Public Health
130 courses · UC Irvine · 2026-2027 Catalog
Classes: Fall 2026
PUBHLTH 1 Principles of Public Health
- Units
- 4
Discover key principles of public health and health determinants in communities. Explores the ecological model, analyzing interconnections among natural and social determinants influencing health outcomes. Topics include epidemiology, environmental health, and health policy.
PUBHLTH 2 Case Studies in Public Health Practice
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH 1
Explores public health through diverse case studies illustrating foundational principles and ongoing evolution. Topics include epidemiological investigations, health policy analysis, community interventions, and global health challenges.
PUBHLTH 5 Foundations of One Health
- Units
- 4
Introduces One Health principles to address challenges at the intersection of human, animal, and ecosystem health. Focuses on integration in public health, global health, and planetary health practices. Covers competency-based approaches and problem-solving strategies.
PUBHLTH 7A Public Health Statistics I
- Units
- 4
First of two courses in statistics. Introduces fundamental statistics for health science students, emphasizing quantitative reasoning from a public health perspective. Topics include probability, data analysis, and statistical inference.
PUBHLTH 7B Public Health Statistics II
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH 7A or AP Statistics with a minimum score of 3
Second of two courses in statistics. Focus on regression, probability, and significance testing from a public health perspective. Prepares students to interpret scientific publications and conduct basic statistical analyses.
PUBHLTH 10 Special Topics in Public Health
- Units
- 2-4
Introduction to emerging topics in public health. Topics addressed vary each quarter.
PUBHLTH 30 Introduction to Urban Environmental Health
- Units
- 4
Explores urban health disparities, focusing on social determinants and environmental impacts. Examines global urban health challenges, disease burdens, and historical legacies of contamination. Introduces interventions and policies to mitigate urban health inequalities and enhance public health in diverse urban settings.
PUBHLTH 60 Environmental Quality and Health
- Units
- 4
Explores the interplay of pollution and human health: population, epidemiology, toxicology, zoonotic diseases, water and air quality, climate change, waste management, contaminants (metals, pesticides, organics, radioactivity), and environmental justice. Delves into risk assessment and public health policy implications.
PUBHLTH 70 Toxicology and Society
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- Recommended: PUBHLTH 1 and PUBHLTH 5
Introduces principles of toxicology and societal implications of toxic exposures. Focuses on mechanisms of action, dose-response relationships, exposure pathways, and risk assessment. Includes applications in food safety, occupational health, environmental toxicology, regulatory policy, and health equity.
PUBHLTH 80 AIDS Fundamentals
- Units
- 4
Considers the biological and sociological bases of the AIDS epidemic. Topics include the history of AIDS, current medical knowledge, transmission, risk reduction, and how the community can respond.
PUBHLTH 90 Natural Disasters
- Units
- 4
Examine natural disasters and their impacts on humans. Topics include volcanoes, earthquakes, severe weather, fires, floods, landslides, coastal processes, and risk assessment. Use WebGIS for hazard data and risk analysis in California.
PUBHLTH 91 Disparities in Health Care
- Units
- 2-8
Students become agents of social change for equitable health care delivery. Focus on cultural competency, awareness, communication skills, and disparities. Explore clinical, public service, and research opportunities. Engage with guest lecturers to cultivate and empower diverse communities.
PUBHLTH 100 Special Topics in Public Health
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH 1
Studies in selected areas of public health. Topics addressed vary each quarter. Course may be offered online when topic is Public Health in the Corporate World.
PUBHLTH 101 Introduction to Epidemiology
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- STATS 7 or STATS 8 or PUBHLTH 7A or AP Statistics with a minimum score of 3
The distribution of disease and injury across time, space, and populations. Covers basic concepts and methods of descriptive epidemiology including the natural history of disease, data, and indices of health.
PUBHLTH 102 Social Epidemiology
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- Recommended: (COGS 7A or COGS 9C or PSY 22) and SOCECOL 10 and SOCECOL 13
Overviews evidence linking environmental factors to mental and physical disorders including such variables as socioeconomic status, income inequality, work stress, job loss, social capital, location, and other demographic characteristics. Measurement and research design issues of both individual and aggregate levels.
PUBHLTH 105 Introduction to Health Informatics
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- WRITING 60 with a minimum grade of C or WRITING 30 with a minimum grade of C or WRITING 31 with a minimum grade of C or HUMAN 1C with a minimum grade of C or HUMAN H1C with a minimum grade of C
Broad overview of medical informatics for students with varied backgrounds. Electronic medical records, online resources, mobile technologies, patient safety, and computational design. Legal, ethical, and public policy issues. Health systems management. Evaluation and fieldwork for health systems.
PUBHLTH 106 Project in Health Informatics
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH 105 or IN4MATX 171
Students undertake significant quarter-long projects related to health informatics. Topics may include field evaluations of health care technologies, prototypes, iterative design, and system implementations.
PUBHLTH 107 Epidemiology of Drug Use and Misuse
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH 101
Applies epidemiologic concepts to the use and misuse of licit/illicit substances. Emphasizes descriptive aspects of drug use and determinants of progressing from experimental use to misuse. Assesses subgroups of abusers, risk factors, trends, and surveillance techniques for estimating drug prevalence.
PUBHLTH 109 Consumer Health Informatics
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- IN4MATX 171 with a minimum grade of C or PUBHLTH 105 with a minimum grade of C
Consumer health informatics is a subfield of health informatics aimed to empower healthcare consumers through a variety of consumer-facing technologies. Covers health behavior change, health literacy, social support, and the design, evaluation, and implementation of major technological applications.
PUBHLTH 110 Health Data Analytics
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- IN4MATX 171 with a minimum grade of C or PUBHLTH 105 with a minimum grade of C
The increasing availability of electronic heath data provides an unprecedented opportunity to use data-driven approaches to improve human health. Equips students with essential skills in curating, managing, and analyzing health data, focusing on electronic health records.
PUBHLTH 112 Obesity Epidemiology
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH 1
Exploration of the epidemiological evidence of obesity nationally and globally including the etiology of the obesity epidemic, various measurements of obesity, associated comorbidities, prognosis, treatment approaches, and prevention strategies. Emphasize preventing obesity at both individual and societal levels.
PUBHLTH 115 Community, Social Justice, and Health Equity Research for Action
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH 1 or PUBHLTH 2 or CHC/LAT 61 or CHC/LAT 62 or CHC/LAT 63
Focuses on community as a unit of identity, community, well-being, and social justice perspectives and initiatives to promote community health. Addresses community change and improvements in community well-being, with a focus on health equity research for action.
PUBHLTH 119 Special Topics in Epidemiology and Genetics
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH 1
Studies in selected areas of epidemiology and genetics. Topics addressed vary each quarter.
PUBHLTH 120 Nutrition and Global Health
- Units
- 4
Global issues related to nutrition and public health. Evaluation of nutritional risk factors associated with the development of chronic diseases and the role of nutritional medicine in prevention. Topics include food safety, communicable diseases, supplements, and regulatory issues.
PUBHLTH 122 Health Policy
- Units
- 4
Considers social and economic aspects of health and disease in the United States. What are the proper roles of the individual, community, and government in improving health and health care? International comparisons will be made wherever possible.
PUBHLTH 125 Foundations of Community Health
- Units
- 4
A social ecological framework for understanding community health is presented. Measures of individual and community health are compared, and the influence of personal and environmental factors on individual, group, and population health is examined. Community health promotion strategies are discussed.
PUBHLTH 126 Public Health Law: Fundamentals in Action
- Units
- 4
Addresses the relationship of U.S. public health law to health systems at the individual and population levels. Examines legislative and judicial concepts and how they are applied to disease prevention strategies, health services, management, and policy.
PUBHLTH 127 Public Health Programs for the Corporate World
- Units
- 4
International perspective on workplace health promotion. Strategies for developing programs to improve employee health and to decrease risks of chronic degenerative diseases. Case studies include assessment of employee health, program design, implementation, and evaluation. Emphasis on disease prevention.
PUBHLTH 129 Public Health Administration
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH 1
Examines historical aspects of public health administration including policies, procedures, trends, and development of organizations. Addresses information and skills necessary to succeed in public health leadership roles. Discusses strategic planning, collaborations, and ethical considerations for successful management in public health.
PUBHLTH 132 American Public Policy
- Units
- 4
Focuses on the development and implementation of public policy in the United States. Lectures cover theoretical models of the policy process as well as significant problems facing contemporary American decision-makers.
PUBHLTH 135 Medical Sociology
- Units
- 4
Current problems in U.S. health-care system and proposals for reform. Examines financial barriers to access; problem of patient dumping; underinsurance; prenatal and perinatal care; child services; preventative care and needs of the elderly; minorities; low-income people; undocumented.
PUBHLTH 138 Tobacco Control Policy
- Units
- 4
Explore tobacco control's interdisciplinary facets: history, policy, advocacy, and public health science. Analyze industry tactics, litigation, and impact of tobacco control policies. Discuss parallels with emerging industries. Culminates in a group project on tobacco's stakeholders.
PUBHLTH 139 Special Topics in Health Policy and Administration
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH 1
Studies in selected areas of health policy and administration. Topics addressed vary each quarter.
PUBHLTH 141 Clinical Health Psychology
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- Recommended: PSY 9 or COGS 9C or PSY 22
Behavioral role in etiology, treatment, and prevention of certain diseases. Behavioral intervention including biofeedback, stress-, pain-management, health habit counseling, and other skills to assist patients make cognitive, emotional, and behavioral changes needed to cope with disease or achieve better health.
PUBHLTH 144 Health Behavior Theory
- Units
- 4
Introduction to foundational theories for health behavior change. Explores individual, interpersonal, and community-level theories applied to health interventions. Understand societal challenges and preventable behavioral causes of diseases.
PUBHLTH 146 Health Promotion Programs
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH 1
Explores social ecological perspectives and the role of behavior change theories in health promotion planning. Introduces systematic planning for the development of an intervention program. Emphasizes the cornerstone of planning, implementing, and evaluating a health promotion program.
PUBHLTH 147 Drug Abuse and its Prevention
- Units
- 4
Theoretical and practical underpinnings of drug abuse and its prevention at the individual and population levels. Students practice developing drug abuse prevention schemes for specific populations. Recent developments in pharmacological and biobehavioral theories of drug dependence are explored.
PUBHLTH 148 Public Health Communication
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH 1 and PUBHLTH 2
Theoretical foundations and practical use of communication sciences in public health, covering effective techniques such as audience segmentation, tailored messaging, and multi-model communication for behavior change campaigns across various settings. Includes crisis communication strategies.
PUBHLTH 152 Happiness, Wellbeing, and Health
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH 1
Explores positive and protective psychological, social, and behavioral factors that influence physical, mental/emotional, and social wellbeing.
PUBHLTH 153 Public Health Nutrition
- Units
- 4
Nutrition from individual to population levels. Socioecological factors in dietary patterns and food choices. Disparities in food access and health outcomes. Evidence-based interventions for behaviors, perceptions, and built environment through clinical, epidemiological, and policy approaches.
PUBHLTH 158 Sociology of Mental Health
- Units
- 4
Examines the social causes, consequences, and patterns of mental health and illness. Students learn a sociological perspective on mental health, mental illness or disorder, and medicine/health care, ranging from social definitions, roles, and interactions to societal stratification and international patterns.
PUBHLTH 159 Special Topics in Social and Behavioral Health Science
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH 1
Studies in selected areas of social and behavioral health sciences. Topics addressed vary each quarter.
PUBHLTH 161 Environmental Geology
- Units
- 4
Explores geologic principles applied to environmental and health issues. Topics include earth systems, earth materials, water pollution, natural hazards, waste disposal, climate change, and geology's impact on human health in UCI and Orange County.
PUBHLTH 163 Introduction to Environmental Health Science
- Units
- 4
Explores environmental health's role in disease prevention and human well-being. Topics include air and water quality, food safety, built environment, radiation exposure, climate change, environmental justice, children's health, and policy interventions for public health improvement.
PUBHLTH 168 Nuclear Environments
- Units
- 4
Understanding the impact of the nuclear age on the environment and human health through interrelated developments of nuclear power and nuclear weapons. The early years of weapon development, catastrophic environmental pollution, perils of nuclear power in the U.S. and Russia.
PUBHLTH 170 Introduction to Global Health
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH 1
Provides a foundational interdisciplinary understanding of global health issues and their importance to societal goals, including poverty reduction, sustainable development, and international contexts of wellness and covers major communicable and non-communicable diseases and demographic patterns of disease burden.
PUBHLTH 171 Human Exposure to Environmental Contaminants
- Units
- 4
Explores origins of environmental health awareness. Covers exposure assessment theory, variability, risk assessment integration, and societal implications. Discusses notable environmental contaminants impacting human health.
PUBHLTH 172 Climate Change and Disaster Management
- Units
- 4
Examines the social, economic, environmental, and health impacts of anthropogenic climate change through engaged learning that integrates practice and theory.
PUBHLTH 173 Health and Global Environmental Change
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- One upper-division course in environmental science, public health, environmental policy, and/or environmental management
Examines global environmental and climate change's impact on human health. Explores metabolic pandemics, infectious diseases, and underlying health conditions. Fosters interdisciplinary collaboration among environmental health, public health, medicine, and policy sciences.
PUBHLTH 174 Global Health Ethics
- Units
- 4
Provides a foundation for understanding and application of key issues in global health ethics. Emphasizes competencies needed to practice global health during outbreaks, pandemics, emergencies and disasters, which raise several ethical issues for health professionals, first-responders, researchers, and government agencies.
PUBHLTH 176 War and Public Health
- Units
- 4
Analyzes war's impact on public health through the Social Ecological Framework, including effects on healthcare systems, infectious disease spread, and mental health. Emphasizes recent global conflicts, and U.S. military involvement overseas.
PUBHLTH 177 Global Health Policy and Diplomacy
- Units
- 4
Fundamental principles and consequences of global health policy and diplomacy, including governance structure, functions, analysis, advocacy, and outcomes. Emphasizes practical application of multilateral policies for global health security and responses to transnational threats such as pandemics, climate, pollution, and migration.
PUBHLTH 179 Special Topics in Environmental and Global Health Science
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH 1
Studies in selected areas of environmental and global health sciences. Topics addressed vary each quarter.
PUBHLTH 180 Epidemiology of Infectious Disease
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH 1
Explores the distribution of infectious disease and disease risks among human populations. Covers concepts and methods of infectious disease epidemiology, including case studies of important infectious diseases such as COVID-19, HIV, and malaria.
PUBHLTH 181 Infectious Disease Dynamics
- Units
- 4
Learn how the immune system interacts with infectious diseases, in particular with viral infections. An introduction to basic virology and immunology, it concentrates on the way in which the immune system is critical to the prevention of infections.
PUBHLTH 182 Evolutionary and Ecological Principles in Medicine
- Units
- 4
Explore the dynamics of populations on an ecological, epidemiological, and medical level. Considers the dynamics of competition, predation, and parasitism; the spread and control of infectious diseases; and the in vivo dynamics of viral infections and the immune system.
PUBHLTH 189 Special Topics in Infectious Diseases
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH 1
Studies in selected areas of infectious diseases. Topics addressed vary each quarter.
PUBHLTH 190 Geographic Information Systems for Public Health
- Units
- 4
Extensive use of GIS software. Lecture topics cover mapping basics, projections, and geocoding. Practical tutorials and lab sessions for hands-on practice with public health data. Assessments focus on synthesizing GIS tools for problem-solving.
PUBHLTH 191B Seminar: Advances and Challenges in Public Health
- Units
- 2
Forum for exploring recent advances and challenges in all disciplines of public health research and practice. Features case studies exemplifying the integration of core competencies with cross-cutting interdisciplinary themes of public health.
PUBHLTH 191C Seminar: Advances and Challenges in Public Health
- Units
- 2
Forum for exploring recent advances and challenges in all disciplines of public health research and practice. Features case studies exemplifying the integration of core competencies with cross-cutting interdisciplinary themes of public health.
PUBHLTH H192A Public Health Honors Seminar and Thesis I
- Units
- 4
- Corequisite
- PUBHLTH 199
Advanced research opportunity for Public Health Honors. Students conduct research projects with faculty, attend lectures, and engage in timeline creation. Requirements include upper-division coursework, GPA criteria, and a faculty-approved thesis project.
PUBHLTH H192B Public Health Honors Seminar and Thesis II
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH H192A
- Corequisite
- PUBHLTH 199
Students initiate and complete data collection for the honors thesis. In addition, students begin data analysis and summarize results at a class symposium at the end of the quarter. A faculty mentor provides supervision and feedback on thesis chapters.
PUBHLTH H192C Public Health Honors Seminar and Thesis III
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH H192B
- Corequisite
- PUBHLTH 199
Students write their honors research project (PUBHLTH H192A-PUBHLTH H192B) and prepare an oral report to be presented at a class symposium at the end of the quarter. A faculty mentor provides supervision and feedback on thesis chapters.
PUBHLTH 194A Clinical and Translational Research Preparatory I
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- BIO SCI 99 and BIO SCI 194S and CHEM 1C and CHEM 1LC and CHEM 1LD. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement
Provides training for students with an interest in clinical and translational research in the health care setting. Cultivates skills for study design, research literature review, ethics, responsible conduct of research, and cultural competence while emphasizing professionalism and personal responsibility.
PUBHLTH 195P Public Health Practicum
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH 1 and PUBHLTH 2
Explore public health practice through internships at community agencies, non-profits, or labs. Analyze connections between academia and public health. Evaluate mission and operations, explore personal values and skills, and articulate role in public health.
PUBHLTH 195W Writing for Public Health Practice
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH 1 and PUBHLTH 2. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement
Develop communication skills via writing projects addressing real-world issues. Analyze experiences, connect work to studies, and grasp professional paradigms. Gain practical insights and fulfill upper-division writing requirements. Apply, assess, and communicate public health concepts effectively.
PUBHLTH 196A Clinical and Translational Research Preparatory I - Community-Based Research and Evaluation
- Units
- 4
Provides training for students with an interest in clinical and translational research in a community-based setting. Cultivates skills for study design, research literature review, ethics, responsible conduct of research, and cultural competence while emphasizing professionalism and personal responsibility.
PUBHLTH 197 Field Studies in Public Health
- Units
- 2-12
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH 1 and PUBHLTH 2
Join faculty on field studies or work at field agencies post-practicum. Gain hands-on experience in real-world settings. Ideal for practical application of theoretical knowledge in diverse environments.
PUBHLTH 198 Directed Studies
- Units
- 1-4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH 1
Engage in faculty-guided research activities individually or in small groups. Explore diverse topics, develop critical thinking, and enhance research skills. Ideal for hands-on learning and academic growth.
PUBHLTH 199 Undergraduate Research
- Units
- 1-4
Engage in original research with public health faculty. Attend research group meetings and submit quarterly reports. Ideal for students pursuing research careers or advanced degrees.
PUBHLTH 200 Foundations of Public Health
- Units
- 4
Explores public health research and practices fundamentals from a multidisciplinary view. Gain core skills for crosscutting approaches essential in public health.
PUBHLTH 204A Biostatistics I: Introduction to Statistical Methods
- Units
- 4
Introduction to the basic statistical techniques commonly used in public health research. Topics include descriptive statistics, basic probability, inferential statistics (estimation, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing), and contingency tables. SAS software is introduced.
PUBHLTH 204B Biostatistics II: Intermediate Statistical Methods
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- EPIDEM 204A with a minimum grade of B or PUBHLTH 204A with a minimum grade of B
Explores advanced statistical analysis methods for biological and medical applications. Topics include linear, logistic, and generalized linear regression models like Poisson regression.
PUBHLTH 204C Biostatistics III: Advanced Statistical Methods
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- EPIDEM 204B with a minimum grade of B or PUBHLTH 204B with a minimum grade of B
Intended for graduate students in epidemiology, public health, and related fields. Introduces statistical methods for analyzing survival and longitudinal/clustered data, and techniques to resolve missing data.
PUBHLTH 206A Principles of Epidemiology
- Units
- 4
Fundamental principles of epidemiology, biostatistics, and epidemiological research. Topics include research methods of measuring health problems in populations, disease control and prevention in populations, how epidemiology contributes to knowledge of disease etiology, and biostatistical analysis and interpretation of epidemiologic data.
PUBHLTH 206B Intermediate Epidemiology
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH 206A with a minimum grade of B
Explores conceptual aspects of epidemiology, focusing on strengths and limitations of observational designs. Learn to identify, quantify, and correct bias (e.g. selection, confounding), and evaluate causal identical conditions. Gain skills to evaluate study designs systematically.
PUBHLTH 207A Probability and Statistics in Public Health
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH 206A with a minimum grade of B
An introduction to probability and statistical methods, using examples in public health. Topics include descriptive statistics, laws of probability, discrete and continuous probability distributions, estimation, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and power calculations for one- and two-sample comparisons.
PUBHLTH 207B Analysis of Public Health Data Using Statistical Software
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH 207A with a minimum grade of B
Overview of common statistical methods in public health and how to implement them. Topics include linear regression, ANOVA, the Kruskal-Wallis test, logistic regression, missing data and censoring, Kaplan-Meier survival curves, log-rank tests, and Cox regression.
PUBHLTH 208 Advances in Social Epidemiology
- Units
- 4
Introduces major themes in social epidemiology, adopting a topical approach. Weekly topics include theories, debates, methods, policy implications, and empirical examples of specific social factors. Students apply principles to their own health interests.
PUBHLTH 209 Methods of Demographic Analysis
- Units
- 4
Introduces basic demographic methods used in social science and public health research. Topics include sources and limitations of demographic data; components of population growth; measures of nuptiality, fertility, mortality, and population mobility projection methods; and demographic models.
PUBHLTH 210 Theory-Driven Secondary Data Analysis
- Units
- 4
Learn how to develop and test theoretically-driven research questions in secondary data sources. Logic of theory building and testing, how to conduct statistical analyses on testable research questions, and interpret results. There is also a lab component.
PUBHLTH 213 Epidemiology in Global Health
- Units
- 4
Examines epidemiology and global health. Topics include global health concepts, research in resource-poor settings, climate change's impact on health, and interventions in low-income settings. Emphasizes literature review, health determinants, and interdisciplinary approaches with a practical focus.
PUBHLTH 216 Cancer Epidemiology
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- EPIDEM 200A with a minimum grade of B- or PUBHLTH 206A with a minimum grade of B-
Concentrates on understanding how epidemiology plays a role in the search for cancer etiology, prevention, control, and treatment; gives an overview of cancer research with an appreciation of the multidisciplinary nature of the field.
PUBHLTH 222A Health Policy and Management
- Units
- 4
Multidisciplinary inquiry into theory and practice concerned with delivery, quantity, costs of health care for individuals and populations. Explores managerial and policy concerns regarding structure, process, outcomes of health services including the costs, financing, organization, outcomes, and accessibility of care.
PUBHLTH 222B Health Care Delivery and Financing
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH 222A with a minimum grade of B-
Advances health policy comprehension. Explores healthcare delivery, spending, organizations, quality, insurance programs, payment mechanisms, reforms, and innovation. Special emphasis on incentives for payers, providers, and patients, influencing healthcare decisions.
PUBHLTH 223 Risk Communication
- Units
- 4
Examines theory and research related to the communication of scientific information in risk communication contexts, risk perceptions, and behavior as related to decision-making under risk.
PUBHLTH 225 Health Politics and Policy
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH 222A (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of B-
Explore health policy according to the World Health Organization, focusing on decisions, plans, and actions for societal health goals. Understand political institutions, stakeholders, and interest groups influencing policy. Develop policy analysis skills and advocacy strategies through an interdisciplinary approach.
PUBHLTH 228 Health Economics
- Units
- 4
An overview of health economics with a focus on U.S. healthcare and health management. Explore economic aspects such as evaluation, medical care demand, insurance, productivity, and markets for healthcare professionals. Delve into microeconomic theory, government regulation, and health reform.
PUBHLTH 230 Public Health Science Seminar
- Units
- 1
Presents a curated series on contemporary topics and emerging research in public health, with a focus on global health and biobehavioral sciences. Through presentations by faculty and invited scholars, students engage with current debates, methods, and interdisciplinary perspectives.
PUBHLTH 242 Theories of Health Communication
- Units
- 4
Evaluates health communication theory and strategies for diverse settings (healthcare, community, social media). Emphasizes audience segmentation, personalized tailoring, and subgroup targeting in case studies. Explores multimodal communication's role in persuasive messaging.
PUBHLTH 243 Biobehavioral Mechanisms of Health and Disease
- Units
- 4
Explore measurement of biobehavioral mechanisms underlying health and disease. Topics include assessment of stress physiology, inflammation, immune functioning, and gut microbiome using biomarkers, heart rate variability (HRV), microbiome sequencing, and ecological momentary assessment (EMA).
PUBHLTH 244 Health Behavior Theory
- Units
- 4
Explores theories of health behavior change, moving from individual to broader contexts, with a focus on applying theory to create population-based theory-driven models delineating behavioral determinants of public health problems.
PUBHLTH 245 Health Promotion Planning
- Units
- 4
Explores strategic planning for public health interventions, emphasizing social and behavioral health science. Develops intervention plans targeting specific health issues and populations.
PUBHLTH 246 Social Research Methods
- Units
- 4
An interactive graduate seminar covering topics related to the research process and study design. Begins with conceptualizing research questions, hypotheses, and then turns to topics in measurement and concludes with experimental, quasi-experimental, and observational study designs.
PUBHLTH 247 Program Evaluation
- Units
- 4
Interactive course develops program evaluation plans. Students create plans for health programs in partnership with community organizations. Activities include lectures, discussions, readings, critiques, presentations, and final evaluation plan submission.
PUBHLTH 248 Fundamentals of Maternal and Child Health - Programs, Problems, and Policy
- Units
- 4
Explores Maternal and Child Health (MCH) through public health and neurobiological perspectives. Study key factors influencing global development. Examine historical foundations, conceptual frameworks, and current issues such as COVID-19's impact. Analyze programs and legislation addressing MCH disparities.
PUBHLTH 250 Health Status and Care Disparities
- Units
- 4
Expert health care providers present viewpoints and interdisciplinary strategies for addressing sociocultural, economic, gender, age, and other disparities in population health status and care provision.
PUBHLTH 251 Models of Practice and Intervention at the Community Level
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- CHC/LAT 200A with a minimum grade of B- or PUBHLTH 246 with a minimum grade of B-
Examines and critiques current models, frameworks, theories for understanding social and behavioral factors that are central to community health, and to the development, implementation, evaluation of interventions that encompass behavioral change at the group, organization, community, societal, policy, or multilevel.
PUBHLTH 253 Introduction to Community Health and Health Equity
- Units
- 4
Explores community health roles, applications, and impacts in public health practice. Introduces community organizing, health advocacy, interventions, and strategies for addressing health inequities.
PUBHLTH 255 Structural Racism and Health
- Units
- 4
Provides a basis for understanding how health inequities result from structural forms of racism in various forms—from residential segregation and environmental injustice to social and economic policies—to impact health fundamentally. Reviews evidence, measurement, analysis, and mitigation strategies.
PUBHLTH 258 Professional Development Seminar
- Units
- 2
Introduces expectations about scholarship and cultivate confidence to be competitive on academic job market; workshops on career development; effective approaches to presenting and critiquing research; orient students to resources, supports, and tools.
PUBHLTH 264 Introduction to Environmental Health Science
- Units
- 4
Explores environmental health's role in disease prevention. Studies human-environment interaction, focusing on chemical, physical, and biological agents in community and occupational settings. Covers climate change, environmental justice, children’s health, exposure assessment, and policy for public health improvement.
PUBHLTH 269 Air Pollution, Climate, and Health
- Units
- 4
Emission of air pollutants into the atmosphere, physical and meteorological processes that affect transport, and influence on global warming. Concepts of how and where people are most exposed, and how exposures and health effects differ in developed and developing regions.
PUBHLTH 272 Health Psychology
- Units
- 4
Focus on theory and research in health psychology as applied to major acute, chronic, and occupational health problems. Adopting the biopsychosocial model of health, emphasis is on understanding and influencing how biology, behavior, and the environment influence health and illness.
PUBHLTH 275 Environmental Modeling and Risk Management
- Units
- 4
Learn general principles and basic mathematical methods for environmental modeling and human health risk assessment, including compartmental and advection-dispersion models for contaminants in air and water, uptake by plants and animals, exposure, assessment, dose-response modeling, risk management, and risk perception.
PUBHLTH 276 War and Public Health
- Units
- 4
Explores war's impact on public health, including healthcare infrastructures, disease outbreaks, mental, environmental, and behavioral health, within the Social Ecological Framework. Emphasizes recent global conflicts, and U.S. military involvement overseas.
PUBHLTH 277A Target Organ Toxicology I
- Units
- 4
Outlines vulnerability of selected organ systems to environmental and occupational chemicals. Reviews molecular aspects of toxicological damage. Topics include molecular toxicology and the following organ systems: nervous, cardiovascular, respiratory, dermal, and skeletal embryology.
PUBHLTH 277B Target Organ Toxicology II
- Units
- 4
Analyzes mechanistic responses in animals and humans to environmental and occupational chemicals and radiation, focusing on organ system physiology. Topics specifically covered include reproductive, endocrine, developmental, kidney, liver, pancreas, vascular, immune toxicology, radiation, and chemical carcinogenesis.
PUBHLTH 278 Industrial Toxicology
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH 277B with a minimum grade of B- or EHS 206B with a minimum grade of B-
Analysis of responsibilities toxicologists have in industry, including product safety, generating material safety, data sheets, animal testing, ecotoxicological testing, risk/hazard communication, and assisting industrial hygienists and occupational physicians; emphasis on interdisciplinary nature of industrial toxicology and communication skills.
PUBHLTH 279 Special Topics in Environmental & Occupational Health
- Units
- 4
Current research in environmental and occupational health. Topics vary from quarter to quarter.
PUBHLTH 280 Global Burden of Disease
- Units
- 4
Introduces composite measures of disease burden, including Disability Adjusted Life Years and their use in prioritizing disease burden at local, regional, and global levels. Focuses on WHO's landmark assessments and introduces DISMOD software for specific analyses.
PUBHLTH 281 Infectious Disease Epidemiology
- Units
- 4
Covers concepts and methods of infectious disease epidemiology and case studies of various infectious diseases. Includes surveillance, outbreak investigation, emerging pathogens, ecological and molecular epidemiology.
PUBHLTH 282 Climate Change and Global Health
- Units
- 4
Explore major topics in climate change and global health, analyzing micro- and macro-level impacts. Covers infectious and non-communicable diseases, demographic aspects, and interventions. Gain the ability to propose public health solutions for climate-related health challenges.
PUBHLTH 283 Geographic Information Systems for Public Health
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH 206 with a minimum grade of B-
Engage extensively with GIS software, combining lectures and hands-on tutorials. Cover mapping basics, projections, geocoding, and toolbars. Apply GIS to public health data for practical understanding of its applications.
PUBHLTH 286 Advanced Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Epidemiology
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH 283 with a minimum grade of B-
Explore GIS software extensively, with lectures followed by hands-on tutorials. Topics include rasters, groundwater modeling, spatial statistics, and R programming. Analyze spatial epidemiology using public health data, with weekly assignments and a class project.
PUBHLTH 287 Qualitative Research Methods in Public Health
- Units
- 4
Introduction to qualitative research methods. Covers epistemology, the range of qualitative data, developing research questions appropriate for qualitative data analysis, fieldwork, data collection, analysis, and report writing. Students engage in fieldwork.
PUBHLTH 289 Special Topics in Global Health and Disease Prevention
- Units
- 4
Current research in global health and disease prevention. Topics vary from quarter to quarter.
PUBHLTH 290 Special Topics in Public Health
- Units
- 4
Studies in selected areas of public health. Topics addressed vary each quarter.
PUBHLTH 291B Seminar: Advances and Challenges in Public Health
- Units
- 2
Forum for exploring recent advances and challenges in all disciplines of public health research and practice. Features case studies exemplifying the integration of core competencies with cross-cutting interdisciplinary themes of public health.
PUBHLTH 291C Seminar: Advances and Challenges in Public Health
- Units
- 2
Forum for exploring recent advances and challenges in all disciplines of public health research and practice. Features case studies exemplifying the integration of core competencies with cross-cutting interdisciplinary themes of public health.
PUBHLTH 292 Ethics and Responsible Conduct of Research in Public Health
- Units
- 4
Ethical dimensions of public health research, practice, and policy: ethical principles and frameworks, moral challenges in public health, research ethics, oversight of public health research, structural racism and health inequities, ethical issues in cross-cultural research, research misconduct, whistleblowing.
PUBHLTH 293 Foundations of Clinical and Translational Science
- Units
- 4
Introduction to clinical research design, implementation, and translational science from lab to community. Foundation of clinical research design, approaches to accelerate therapeutic discoveries into healthcare practices, comparison of necessities and impediments to clinical research with transformative potential of translational science.
PUBHLTH 294 Research Communication in Public Health
- Units
- 4
Skills for academic writing: focus on peer-reviewed journal articles, writing strategies, effective dissemination to academic/non-academic audiences, and career-related topics for graduate students in health-related fields.
PUBHLTH 295A Graduate Practicum and Culminating Experience in Public Health I
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH 200 with a minimum grade of B and PUBHLTH 222A with a minimum grade of B and PUBHLTH 253 with a minimum grade of B and PUBHLTH 264 with a minimum grade of B and (PUBHLTH 206A with a minimum grade of B or EPIDEM 200A with a minimum grade of B)
Supervised applied public health field practice with competency based work plan development; integration of foundational and concentration competencies; professional reflection; integrative learning experience proposal development.
PUBHLTH 295B Graduate Practicum and Culminating Experience in Public Health II
- Units
- 4
- Prerequisite
- PUBHLTH 295A with a minimum grade of B
Completion of supervised public health field artifacts; integrative learning experience synthesis of foundational and concentration competencies; professional poster presentation; applied communication of practice-based public health work.
PUBHLTH 296 Doctoral Dissertation Research and Writing
- Units
- 1-12
- Prerequisite
- Advancement to candidacy
Dissertation research with Public Health faculty.
PUBHLTH 297 Research Design and Proposal Writing
- Units
- 4
Evaluate strengths of research findings based on methods used by researchers to develop research proposals. Components such as collaborative agreements, guidelines for proposal writing, budgeting, peer-review process, and transitioning from proposal to research project implementation are addressed.
PUBHLTH 298 Directed Studies in Public Health
- Units
- 2-8
Directed study with Public Health faculty.
PUBHLTH 299 Independent Study in Public Health
- Units
- 2-8
Independent research with Public Health faculty.
PUBHLTH 399 University Teaching
- Units
- 2-4
Limited to teaching assistants.