University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Courses
SPHG
20 courses with the subject SPHG, 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.
SPHG 190Special Topics in Public Health1-3
Public health topics will vary with the instructor and semester.
This introductory course will describe the history of public health, the key terms and concepts, and how the core areas of public health are integrated to promote health at a population level. The class will engage the students in active learning through the use of media, innovative technology, discussion groups, and field experiences.
This course is designed to introduce you to public health and help you develop the knowledge and skills necessary to identify and describe public health problems. Restricted to matriculated BSPH majors in BIOS, CGPH, HPM, EHS, and NUTR.
The course is designed to help you understand and analyze complex health systems and develop the knowledge and skills necessary to develop, implement, and evaluate solutions to public health problems. Restricted to matriculated BSPH majors in BIOS, CGPH, HPM, EHS, and NUTR.
Basic concept underlying commercial and social entrepreneurship applied to public health, including guest lectures by individuals with proven success in these areas. Honors version available.
SPHG 429Global Social Entrepreneurship in Public Health3
This study abroad course will introduce students to basic concepts and case studies of commercial and social entrepreneurship as applied to the pursuit of public health through both for-profit and non-profit entities. This course features guest speakers with successful experience in public health entrepreneurship in diverse arenas as well as those who have experienced challenges or venture failures. Honors version available.
By applying crosscutting themes of health equity, history, community engagement and the Gillings's mantra of "Global is Local. Local is Global," students develop foundational knowledge of how public health has evolved, its frameworks, the determinants of health and health disparities through research and practice applications. With this knowledge, students work individually and in teams to apply their learning to a public health problem and propose innovative solutions.
This course prepares students for public health practice by introducing fundamental leadership skills necessary to advance health equity and recognize and address challenges in organizational settings. Restricted to MPH students only.
SPHG 702Practicum Assignments & Interprofessional Practice Activities1
This course awards credit to required practicum assignments and includes a series of interprofessional practice activities designed to provide healthcare professionals with the foundational skills needed to work in teams to effectively collaborate and coordinate care in population health. Restricted to MPH students only.
This course provides structures and supports for students as they search, select, and plan for the practicum. It awards credit to required pre-practicum assignments.
This course provides structures and supports for the practicum search, selection, planning, implementation, and evaluation process. It awards credit to practicum hours and assignments.
This introductory course is part of the MPH core curriculum and focuses on the biostatistics and analysis methods commonly found in public health. Students will learn to produce, interpret, and use straight-forward data analyses.
SPHG 712Methods and Measures for Public Health Practice2
This course is part of the MPH core curriculum, and introduces epidemiologic concepts and how to describe population patterns of health, health inequities, and their determinants.
SPHG 713Systems Approaches to Understanding Public Health Issues2
This course is part of the MPH core curriculum and introduces students to systems thinking approaches to understanding the complex and interconnecting factors that underpin current public health issues.
SPHG 721Public Health Solutions: Systems, Policy and Advocacy2
This course introduces students to the health systems and the US health system in particular. It provides an introduction to the role of health policy in addressing public health problems and advancing health equity, and how evidence, law and ethics play a role in policy-making. It provides students with the skills to communicate information about public health problems and solutions to various audiences and introduces them to concepts of public health advocacy.
SPHG 722Developing, Implementing, and Evaluating Public Health Solutions4
Students will identify, analyze and prioritize potential public health solutions. In addition, students will learn to adapt evidence-based solutions, engage with community partners, and disseminate solutions. Builds on first semester MPH core courses.
