Some courses are offered every semester or annually (eg. every spring semester). Other courses are only offered sporadically. Please visit the UI Course Catalog for the most up-to-date information.
These courses focus solely on a global topic(s) or concepts.
CPH:2400 | The U.S. Healthcare System in a Global Context
Level: Undergraduate
Credit: 3 s.h.
Description: This course is organized into six sections. The first section introduces overarching principles, structures, and processes most relevant to individual health care and a nation’s public health. We then turn attention to the U.S. system and highlight key aspects of patient care, financing, and public health, and then consider alternatives found around the world. More specifically, we organize these global comparisons by the following themes:
- Basic structure of the health care system
- Organization of financing and insurance
- Quality and patient access to care
- Preventative care and health outcomes
- Contemporary and future issues
CBH:3102 | Medical Anthropology
This is a cross-listed course and can also be found under ANTH:3102 and GHS:3102.
Level: Undergraduate
Credit: 3 s.h.
Description: This course uses ethnographic examples from around the world to examine the diverse ways people understand and intervene in health and illness. We will study the relationships between culture and medical practice, understanding healing systems – ranging from biomedicine to sorcery – as cultural systems themselves. We will learn how these systems’ varied understandings of bodies and health make sense in different social and structural contexts. We will also study the ways that political, structural, and social settings influence bodily health. Topics covered include stigma, lifestyle drugs, HIV/AIDS, chronic illness, disability, and death.
CBH:3199 | Anthropology and Global Health Policy
This is a cross-listed course and can also be found under ANTH:3199, IS:3198, and GHS:3199.
Level: Undergraduate and Graduate
Credit: 3 s.h.
Description: Global health has grown as an area of practice and study, with the wellbeing and livelihoods of increasing numbers of people now deeply influenced by these ideas, practices, and policies. Anthropological analysis of global health has grown alongside the expansion of this domain of health intervention, offering critical perspectives on the ways that these programs interact with local dynamics of inequality, race, gender, and power.
Building on these accounts, this class will engage with the ways that global health programs have influenced the experiences of health and illness by those who participate in these projects. Particular emphasis will be placed on how the dynamics of present-day global health programs relate to longer histories of colonialism and the emancipatory projects that emerged in response to the colonial era.
Blending ethnographic and historical approaches, students will learn how to analyze how global health policies impact communities infected and affected by the global epidemics of our time and take into account the perspectives and experiences of the people who are the focus of global health programs.
CPH:3500 | Global Public Health
This is a cross-listed course and can also be found under GHS:3500.
Level: Undergraduate
Credit: 3 s.h.
Description: The course will be structured in three modules aimed at providing students broad frameworks for understanding the distal factors that have and do shape global health and development, the current or emerging global health issues facing our population today, and inequalities in health.
OEH:4240 | Global Environmental Health
This is an MPH degree core course.
Level: Graduate
Credit: 3 s.h.
Description: Environmental health comprises those aspects of human health that are determined by interactions with physical, chemical, biological and social factors in the global environment. This course takes a world view and surveys all aspects focusing on issues most relevant today including sustainability; air, water and soil pollution and remediation; occupational health; injury prevention; food safety and security; risk assessment and environmental health policy.
OEH:4260 | Global Water and Health
This is a cross-listed course and can also be found under GHS:4260.
Level: Graduate and Undergraduate
Credit: 3 s.h.
Description: Overview of global water and health; microbial and toxicant identification, water-related adverse health effects, risk assessment, approaches to reduce water-related disease, distal water-related influences (e.g., global warming), and historic cases.
OEH:4530 | Global Road Safety
This is a cross-listed course and can also be found under CPH:4220 and GHS:4530.
Level: Graduate and Undergraduate
Credit: 3 s.h.
Description: Road traffic injuries are rising in the death ranks worldwide. Deaths from road traffic crashes are expected to rise to the 7th leading cause of death by 2030 for all ages and are currently the leading cause of death for 15-29 year olds. Road traffic crashes account for over 1.25 million deaths and 20 million non-fatal injuries annually around the globe. This course will introduce students to the road safety problem, data sources, research methods used in the field, and how intervention and prevention programs are developed and evaluated. The course is designed with an interactive lecture and hands-on teaching approaches. One or more sections may be assigned to a TILE classroom.
CPH:4755 | International Perspectives: Xicotepec
This is a cross-listed course and can also be found under PHAR:8788.
Level: Graduate and Undergraduate
Credit: 3 s.h. (2 CPH + 1 ABRD)
Description: This course is designed to introduce multidisciplinary students to the provision of service to a community in a developing country. In collaboration with Rotary International, students develop discipline-specific projects aimed at improving community life in Xicotepec, Mexico. The course prepares the student culturally and professionally for teamwork in an international environment. This is a service-learning course that requires travel to Xicotepec, Mexico, over Spring Break. Collegiate permission to enroll in this course is required. Students enrolled in this course must also enroll in ABRD:3352 for 1 sh.
For more information on this course, visit the Xicotepec course website.
CBH:6405 | Global Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
Level: Graduate and Undergraduate
Credit: 3 s.h.
Description: This course provides an overview of the major issues, policies, and programs related to the health of women, children, and families globally with a focus on low- and middle-income countries. Social, political, and economic determinants will be addressed.
CBH:6410 | Special Topics: Global Health Equity
Note: This is a special topics course and content for this course number might be different each semester.
Level: Graduate and Undergraduate
Credit: 3 s.h.
Description: In collaboration with universities in British Colombia, Ecuador, and Lebanon, this course serves to connect public health and other social science students across the globe in a critical discussion of social and structural determinants of health equity. Students across sites will establish a common base of knowledge about equity issues and implement a photovoice project to highlight common and differing inequities at each site and their impact on wellbeing.
EPID:6550 | Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
This is a cross-listed course and can also be found under GHS:6550.
Level: Graduate
Credit: 3 s.h.
Description: The course is comprised of topical lectures and brief student oral presentations. Underlying epidemiological concepts of infection disease, including causation and surveillance; prevention and control; case studies. Given the ecology of a specific human infectious disease and its symptomatology, the student should be able to assess and correlate the epidemiological factors important to its appearance, its transmission, its endemic continuity, it epidemic spread, and those factors important in its control, including investigations necessary to these ends.
These courses may include a global learning objective or competency and/or have one or more lectures that focus on global health topics, principles, or concepts as part of the course’s larger theme.
CPH:3400 | Health, Work, and the Environment
This is a cross-listed course and can also be found under GEOG:3210.
Level: Undergraduate
Credit: 3 s.h.
Description: Survey of environmental and occupational health hazards and the associated health risks of exposure; how public health protects society from these hazards; how public health policy can be influenced by science.
CPH:3900 | Fundamentals in Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response
Level: Undergraduate (Public Health BA only.)
Credit: 3 s.h.
Description: Basic concepts and principles used in emergency prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery at the local, state, and national levels with emphasis on roles and responsibilities of public health that align with policies, laws, and systems.
HMP:4000 | Intro to the U.S. Healthcare System
This is an MPH degree core course.
Level: Graduate
Credit: 3 s.h.
Description: The U.S. health care system; socioeconomic, political, and environmental forces that influence the organization, financing, and delivery of personal and public health services; health services, policy, concepts, terminology.
CBH:4105 | Intro to Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
This is an MPH degree core course.
Level: Graduate
Credit: 3 s.h.
Description: Basic concepts, strategies, and methods of health promotion and disease prevention; health promotion in the context of public health, theories and principles that underpin health promotion; overview of policy formation and health promotion planning, implementation, evaluation.
OEH:4510 | Injury and Violence Prevention
Level: Graduate
Credit: 3 s.h.
Description: This course will introduce students to the theory, research, and practice of injury control. Topics include concepts that form the foundation of the study of injury control and prevention, the data available, risk factors, and prevention approaches.
HMP:5005 | Intro to Healthcare Organization and Policy
Level: Graduate
Credit: 3 s.h.
Description: Organization of U.S. health care system, health policies that shape its development; historical, socioeconomic, political, environmental forces that influence the organization, financing, and delivery of personal and public health services; health services, policy concepts, and terminology, including health determinants, access to care, system integration, policy development, federalism.
This course is only for students in the Department of Health Management and Policy. Students outside the department should try to take HMP:4000 in the summer or spring semesters.
EPID:5200 | Principles of Public Health Informatics
This is a cross-listed course and can also be found under IGPI:5220.
Level: Graduate
Credit: 3 s.h.
Description: Introduce systematic applications of information science, computer science, and technology to public health practice, research and learning. Review methods of disease surveillance, data collection, analysis and reporting with the emerging science of health informatics.
HMP:5410 | Health Economics I
Level: Graduate
Credit: 3 s.h.
Description: Microeconomic principles applied to health care, health insurance, information and uncertainty, models of physician and hospital behavior, theory of the firm, market structure, regulation, competitive reform, managed care.
CPH:6100 | Essentials of Public Health
This is an MS, MHA, and Ph.D. (public health) degree required course.
Level: Graduate
Credit: 3 s.h.
Description: Introduction and overview of the scope of public health; emphasis on history, definitions, issues, achievements, and future challenges; examples of public health research and practice.
OEH:6120 | Topics in Agriculture and Rural Health: Research Methods in Rural Health
Note: This is a special topics course and content for this course number may be different each semester.
Level: Graduate
Credit: 1 s.h.
Description: This class provides an overview of qualitative and quantitative research methods used to address rural health topics. Issues that affect the health of agricultural populations, such as agro-terrorism, antibiotic resistance, genetically modified organisms; current scientific literature.
OEH:6130 | Agricultural Safety and Health: Practice, Research Methods, and Policy
Level: Graduate
Credit: 3 s.h.
Description: Comprehensive overview of regional, national, and global agricultural production and associated public health hazards; solutions to identified hazards.
EPID:6600 | Epidemiology of Chronic Disease: A Life Course Approach
Level: Graduate
Credit: 3 s.h.
Description: Chronic disease epidemiology; survey of leading chronic diseases, including measurement of disease, lifestyle, nutrition, occupation, family history.
CBH:7300 | Advanced Behavioral Theories
Level: Graduate
Credit: 3 s.h.
Description: This course is an advanced graduate seminar on behavioral theory in public health. It builds on students’ previous training in theory, with an emphasis on applications to guide research, thereby ensuring the skills necessary to function as an independent scientist. The course will examine general principles of behavioral theory, examine several behavioral theories at different ecological levels, and discuss the current state of theory development (i.e., gaps, future directions for research). The course emphasizes critical analysis and application of theory. Students will gain a better understanding of the role of behavioral theory in population health research through a combination of readings, lectures, in-class exercises, and writing assignments.