This course will provide students with an overview of key concepts underlying public health in historical and contemporary perspective. The course will include attention to the main functions of public health as well as ethical principles associated with public health practice.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

A-PUBH1 Graduate students and public health certificate students only.

Additional Information: Colorado State University.

Typically Offered: Fall.

This course provides an overview of the U.S. healthcare system, its key components and their functional relationships. Students learn about the organization and financing of the U.S. system, how health policy is developed and implemented, and key principles of leadership and management for health professionals.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

A-PUBH1 Graduate students and public health certificate students only.

Additional Information: Colorado State University.

Typically Offered: Spring.

This course provides a broad understanding of the factors that influence natural, urban, rural, and workplace environments as well as human health risks from chemical, biological, and physical agents.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

A-PUBH1 Graduate students and public health certificate students only.

Additional Information: Colorado State University.

Typically Offered: Spring.

Students will learn how to use SAS software for data management to prepare data for analyses. Main topics include importing and exporting data, variable and dataset manipulations. Introductions to producing reports, basic statistics, figures and SAS macros are also covered.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Additional Information: Colorado State University.

Typically Offered: Fall.

This course will examine the interconnectedness of environmental, human and animal health. Issues will be addressed from the perspectives of public health, medicine, veterinary science, and ecology bearing in mind the implications for health policy.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

A-PUBH1 Graduate students and public health certificate students only.

Additional Information: Colorado State University.

Typically Offered: Fall.

This course reviews a wide range of behavior change theories used in public health promotion/disease prevention interventions. Development, implementation and evaluation of programs and policies to promote and sustain healthy environments and lifestyles are examined. Prerequisite: Students can only receive credit for one of the following: PBHC 5500, HESC 5560, CBHS 6610, and CHBH 5090

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

A-PUBH1 Graduate students and public health certificate students only.

Additional Information: Colorado State University.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

This course is designed to provide a broad overview of global health topics and enable students to appraise the current health status in a country; describe population diversity and possible inequalities; understand and critically assess the magnitude and likely causes of various health-related conditions and assess existing and plausible solutions.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

This course aims to analyze and evaluate various sectors within Global Health and provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the disparities that exist. It focuses on the colonial influence on the global health system and its impact on creating and reinforcing power imbalances. Students will gain a deeper insight into the underlying causes of these disparities and the ways in which they can be addressed. The course is designed to empower students with the knowledge and skills necessary to work towards a more equitable and just global health system.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

Applied biostatistical methods including descriptive and statistical inference; odds ratio and relative risk, probability theory, parameter estimation, tests for comparing statistics of two or more groups, correlation and linear regression and overviews of: multiple and logistic regression and survival analysis. Requirements: Students can only receive credit for one of the following: PBHC 5600, BIOS 6601, EDRM 6060, VSCS 6620 or CHBH 6120

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

A-PUBH1 Graduate students and public health certificate students only.

Additional Information: Colorado State University.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

This course will provide an introduction to descriptive and analytic methods in epidemiology and their application to research and practice in public health.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

A-PUBH1 Graduate students and public health certificate students only.

Additional Information: Colorado State University.

Typically Offered: Fall.

Students will gain an understanding of how spatial thinking and geospatial technologies can add context and insight into health issues at the local to global scales. Students will acquire fundamental skills in using various geospatial technologies to map and analyze health and other relevant data. Students will know how to produce cartographic products for publication or online distribution.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Social epidemiology is the study of the connection between social exposures and population health. This course focuses on both theories and epidemiological methods relevant to social epidemiology including factors such as socioeconomic status, discrimination, working conditions, historical and current policies, neighborhood characteristics, and other elements that influence population health through a social perspective.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

Principles, concepts and methods for conducting ethical, valid and scientifically correct observational studies in epidemiological research. Lectures and practical experience reinforce hypothesis formulation, study design, data collection and management, analysis and publication strategies. PBHC 5600, PBHC 5700 and PBHC 5340 or equivalent.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Additional Information: Colorado State University.

Typically Offered: Spring.

This course will facilitate the study of leadership theory and practice through a lens of social justice. This course will explore historical and contemporary movements and the leadership involved in creating policies, systems, and programs in public health. Students will gain skills in understanding and communicating methods of leadership in public health and will develop a vision for their own leadership practice.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

The application of epidemiologic tools to collect, analyze, and interpret data and test results important for disease surveillance and investigation. Requisite: Once course in epidemiology.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

A-PUBH1 Graduate students and public health certificate students only.

Additional Information: Colorado State University.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

One Health is a transdisciplinary concept that focuses on issues at the intersection of human, environmental, and animal health. The One Healthy City Project will bring together interdisciplinary graduate and professional students with the goal of applying One Health knowledge to enhance our local community. Faculty advisors and liaisons from the City of Fort Collins will present a series of seminars that provide the context for aspects of city planning, nature in the city, and incorporation of One Health concepts suggestions that will support the development of Fort Collins as a city.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

This course explores the history of physical activity in public health, basic exercise physiology and kinesiology principles, as well as how to effectively promote and measure physical activity in a variety of populations. Physical activity in various settings will be discussed as well as program planning, implementation and evaluation.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

A-PUBH1 Graduate students and public health certificate students only.

Additional Information: Colorado State University.

Typically Offered: Fall.

This course will contextualize Team Science within contemporary social, economic, and political contexts. It will explore challenges and opportunities for inter-and transdisciplinary research and cross-sectoral initiatives. It will also introduce students to tools and frameworks for collaborative science and provide opportunities for students to apply and practice knowledge gained in the course.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

Development of skills in health promotion program design, implementation and evaluation.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

A continuation of PBHC 5600 extending the basic principles of descriptive and inferential statistics to modeling more complex relationships using linear regression, logistic regression, and Cox regression. The statistical package SAS is used extensively. Pre-requisite: PBHC 5600

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Additional Information: Colorado State University.

Typically Offered: Spring.

All MPH students are required to successfully complete a practicum in which the student demonstrates competencies and integrates knowledge. It is intended to enrich the student's experience by providing opportunity to apply theory and skills in a public health setting. Prerequisite: PBHC 5160 or equivalent and successful completion of 3 additional core courses. Restriction: Student must be in good academic standing to enroll. Only open to MPH students. Department Consent Required.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

A-PUBH1 Graduate students and public health certificate students only.

Additional Information: Colorado State University.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Seminar on current public health issues; topics will vary.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

A-PUBH1 Graduate students and public health certificate students only.

Additional Information: Colorado State University.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Seminar on current public health issues. Topics will vary.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

A-PUBH1 Graduate students and public health certificate students only.

Additional Information: Colorado State University.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Seminar on current public health issues. Topics will vary.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

A-PUBH1 Graduate students and public health certificate students only.

Additional Information: Colorado State University.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Seminar on current public health issues. Topics will vary.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

A-PUBH1 Graduate students and public health certificate students only.

Additional Information: Colorado State University.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Seminar on current public health issues. Topics will vary.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

A-PUBH1 Graduate students and public health certificate students only.

Additional Information: Colorado State University.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Seminar on current public health issues. Topics will vary.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

A-PUBH1 Graduate students and public health certificate students only.

Additional Information: Colorado State University.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Seminar on current public health issues. Topics will vary.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

A-PUBH1 Graduate students and public health certificate students only.

Additional Information: Colorado State University.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Faculty directed independent study in topics related to public health. Instructor Permission Required.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 6.

A-PUBH1 Graduate students and public health certificate students only.

Additional Information: Colorado State University.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Public Health Group Study at CSU - topics vary

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 18.

A-PUBH1 Graduate students and public health certificate students only.

Additional Information: Colorado State University.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Capstone project for CSU Master of Public Health students. Department consent required.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

A-PUBH1 Graduate students and public health certificate students only.

Additional Information: Colorado State University.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.