9 courses with the subject PBHL, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
PBHL 1100Introduction to Public Health4
Goals: To provide students with a broad overview of the interdisciplinary field of public health with particular emphasis on health equity and the social determinants of health. Content: This course will introduce the field and study of public health, including: basic concepts of population health and epidemiology; the history of public health; analytical tools used to study public health issues; social, behavioral, and cultural aspects of health; disparities in public health; and health promotion and prevention of disease and injury. This course takes, as its premise, that public health is inherently a social justice issue and that health equity is the number one priority leading public health today. Taught: Fall and Spring
Goals: To introduce students to the fundamental properties of microbes and their role as disease causing agents; to recognize and define scientific terms commonly used when describing the causes and transmission of microbial diseases; to become familiar with scientific approaches and techniques used to study diseases and their impact on public health. Content: Structure and function of bacterial cells and viruses, basic mechanisms of microbial virulence, reservoirs and transmission routes of infectious agents, techniques to identify and monitor microbial diseases, food safety, discussion of major epidemics and their impact on public health and society. Taught: Every other year
Crosslisted: Also listed as GIST 3220 Goals: To introduce students to the dynamic field of global health and cultivate an appreciation for the pursuit of health equity for all people. Content: Introduction to the history of colonial medicine, international development, and the emergence of a global health framework. Introduction to a set of analytic tools utilized by practitioners and scholars: biosocial approach to health and illness; health disparities and the global distribution of poor health (global burden of disease); the nature, effects, and limitation of medical and public health interventions; discipline and biopower; structural violence and social suffering. Exploration of case studies such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, MDRTB, mental health and disability, SARS-CoV-2. Students will gain an understanding of how global health integrates knowledge from epidemiology, medicine, political economy, as well as the social and behavioral sciences.
Goals: Epidemiology is the study of the determinants and distribution of health-related states or events in populations. This course will introduce students to the principle methods and approaches of epidemiology, and how epidemiology contributes to the understanding and improvement of population health. Content: Etiology and pathophysiology of infectious and chronic diseases and conditions, patterns of disease, models of disease spread, risk factors and prevention methods, outbreak investigation, surveillance and monitoring, screening, design of investigations and interventions. Current epidemiological research will be analyzed using published literature. Taught: Annually
Goals: This course examines foundational concepts and principles related to advancing health equity and applies them in practice through contributions to a community project. Content covered will include: examples of health inequities and the historical and contemporary injustices that contribute to them; strategies to overcoming barriers to equity; and foundations related to assessing needs and assets of communities. Students in this course will have the opportunity to meet directly with collaborators working in the field of public health to produce a product to inform public health practice in the local community. Content: Students will gain a better understanding of research on health disparities and interventions to promote health equity and antiracism.
PBHL 1100 or SJSC 1110, grade of C- or higher Credits: 4
PBHL 3300Evaluating Health and Social Outcomes4
This course introduces the key concepts and methods involved in evaluating public health programs and other interventions to implement social change. Students will learn the fundamentals of program evaluation and develop skills in designing and conducting evaluations to prepare them for careers in public health practice, social services coordination, research, or administration. Through lectures, discussions, case studies, and applied group assignments, students will gain hands-on experience in core program evaluation activities. Emphasis is placed on understanding evaluation purposes, processes, and practical strategies for generating evidence to assess and enhance public health and social change efforts.
ECON 1200, SJSC 3920, GIST 3020, or HIST 3020, grade of C- or higher Credits: 4
PBHL 5020Global Health II4
Crosslisted: Also listed as GIST 5220 This interdisciplinary course is designed for students to deepen their understanding of global health equity by continuing to investigate what the field of global health may include, how global health problems are defined and constructed, and how global health interventions play out in expected and unexpected ways. Our core text will be Turning the World Upside Down – global health in a time of pandemics, climate change, and political turmoil. This guide will take us step-by-step through the following themes: a) an overview and critique of systems of healthcare, globally, and the uneven flow of health ideas, goods, services, and personnel; b) unfair trade typically exports health workers from global South to global North contexts (or from lower-income to higher-income countries) and creates what has been referred to as a “brain drain”; c) unfair trade also results in low-income countries importing ideas and ideologies from global North foreign aid bureaucracies, donor agencies, Western NGOs, and so forth – ideas that are often culturally inappropriate and irrelevant to the local context, and often in exchange for financial assistance; d) concrete strategies for turning these trends on their head. Examining efforts to reverse the trend opens the door to learning from low- and middle-income countries; studying ways in which global health equity respects and embraces local knowledge, practical knowledge, community-based care, social prescribing, and value-based healthcare (defined as the “equitable, sustainable and transparent use of the available resources to achieve better outcomes and experiences for every person”). Slogans for this approach include “the primary diagnosis is social” and “health is made at home; hospitals are for repairs.” As part of this revitalized vision of health creation, health professionals are understood as agents of change. The very notion of health shifts away from the “absence of disease” toward the “ability of individuals and communities to adapt and self-manage in the face of social, physical, and emotional challenges.” Principles of self-determination and human flourishing are wed to global sustainability development goals focused on planetary health. Whereas Global Health I is research and writing intensive, culminating in a substantive term paper, Global Health II is speaking and discussion intensive – aimed at encouraging vibrant dialogue and verbal exchange.
GIST 3220 or PBHL 3020, grade of C- or higher Credits: 4
PBHL 5400Topics in Public Health4
Goals: Examine a current topic in public health by reading and discussing current research literature. Content: Critical discussion and analysis of a current topic in public health.
Goals: To provide an overarching capstone experience to seniors graduating with a major in public health; to synthesize and apply the concepts and approaches from the broad field of Public Health Sciences learned through prior coursework and the internship or research experience; to prepare for the next steps in the academic or career path; and to engage with research, collect and analyze public health data, and create public health educational and outreach materials. Content: In this course you will have the opportunity to relate what you have learned during your public health major to an advanced public health issue. Embedded in this process you will learn how to conduct public health research such as how to engage with communities, communicate professionally, prepare and conduct research, analyze research, translate research into outreach materials, and communicate public health outcomes in a public forum.
Senior standing. The internship or research experience should either be completed prior to enrolling in this course, or significantly underway. Credits: 4
