This course introduces students to public health concepts and practice. It provides a broad overview of the field of public health and a focused look at core areas of health promotion and education, environmental health, epidemiology and biostatistics, and healthcare administration in the public health arena.

This course will address chemical, physical and biological factors in the environment and their relationship to the health of the human population.

Explore principles related to the distribution and causality of disease. Focuses on etiology, prevention and control of communicable and chronic human disease. Participants are trained in basic epidemiological methodology, featuring case-series, case-control, experimental and cohort study designs.

HCA 701 examines the manpower, financing and major service components of the US healthcare system. It addresses major issues of healthcare access, costs, and quality of care. There is a special emphasis on the role of government regulation and public policy in the system.

This course focuses on the principles of program planning based on assessing individual and community needs and techniques to evaluate the effectiveness of health promotion programs. It is also designed to analyze the process to obtain fiscal resources through grants, contracts, and other internal and external sources.

EAB 703 is designed to provide a foundation in biostatistics for graduate students in the health sciences. Topics include probability, distributions, estimation, hypothesis testing, ANOVA, simple and multiple regression, vital statistics, and nonparametric methods.