This introductory course aims to teach students the fundamental concepts, principles, and practices associated with interprofessional health approaches. The course will emphasize the importance of teamwork, communication, and respect among various health professionals in delivering holistic care across the health continuum.

Public health is the science of preventing disease and protecting and promoting the health of populations and communities. Through interactive exercises and application of concepts, this course considers its history; ethical principles; scientific foundation and tools; biomedical bases; socioeconomic and behavioral factors; environmental issues; and relationship to medical care.

This course is designed as an introduction to the field of environmental health, including regulations, research, disease prevention, and advocacy.

Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of disease in populations and remains the basic science of public health. The objective of this course is to familiarize students with the range of tools used to conduct epidemiologic analysis, including study design and measures of association.

This introductory course is designed to provide students with a foundation in behavioral theory as applied to public health practice, including health education and health promotion. Health education strategies will be examined from the perspective of health literacy, cultural competency, and adult learning behaviors among other dynamics.

This course will teach students effective use of health literacy and health communication tools, including the use of mass media, online social media, and health professions' communication with patients in clinical settings.

This course is designed to prepare students to make reasoned, intelligent decisions about public health matters by learning about and practicing how to think, read, write, and speak critically.

Provides students with theoretical frameworks to understand public health policy issues, introduces public policy making processes, and enables students to analyze position papers on policy topics. Drawing from law, economics, political science, ethics and epidemiology, the course provides students with the knowledge and skills to understand policy-making processes.

This practical internship course will integrate theory, where students will unpack the complexities of Public Health and gain an understanding of the roles and responsibilities of professionals. Careers in Public Health are multidimensional, students will integrate real world experience reflecting on experiences of leadership, health equity, community engagement, and professional development.

This course is an introduction to global public health and focuses on health disparities on the international level. The course addresses the determinants, consequences and trends of infectious and non-communicable disease, maternal and child health, and refugee and migrant health in low-and-middle-income countries.

This course provides both a conceptual foundation and a hands-on introduction for PH informatics - the science of collecting, organizing, and using information to promote and protect the health of all people. Students will work with real-life data sets, from food safety to crime reports, while furthering their understanding of the intersection of public health practice and informatics.

Public health entrepreneurship provides a pathway for action to solving public health challenges. Students will learn how to identify public health challenges, ideate, develop sustainable solutions rooted in evidence, cultivate partnerships, lead with authenticity, communicate through the art of storytelling, and champion community well-being.

This course covers a specific topic in public health.

This is a directed study course in public health for approved students, supervised by a member of the faculty. Students must have an assigned professor, written objectives, planned outcomes and timelines. Students must have permission from the Public Health Program Director to enroll.

This course is a cumulative, integrative and scholarly or applied experience or inquiry project. It may include internships, service-learning projects, senior seminars, portfolio projects, or research paper. The project provides the opportunity for students to demonstrate proficiency in effective communication skills through a written report and oral presentation.