Learning Outcomes: 1. Define public health and its core functions
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Describe the difference between individual- and population-based strategies for improving health, including primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention approaches
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Describe major causes and trends in morbidity and mortality in the U.S. and globally
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Demonstrate knowledge of the 5-step public health approach (define the problem, find the causes, develop effective programs, implement programs, and evaluate impact)
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Describe the challenges and opportunities for evidence-based public health practice, focusing on health equity and social justice
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Create and modify SAS datasets using programming structures within the SAS Data Step (e.g. Do loops, If/Then/Else, Functions, and Arrays).
Audience: Graduate

2. Utilize various SAS Procedures to explore SAS datasets, to summarize information in SAS datasets, and to perform basic statistical analyses.
Audience: Graduate

3. Recognize common SAS program errors, identify strategies for debugging SAS programs, and implement general techniques to check and verify your coding.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the principles and practice of environmental health.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Describe environmental health and its history as a crucial aspect of the history of public health
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Describe the U.S. and world health status and issues as background framework to environmental health.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Describe a brief introduction to the public health research methodologies including epidemiology and toxicology.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Describe crucial infectious and non-infectious disease principles as necessary to understand issues in environmental health.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the health science of air pollution’s effect on human health.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Describe air pollution and its history as a crucial aspect of the history of environmental health.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Describe the U.S. and world health status and issues from air pollution.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Describe a brief introduction to the public health research methodologies and science including epidemiology and toxicology, risk assessment and the lungs.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Describe the detailed scientific and policy information on indoor and outdoor air pollutants.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Describe the science and policy solutions for air pollution and human health issues.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Appraise themes of leadership in which nurses serve as principal actors in global health practice, policy-making, education, and community partnership.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Use the ecological model to understand complex contextual issues, such as culture, politics, economics and environment and their effect on health and nursing practice.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Explain prominent global health and social trends and their effect on global health nursing practice.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Compare the strengths and limits of various models used for global health nursing practice.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Apply common ethical foundations for global health to nursing practice.
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Propose strategies for developing effective relationships with global partners.
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Analyze global health evidence-based resources for professional practice.
Audience: Undergraduate

8. Compose a case study showing in-depth understanding of how global nursing leadership may be actualized in his/her selected example.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Know and recognize statistical and probability terminology, symbols, definitions, and formulas
Audience: Graduate

2. Explain the meaning, assumptions, and interrelationships of statistical and probability concepts and formulas
Audience: Graduate

3. Execute probability and statistical calculations from information provided
Audience: Graduate

4. State assumptions, conclusions and interpretation in terms of statistical and probability computations
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. State the assumptions underlying linear, logistic, survival and Poisson regression models, recognize and address violations of those assumptions, and estimate and interpret regression models to answer epidemiologic and public health research questions.
Audience: Graduate

2. Critique uses of linear, logistic, survival and Poisson regression models in the epidemiologic and public health literature.
Audience: Graduate

3. Translate epidemiologic concepts into statistical modeling assumptions, and explain statistical modeling assumptions in epidemiologic terms.
Audience: Graduate

4. Recognize applications that require methods beyond their expertise, and identify resources to learn about more advanced techniques.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize the utility of humanistic methods for the study of modern international health
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Develop critical thinking skills through techniques of close reading and written analysis
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Understand essential developments in the evolving relationship between global history, politics, and public health on a global scale.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss the physiology and pathology of toxicology, understanding the basicfundamentals of toxicology and toxic agents
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Demonstrate metabolism and breakdown of toxicants using a given dataset
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Recognize various experimental models to obtain scientific results
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Implement knowledge to design experiments applicable to one’s own research
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Critique an example of toxicology in media and develop a presentation of this example
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Explore new areas to assist in career development via journal club
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain and identify the effects of toxicants on specific organs within the human body
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Demonstrate metabolism and reactions of toxicants within organ systems using a given dataset
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Classify different means of risk assessment and the conceptual rationale behind these methods
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Implement knowledge to design experiments applicable to one's own research
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Relate specific organ concepts with conceptual examples from M&ENVTOX 625 to enhance scientific understanding
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Appraise concepts to research to identify future research concepts.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss the impact of genetics on clinical care and public health practice
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Critically discuss genetic/genomic policies and the relevant ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of these policies
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Read, summarize, critique, and relate current news articles to key concepts in public health genomics
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Define and describe the evolution of foundational concepts related to of global health - including tropical medical, international health, global public health, one health and planetary health.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Describe and review global health competencies and develop a personalized assessment and roadmap identifying current skills and skill levels and goals for acquiring additional desired competencies needed to carry out research and implement programs in a global context.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Identify and use information from inter-disciplinary sources, including quantitative and qualitative data, as well as historical and cultural information, to gain a place-based understanding of the health status and health care system, as well as the overall socio-cultural context in which the project takes place.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Carry out topical placed-based study (retrospective or prospective) individually, or in pairs or small groups.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the global burden of diseases, the health transition, and the triple burden of disease as it relates to the country/region studies
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Describe how country-specific environmental, cultural, economic, and social factors influence health.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Review the structure of the health system in the country studied, the role of primary health care, public health, and non-governmental organizations in the health sector.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Explore public health approaches for maintaining health and preventing and treating illness in community settings, including surveillance, diagnostic activities, and interventions. This should include basic health needs such as maternal and child health and nutrition, as well as transnational health challenges such as avian flu, HIV/AIDS and other acute and chronic emerging issues.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Utilize principles and strategies for interdisciplinary team work (communication, negotiation, respect for group dynamics, and conflict resolution).
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Explore concepts related to cultural competence and cultural humility, as well participatory community approaches to health.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Examine ethical issues related to global health.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

8. Describe diseases commonly found in the country studied and explain the etiology, epidemiology, clinical presentation in humans and animals, public health implications, and prevention and treatment strategies.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Extend the knowledge of regression analysis beyond ordinary linear models
Audience: Graduate

2. Describe the features of correlated data and their implications in drawing inference
Audience: Graduate

3. Construct proper linear and generalized linear models for longitudinal and clustered data
Audience: Graduate

4. Describe the assumptions needed for estimation and inference
Audience: Graduate

5. Implement the inference procedures to solve real-world problems using statistical packages such as SAS and R
Audience: Graduate

6. Use diagnostic tools to assess model fit
Audience: Graduate

7. Interpret and present the analytic results to answer substantive questions
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply, analyze, and evaluate advanced theories, concepts, and methods in Biostatistics in relation to the discipline of Epidemiology.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate understanding of biomedical informatics concepts, methods, and tools used in precision medicine and population health.
Audience: Graduate

2. Demonstrate understanding of real-world data (patient-generated, clinical, and genomic) and data standards used in biomedical research.
Audience: Graduate

3. Demonstrate understanding of FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship.
Audience: Graduate

4. Demonstrate understanding of regulations for using protected health information (PHI) data in health research, and ability to recognize potential ethical and compliance issues.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply concepts learned in coursework to real life situations
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Read and effectively search scientific literature
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Develop critical, analytical, and independent thinking skills
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand and communicate the conceptualization and measurement of quality of healthcare and patient safety.
Audience: Graduate

2. Illustrate basic concepts and methods in quality improvement as applied to current issues in healthcare.
Audience: Graduate

3. Demonstrate an understanding of the diverse perspectives that can be used to address quality and safety issues in different healthcare organizations.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop an answerable clinical research question.
Audience: Graduate

2. Search relevant scientific literature using several electronic databases and other sources of evidence (published and unpublished) across disciplines.
Audience: Graduate

3. Manage sources of evidence with reference management software.
Audience: Graduate

4. Critically review published clinical research on a chosen topic.
Audience: Graduate

5. Develop a search strategy and conduct a systematic review or other form of evidence review.
Audience: Graduate

6. Present a planned or actual evidence review to interdisciplinary peers.
Audience: Graduate

7. Describe the implications for translation of the proposed evidence review from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand and communicate the conceptualization of translational and outcomes research in health and health care.
Audience: Graduate

2. Illustrate basic concepts and methods in translational and outcomes research as applied to current issues in health and health care through creating a proposed study.
Audience: Graduate

3. Demonstrate an understanding of the diverse perspectives on health and health care that can be used to inform translational and outcomes research in different organizations, including those within community settings.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand the scope of public health activities practiced by physicians today.
Audience: Graduate

2. Identify common themes in the career paths of physicians who have integrated medicine and public health.
Audience: Graduate

3. Describe common approaches that physicians use to improve the health of the public, including communication, advocacy, professionalism, and systems-based approaches.
Audience: Graduate

4. Identify opportunities for further work in public health with physicians with diverse backgrounds.
Audience: Graduate

5. Create your own plan for a “path of distinction” in public health
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the changing epidemiology and impact of HIV/AIDS in the U.S. and worldwide
Audience: Graduate

2. List co-factors of and strategies to prevent HIV transmission
Audience: Graduate

3. Identify how HIV progresses to AIDS and strategies to manage HIV disease
Audience: Graduate

4. Describe current and future areas of research that aim to prevent transmission of HIV
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe differences in systems of providing health services among countries at different levels of development and with varying socio-political systems.
Audience: Graduate

2. Critically analyze selected global health issues, such as: health and human rights, health disparities, and the global health workforce
Audience: Graduate

3. Describe the role of major health organizations.
Audience: Graduate

4. Examine and clarify values and ethics in global health issues.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe popular and less popular conspiracy theories related to biomedical and public health interventions and their origins.
Audience: Graduate

2. Explain the psychological and psychosocial basis of conspiracy theory adoption and perpetuation.
Audience: Graduate

3. Implement techniques to change individual and public opinion and behaviors related to public health and medical interventions.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate key concepts in environmental health risk assessment.
Audience: Graduate

2. Recognize the linkages between climate change and human health and well-being, as well as exposure pathways through which impacts occur.
Audience: Graduate

3. Learn and recognize the value in using a “Health in all Policies” approach to prevention.
Audience: Graduate

4. Recognize the main ways that actions to mitigate climate change has offer large benefits to health, especially in reducing chronic diseases
Audience: Graduate

5. Develop effective risk communication strategies related to climate change and health.
Audience: Graduate

6. Demonstrate ability to construct a Message Box to effectively prepare for interviews with the media, and to write an effective Op-Ed.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe involved organizations and disciplines as well as current methods for disaster planning, preparedness and response; public health threats and contingency plans.
Audience: Graduate

2. Examine the impacts of emergencies and disasters to our systems, health and society.
Audience: Graduate

3. Describe the role of the physician as provider and partner in disaster planning, preparedness and response.
Audience: Graduate

4. Incorporate reflection and self-assessment regarding ethical challenges and considerations in public health emergency and response.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize unique environmental public health challenges posed by climate change.
Audience: Graduate

2. Define the planetary boundaries and describe their links to human health.
Audience: Graduate

3. Define and Understand the Planetary Health framework and principles for systems-based approaches to risk management and health promotion.
Audience: Graduate

4. Learn and apply a Health in All Policies strategy to demonstrate the value of more comprehensive, cross-sector disease prevention programs.
Audience: Graduate

5. Critically analyze the linkages between physical and ecological conditions with human health and well-being, as well as exposure pathways through which impacts occur.
Audience: Graduate

6. Develop and exhibit effective risk and/or science communication strategies related to environmental health.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the unequal burden of cancer among populations and variations across time and geography.
Audience: Graduate

2. Describe the distinctive features of the biology of cancer and carcinogenesis that have implications for epidemiologic research.
Audience: Graduate

3. Demonstrate knowledge about the major determinants for several common and emerging cancer sites, both for risk and survivorship.
Audience: Graduate

4. Critique epidemiologic study designs for strengths and weaknesses in answering research questions related to cancer risk and survivorship.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply principles of population health sciences to understand the multiple determinants of health and what it means for such determinants to produce health and health disparities.
Audience: Graduate

2. Apply principles of population health sciences to understand the optimal allocation of resources across health determinants for the improvement of health and reduction of health disparities and to understand how such resource allocation relates to fundamental economic principles.
Audience: Graduate

3. Apply principles of population health sciences to understand the roles of socioeconomic status, behavior, medical care, and community on the production of health at individual and population levels and to appreciate the broad range of social determinants of health.
Audience: Graduate

4. Demonstrate understanding of the different ways in which individual health and population health are conceived and measured, and how particular subpopulations often have special health considerations.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply principles of population health sciences to understand the major dilemmas and tradeoffs involved in attempts to improve healthcare delivery, utilization, outcomes, and quality.
Audience: Graduate

2. Apply principles of population health sciences to understand the role of health care as one of many determinants of population health
Audience: Graduate

3. Apply principles of population health sciences to understand how efficient delivery of healthcare services is hindered by different forms of market failure and how the attainment of value-based cost-effective health care depends on the reimbursement and insurance incentives designed to encourage it.
Audience: Graduate

4. Demonstrate understanding of policy and program evaluation and its role in research dissemination, and understanding of the use and misuse of data in the development of evidence health policy.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand the purpose and role of monitoring population health.
Audience: Graduate

2. Name, describe in detail and use some of the existing data systems that are used to monitor population health in Wisconsin, the U.S. and globally.
Audience: Graduate

3. Understand and use methods for gathering and analyzing existing population health data.
Audience: Graduate

4. Complete and present a final project and brief report to monitor a health priority.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Summarize the history of environmental health sciences as a crucial aspect of public health and environmental justice.
Audience: Graduate

2. Discuss and predict why a systems thinking approach is appropriate for addressing environmental health problems and environmental justice.
Audience: Graduate

3. Explain differences in types and classes of environmental hazards (e.g., metals), their sources (e.g. air pollution, land use), how people are exposed and health effects.
Audience: Graduate

4. Understand core principles in toxicology (e.g., toxicokinetics, dose-response) pertain to the environmental health sciences.
Audience: Graduate

5. Analyze an environmental health issue using an environmental health sciences and systems thinking framework and make policy recommendations.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the strengths and weaknesses of epidemiological study designs and critical issues in the analysis of physical activity-related research.
Audience: Graduate

2. Compare and contrast the specific measurement tools used in physical activity surveillance and research and identify the errors associated with these tools.
Audience: Graduate

3. Identify current public health recommendations for physical activity and describe how they have evolved.
Audience: Graduate

4. Describe the contemporary trends in physical activity in the United States and know how they have been measured.
Audience: Graduate

5. Identify the relationships between physical activity and various health conditions/diseases.
Audience: Graduate

6. Review and analyze the epidemiologic evidence for a link between physical activity and a specified outcome of interest (e.g. physical activity and depression), and present a review of the evidence
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Present the biological principles needed to understand the basicphysiological/anatomical/histological/biochemical processes of a normal human.
Audience: Graduate

2. Present the biological principles needed to understand the basic mechanisms of disease processes involving infection, cancer and toxic substances.
Audience: Graduate

3. Exercise the skills needed to be familiar with the terminology pertinent to the above processes.
Audience: Graduate

4. Exercise the skills needed to be able to find, access and understand literature pertinent to the above processes.
Audience: Graduate

5. Foster an increased level of comfort in the communication of these health care professionals in training and clinicians and basic scientists.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate basic understanding and application of principles of Population Health Sciences in characterizing the multiple determinants of health and the optimal allocation of resources across those determinants for the improvement of health and reduction of disparities
Audience: Graduate

2. Demonstrate basic understanding and application, at a basic level, of the principles of microeconomic theory relating to human and institutional decisions in the allocation of scarce resources for the production of health at individual, system and population levels
Audience: Graduate

3. Demonstrate basic understanding of the role of socioeconomic status, behavior, and community on the production of health at individual and population levels
Audience: Graduate

4. Demonstrate basic understanding of the historical and current financing and provision of health care services in the United States and its shaping by the political and policy processes
Audience: Graduate

5. Demonstrate basic understanding and application of the principles of health measurement and its role in the design of health services, policy, intervention and evaluation
Audience: Graduate

6. Demonstrate basic understanding of policy and program evaluation and its role in research dissemination
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the broad aims and the major content areas of health services research.
Audience: Graduate

2. Identify a study’s research questions, hypotheses, theoretical framework, study design, methodological approaches, and conclusions.
Audience: Graduate

3. Identify the strengths and limitations of prominent experimental and quasi-experimental designs as implemented in HSR, the assumptions each relies upon, and specific methods to assess plausibility of each assumption.
Audience: Graduate

4. Assess, and identify feasible methods to improve, the internal and external validity of a specific research study.
Audience: Graduate

5. Gain facility with key methods of professional communication about health services research studies (conference presentation, discussion, and referee report).
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Calculate and interpret measures of health used to characterize morbidity and mortality in populations.
Audience: Graduate

2. Identify features of epidemiologic study designs, their strengths and limitations, and measures of association used to determine the relation between exposures and outcomes of interest.
Audience: Graduate

3. Describe major sources of bias and confounding in epidemiologic research, and how they can be addressed.
Audience: Graduate

4. Evaluate causal inferences between risk factors and health.
Audience: Graduate

5. Identify and interpret the presence of interaction between multiple risk factors in relation to an outcome.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Select, calculate and interpret measures of frequency and measures of effect used in different types of epidemiologic studies
Audience: Graduate

2. Demonstrate understanding of the rationale behind the design of epidemiologic studies
Audience: Graduate

3. Identify sources and types of bias in epidemiologic studies
Audience: Graduate

4. Explain common strategies to prevent and correct for bias in epidemiologic studies
Audience: Graduate

5. Evaluate the validity and extrapolability of results from epidemiologic studies
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe how factors related to the host, organism, and environment interrelate to cause and mitigate the spread infectious diseases.
Audience: Graduate

2. Apply the tools of infectious disease epidemiology are used in surveillance, outbreak investigation, and research studies.
Audience: Graduate

3. Characterize the impact of infectious diseases on populations and communities locally and globally.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate a good understanding of the main features of the counterfactual model as a base for causal inferences in epidemiological research.
Audience: Graduate

2. Identify assumptions needed for causal inference and assess whether they are sufficient to allow the estimation of causal effects from available data.
Audience: Graduate

3. Understand and use design and analytic strategies that help in the estimation of causal effects.
Audience: Graduate

4. Demonstrate a good understanding of the main features of the counterfactual model as a base for causal inferences in epidemiological research.
Audience: Graduate

5. Identify assumptions needed for causal inference and assess whether they are sufficient to allow the estimation of causal effects from available data.
Audience: Graduate

6. Understand and use design and analytic strategies that help in the estimation of causal effects.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Participate in a multi-disciplinary team to design and implement epidemiology studies
Audience: Graduate

2. Design and interpret epidemiology validation studies
Audience: Graduate

3. Identify commonly-used epidemiology field instruments and methods for assessing a wide range of specific health factors
Audience: Graduate

4. Write clear and concise research articles
Audience: Graduate

5. Contribute to scientific dissemination as peer reviewers
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify, critically evaluate and use global health data and indicators to describe global public health priorities and disparities and monitor trends and progress; and,
Audience: Graduate

2. Describe the role of epidemiology and the application of epidemiologic principles in studies to improve population health and reduce global health disparities.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Formulate research questions relevant to social network analysis.
Audience: Graduate

2. Describe the sources, advantages, and disadvantages of alternative types of social network data.
Audience: Graduate

3. Describe a social network and compare attributes across different social networks.
Audience: Graduate

4. Describe theoretical and empirical issues in current research on social network analysis and health.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Gain skills in making professional presentations
Audience: Graduate

2. Gain skills in commenting on other scholars' work
Audience: Graduate

3. Describe the importance of Individual Development Plans (IDPs)
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe health measurement issues
Audience: Graduate

2. Describe how such measurements are made
Audience: Graduate

3. Describe what alternatives exist for health measurement, and how and why such measurements are used in practice.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the major types of cardiovascular disease and their distributions in the population.
Audience: Graduate

2. Describe the general pathophysiology underlying each major type of cardiovascular disease.
Audience: Graduate

3. Identify the primary risk factors for each major type of cardiovascular disease.
Audience: Graduate

4. Describe how each major type of cardiovascular disease is assessed in clinical practice and in epidemiological studies.
Audience: Graduate

5. Describe the major epidemiological studies that have provided the foundation of knowledge in this field.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the breadth of themes in health economics, organized under three main topic areas (the production of health; the value of health and health care; and the use of evidence to make decisions in health and healthcare contexts), and to develop appropriate analytical and methodological skills
Audience: Graduate

2. Enhance analytical and writing skills by producing several short papers
Audience: Graduate

3. Enhance scholarly oral presentation skills
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Evaluate and discuss genetic/genomic epidemiological literature.
Audience: Graduate

2. Design simple genetic/genomic epidemiological studies.
Audience: Graduate

3. Identify and apply appropriate tests of association between genetic variants and both qualitative and quantitative outcomes using either unrelated individuals or families.
Audience: Graduate

4. Summarize and interpret the results of genetic/genomic tests of association.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply basic concepts of economic analysis to the assessment of medical technologies and healthcare interventions more broadly
Audience: Graduate

2. Examine health outcomes on a range from objective measures of physical systems to subjective preference-based measures of health utility and describe the benefits and limitations of using quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) as a health outcome measure
Audience: Graduate

3. Explain why we seek to obtain estimates of the “opportunity cost” of using health care resources, describe the process of “costing” in economic assessments of medical technologies and identify useful sources of information for obtaining cost information (and their limitations)
Audience: Graduate

4. Describe how primary data from randomized controlled trials and observational studies can be designed to assess medical technologies and explain the advantages and disadvantages of different designs in terms of their internal and external validity and decision-relevance
Audience: Graduate

5. Describe how evidence from secondary data can be integrated using meta-analysis and decision-analytic modeling methods to assess medical technologies and demonstrate basic ability to design and execute simple decision tree and Markov models for cost-effectiveness analysis
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand key measurement issues involved in health, healthcare quality, and health policy
Audience: Graduate

2. Appreciate and describe the application of these measurement issues to practical problems and research
Audience: Graduate

3. Appreciate and describe the importance of concise oral and written scholarly communication through several writing exercises and oral presentations
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the basic mechanics of performing a Cost Benefit Analysis, including methods for valuing costs and benefits, aggregating over time, and analyzing uncertainties.
Audience: Graduate

2. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different CBAs and propose strategies to address any shortcomings.
Audience: Graduate

3. Debate the advantages and limitations of CBA for public policy and compare it to other approaches.
Audience: Graduate

4. Create a CBA for a real-world client from beginning to end, including scoping, background research, valuation of costs and benefits, uncertainty analysis, and interpretation.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe trends in substance use in the United States.
Audience: Graduate

2. Demonstrate understanding of the U.S. health care infrastructure to treat and mitigate the harms associated with substance use.
Audience: Graduate

3. Describe clinical, health systems, and policy interventions to prevent, treat, and mitigate the harms associated with substance use, and evidence of their effectiveness.
Audience: Graduate

4. Summarize strengths and limitations of datasets available for substance use health services research
Audience: Graduate

5. Formulate a substance use health services research question and summarize the relevant evidence in a concise literature review.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply, analyze, and evaluate advanced theories, concepts, and methods in epidemiology
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Evaluate the contributions of health care to population health outcomes
Audience: Graduate

2. Identify a set of broad criteria to evaluate health system performance
Audience: Graduate

3. Evaluate the current performance of the U.S. health care system in comparison with other national health systems
Audience: Graduate

4. Identify the key challenges in global health governance
Audience: Graduate

5. Analyze the social values and political interests that shape health systems development and reform efforts
Audience: Graduate

6. Explain how action outside the health sector is essential for preventing noncommunicable diseases, reducing health care costs, and improving population health and well-being
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply the steps that are necessary to complete a public health investigation
Audience: Graduate

2. Describe the importance of engaging appropriate stakeholders in completing a public health investigation
Audience: Graduate

3. Effectively communicate findings to public health and healthcare audiences
Audience: Graduate

4. Discuss the role of applied and academic public health in maintaining the health of a community
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe how various categories of environmental toxicants (including carcinogens, mutagens, teratogens, neurotoxins, and endocrine disrupters) affect human health
Audience: Graduate

2. Demonstrate skill in taking a robust patient history by understanding the potential toxicants in a patient’s environment
Audience: Graduate

3. Practice risk communication strategies, simulating patient and population encounters
Audience: Graduate

4. Describe why certain populations, including children, pregnant women, the elderly and marginalized populations are more vulnerable to environmental exposure
Audience: Graduate

5. Discuss the role and approaches to engaging key stakeholders in environmental justice issues, including consumer/advocacy groups, community organizations, governmental organizations, corporations, and various industries/professions
Audience: Graduate

6. Identify credible evidence and appraise scientific literature to address both patient and population-level environmental health issues
Audience: Graduate

7. Identify the positive and negative impact of various public policies on environmental justice
Audience: Graduate

8. Discuss opportunities for physician advocacy across the social ecological framework to address environmental issues incorporating a systems-thinking lens
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Name and explain the basic concepts of physical activity epidemiology, including study designs, public health guidelines, surveillance, and physical activity measures
Audience: Graduate

2. Critically evaluate current research on physical activity and health topics
Audience: Graduate

3. Prepare a presentation and lead a group in an in-depth discussion of the methods, interpretation, and implications of recent scientific articles
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Exhibit a broad understanding of general population health sciences (including population health and epidemiology principles.
Audience: Graduate

2. Conduct independent research using a variety of approaches.
Audience: Graduate

3. Think critically to address research challenges.
Audience: Graduate

4. Exhibit and foster professional and ethical conduct in their research.
Audience: Graduate

5. Collaborate with other investigators within or outside the thesis/dissertation lab.
Audience: Graduate