the major diseases of public health importance 2. Recognize how knowledge of biology is integrated into epidemiologic studies performed to elucidate pathophysiological risk factors underlying mechanisms of disease 3. Synthesize knowledge about pathophysiologic mechanisms of disease with outcomes derived from current epidemiologic studies
• Competencies: Epidemiology Competencies Addressed: 1. Identify and describe population patterns of health-related risk factors and health-related outcomes in terms of person, place and time. 2. Be familiar with the current major public health issues and be able to identify and evaluate the determinants of these public health issues (e.g. demographic, pathophysiological, genetic, environmental, infectious, behavioral, and social).

EPID514 Social Epidemiology

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Prerequisites: EPID 503 (or equiv), Biostat 503 (or equiv)
• Description: Considers the uses of epidemiology with emphasis on the social determinants of chronic diseases and premature mortality. Theoretical as well as methodological issues in conducting social epidemiology research are emphasized. Designed for graduate students who have prior familiarity with the basic principles and methods of epidemiologic research.

EPID515 Genetics in Public Health

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Last offered Winter 2012
• Description: This course is designed for students with biology or genetics background, that are interested in understanding genetics in public health. This course will provide an in depth examination of genetics in public health including newborn screening diseases and practices, fundamentals of population genetics, and the genetics of common chronic diseases.

EPID530 Scientific Writing for Epidemiologists

• Fall, Winter term(s)
• 2-3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Herold, Kirsten
• Last offered Winter 2013
• Prerequisites: none
• Description: This course is an introduction to the production of scientific articles/writing in Epidemiology. Students will read articles from EPID journals and writing weekly assignments on a variety of topics. We will focus on the production on clear and concise prose that communicates complex ideas effectively to the reader.
• Course Goals: At the end of the course, students should be able to: • Approach scientific writing tasks with confidence • Write effectively at various lengths and for various audiences • Understand the different components of the IMRAD format • Revise writing in order to improve correctness, clarity, and formality of expression • Strike an appropriate balance between developing scientific detail, while also keeping in mind the big picture/ larger relevance • Use outside sources correctly and effectively in establishing context • Collaborate with peers and instructor to define revision strategies for particular pieces of writing and to set goals for improving writing, and • Set individual goals for improving writing and devise effective plans for achieving those goals.
• Competencies: The style conventions of scientific writing and oral presentations. Effective written communication for a variety of professional and lay audiences.

EPID546 Advanced Virology

• Fall, Winter term(s)
• 2-6 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Last offered Winter 2013
• Prerequisites: EPID 543 and EPID 545
• Description: Advanced laboratory studies of viruses and virus diseases with emphasis upon the application of procedures to investigation. May be elected more than once.

EPID552 Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Tomey, KT
• Offered every year
• Last offered Fall 2011
• Not offered 2013-2014
• Prerequisites: EPID 600
• Description: This course uses a data-driven approach to assess the health status of populations, with students preparing and comparing health and demographic data collected from local health jurisdictions, the state of Michigan and the U.S. as a means of learning the Epidemiology of selected chronic diseases and conditions, e.g. heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and musculoskeletal diseases. Students are teamed with local public health practitioners who help provide the context for students to develop grants applications to address those chronic diseases which have been identified through the comparative data analysis as important and for which the student has learned the underlying biology and Epidemiology

EPID554 Introduction to Globalization and Health

• Fall term(s)
• 1 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Robins, Thomas
• Offered every year
• Last offered Fall 2011
• Description: This course will comprise the initial lectures and discussion of Epid 555, and we are requesting that this material be separated into a new one-credit course to be offered at the beginning of MPH training. The material is introductory, and explores the diverse health impacts of economic, environmental, and cultural globalization. The transnational movement of people, technologies, capital, commodities, toxins, pathogens, ideologies and treatments are affecting people's well-being through many pathways. The changing nature of global power relations and the shifting purvey of international organizations have also had significant health implications. Introductory lectures and discussion of readings will explore various topics related to these issues.
• Syllabus for EPID554 (PDF, 88637 bytes, last modified on Wednesday, January 04, 2012)

EPID556 Introduction to Microcomputers for Epidemiologists

• Fall term(s)
• 1 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Not offered 2013-2014
• Description: Introduction to computing skills for Epidemiologists: An introduction to important computer skills for Epidemiologists. Topics covered include basic SAS programming, Epi-Info, use of spreadsheets, and preparation of graphics.

EPID560 Mechanisms of Bacterial Pathogenesis

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Marrs, Carl F
• Offered every year
• Last offered Fall 2012
• Prerequisites: Grad Status and Intro Microbiology and Biochemistry or Perm. Instr.
• Description: Microbial structures and their relation to basic mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis; structure, function, and genetics of bacterial toxins; and host resistance and immunity. Discussions of pathogenic organisms of major public health importance, diseases caused, and their epidemiology.
• Syllabus for EPID560 (PDF, 28044 bytes, last modified on Friday, July 23, 2010)

EPID562 Advanced Bacteriology Laboratory

• Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer term(s)
• 2-6 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Last offered Winter 2013
• Prerequisites: EPID 560 and EPID 561 or Perm. Instr.I
• Description: Individual laboratory studies of selected topics on bacteria of public health importance. May be elected more than once.

EPID565 Research in Hospital and Molecular Epidemiology

• Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer term(s)
• 1-6 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Offered every year
• Last offered Winter 2013
• Prerequisites: Perm. Instr.
• Description: Investigation of a selected problem planned and carried out by each student. Pertinent literature, investigational approaches, and progress in the investigations are discussed in seminars. May be taken more than once for up to six credits. Usually taken first for one credit. This is the Capstone Course for Hospital and Molecular Epidemiology Students.

EPID578 Practical Projects in Epidemiology

• Fall term(s)
• 1 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Last offered Fall 2011
• Description: A period of elective (i.e., non-required) practical projects for international students in Epidemiology. Students work for at least eight weeks in an approved agency. Course requirements include this approved practical work experience related to the student's field of study plus prior and concurrent consultation with the student's faculty advisor. Restricted to Epidemiology majors with at least two full consecutive terms of enrollment.

EPID600 Introduction to Epidemiology

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Diez-Roux, Ana; Villamor, Eduardo
• Offered every year
• Last offered Fall 2012
• Prerequisites: BIOSTAT 503, 553 or another graduate course in basic statistics, which may be taken concurrently with EPID 600 is required.
• Description: This course consists of lectures and discussion sections, and student lecture attendance is just as important as their participation in the discussion sections for course success. Each student is expected to attend one 1.5 hour lecture a week and one 1.5 hour discussion sections a week. All lectures are given by the instructor. The discussion sections are organized into four sections, each run by a graduate student instructor (GSI). Discussion sections will have two functions. (A)They include discussions of lecture material from that week's lecture, and (B)they will review the solutions to the assignments from the previous week. This course will be divided into three primary sections. The first section will serve as an introduction to the basic principles of epidemiology and the measures used in epidemiology. The second section will discuss epidemiologic study design (include case-control, cohort studies) and analysis (including bias, confounding, effect modification) and the third section will cover special topics that are important to an introductory understanding of epidemiology (including outbreak investigations, clinical trials, screening, and the role of epidemiology in public health).

EPID601 Principles and Methods of Epidemiology

• Fall term(s)
• 4 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Morgenstern, Hal
• Offered every year
• Last offered Fall 2012
• Prerequisites: Previous or concurrent enrollment in Biostat 523 or equiv; Epid 600 or 503 is recommended but not required
• Description: Epid 601 is a comprehensive course in the basic concepts, principles, and methods of population-based epidemiologic research, which serves as a foundation for subsequent courses in epidemiology, biomedical research, and quantitative methods. Class topics expand on those covered in Epid 600. Emphasis is given to study design, quantitative measures, statistical analysis, data quality, sources of bias, and causal inference. The general approach of this course is both theoretical and quantitative, focusing on the investigation of disease etiology and other causal relations in public health and medicine.

EPID604 Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Lisabeth, Lynda
• Offered every year
• Last offered Fall 2012
• Prerequisites: Concurrent or previous enrollment in Epid 600; limited to 2nd year MPH and PhD students
• Description: Epid 604 is a 3-credit course designed to provde an overview of the major topics and issues in cardiovascular disease epidemiology including: 1) pathophysiology, 2) epidemiology of CVD (incidence, prevalence, mortality and morbidity) overall and in special populations, 3) major and putative risk factors for CVD including genetic, social and economic determinants, 4) methodologic issues in CVD research including surveillance and measures of CVD endpoints and relevant exposures, 5) major population-based studies of CVD in the US and globally, 6) primary and secondary CVD prevention, target groups for prevention, and community-based intervention studies, 7) treatment of CVD and major CVD trials, 8) CVD-related research occurring within the Department of Epidemiology.
• Syllabus for EPID604 (PDF, 70395 bytes, last modified on Monday, September 13, 2010)

EPID605 Infectious Disease Epidemiology

• Fall, Winter term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Foxman, Betsy
• Last offered Winter 2013
• Prerequisites: EPID 503 or EPID 600
• Description: Introduction to disease and transmission characteristics, and the descriptive epidemiology of infectious agents. This course will help students to understand the theoretical basis of pathogen transmission and what factors determine patterns of disease occurrence. Students will learn how to apply this understanding to disease prevention and control.
• Syllabus for EPID605 (PDF, 106415 bytes, last modified on Wednesday, January 04, 2012)

EPID606 Advanced Infectious Disease Epidemiology

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Koopman, James S
• Not offered 2013-2014
• Prerequisites: Epid 605
• Description: This course focuses on how decisions regarding infection control are influenced by transmission dynamics. The use of simple point and click modeling strategies to inform such decisions is taught with the help of an introductory infectious disease modeling text. Students learn how to formulate and analyze both deterministic and stochastic dynamic system models of infection transmission. Students improve their intuitions in situations where uninformed decisions are often wrong. Control decisions relevant to vaccination, environmental interventions, sexually transmitted disease diagnosis and treatment, and exposure reduction are modeled. Only knowledge of simple algebraic principles is assumed. In class group decision exercises in computer modeling laboratories are the main mode of teaching. For a term paper students formulate and analyze models to inform control decisions for any infectious disease problem that interests them.

EPID618 Systems Modeling of Behavior, Social Processes and Chronic Disease

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Meza Rodriguez, Rafael; Eisenberg, Marisa
• Description: This advanced course provides in-depth coverage of applications of mathematical modeling to behavior, social processes, and chronic disease. We will review applications of agent-based and network modeling in social and behavioral science, and natural history models of chronic diseases. Students will learn to develop models in R, NetLogo, and NetworkX.
• Course Goals: Students will learn about different complex system modeling approaches of chronic disease and social behavior processes. Specifically, the course will focus on agent-based modeling, social network models, and dynamical models (deterministic and stochastic), as applied to social and behavioral sciences and the natural history of chronic diseases. We will cover several case study topics in depth over the course of the semester, including: obesity, diabetes, and tobacco/smoking. These topics will be used throughout the course as case studies to compare different modeling approaches to a particular substantive area and to show how different scales of behavioral and disease processes can be integrated using systems modeling. By the end of the course, students will be able to critically analyze and begin to develop complex systems approaches to social epidemiology and chronic disease. Students will learn to develop complex systems models in R, Netlogo, and NetworkX (in Python).
• Competencies: Identify and describe population patterns of health-related risk factors and health-related outcomes in terms of person, place and time. Be familiar with the basic tools of causal inference in epidemiology (e.g. counterfactuals, directed acyclic graphs, fundamental of systems approaches). Be exposed to published epidemiologic studies and be able to critically appraise epidemiological findings.

EPID624 Readings in Epidemiology

• Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer term(s)
• 1-2 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Last offered Winter 2013
• Prerequisites: Perm. Instr.
• Description: Review of literature on selected subjects under guidance of individual faculty members and through scheduled seminars at which reports are presented. May be elected more than once.

EPID630 Topics in Environmental Determinants of Infectious Diseases

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Eisenberg, Joseph
• Prerequisites: EPID 600 or EPID 503
• Description: This seminar will focus on environmental determinants of infectious disease, examining the literature that addresses different environmental perturbations ranging from land use and climate change to urbanization and social changes. Students will learn about the natural history of infectious diseases and the different analytic methods used to study such systems.
• Course Goals: To become well-versed in the literature on environmental determinants of infectious diseases and to be able to critically assess the studies, both with respect to study design and analysis
• Competencies: 1. Develop an understanding of infectious disease transmission processes 2. Identify and evaluate environmental determinants of disease. 3. Critially assess research studies (study design and analytical approach) 4. Demonstrate effective communication of epidemiologic findings in written and oral formats

EPID650 Principles and Practice of Preventive Medicine

• Fall, Winter term(s)
• 2 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Boulton, Matthew; Wells, Eden
• Last offered Winter 2013
• Prerequisites: none
• Description: This course is intended to introduce preventive medicine residents and graduate students to the principles of preventive medicine and public health via a seminar approach.
• This course is cross-listed with HMP 623 in the department.

EPID651 Epidemiology and Public Health Management of Disasters

• Fall, Winter term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Wells, Eden
• Last offered Winter 2013
• Description: Introduction to the evolving role of public health and epidemiology in disaster preparedness and response. It uses epidemiological principles to develop skills relevant to disaster preparedness, planning and relief/recovery efforts. Students acquire skills to assess risk and evaluate impacts after disasters, and work on a local health department preparedness project.

EPID656 Applied Epidemiologic Data Analysis

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Baylin, Ana
• Offered every year
• Last offered Fall 2011
• Prerequisites: Epid 600 and concurrent/previous enrollment in Biostat 560; or permission of the instructor. This course is intended for second year MPH students in the Department of Epidemiology and students in the Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology program.
• Description: Epid 656 is a one-semester practicum in epidemiologic data analysis designed to integrate and apply concepts learned in previous biostatistics and epidemiologic methods courses. Students learn practical skills to analyze and interpret epidemiologic data with continuous and dichotomous outcome variables through lectures and hands-on exercises.

EPID658 Field Internship in Epidemiology II

• Fall term(s)
• 1 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s):
• Last offered Fall 2011
• Description: Presentation, analysis and discussion of student field experience in Epidemiology. Students present a written abstract, visual presentation and oral report on an aspect of their internship experience at the departmental poster session. Students must also complete an evaluation of their internship experience.

EPID659 Applications of Epidemiology

• Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer term(s)
• 2-4 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Offered every year
• Last offered Winter 2013
• Prerequisites: EPID 601, EPID 655, Perm. Instr.
• Description: Application of epidemiological methods and concepts to analysis of data from epidemiological, clinical or laboratory studies. Introduction to independent research and scientific writing under faculty guidance. May be elected more than once for a total credit of not more than four hours. Course must be elected for a total of 4 credits; either elected for 2 credits each during 2 different terms or for 4 credits during a single term. This is the Capstone Course for General Epid and International Health Students.

EPID662 Methods in Nutritional Epidemiology

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Villamor, Eduardo
• Prerequisites: BIOSTAT 513 or 523 or 553 or equivalent; EPID 503 or EPID 600 or equivalent; PHYSIO 502 or EHS 513 or equivalent.
• Description: This course focuses on the design, conduct, analysis and interpretation of epidemiologic studies addressing diet, human health and disease. The course will review methodological issues in quantitative epidemiological studies, including dietary assessment methods, sources of variation in the diet, energy intake, measurement error, anthropometry and body composition, biomarkers of dietary intake, dietary patterns analysis, and gene-diet interactions. Students will advance their knowledge in nutrition research from a population perspective and gain experience in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of dietary intake data. Didactic lectures, active participation by students, computer exercises, and homework are utilized to allow students to gain hands-on experience on nutritional epidemiologic data analyses. Intended for second year graduate students (Masters and Ph.D.); knowledge in nutrition is highly desirable although not required.
• This course is cross-listed with EHS 662 in the department.

EPID663 Health, Evidence, and Human Rights

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Harlow, Sioban
• Last offered Fall 2012
• Not offered 2013-2014
• Prerequisites: Graduate Standing
• Description: The ability to generate and interpret evidence is critical to addressing human rights abuses both in the courts and through national and multilateral policies. This course will use case studies to examine how to frame population research priorities and designs from a human rights perspective.

EPID670 Cancer Risk and Epidemiology Modeling

• Fall, Winter term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Meza Rodriguez, Rafael
• Last offered Winter 2013
• Prerequisites: BIOSTAT 560 or permission from the instructor
• Description: This course will introduce 1) the concepts of multistage carcinogenesis and the analysis of cancer epidemiology using mathematical models of carcinogenesis; 2) the analysis of cancer prevention strategies using Markov cancer natural history models. Students will learn how to develop and fit multistage and cancer natural history models in R.
• Course Goals: The students taking this course will learn: How to develop basic models of carcinogenesis; Analysis of registry, cohort, and case-control data using mathematical models of carcinogenesis; The advantages and challenges of using mathematical models versus traditional statistical and epidemiological approaches; The use of cancer natural history models in public health; The basics of R statistical software. By the end of this course, students should: 1. Understand the ideas of multistage carcinogenesis 2. Know the benefits and challenges of multistage carcinogenesis modeling in epidemiology 3. Be able to perform basic epidemiological analyses in R using multistage carcinogenesis models 4. Understand the concept of Markov state transition and cancer natural history models 5. Be able to develop simple cancer natural history models in R 6. Be aware of recent applications of cancer natural history models in determining the optimal cancer screening strategies 7. Be able to critically read and understand the cancer modeling literature, and be able to judge the quality of the model used, the model limitations and, the strength of the conclusions.
• Competencies: 3.H. Computer Packages in Data Analysis - 1. Use of computer packages for data entry and data analysis, R statistical software. 3.D.Statistical Analysis and Interpreting Results. 1. Distinguishing measures of disease or exposure frequency which express incidence, cumulative risk, or prevalence. 2. An understanding of the relationship between incidence and cumulative risk when disease rates are constant. 3. The data needs and analytic methods for calculating standard epidemiological measures (e.g., prevalence, incidence, risk ratios, cumulative risk). 4. To distinguish variables from parameters and to identify the roles of variables and parameters in data analysis models relating exposure to disease. 2. F. Population-based Epidemiology. 1. Population patterns of disease in terms of person, place and time.

EPID673 Epidemiology of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Villamor, Eduardo
• Prerequisites: BIOSTAT 513 or 523 or 553 or equivalent; EPID 503 or EPID 600 or equivalent; PHYSIO 502 or EHS 513 or equivalent
• Description: This course will survey both classic and emerging literature describing the DOHaD paradigm from an epidemiological perspective. The course will have a structured discussion format.
• This course is cross-listed with EHS 673 in the department.

EPID677 Epidemiology of Aging

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Mendes de Leon, Carlos
• Last offered Fall 2008
• Not offered 2013-2014
• Description: This course will address the epidemiology of aging from a public health perspective with a specific focus on epidemiologic methods and their application to the study of function and disease in the elderly. These will include demography, biology of aging, models of aging, functional status, genetics of longevity, cognition and dementias, social factors, sensory changes. Group projects will involve small scale data collection on elderly individuals or analysis of existing data on aging. The project will emphasize understanding of some aspect of epidemiologic methods.

EPID681 Hospital Epidemiolgy II

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Chenoweth, Carol
• Prerequisites: EPID680
• Description: This course will provide skill in use of surveillance techniques for HAIs, concepts of asepsis, disinfection and sterilization evaluation. Students will have opportunities to work through real-life experiences in infection control, including communicable disease exposures, outbreak investigation, biodisaster exercises, risk assessment in the healthcare setting and infections in special populations.
• Course Goals: Course Goals: 1. Expose students to knowledge necessary to work in healthcare infection prevention and control. 2. Allow students to develop marketable skills essential to infection preventionists.
• Competencies: By the completion of the course the student will have: 1. Understanding of the modes of transmission, risk factors, and appropriate interventions for prevention of HAIs 2. Knowledge of principles of effective hand hygiene, isolation systems, barrier control programs 3. Knowledge of surveillance systems used in hospitals and ability to use surveillance definitions to identify HAIs 4. Ability to analyze surveillance data to develop infection rates, identify clusters and work through an outbreak investigation 5. Understanding of role of aseptic technique, cleaning, disinfection and sterilization and ability to assess the adequacy of these procedures 6. Knowledge of how HAIs may present differently in specialized patient populations.

EPID802 Computer Simulation of Epidemiologic Processes

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Koopman, James S
• Offered every year
• Last offered Fall 2011
• Not offered 2013-2014
• Prerequisites: EPID 503 or EPID 601 or equiv and Perm. Instr.
• Description: This course deals with dynamics of disease in populations. The student learns how to construct simulations of disease processes in populations using deterministic, continuous state space, computer simulation software. Using these simulations the student learns how the parameters of causal models relate to epidemiological parameters and the statistics that are commonly calculated from epidemiological data. The simulation capabilities acquired are intended to improve the student’s ability to develop and evaluate causal models and explore the consequences of specific theories. Temporal and exposure group patterns in non-communicable disease are emphasized. An introduction to communicable disease transmission system analysis is also presented.

EPID804 Population Health and its Determinants

• Fall term(s)
• 2-3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Mendes de Leon, Carlos
• Offered every year
• Last offered Fall 2012
• Not offered 2013-2014
• Prerequisites: permission of instructor
• Description: This seminar, involving considerable reading, will introduce students to the emerging area of scholarship and research on the determinants of Population Health and its trends. The focus will be on patterns of health in populations seen from the integration of core findings on inequalities in health, race/ethnicity, community and spatial aspects of health, behavioral and psychosocial factors, lifecourse perspectives, stress biology, and policy/intervention. Thus the seminar will concentrate on multi-level approaches to important health issues. The course is open by permission of the instructors to participants in the Health and Society Scholars program, and advanced doctoral students in public health and other fields.
• This course is cross-listed with SOC 595 in the LSA/Sociology department.

EPID805 Research Seminar in Social Epidemiology and Population Health

• Fall, Winter term(s)
• 1-2 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s):
• Offered every year
• Prerequisites: Consent of Instructor based on evidence of current research involvement in field
• Description: This course is designed for advanced MPH students and doctoral students who are currently conducting research in the area of social epidemiology/population health. It provides an ongoing venue for the discussion of research ideas, presentation of interim results, problem-solving necessary for the conduct of the research or the interpretation of results, and discussion of findings. Students are exposed to this process in the consideration of their own work, as well as that of post-doctoral and faculty researchers.

EPID813 Advanced seminar on public health and aging

• Fall, Winter term(s)
• 1 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Aiello, Allison; Mendes de Leon, Carlos
• Last offered Winter 2013
• Not offered 2013-2014
• Prerequisites: Doctoral standing at UM with training in research methods and statistics in relevant disciplines.
• Description: This course provides advanced training in aging research pertaining to the public health and well-being of older adults. It will cover a variety of substantive and methodological areas in aging-related epidemiologic research and geriatrics. Selection of specific topics will in part depend on the interests of participating students.

EPID816 Tuberculosis: Pathogen, Host and Environment

• Fall term(s)
• 2 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Yang, Zhenhua
• Offered every other year
• Last offered Fall 2012
• Prerequisites: EPID 605, 609 617 or any other infectious disease course.
• Description: Tuberculosis remains one of the deadliest diseases in the world. Social and operational factors, the growing AIDS epidemic, and increasing drug resistance have dramatically compounded the tuberculosis crisis. This course will review the history, epidemiology, biology, pathogenesis, and clinical management of tuberculosis. It will examine the current issues related to tuberculosis and discuss the complex mechanisms that contribute to the almost unparalleled impact of tuberculosis on global health in the past and present time, including the impact of the emergence of AIDS epidemics. Each session will include a one-hour didactic presentation of the specific topic for the session by the instructor followed by a structured class discussion of reading(s) relevant to the session-specific topics that address emerging methods. In the last session, the students will be asked to present their research proposals on an infectious disease of their primary interests using the concepts and methods learned in this class. While the focus of the lectures will be centered on tuberculosis, the discussions will address the application of general concepts in infectious disease.

EPID822 Malaria and other important vector-borne diseases

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Wilson, Mark L
• Offered every year
• Last offered Fall, 2012
• Prerequisites: Epid 602, Epid 605 or equivalent; EHS 513 or equivalent
• Description: Infectious agents transmitted by arthropod vectors produce an enormous disease burden worldwide, especially in underdeveloped countries. Malaria alone kills more than one million people each year, mostly children, and results in 42 million DALYs lost. This course is designed to investigate the epidemiology of malaria and other important vector-borne diseases that principally affect poor people living in tropical countries. The complex interactions influencing transmission dynamics, including immunologic, ecologic, economic and social factors are explored. Options for treatment, prevention and control involving vectors, parasites and human behavior are examined. Analysis also considers the role of other infections, including HIV, as altering transmission and disease. Class sessions will include a brief didactic presentation of the key issues for that topic followed by a structured discussion of selected readings.
• Syllabus for EPID822 (PDF, 81455 bytes, last modified on Wednesday, January 04, 2012)

EPID888 Nutrition and Infectious Disease

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Wilson, Mark L; Villamor, Eduardo
• Offered every other year
• Last offered Fall 2011
• Not offered 2013-2014
• Prerequisites: x
• Description: This seminar is designed to explore the complex biologic, social, and economic interactions among nutrients and pathogens as they affect the epidemiologic patterns of a wide range of conditions. Critical discussion of research readings that range from molecular pathophysiology to policies affecting food access and pathogen exposure will consider study designs, treatment interventions, and larger prevention and policy issues at multiple levels. Class sessions will include a brief presentation of the key issues for that topic followed by a structured discussion of selected readings. Active student participation is essential.
• Course Goals: Impart basic information on the multiple levels of factors (biological, social, economic) from various disciplines that affect individual- and population-level disease patterns. Present past insights from previous research that have helped to explain these patterns. Encourage students to creatively tackle the many unanswered questions that involve cross-disciplinary approaches and multiple drivers. Challenge participants to recognize the difficulties in causal inference and to develop new research strategies and analytical approaches to address this problem. Stimulate thought into larger policy issues and eventual public health implementation.
• Competencies: Students should gain the following competencies from this course. Develop a solid knowledge base of the types of malnutrition and recognized infectious disease associations. Understand how diverse interactions influence the pathophysiology resulting from undernutrition and microbial infections. Recognize the complex cause-effect relationships between nutrient abundance and infectious agents. Learn details about specific infectious diseases that have particular recognized links with malnutrition. Appreciate the intervention programs that have previously been implemented to address problems of undernutrition and associated infections. Acquire skills in designing appropriate research for evaluating epidemiological patterns arising from these complex dynamics. Critical appraisal of global policies and institutions aimed at reducing nutrition-infection disease.
• Syllabus for EPID888 (PDF, 79218 bytes, last modified on Wednesday, January 04, 2012)

EPID890 Doctoral Seminar in Epidemiology

• Fall, Winter term(s)
• 2 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Morgenstern, Hal
• Offered every year
• Last offered Winter 2013
• Description: Students will give a 50-minute presentation as part of the departmental seminar series. One faculty member will work with student in developing seminar and then critique it afterwards.

EPID891 Advanced Readings in Epidemiology

• Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer term(s)
• 2 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Last offered Winter 2013
• Prerequisites: Perm. Instr.
• Description: Students will review assigned readings on the epidemiology or natural history of specific infections or chronic diseases or on host or environmental factors associated with disease, or on epidemiological methods and their application. May be elected more than once

EPID970 Pre-candidacy research in Epidemiology

• Fall, Winter, Spring, Spring-Summer, Summer term(s)
• 1-8 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Last offered Winter 2013
• Prerequisites: Doctoral Student in Epidemiology Standing
• Description: Original investigations in the various fields of Epidemiology as part of the student's preparation for their dissertation research and writing.

EPID990 Dissertation Research/Pre-Candidate

• Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer term(s)
• 1-8 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Last offered Winter 2013
• Description: For students who have NOT reached candidacy yet.

EPID995 Dissertation Research/Candidate

• Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer term(s)
• 8 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Last offered Winter 2013
• Description: Election for dissertation work by doctoral student who has been admitted to status as a candidate

HBEHED516 Global Health Anthropological Perspectives (Anthro 416)

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s):
• Offered every year
• Last offered Fall, 2011
• Not offered 2013-2014
• Description: Master's level lecture course designed to provide an extensive overview of the major initiatives and issues in global health over the past three decades. Anthropological perspectives on and critiques of international health development programs will be emphasized. Readings will focus on examples of anthropology in global public health, and written reactions to these readings, along with two objective exams, will form the basis for course grading. The course constitutes an elective for students in the developing Global Health IC, and will be cross-listed as an upper-division undergraduate course in the Department of Anthropology (LS&A). Although anthropological perspectives will be emphasized no prior anthropological coursework or competencies are expected of students.
• Syllabus for HBEHED516 (PDF, 224461 bytes, last modified on Thursday, September 29, 2011)

HBEHED540 Fundamentals of Reproductive Health

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Anderson, Frank J.
• Offered every year
• Last offered Fall, 2010
• Prerequisites: Recommend prior human physiol course
• Description: The course provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of reproductive health, in the USA and internationally. The course will introduce students to historical trends in the global burden of reproductive ill-health, the social ecology of reproductive risk, clinical health practice, and current controversies in policy and practice. Through a comparative look at reproductive health needs (e.g. maternal morbidity, contraceptive use, STI care and HIV-related services), in a range of diverse social settings, we will critically examine the logic and impact of current international standards for RH policy and practice.

HBEHED578 Practical Projects

• Fall, Winter, Spring, Spring-Summer, Summer term(s)
• 1-3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Prerequisites: None
• Description: Practical projects in the application of theory and principles of Health Behavior and Health Education to individual and community-based public health settings. Course requirements include an approved practical project related to Health Behavior and Health Education in consultation with a faculty advisor. THE EXPERIENCE IS REPORTED IN AN INTEGRATIVE PAPER DEMONSTRATING THE SCIENTIFIC APPLICATION OF HBHE THEORIES AND PRINCIPLES TO THE PRACTICAL PROJECT. May be elected more than once. Enrollment limited to Health Behavior and Health Education majors with at least two full terms of prior registration.

HBEHED600 Psychosocial Factors in Health-Related Behavior

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Bauermeister, Jose
• Offered every year
• Last offered Fall, 2010
• Description: Psychological and social determinants of health, illness, and sick role behavior, emphasizing the decisional bases for health-related actions. Critical review of models of health behavior. Role of social communication and influence processes in health decisions. Application of concepts from behavioral science to a variety of health problem areas.

HBEHED603 Population Change: Gender, Family & Fertility in Africa and Asia

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Snow, Rachel
• Prerequisites: Permission of instructor required.
• Description: This seminar will review causes and consequences of recent demographic change in Africa and Asia, highlighting emerging trends in gender, family formation and fertility. An exploration of general global and regional trends will be followed by in-depth case-study of five countries: India, China, Burkina Faso, South Africa and Zimbabwe. In each case we will reflect on the relative contributions of demographic pressure, population policies and programs, the international womens movement, and the continuing AIDS epidemic, to the observed trends in sexual behavior, gender norms, marriage, and fertility.

HBEHED605 Human Sexuality across the Life Course

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Bauermeister, Jose
• Not offered 2013-2014
• Description: This course is designed to provide students with an introduction of the major theories and principles guiding human sexuality as well as recent developments in sexuality health research; develop their understanding of methodological and assessment issues in the study of sexuality; and familiarize them with the extent to which sexuality research and principles inform public health efforts promoting sexual health. Students who successfully complete this course will be able to identify and critically assess: (1) major concepts, theories and perspectives guiding a multidisciplinary understanding of human sexuality; (2) recent developments in sexuality research; (3) methodological aspects in the study of sexuality; and (4) how sexuality research informs public health practice and sexual health education strategies.
• Course Goals: This course is designed as an introductory course in human sexuality. Throughout the term, students will learn the major theories and principles guiding an understanding of human sexuality as well as recent developments in sexuality research; develop an understanding of methodological and assessment issues in the study of sexuality; and apply sexuality research and principles to inform public health efforts. This knowledge is considered critical to the development of effective public health behavior and education programs focused on sexual health.
• Competencies: This course addresses HBHE Competency #1: Describe the role and interaction of key determinants of health status, health behavior, and health behavior change from a biopsychosocial perspective across the lifespan. Through assignments and their final project, students will be expected to: (a) describe the epidemiology of a sexual health problem; (b) identify its biological, behavioral, social and educational aspects; and (c)review, select, and apply theoretical constructs for predicting and changing a health behavior related to their outcome of interest. This course also addresses Competency #4 (Describe and apply ethical principles relevant to public health research and practice) and Competency #6 (Describe and apply the knowledge and skills necessary to interact with diverse individuals and communities). Given the diversity of populations represented in the course, as well as the sensitivity of the sexual health topics addressed in class, students will be encouraged to value sexual diversity, and describe how empirical research and evidence-based practice addresses ethical issues related to the promotion of the public's sexual health and to the practice of sexual health education as a profession. Through active class participation and the facilitation of course readings, these conversations will serve to develop students' perspectives on their professional rights, obligations, and role as a sexual health educators.
• Syllabus for HBEHED605 (PDF, 25058 bytes, last modified on Monday, March 28, 2011)

HBEHED606 Psychosocial Change, Health Behaviors and Chronic Disease Transition: A Global Perspective

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): De Vogli, Roberto
• Prerequisites: Second year graduate students or permission of instructor.
• Description: This course focuses on psychosocial and behavioral risk factors for chronic diseases using a multilevel global perspective. It will first focus on the worldwide rise of chronic diseases. It will then turn on global patterns of the major behavioral, psychosocial and economic determinants of chronic diseases.
• Course Goals: To introduce researchers and health promotion specialists to the dynamics of change in chronic diseases, health behaviors and psychosocial conditions in the context of economic development and globalization.
• Competencies: To demonstrate competency in this area, students should: a) Be able to describe patterns of change in chronic disease, health behaviors and psychosocial factors from a global perspective; b) Develop a multilevel theoretical framework explaining how societal factors are linked to health behaviors, psychosocial factors and chronic diseases; c) Explain major global patterns of change in health behaviors in the context of the main social and psychological changes associated with the worldwide diffusion of economic prosperity and globalization; d) Identify multiple level interventions aiming to reduce the growing burden of chronic diseases and promoting wellbeing.
• Syllabus for HBEHED606 (PDF, 123061 bytes, last modified on Monday, April 16, 2012)

HBEHED610 Issues in Public Health Ethics

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Roberts, Scott
• Offered every year
• Last offered Fall, 2010
• Prerequisites: Grad Status
• Description: This course will address a range of issues in public health ethics. The first part of the course will provide an introduction to key ethical frameworks and concepts relevant to public health, and it will describe the overlap and distinctions between public health and medical ethics. The remainder of the course will use a case-based approach to considering ethical dilemmas in several domains, including the following: 1) resource allocation and distributive justice; 2) questions of autonomy and paternalism; 3) health promotion & disease prevention; 4) clinical care; 5) research ethics; and 6) emerging issues in public health ethics. The course will use a blend of lectures and group discussions to consider topics of interest. Students will play an active role in researching, presenting, and writing up case studies that will be used to illustrate ethical concepts and conflicts and to facilitate class discussion.
• Syllabus for HBEHED610 (PDF, 134522 bytes, last modified on Friday, August 26, 2011)

HBEHED616 Sex, Gender & Vulnerability

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Snow, Rachel
• Prerequisites: none
• Description: In this seminar students will review a range of health outcomes for which males and females (globally) have a greater than 20% differential in total burden of disease, and explore the extent to which these differentials reflect underlying genetic differences between the sexes, or differences in gendered social experience. Starting with a critical review of burden of disease (BOD) data sources, students will gain familiarity with the sources, strengths and limitations of these data (i.e. source of disability weights, debates over age-adjustment and discounting), and gain confidence using regional and global disability-adjusted life year (DALY) data. The majority of sessions will focus on a specific health outcome with a significant sex-based differential in the global DALY, such as TB, blindness, HIV, unintentional injury, depression, interpersonal violence, lung cancer, and several others. For each condition, the class will review the patho-physiology, and the extent to which sex differentials are attributable to genetic sex, or to gendered experience, a complex interplay of both, or unknown. Students will undertake a class project on a given health condition - including a data report on sex differentials in prevalence or incidence, a diagnostic presentation attributing vulnerability to genetic sex, gendered experience, or both; and a gendered critique of prevailing interventions to prevent or reduce the health condition. The seminar should provide students with a sound diagnostic perspective on how to investigate the social versus genetic causes of " illness inequality", strengthening both their theoretical and methodological public health training.
• Course Goals: Goals of the course include to: 1) Familiarize students with the burden of disease data sources, their critical limitations, and public health value; 2) Impart up-to-date information on the biology of sex differences in human physiology and patho-physiology for select health conditions; 3) Expose students to case material illustrating the diversity of ways in which gender is manifest in different cultural spaces, and how gender norms can both harm and protect health; 4) Cultivate skills for the critical evaluation of interventions; 5) Strengthen theoretical and methodological training in "illness inequality".
• Competencies: The following HBHE competencies (Nov 21, 2008 version) will be addressed: 1. a, b, c, d; 2. a, b, c, d, f; 3. b, d, e, g, 8. a, b, c, e;

HBEHED620 Behavioral Research Methods in Public Health

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Morrel-Samuels, Palmer
• Offered every year
• Last offered Fall, 2010
• Description: Principles of design of behavioral research on public health problems and programs. Objectives, philosophy, and methods of science including causal inference, the role of hypotheses, criteria for establishing adequate hypotheses, research designs and data collection techniques. Formulation of a research problem within a program setting.

HBEHED621 Seminar in Behavioral Research Methods in Public Health

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Bauermeister, Jose
• Offered every year
• Last offered Fall, 2010
• Prerequisites: HBHE 620 or equiv.
• Description: Intensive analysis of selected topics; characteristics and advantages of alternative types of studies; purposes of various experimental designs; development of methodology for program evaluation; interviewing and questionnaire construction and problems in analysis of data, with particular emphasis on problems of spuriousness

HBEHED622 Program Evaluation in Health Education

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Janevic, Mary
• Offered every year
• Last offered Fall, 2010
• Prerequisites: Biostat 503 or equiv. and a course dealing with health education program development
• Description: Examination and application, through a series of exercises, of several program evaluation models relevant for health education, including the goal attainment, goal-free, systems responsive, and decision-theoretic models, with emphasis on both process and impact analysis. Design options for measuring program effect, with the associated threats and external validity, are discussed, and several basic statistical techniques are reviewed and examined in terms of their applicability to program evaluation, including sampling and sample size determination for both surveys and experiments.

HBEHED624 Need Assessment Methods for Behavioral and Educational Health Programs

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Neighbors, Harold
• Offered every year
• Last offered Fall, 2010
• Prerequisites: None
• Description: This course is for the student who is interested in gaining knowledge and skills about different methodological approaches to conducting public health needs assessment. The course reviews the use of both methods of primary data collection (e.g., structured surveys, focus groups, and key informant in-depth interviews) supplemented by the use of secondary data (e.g., agency, state or national statistics, archival, and census data). The course emphasizes feasible, practical and inexpensive methods for assessing community needs and assets. The Public Health Needs Assessment will be conceptualized as a research methodology and process for development and prioritizing behavioral and educational health programs. The major emphasis of the class is placed upon "real-world" needs assessment projects conducted by students (working in groups) for local community-based and public health organizations and community residents in the Southeast Michigan area. This course includes an in-field lab component: five-sessions will be conducted working on primary and secondary data collection projects at community organization sites.

HBEHED625 Research in Health Behavior

• Fall, Winter, Spring, Spring-Summer, Summer term(s)
• 1-4 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Prerequisites: Perm. Inst.
• Description: Individual work on a problem in the area of health behavior relevant to program effectiveness in public health, under the tutorial guidance of an appropriate staff member. Regular conferences are arranged to discuss research designs, proposed problem solutions, methods for data collection and analysis. The investigation is reported in a paper, which may be submitted for publication. May be elected more than once.

HBEHED627 Chronic Illness Interventions: Infancy to Young Adulthood

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Connell, Cathleen
• Offered every year
• Last offered Fall, 2010
• Not offered 2013-2014
• Prerequisites: Perm. Instr.
• Description: This course examines intervention efforts aimed at the self-management of chronic illness from a lifespan perspective with a focus on infancy, childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. Theoretical and conceptual frameworks for viewing chronic illness in the context of individual and family development will be discussed. Specific examples of health education interventions for selected chronic illnesses and school-based approaches to cardiovascular risk reduction will be examined. The appropriate developmental tasks and psychosocial and cognitive stages for individuals and their implications for the self-management of chronic illness will be described. The format of the course will rely heavily on structured and informed discussion. A brief overview will be provided each week, followed by exchange generated by discussion questions for each week's reading assignments as well as small group exercises. Student presentations based on a wide variety of chronic illnesses will be scheduled throughout the course.

HBEHED629 Families and Health

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Chatters, Linda
• Offered every year
• Last offered Fall, 2010
• Prerequisites: Grad Status
• Description: This course will examine families as a primary context for understanding health and health-related behaviors. Major topics include: 1) models and theories of the family, 2) history and current status of family-based practice, 3) the impact of demographic trends and their impact on family structure and functioning, 4) family diversity with respect to social status groups, ethnicity, and culture and their implications for understanding health phenomena, 5) families as the context for socialization to health beliefs and practices, 6) the provision of family-based care, and 7) health profiles of family members and their family roles.
• This course is cross-listed with HB727 (School of Social Work) in the School of Social Work department.

HBEHED632 Racial/ Ethnic Health Disparities Research and Interventions

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Prerequisites: N/A
• Description: The primary objective of this one-semester, three-credit course is to provide a forum for reviewing and critically analyzing basic issues in conducting research on racial and ethnic health disparities and to help students become educated consumers and producers of scientific work characterized under this umbrella.

HBEHED640 Community Organization for Health Education

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Israel, Barbara
• Offered every year
• Last offered Fall, 2008
• Prerequisites: Perm. Instr. and Grad Status
• Description: Examines social and structural factors associated with health and illness; concepts and theories regarding planned change and community; and models and principles of community organization practice for health education. Several models of community organization are analyzed along the dimensions of: community diagnosis needs assessment, selection and implementation of action strategies, evaluation research, role of the professional and ethical considerations.

HBEHED644 Readings in Health Behavior and Health Education

• Fall, Winter, Spring, Spring-Summer, Summer term(s)
• 1-6 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Prerequisites: Perm. Instr.
• Description: Review of literature on selected topics in health behavior, health education or related areas under guidance of faculty member. Critical analysis; written and oral reports. May be taken more than once for a total not to exceed 6 credit hours.

HBEHED660 Theory, Research and Practice in Adolescent Health

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Caldwell, Cleo
• Offered every other year
• Prerequisites: Grad Status
• Description: Examines educational efforts designed to promote better health outcomes among adolescents. Review developmental theories, research, and interventions to promote health in this population. Addresses various contexts for intervention programs and their implications. Topics covered include, but are not limited to, the effects of peer and family influences on health, resiliency, violence, alcohol and drug use, and sexual behavior.

HBEHED662 Risk Communication: Theory, Techniques, and Applications in Health

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Zikmund-Fisher, Brian
• Offered every year
• Last offered Fall, 2012
• Prerequisites: None
• Description: This course will draw upon economic, psychological, and scientific / medical concepts of risk to provide students with both a theoretical and practical understanding of when and why people feel their health is "at risk." The course will then focus on skill building, especially as related to three practical applications: (i) the use of evidence-based techniques to increase comprehension and understanding of epidemiological data and other numerical risk statistics in reports to the public, patient decision aids, and health interventions, (ii) the identification and use of expert and lay-person mental models of health risks for public health intervention design and (iii) the communication of risk information to communities, the media, and policy makers during public health crises. It will also survey a broad range of risk communication research, covering topics as varied as (a) various ways that providing or withholding contextual risk information can alter message recipients' risk perceptions, (b) the relationship between individual risk perceptions and willingness to undertake preventive health behaviors, and (c) some of the unique issues which arise in communications of genetic risk. The course is designed for Masters' level students but may be taken by PhD students
• Course Goals: 1. To provide students with both a theoretical and practical understanding of when and why people feel their health is "at risk." 2. To build students' competency in three practical applications of risk communication: (i) the use of evidence-based techniques to increase comprehension and understanding of epidemiological data and other numerical risk statistics in reports to the public, patient decision aids, and health interventions, (ii) the identification and use of expert and lay-person mental models of health risks for public health intervention design and (iii) the communication of risk information to communities, the media, and policy makers during public health crises. 3. To survey a broad range of risk communication research, covering topics as varied as (a) various ways that providing or withholding contextual risk information can alter message recipients' risk perceptions, (b) the relationship between individual risk perceptions and willingness to undertake preventive health behaviors, and (c) some of the unique issues which arise in communications of genetic risk.
• Competencies: 2a. Identify theories, concepts and models from a range of social and behavioral disciplines that are used in public health research and practice (E1) 2b. Describe how theory is useful in better understanding why individuals do or do not engage in health behaviors 2d. Understand the merits of using theory to inform interventions and their evaluation in public health 2f. Recognize the need to adapt programs and messages when applying theory in diverse populations 3e. Critique and synthesize scientific evidence, including evidence review 3f. Translate research findings into public health practice, including dissemination of proven interventions 3g. Be able to make an effective scientific presentation 5h. Apply key principles of health communication in design of program content and format

HBEHED668 Health Communications for Public Health

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Resnicow, Ken
• Offered every year
• Last offered Fall, 2010
• Prerequisites: HBHE 600
• Description: From one-on-one health counseling to broad-based social marketing campaigns, a vast body of research over the past twenty years has demonstrated that numerous dimensions of health communications, including message format, receiver characteristics, and delivery channel can affect program impact. This course will address key considerations for constructing effective health communications including the application of behavior change theories and general marketing principles. Selected prior and current health promotion campaigns will be critically reviewed and students will be asked to develop a health communication intervention or social marketing campaign. Occasional guest lecturers, actively involved in development of health communication interventions will be integrated into the syllabus.

HBEHED690 Environmental Health Promotion

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Schulz, Amy
• Offered every year
• Last offered Fall, 2010
• Prerequisites: HBHE 600 or Permission of Instructor
• Description: This class applies health education principles towards understanding and intervening on different environmental hazards. The course will review various kinds of environmental issues, including biochemical toxins, physical hazards, and psychosocial stressors. Students will learn about select datasources from which they may obtain environmental health information. The course will examine the literature on risk and environmental health education and explore how health educators can use resources and conceptual tools to address environmental concerns. This course will also examine case studies from individual communities as focal points for discussion. Based on these case studies, students will explore whether extant theories and approaches can help protect vulnerable populations, insure environmental justice, and reduce health disparities. The format of this class is a combination of lecture and discussion.

HBEHED698 Health Behavior and Health Education Capstone, Year 1

• Fall term(s)
• 1.5 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Willard, Nancy
• Description: HBHE 698 is required by students enrolled in the Master's program in HBHE. Students engage in a synthesis of knowledge formation in health behavior and health education. This course supports the competency-based ePortfolio requirement. This first year of Capstone gives special attention to internship placement.
• Course Goals: Support for Completion of ePortfolio requirement: First round of Competency Reflections & Presentation Portfolio. Support for completion of Pre-Internship Requirement- HBHE Internship Learning Objectives. Professional development and networking opportunities with UM HBHE alumni.
• Competencies: First year competency integration.

HBEHED699 Health Behavior and Health Education Capstone, Year 2

• Fall, Winter term(s)
• 1-2 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Willard, Nancy
• Description: HBHE 699 is required by students enrolled in the Master's program in HBHE. Students engage in a synthesis of knowledge formation in health behavior and health education. This course supports the competency-based ePortfolio requirement. This second year of Capstone gives special attention to professional development and job placement.

HBEHED700 Advanced Quantitative Methods in Health Behavior

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Bauermeister, Jose
• Prerequisites: HBEHED 620 or 621; BIOSTAT 503 and 523 or equivalent
• Description: This course is an advanced research methods course focused on the quantitative conceptualization and analysis of health behavior research. The course emphasizes the application of multivariate regression to practical questions in public health, and includes an overview of three regression-related techniques: Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), hierarchical linear modeling (HLM), and growth curve modeling (GCM).
• Course Goals: By the end of the course, students will be able to: 1. Frame their research questions and propose an analysis plan; 2. Design empirical tests to examine their questions using appropriate statistical techniques; 3. Select and interpret adequate multivariate analyses; 4. Use SPSS, EQS, and HLM to analyze research questions in large-scale datasets; 5. Write-up the research results in a scholarly journal format.
• Competencies: This course addresses HBHE Competency #3: Apply basic principles of research and evaluation methodology relevant to understanding and modifying health status and health behavior. As part of the course, students will be expected to: (a) describe strengths and limitations of various research and evaluation designs for assessing health education programs; (b) select appropriate measures for collecting necessary data, particularly on determinants of health-related behavior, on behavioral change, and on related outcomes; (c) describe procedures for simple analysis of research and evaluation data pertinent to health education; and (d) evaluate reports of relevant studies in terms of research criteria. This course also meets HBHE Competency #1: Describe the role and interaction of key determinants of health status, health behavior, and health behavior change from a biopsychosocial perspective across the lifespan. Through assignments and their final project, students will be expected to: (a) describe a health problem's epidemiology; (b) identify its behavioral, social and educational aspects; and (c)review, select, and apply theoretical constructs for predicting and changing health behavior.
• Syllabus for HBEHED700 (PDF, 57438 bytes, last modified on Monday, March 28, 2011)

HBEHED710 Special MPH Topics in Health Behavior and Health Education

• Fall, Winter term(s)
• 1-6 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Description: Master’s level seminar designed to provide an extensive review of a number of substantive and methods and skill areas in health behavior and health education. Readings, discussion and assignments are organized around issues of mutual interest to faculty and students. Reviews and reports on topics required in the areas selected. May be elected more than once.

HBEHED800 Seminar in Health Behavior and Health Education

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Zimmerman, Marc
• Offered every year
• Last offered Fall, 2009
• Description: Advanced study of principles of health behavior, educational and motivational approaches to improve health, and research and evaluative issues in health behavior and health education. Includes discussion of behavioral science and health education applications to public health, with special topics selected by students for review and discussion. Designed for doctoral students in Health Behavior and Health Education. May be elected more than once.

HBEHED823 Structural Influences on Health and Social Behavior

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Geronimus, Arline T
• Last offered Fall, 2010
• Prerequisites: permission of instructor
• Description: This doctoral seminar will draw on the public health and biomedical literature and also on constructs and literature from sociology, psychology, history, anthropology and demography to demonstrate how multi-disiciplinary theories and findings can be integrated to suggest a social-structural context for current public health problems. This structural understanding is designed to help HBHE doctoral students to reach candidacy with the ability to recognize the social patterning of health problems, and to discuss analytically the social structural influences, opportunities, and constraints affecting individual and social behavior, and, thereby, to develop research hypotheses and interventions or policies that take these into account. The course stresses the development of critical thinking skills, helps students recognize the social patterning of health problems, the historical influences on current health inequalities, and the ways that individual health knowledge and behavior can be reflexive, socially situated, and embedded within larger social, cultural, and historical contexts. The course also considers ways that structural forces may work through material, social psychological, and ultimately biological mechanisms to exert an impact on morbidity and mortality.
• Course Goals: The goal of this course is to (1) ensure that all HBHE doctoral students are familiar with a structural perspective on health and social behavior; (2) to provide an in-depth example of how one would complete a structural analysis of a health problem; (3) to prepare students to address questions in the HBHE prelim that will call on them to draw on understanding of structural perspectives, including enhancing their conceptual models with structural elements; and (4) to provide students an opportunity to elaborate a detailed structural perspective on a public health problem of interest to them.
• Competencies: Students will gain competency in: (1) critiquing existing public health literature from a structural perspective; (2) drawing on interdisciplinary literature to develop conceptual models that incorporate structural dimensions; (3) developing research hypotheses to test theories informed by a structural perspective; (4) developing research designs to test such hypotheses, using mixed-methods as appropriate; (5) interpreting study findings in light of structural understandings; (6) presenting research ideas that elaborate a structural perspective; and (7) employing structural perspectives in understanding why some interventions and policies are unsuccessful either in being implemented or in ameliorating specific public heath problems, and what are likely to be more promising approaches. In addition to providing skills for students who are interested in focusing on structural analysis in their future work, the course should provide students more interested in other HBHE approaches a basic fluency in structural analysis that will enable fruitful collaborations between doctoral students emphasizing different approaches. Students will also gain experience in presenting and defending their research and ideas in a seminar setting.

HBEHED849 Research in Health Education

• Fall, Winter term(s)
• 2-6 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Prerequisites: HBHE 620
• Description: Investigation of a selected topic in health education; development of study and plan of operation; conduct of investigation and preparation of final report. Primarily for students in the Department with prior master's or doctoral preparation, others by permission. Emphasis on application of basic research competence in study of problems in health education. May be elected more than once.

HBEHED900 Research in Health Behavior and Health Education

• Fall, Winter, Spring, Spring-Summer, Summer term(s)
• 2-6 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Description: Research work undertaken by doctoral students in collaboration with faculty advisers, including participation in on-going departmental research activities. Open only to doctoral students in Health Behavior and Health Education. May be elected more than once.

HBEHED990 Dissertation/Pre-Candidate

• Fall, Winter, Spring-Summer term(s)
• 1-8 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Description: Half Term (IIIA or IIIB, 1-4 credits) Election for dissertation work by doctoral students in Health Behavior and Health Education who are not yet admitted to status as a candidate.

HBEHED995 Dissertation Research for Doctorate in Philosophy

• Fall, Winter, Spring-Summer term(s)
• 8 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Description: Half Term (IIIA or IIIB, 1-4 credits) Election for dissertation work by doctoral students admitted to status as candidate.

HMP200 Health and Society: Introduction to Public Health

• Fall term(s)
• 4 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Warner, Kenneth E
• Description: This course is intended to serve as an introduction to the major issues of health and health care in the United States - what they are, what determines them, and how they can be altered. In so doing, the course surveys the field of public health.
• This course is cross-listed with in the PubHlth 200, Pubpol 210 department.

HMP517 Issues in Public Health Genetics

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Citrin, Toby; Modell, Stephen
• Prerequisites: EPID 515 or Perm Instr
• Description: This course focuses on ethical, legal, and social issues and analysis arising from the increasing application of genetic technologies to the health of individuals and populations. The four course segments cover the technical and social background of population-based genetic interventions, decision making criteria used in assessing the feasibility of proposed genetic screening programs and gene therapy trials, policy frameworks, such as cost-effectiveness analysis and ethical reasoning, which can aid in the selection and design of genetic programs and policies, and the deliberative processes decision making bodies can use in resolving differing interests as policy is developed and adopted. Each segment involves didactic presentations and class exercises in which students will grapple with current and anticipated publicized dilemmas. The segments collectively are linked by examples common to each portion of the course.
• Syllabus for HMP517 (PDF, 240404 bytes, last modified on Thursday, September 13, 2012)

HMP573 Health Informatics Leadership Seminar

• Fall term(s)
• 1 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Friedman, Charles
• Prerequisites: None
• Description: Fall seminar for health informatics program. This is a requirement for students currently enrolled in the program and enrollment is restricted. This seminar provides a general orientation to the field of health informatics. It establishes "leadership" as a fundamental theme, and entrepreneurship as an aspect of leadership will be emphasized.
• Course Goals: 1. Expose students to the history, organization, and key personalities of the field of health informatics; 2. Develop the concept of leadership generally and explore the challenges facing leaders in this field; 3. Immerse students in the concept of entrepreneurship and establishments of start-ups.
• Competencies: N/A
• This course is cross-listed with SI 573 in the department.

HMP600 The Health Services System I

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Lichtenstein, Richard L
• Prerequisites: Enrollment in HMP or Perm Instr
• Description: First part of two-course sequence focusing on major issues in the organization of a health services system: role of values; assessment of health status; analysis of need, access and use of services; current supply and distribution of health resources; analysis of health care costs and expenditures. Students enrolling in HMP 600 are expected to also complete HMP 601.
• Syllabus for HMP600 (PDF, 254811 bytes, last modified on Sunday, October 14, 2012)

HMP607 Corporate Finance for Health Care Administrators

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Wheeler, John RC
• Prerequisites: HMP606
• Description: Corporate finance theory and applications to health care organizations. Topics include the capital expenditure decision, the capital financing decision, financial feasibility, financial planning, cash management, and financial aspects of prepayment programs. The course makes extensive use of case studies.
• Syllabus for HMP607 (PDF, 76232 bytes, last modified on Thursday, September 13, 2012)

HMP608 Health Care Financial Accounting

• Fall term(s)
• 1-2 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Comstock, Matthew
• Prerequisites: none
• Description: HMP 604, Health Care Financial Accounting, provides an overview of financial accounting for students interested in health care management and policy. It is designed to serve the needs of both students who have never had a course in financial accounting (for 2 credits) and students who have had an introductory course in financial accounting but without health care applications (for 1 credit).

HMP610 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Hutton, David
• Prerequisites: Perm. Instr
• Description: HMP 610 focuses on the use of cost effectiveness analysis to inform decisions about improving health. The course also covers a number of related analytical tools such as cost benefit analysis, decision analysis, and sensitivity analysis. Students will learn theoretical justifications for these tools as well as their limitations. The main goal is for students to understand when cost effectiveness analysis and related tools are appropriate and how to apply them in practice to a broad range of health issues.
• Syllabus for HMP610 (PDF, 169029 bytes, last modified on Thursday, September 13, 2012)

HMP612 Medical Management of Disease

• Fall term(s)
• 1 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Fendrick, A. Mark
• Not offered 2013-2014
• Description: Basic introduction to how disease is conceptualized and managed under the medical model. The course includes an introduction to medical terminology and disease taxonomy, and a basic introduction to issues in disease natural history, progression, prognosis, and diagnostic and therapeutic decision making and management relevant to non-medical health services professionals. Designed for students pursuing a Masters in Health Services Administration.

HMP615 Introduction to Public Health Policy

• Fall term(s)
• 1-4 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Jacobson, Peter; Bowman, Diana
• Description: Describes the nature of public policy interventions within the various domains of public health, the theoretical motivations for undertaking them, the influence of the political, bureaucratic, and social environmental in which policy decisions are made, the consequences of such decisions, and the key dimensions of analysis of the effects of public health policies. In addition to conceptual discussion of each of the above, the course includes evaluation of several case studies of public health policy decisions and their implications.
• Syllabus for HMP615 (PDF, 135681 bytes, last modified on Thursday, September 13, 2012)

HMP618 Tobacco: From Seedling to Social Policy

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Douglas, Clifford
• Description: Provides a comprehensive examination of the historical and contemporary use of tobacco products and of their health and social implications. The objective of the course is to learn how lessons from history, epidemiology, health behavior, and policy analysis can be combined to understand the nature of, and potential policy responses to, the ongoing epidemic of tobacco-related disease. Coverage includes history; production of tobacco products; marketing; elucidation of disease links; societal responses; impacts of anti-tobacco policies; industry responses; economics and politics of tobacco; cessation methods; lawsuits against the industry; contemporary policy developments in the U.S.; the global use of tobacco; the future of tobacco use and tobacco control.

HMP620 Professional Development

• Fall, Winter term(s)
• 1 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Lemak, Christy
• Prerequisites: none
• Description: This course is designed for HMP students to synthesize, integrate learning and to foster professional development and lifelong learning habits.
• Course Goals: This course will allow HMP students to synthesize, integrate learning and to foster professional development and lifelong learning habits.
• Competencies: Domain: Leadership C.3 Accountability: Hold self and others accountable to standards of performance; encourage commitment to the long-term good of the organization. C.6 Impact and Influence: Persuade and convince others, both individuals and groups, to support a point of view, position, or recommendation. Domain: Professional Development E.1 Actively seek feedback from others, reflecting and learning from successes and failures. E.2 Develop an accurate view of own strengths and developmental needs, including the impact one has on others. E.3 Continuously push self to raise personal standards of performance and exceed expectations. E.4 Address knowledge, skills, and other developmental gaps through reflective, self-directed learning, and by trying new approaches. E.5 Establish, build, and sustain a network for professional development.
• Syllabus for HMP620 (PDF, 138965 bytes, last modified on Thursday, September 13, 2012)

HMP623 Principles and Practice of Preventive Medicine

• Fall, Winter term(s)
• 2 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Wells, Eden; Boulton, Matthew
• Prerequisites: none
• Description: This course is intended to introduce preventive medicine residents and graduate students to the principles of preventive medicine and public health via a seminar approach.
• Course Goals: Goal: To introduce preventive medicine residents and public health graduate students to the principles of preventive medicine and public health via a seminar approach. Course Objectives (course competencies): 1.Individual seminars are facilitated by residency physician faculty and other invited physician faculty who provide guidance and oversight to the presenting resident for a given session. 2. Students will develop presentations that are based on peer review papers selected by the residents who also facilitate the participation of non-physicians enrolled in the course. 3.Students will present on topics including, but not limited to, emerging infectious diseases, cancer epidemiology, public health policy, preventive health services and management, immunizations, cardiovascular disease, and genomics.
• Competencies: EPID: 2. Discuss population patterns of vital statistics, outbreaks, and health outcomes in terms of person, place and time. 8.Understand basic aspects of applied epidemiology in population, community, and/or hospital settings...and the relative use of epidemiological, clinical and laboratory information specific to each. 9.Demonstrate written and oral communication skills related to epidemiological sciences within the context of public health. HMP: 6. Understand and apply basic epidemiological principles, measures, and methods to assess the health status of a population; identify risk factors in individuals and communities; evaluate the impact of population-based interventions and initiatives. 8. Speak and write in a clear,logical;, and grammatical manner in formal and informal situations; prepare cogent business presentations; facilitate an effective group process. 10. Analyze the business, demographic, ethnocultural, political and regulatory implications of decisions and develop strategies that continually improve the long-term success and viability of the organization.
• This course is cross-listed with EPID 650 in the department.

HMP630 Business of Biology

• Fall term(s)
• 2 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Description:
• This course is cross-listed with BA 518 in the Business Administration department.

HMP633 Health Insurance in America. How Did We Get Into This Mess? How Do We Get Out?

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Udow-Phillips, Marianne
• Prerequisites: HMP 600
• Description: This course explores the history, structure and likely future trends of health insurance in the U.S. The course includes policy analyses of health insurance related issues focusing on potential solution alternatives to political and practical problems. It provides in depth overview of basic features of private and public health insurance.
• Course Goals: The major objective of the course is to provide the student with a comprehensive understanding of how the United States public/private health insurance system functions. It will provide future health services leaders with a working knowledge of the interrelationships between public programs and private insurance and approaches to cost control using risk management, provider reimbursement, benefit design and other approaches.
• Competencies: 1. Improvement in writing, presentation and analytic skills, focused on framing issues and developing logical approaches to the resolution of issues. 2. Practical understanding of how the private insurance market functions, including how the market is segmented and the competencies required for each segment. 3. Understanding of the impact of risk on private insurance and techniques that are utilized to manage and mitigate the influence of risk selection. 4. Identification of the different international models for health care financing and coverage and the unique aspects of the American system. 5. Appreciation of the distinction between lowering costs to improve competitive advantage and lowering overall health care costs and the tactics and strategies that could be developed for each approach. 6. Understanding of the challenges that confront the future viability of public health insurance programs, including assessment of the options that will be considered, and the strengths and weaknesses of centralized versus decentralized administrative models. 7. Improved skills in working with groups to evaluate and craft potential solutions to policy issues. 8. Recognize the challenges inherent in balancing affordability, access and quality in public and private health insurance programs and the tradeoffs that are required to achieve a mix that meets purchaser and political requirements.
• Syllabus for HMP633 (PDF, 298332 bytes, last modified on Thursday, September 13, 2012)

HMP636 Risk Management and Policy

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Vinsel, Lee
• Not offered 2013-2014
• Prerequisites: none
• Description: Modern societies are dealing with a growing array of risks, including environmental pollution, communicable diseases, new technologies, and complex financial systems. Students will learn how governments try to manage risks through policymaking. How do they protect citizens and maintain their legitimacy and credibility without unduly restricting freedoms or stifling innovation?
• Course Goals: To teach students: 1) theoretical approaches to risk and governance. 2) to introduce students to different ways that governments deal with risk and society; to help students understand policy controversies related to risk. 3) to discuss alternative possibilities for policy related to risk.
• Competencies: There are no required prerequisites for the course but an understanding of the policy process is recommended. Students will develop their political and policy analysis and oral/written communication skills in the course.
• This course is cross-listed with PubPol 659 in the department.

HMP640 Program Evaluation in Public Health

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Norton, Edward
• Prerequisites: grad status
• Description: The Purpose of this course is to provide students with an understanding of the fundamentals of evaluation and research as applied to public health programs, policies and other types of interventions. The course covers impact, outcomes, process and participatory evaluation, and a number of research designs common in public health evaluation research, Students will gain skills in framing evaluation questions. In addition, students will gain skills needed to understand and critique published evaluation literature, and skills in measurement/data collection strategies. Class format includes lecture, discussion articles, and small group exercises. For final project, students will design and write and evaluation plan in the format of a proposal for funding.
• Syllabus for HMP640 (PDF, 125834 bytes, last modified on Thursday, September 13, 2012)

HMP643 Managing People in Health Organizations

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Lee, Daniel
• Prerequisites: grad status
• Description: This course provides the knowledge and skills for understanding and effectively managing individuals and groups within health care organizations. We consider a wide variety of motivations that draw individuals to their jobs and keep them productive. We also consider why organizations form small groups and the dynamics of these groups over time. Students learn techniques for persuasive communication and conflict management, develop strategies for dealing with interpersonal problems in an organizational setting, and processes for handling work teams. Common organizational problems that students solve include choosing the right person through the hiring process, evaluating employee performance, and negotiating contracts.
• Syllabus for HMP643 (PDF, 225821 bytes, last modified on Thursday, September 13, 2012)

HMP644 Strategic Planning and Marketing in Health Care

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Banaszak-Holl, Jane
• Prerequisites: HMP 600, HMP 601 or HMP 602 or PI
• Description: Covers general concepts of strategic planning for business development and marketing as applied to health care settings. Topics include: assessing and understanding the needs of key customer groups; health consumer behavior; market segmentation and targeting; clinical staff needs and relations; forecasting service demand; new product development; product pricing and distribution; advertising and public relations; analysis of collaborative and competitive environments, and strategy formulation. Potential conflicts between an organization's business objectives and its participation with competitors in collaborative community benefit programs are also explored. In the 3 credit hour version of the course, extra emphasis is placed on experiential learning methodologies for developing health services strategic plans and the exploration of topics key to successful strategic positioning, business development, and marketing in the management of health care services.

HMP645 Seminar in Leadership for Changing American Healthcare

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Warden, Gail
• Prerequisites: completion of first year requirements for HMP MPH or MHSA, or permission of instructor
• Description: This course will use four current, important topics on the national agenda to develop students' insights into how such topics evolve and are guided by professional managers and policy makers. Student teams will be formed around profession interests (e.g. provider management, insurance, government agencies). Each team will prepare two papers on each topic: (1) a background based on prior coursework and surveys of library and web resources, outlining the key issues, political positions of major stakeholders, technical issues, and actions proposed by others (2) a plan of action for a specific agency or organization, with agenda, timeline, types of participation, goals, and achievement issues. These papers will be submitted in writing for grading, and presented to classmates for discussion. A national leader concerned with the issue will join the seminar for the third session on each topic.
• Syllabus for HMP645 (PDF, 137426 bytes, last modified on Thursday, September 13, 2012)

HMP646 Leadership Development

• Fall, Winter term(s)
• 2 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Lemak, Christy; Wyszewianski, Leon
• Prerequisites: 2nd year graduate standing
• Description: Reviews theoretical foundations and models of leadership. Fosters students' insight into their leadership potential, experiences, and skills. Uses self-assessment exercises, guest speakers, role-plays, and other activities to stimulate student learning. Students are expected to have developed their own comprehensive leadership and career development plan by the end of the course.
• Syllabus for HMP646 (PDF, 74171 bytes, last modified on Thursday, September 13, 2012)

HMP647 Thinking 'Informatically' about Health

• Fall term(s)
• 1 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Friedman, Charles
• Not offered 2013-2014
• Description: Explores what makes health informatics distinctive. What are the characteristic ways in which "informaticians" approach problems? Following two introductory sessions examining the general concepts that shape informatics, we will explore specific examples of how informatics thinking has been applied to health care, consumer health, public health, and biomedical research.
• Course Goals: The overall goal of the seminar is to establish for the participants a conceptual basis through which to understand informatics as a distinctive field.
• Competencies: Specific course objectives will enable students to: 1. Explain to someone outside the field what makes informatics unique, and specifically be able to answer the question "Why is someone formally trained in informatics better situated to solve real-world health-related problems than someone more deeply trained in computational science, or a health-related profes-sion, alone--or someone separately trained in both areas?" 2. Describe the classes of problems addressed by the different sub-fields of health informatics directed to health care practice, consumers, public health, and biomedical research. 3. Given a health-related problem, describe how an informatician would organize the approach to solve the problem, with emphasis on articulation of goals and the human and other resources that would be as-sembled for the project.
• This course is cross-listed with Will be cross-listed with the School of Information. SI has not yet assigned a number. in the department.

HMP652 Health Law

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Jacobson, Peter
• Prerequisites: HMP 600, 601
• Description: The purpose of this course is to introduce public health students, especially those interested in health administration and management, to the legal issues they are likely to face in managing a health care organization. The goals of the course are for students to understand generally: the functions of and interaction between courts, legislatures, regulators; the role of the courts in health policy and health care delivery; how to recognize legal issues and communicate with attorneys; how law will affect students as strategic thinkers in health care positions; how to apply basic tort and contract principles; and how to apply basic corporate law and antitrust principles. Specific topics will vary, but will usually include: liability; health care institutions as corporations; antitrust; tax exemption; privacy and confidentiality; regulatory oversight of health care systems, including quality of care; legal requirements for access to health care; nondiscrimination; and general employment issues. This class can be taken as an elective or in fulfillment of the law/politics requirement.
• Syllabus for HMP652 (PDF, 165056 bytes, last modified on Thursday, September 13, 2012)

HMP654 Operations Research and Control Systems

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Mendez, David
• Prerequisites: Biostat 503 or Biostat 553 or equiv and Grad Status
• Description: Provides rational framework for decision making for both operating and control systems in the hospital environment. Emphasizes basic modeling techniques and examples of actual hospital applications. Aims at thorough understanding of concepts of total value analysis, objective function formation, and exception reporting. Students become familiar with operations research techniques of inventory modeling, queuing, computer simulation, PERT/CPM, mathematical programming, and quality control. Presentation emphasizes objectives, constraints, and required assumptions of each of these techniques as applied to specific hospital examples.
• Syllabus for HMP654 (PDF, 23335 bytes, last modified on Thursday, November 03, 2011)

HMP660 Economics of Health Management and Policy I

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Hirth, Richard
• Prerequisites: Grad Status
• Description: This course covers the principles of microeconomic theory and the fundamental concepts of the field of health economics. The focus is on individual behavior (demand), firm behavior (supply), and how these forces interact to yield market outcomes (prices and quantities) in health and health care. No previous background in economics is assumed. The purpose of the course is not to train you to be health care economists, rather it is to give you experience analyzing health management and health policy issues using economic tools. The basic framework of economics will be used to analyze the behavior of consumers, insurers, physicians, and hospitals. The tools of economics will be applied to both managerial issues such as pricing decisions and policy issues such as the medically uninsured. Additionally, these economic tools will be used to predict how various parties might respond to changes in the health care system.
• Syllabus for HMP660 (PDF, 65585 bytes, last modified on Thursday, September 13, 2012)

HMP661 Managing Health Informatics

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Adler-Milstein, Julia
• Prerequisites: Introduction to Health Informatics
• Description: The course will prepare students to take on management challenges faced in health informatics leadership roles within a variety of organizational settings. It will be a highly interactive course in which students will have the opportunity to apply theory when discussing real-world health informatics scenarios from a variety of perspectives.
• Course Goals: (1) To equip students with the relevant theories and health informatics content knowledge to become effective leaders within health-related organizations. (2) To expose students to real-world managerial decisions in the health informatics domain. (3) To enable students to consider multiple dimensions of decisions in uncertain and ambiguous scenarios and articulate the justification for their chosen approach.
• Competencies: Domain 1: Measurement and Analysis Measurement: A.8 Operational analysis: Analyze, design, or improve an organizational process, including the use of quality management, process improvement, marketing and information technology principles and tools. A.10 Decision Making: Implement a decision-making process that incorporates evidence from a broad analysis that includes uncertainty, risk, stakeholders, and organizational values. Domain 2: Communication B.1 Convey: Speak and write in a clear, logical, and grammatical manner in formal and informal situations; prepare cogent business presentations; facilitate an effective group process.* B.2 Listen: Receive, process, and respond appropriately to information conveyed by others. B.3 Interact: Perceive and respond appropriately to the spoken, unspoken or partly expressed thoughts, feelings, and concerns of others.* Domain 3: Leadership C.1 Organizational Vision: Through effective governance, establish an organization's values, vision, and mission; systematically enhance performance and human, material and knowledge resources. C.2 Strategic Orientation: Analyze the business, demographic, ethno-cultural, political, and regulatory implications of decisions and develop strategies that continually improve the long-term success and viability of the organization.* C.4 Change Leadership: Energize stakeholders and sustain their commitment to the organization while adapting to changes in the environment.* C.6 Impact and Influence: Persuade and convince others, both individuals and groups, to support a point of view, position, or recommendation.* C.7 Organizational Awareness: Understand and learn from governance structures, formal and informal decision-making structures, and power relationships in an organization, industry, or community. C.8 Project Management: Plan, oversee, and successfully execute large-scale projects involving significant resources, scope and impact.* Domain 5: Professional Development Self-Awareness: E.2 Develop an accurate view of own strengths and developmental needs, including the impact one has on others.* E.3 Continuously push self to raise personal standards of performance and exceed expectations. E.4 Address knowledge, skills, and other developmental gaps through reflective, self-directed learning, and by trying new approaches.*
• This course is cross-listed with SI 661 in the department.

HMP668 Introduction to Health Informatics

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Zheng, Kai; Friedman, Charles
• Prerequisites: Graduate status
• Description: This course introduces students to the concepts and practices of health informatics. Topics include: a) an introduction to the health informatics field; b) major applications and commercial vendors; c) decision support methods and technologies; d) analysis, design, implementation, and evaluation of healthcare information systems; and e) new opportunities and emerging trends. A semester-long group project provides students with hands-on experience in planning and building healthcare information systems; associated ethical and legal topics, software engineering and human-computer interaction issues, and user adoption and outcome evaluation methodologies will also be addressed.
• This course is cross-listed with SI542, BI668 in the School of Information, School of Medicine (tentative), and Bioinformatics Graduate Program at Center for Computational Medicine and Biology (tentative) department.
• Syllabus for HMP668 (PDF, 94089 bytes, last modified on Thursday, September 13, 2012)

HMP677 Health Care Organization: An International Perspective

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Liang, Jersey
• Prerequisites: Grad Status
• Description: The American pursuit in making its health care system more equitable, effective, and efficient has largely been based on domestic health services research and policy analysis. Although the health care system in each nation is somewhat unique to its culture and history, the issues each faces are remarkably similar. Nations can learn a lot from one another in meeting these challenges. This course examines health care systems in approximately eight developed and developing nations (e.g., United States, Germany, Japan, Canada, United Kingdom, China, Mexico, and Kenya). In particular, comparisons will be made across these nations in the following areas: (a) population health, (b) health care financing and control, (c) health professionals and their patients, (d) health care organization, and (e) health system performance and reform strategies. Understanding how health care is delivered around the world will lead to a better appreciation of the relative merits and limitations of various systems, and will yield many useful insights in management and policy decision making. At the completion of this course, students will be expected to: 1. Describe the global burden of disease and health disparities, 2. Understand how health care is organized and financed in selected developed nations, 3. Learn the strengths and weaknesses of these systems, 4. Know the recent health care reforms enacted in these countries and their results, and 5. Apply the knowledge of international systems to the analysis of current issues in health policy and management. The course will be taught by a combination of lectures, in-class exercises, roundtable discussions, and site visits. Effective interventions in health care and related management and policy issues will be emphasized.

HMP680 Special Topics in Health Management and Policy

• Fall, Winter term(s)
• 1-3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Prerequisites: none
• Description: Lecture, seminars and readings selected on a current or emerging topic or theme in health, management and policy. The specific material and format will vary by semester and instructor.
• Course Goals: Will vary by topic and instructor.
• Competencies: Will vary by topic and instructor.

HMP683 Quality of Care

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Wyszewianski, Leon
• Prerequisites: HMP 601 or HMP 602
• Description: Focuses on the concepts and practices of quality of care assessment, control, and improvement in health care delivery settings. Designed to provide an in-depth understanding of basic concepts and frameworks and of their applicability and relevance in specific situations. Covers major approaches to quality of care assessment, improvement, and control currently in use in the health care field.
• Syllabus for HMP683 (PDF, 56669 bytes, last modified on Thursday, September 13, 2012)

HMP690 Readings in Health Management and Policy

• Fall, Winter, Spring-Summer term(s)
• 1-4 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Prerequisites: Grad Status and Perm Instr
• Description: Directed readings or research on selected topics and problems relevant to health management and policy. May be elected more than once.

HMP696 Concepts in Health Informatics

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Zheng, Kai; Adler-Milstein, Julia
• Prerequisites: Graduate status
• Description: This course provides students a formal framework in which to discuss contemporary topics in health informatics. Topics include: architecture, interoperability, usability, public policy, outreach and patient-centric care and technology-enhanced computation.
• Course Goals: To provide students an overview of key concepts and methodologies in biomedical (health) informatics research.
• Competencies: Information seeking; Critical thinking; Qualitative & quantitative analysis; Communication.
• This course is cross-listed with BIOINF555 in the Bioinformatics Graduate Program, Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, The University of Michigan Medical School. department.
• Syllabus for HMP696 (PDF, 246148 bytes, last modified on Thursday, September 13, 2012)

HMP803 Doctoral Seminar in Health Services and Systems Research I

• Fall term(s)
• 1 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Lee, Daniel; Liang, Jersey
• Description: The health services research module will provide an introduction to the philosophy, history, and approaches of health services research and a sample of research topics that have been approached by health services systems researchers.
• Course Goals: The health services research module will provide an introduction to the philosophy, history, and approaches of health services research and a sample of research topics that have been approached by health services systems researchers.
• Competencies: This course will contribute to basic knowledge competencies in understanding the field of health services research and its applications, as well as conceptual competencies regarding the framing of useful and answerable questions within this field.

HMP804 Doctoral Seminar in Health Services and Systems Research II

• Fall term(s)
• 1 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Mendez, David; Hutton, David; Prosser, Lisa
• Description: HMP804/Medical Sociology and Organizational Theory Module consists of six 2.5-hour weekly sessions, and it will be conducted as a seminar. Before each session, all students are expected to complete the required reading assignments in preparation for a lively and informed discussion in class. In addition, each student is expected to submit a study log, which should include one's reactions, reflections, and questions for discussion. At each session, there will be a division of labor among students in summarizing the assigned readings and leading a discussion of them. The discussion will center on conceptual, analytical, and applied issues, whereas the instructor will serve as the moderator and a sounding board.
• Course Goals: Within the HSOP curriculum, students studying sociology can choose to focus on either medical sociology or organizational studies. This module provides all HSOP students to an overview of the theory and methods of each of these sub-fields. Sociology provides a unique set of lenses in defining, understanding, and interpreting issues related to health and health care. The HMP 804 aims to provide an initial overview of medical sociology and organizational studies. In addition, it offers several illustrations of how selected sociological perspectives (i.e., social stratification, life course, and theories of how organizations respond to their environments) can be applied to research in public health and analysis of health policy issues. Finally, a session will allow an in depth discussion of medical sociology and organizational studies as applied to research and policy analysis related to obesity.
• Competencies: To receive credit for the module, students are expected to attend all sessions, read the assigned articles, and provide feedback that demonstrates an understanding of the key points of the readings and discussion.
• Syllabus for HMP804 (PDF, 42228 bytes, last modified on Thursday, November 03, 2011)

HMP815 Readings in Medical Care

• Fall, Winter, Spring, Spring-Summer, Summer term(s)
• 1-4 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Liang, Jersey
• Prerequisites: Perm Instr
• Description: Directed readings in special areas. May be elected more than once. Primarily for doctoral students in Health Services Organization and Policy.

HMP827 Advanced Seminar in Health Care Economics

• Fall term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Hirth, Richard
• Prerequisites: Econ 501 and Perm Instr
• Description: Analysis of the application of advanced economic theory to problems in the health services field. Focuses on several health economics issues, including topics of current policy interest as well as topics for which the application of economic theory has been more fully explored, Classes will include a general discussion of the appropriate economic theory and empirical evidence and a critical review of the relevant health economics literature. Students must read approximately 30-40 articles and write several short papers.

HMP833 Research Topics in Sociology and Health Care Organization

• Fall, Winter term(s)
• 3 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Prerequisites: HMP doctoral students or P.I.
• Description: HSOP Program requirements. A topic in sociology and health care organization-policy is selected each term for detailed critical, theoretical, and methodological analysis leading to development, in class, of propositions aimed at advancing scientific status of the area of inquiry. Analysis and development of content follows logic of the research paradigm. Required of students with a sociology cognate in the doctoral program in Health Services Organization and Policy

HMP835 Research Practicum

• Fall, Winter, Spring-Summer term(s)
• 3-6 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Prerequisites: HMP 809, Perm Instr
• Description: The purpose of this course is to allow each student, early in his or her doctoral career, to gain experience in the actual performance of health services research. The experience will enable students to build sound research skills and to gain knowledge of the nature of inquiry in their discipline as well as in the field of health services research. Each student in the HSOP program is expected to elect a total of 6 credits in HMP 835.

HMP990 Dissertation/Precandidates

• Fall, Winter, Spring, Spring-Summer, Summer term(s)
• 1-8 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Description: Election for dissertation work by doctoral students not yet admitted to status as candidate.

HMP995 Dissertation Research for Doctorate in Philosophy

• Fall, Winter, Spring, Spring-Summer, Summer term(s)
• 8 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Staff
• Description: Election for dissertation work by doctoral students admitted as candidates

PUBHLTH200 Health and Society: Introduction to Public Health

• Fall term(s)
• 4 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Warner, Kenneth E
• Description: This course is intended to serve as an introduction to the major issues of health and health care in the United States - what they are, what determines them, and how they can be altered. In so doing, the course surveys the field of public health.
• Course Goals: The course should provide a broad overview for students wishing no more than an introduction to the field, as well as good grounding for students who wish to pursue additional coursework in the subject.
• Competencies: The specific course objectives are expressed within the following competencies:
  1. Students will be able to identify the principal determinants of health and disease, including the determinants of inequalities in the health of groups differentiated by race, ethnicity, and economic status.
  2. Students will be able to explain what public health is, what distinguishes it from the other health sciences, and what unique contributions it has to make to the health of the public.
  3. Students will understand when governments should intervene in matters pertaining to the health of the public and when they should not. They will be able to describe the major formal organizational structures within the United States responsible for monitoring and improving the public's health.
  4. Students will be able to describe the basic approaches and purposes of the two major analytical methods of public health, epidemiology and biostatistics, without achieving mastery of the methods (i.e., this is not a methods course; that is the subject of other courses).
  5. Students will be able to explain the biomedical basis of infectious and chronic diseases and congenital abnormalities, again without developing detailed expertise on these subjects.
  6. Students will be able to identify the principal social and behavioral determinants of health and demonstrate how they come into influence the most important behavior-related health problems of the day.
  7. Students will be able to identify the principal environmental determinants of health and describe the major environmental health issues of the present time.
  8. Students will be able to explain the role of public health in medical care and identify the principal problems in the U.S. health care system.
  9. Students will be able to itemize critical issues in global health, with a special focus on health in poor countries.
• This course is cross-listed with in the HMP 200, Pubpol 210 department.

PUBHLTH350 Global Public Health: Challenges and Transformations

• Fall term(s)
• 4 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Boulton, Matthew
• Description: This course integrates foundational principles of political science, economics, international studies and the basic sciences in an exploration of global public health challenges. In public health, diseases and other health conditions are examined at the population level, and this course complements basic science courses in the description of disease processes within a population context. Additionally, this course examines the global political and economic processes that directly impact the presence of disease in a population. By comparing and contrasting the U.S. to other countries, students will develop problem solving skills that will help them consider and evaluate the role of race/ethnicity, socio-economic status, political processes, and scientific discoveries in transforming global health.
• Course Goals: Need
• Competencies: • Describe key global health concepts: epidemiological transitions, measures of health status, and the burden of disease. • Discuss how social, economic, and cultural factors can affect a society's vulnerability to morbidity and mortality and its approaches to prevention and control. • Identify health conditions that have a major impact on morbidity and mortality and key biological concepts needed to understand their public health importance. • Identify key organizations and institutions, their roles in global health, and the manner in which they can cooperate to address key global health issues. • Analyze the epidemiological features of a disease that provide opportunities for successful interventions or present barriers to success. • Analyze the socioeconomic features of a disease that provide opportunities for successful interventions or present a barrier to success. • Synthesize the options for intervention for a global health problem and develop a strategy for implementation.
• Syllabus for PUBHLTH350 (PDF, 204727 bytes, last modified on Wednesday, April 17, 2013)

PUBHLTH510 Intergroup Dialogues on Race, Socio-Economic Status and Health Equity

• Fall term(s)
• 2 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Kardia, Sharon
• Prerequisites: None
• Description: Issues of health equity are often correlated with social/cultural aspects of communities and their differential access to power, privilege, and health resources. In this intergroup dialogue, students will participate in semi-structured face-to-face meetings across racial and socio-economic status to better understand their personal and professional roles in reducing health inequity.
• Course Goals: Our long-term goal is to achieve a sustainable shift in the personal and collective skill set of our students to begin to address some of society's toughest issues such as racism, poverty, hatred, and other social injustices. Each of these social elements has a direct impact on people's health and longevity. Societal solutions to social injustices will not arise solely through the accumulation of new data but will need to be accompanied by the acquisition of new skills, including deep interpersonal engagement and advocacy for creative solutions.
• Competencies: Competencies (ASPH Competency): Diversity and Culture • Describe the roles of, history, power, privilege and structural inequality in producing health disparities. (G.1.) • Explain why cultural competence alone cannot address health disparity. (G.3.) • Use the basic concepts and skills involved in culturally appropriate community engagement and empowerment with diverse communities. (G.5.) • Cite examples of situations where consideration of culture-specific needs resulted in a more effective modification or adaptation of a health intervention. (G.9.) • Develop public health programs and strategies responsive to the diverse cultural values and traditions of the communities being served. (G.10.) Leadership • Engage in dialogue and learning from others to advance public health goals. (H.4.) • Demonstrate team building, negotiation, and conflict management skills. (H.5.) • Demonstrate transparency, integrity, and honesty in all actions. (H.6.) • Apply social justice and human rights principles when addressing community needs. (H.8.) Professionalism • Promote high standards of personal and organizational integrity, compassion, honesty and respect for all people. (J.5.) • Embrace a definition of public health that captures the unique characteristics of the field (e.g., population-focused, community-oriented, prevention-motivated and rooted in social justice) and how these contribute to professional practice. (J.9.)

PUBHLTH554 Introduction to Globalization and Health

• Fall term(s)
• 1 Credit Hour(s)
• Instructor(s): Robins, Thomas
• Prerequisites: None
• Description: The course addresses the diverse health impacts of economic, environmental, and cultural globalization. Well-being is affected by the transnational movement of people, technologies, capital, commodities, toxins, pathogens, ideologies and treatments, and changing global power relations and actions of international organizations. These topics are explored through lectures and discussion of readings.
• Course Goals:
  1. Provide an introduction to important terms, institutions, ideas, concepts and processes that underlie globalization as it affects human wellbeing.
  2. Demonstrate a cross-disciplinary approach to solving complex public health issues.
  3. Investigate the concepts and statistical indicators of globalization.
  4. Review the nature and policies of global organizations like the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organizations.
  5. Present important global trends in poverty, equality and health.
  6. Serve as the core requirement of the Global Health Certificate, giving students an overview of the certificate and an introduction to the competencies.
• Competencies:
  1. Understand definitions, concepts and principles of the evolving concept of global health, and the policies and processes that underlie its historic development and contemporary context.
  2. Recognize how recent cultural, political, economic and environmental trends shape health both locally and globally.
  3. Characterize local, regional and global patterns of health and disease.
  4. Demonstrate the capacity to value and promote health equity, human rights and social and environmental justice.
• This course is cross-listed with EPID 554 in the department.

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