Epidemiology, M.P.H.

Learning Outcomes

• Students will demonstrate an understandingn of a)fundamental principles and practices in health promotion, education, and behavior; b) organization, principles, and practices in health administration; c) principles and practices in epidemiology, and tools for translating epidemiological findings into public health action; d) public health statistical applications; e) environmental health from the perspective of the earth as a complex, dynamic system.
• Students will differentiate between various study designs, relying upon learned concepts.
• Students will understand basic ethical principles pertaining to public health research and practice.
• Students will create datasets and define new variables in SAS and/or STATA.
• Students will create tables, create and run queries, and create reports in ACCESS.
• Students will demonstrate the ability to calculate and interpret measures of association.
• Students will correctly interpret results from SAS and/or STATA output.
• Students will design a research project which is presented orally in class.
• Students will write an abstract of sufficient quality for submission to a professional meeting.
• Describe the roles of history, power, privilege and structural inequality in producing health disparities.
• Explain how the findings of a program evaluation can be used.
• Explain how systems (e.g. individuals, social networks, organizations, and communities) may be viewed as systems within systems in the analysis of public health problems.