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The course descriptions below are correct to the best of our knowledge as of June 2010. Instructors reserve the right to update and/or otherwise alter course descriptions as necessary after publication. The listing of a course description here does not guarantee a course’s being offered in a particular semester. The Course Rotation Guide lists the expected semester a course will be taught. Paper copies are also available in the BUSPH Registrar’s office. Please refer to the published schedule of classes for confirmation a class is actually being taught and for specific course meeting dates and times.

  • SPH EH 783: Applying Public Health Skills in the Community
    This award-winning course provides an introduction to the hands-on application of public health principles and skills in communities. Topics include water-borne diseases, food safety, air quality, health hazards in housing, and emergency preparedness. Emphasis is on practical issues including inspection procedures, code enforcement, disease investigations, and policy development. Students engage with practitioners through guest lectures and in the conduct of their course projects. Knowledge and skills gained are applicable at the local, state, federal, and international levels.
  • SPH EH 804: Exposure Assessment
    The process of assessing exposure is a critical component of occupational and environmental epidemiology, of determining compliance with health and safety regulations, and in conducting human health risk assessments. This course in exposure assessment covers the basic concepts and methods of study design, data collection, and data analysis/interpretation. Students analyze relevant case studies and conduct a study in which they develop their own exposure assessment strategy, collect and analyze data, prepare a final report, and present their findings.
  • SPH EH 805: Scientific Basis of Environmental and Occupational Health Standards
    This course covers the relationship between scientific knowledge about health hazards and the development of public health standards to control exposure. Standards are reviewed, covering hazards in the environment, at the work place, and in the food supply. For each hazard, the relevant scientific literature is reviewed. Then, the legal basis of the standard is discussed. Finally, the relationship between scientific knowledge, the law, and the existing standard is analyzed. The course is designed so that students may apply their understanding of the scientific, legal, and economic principles of environmental health developed in other courses.
  • SPH EH 806: Development and the Environment
    This course explores many critical environmental health issues that are linked to patterns of industrial and market development, with a special focus on developing countries. Specific examples that are discussed include food and agriculture, environmental impacts of industrialization, pest control strategies, and the effects of global climate on health. The course discusses the contestation over ideas, methods, and resources for sustainable development and equitable health outcomes. It emphasizes throughout the relationships between human health, development, and the environment.
  • SPH EH 807: Urban Environmental Health
    Most of the United States' population live in or around cities. The urban environment includes the often degraded natural environment, industry, and housing and social conditions such as poverty and violence that affect health. This course examines key urban physical and social health hazards including lead, asthma, overweight and obesity, poor housing, transportation, sprawl, racial segregation, and income inequality. It highlights solutions to current problems such as community empowerment, urban gardens, lead-safe yards, and integrated pest management in low-income housing. We include an environmental justice field trip in the Dudley St. Neighborhood Initiative area in Roxbury. Students will select and research a topic on urban environmental health as a final paper and for presentation in class.
  • SPH EH 811: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Public Health
    This course is an introductory level course for a novice GIS user. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a useful tool in the public health field. This course provides students with the skills needed to apply GIS in their careers. Topics covered include basic mapping, development of geographical datasets, and data analysis from applications of GIS in different disciplines of public health. substantial portion of the course will be devoted to computer lab sessions. The course will use ArcGIS software.
  • SPH EH 818: The Built Environment: Design Solutions for Public Health
    Recent concerns about health and the environment have prompted a reconnection of public health with urban planning. This course examines how the built environment, including blocks, neighborhoods and metropolitan areas, impacts health including obesity, physical activity and mental health. Current and past policies and programs such as zoning, urban renewal, highway construction, new urbanism and smart growth are critiqued using the frameworks of health, architecture and planning. The goal is to understand how patterns of development influence health and how urban form can be modified to promote healthier living.
  • SPH EH 840: Intermediate Toxicology
    This advanced-level course is an extension in detail and content of EH768. The course uses a case study approach to teach the molecular mechanisms by which compounds exert their toxicity in addition to dose-response analyses that are applicable to regulatory toxicology. The course emphasizes toxicogenetic differences within the human population. Experimental methods from which toxicological data are generated are presented and discussed for each of the case studies. Major topics include cellular mechanisms of action of toxicants as they relate to oncogenesis, neurotoxicology, and immunotoxicology, and the use of these data in regulatory toxicology.
  • SPH EH 866: Risk Assessment Methods
    Students learn practical application of risk assessment methods to various environmental problems. The focus of the course is on human health risk assessment and teaches students to quantify the risk of adverse health effects from exposures to chemicals in the environment . Students also can apply what they learn to evaluations of biological and radiological exposures. The strengths and weaknesses of risk assessment methods, the inherent uncertainties in each step, and the relationship between risk assessment and risk management are discussed.
  • SPH EH 871: Advanced Topics in Environmental Health
    Two and four cedits Environmental Health advanced topics classes may be available in any given semester. See the print or web-based School of Public Health semester schedule for more information pertaining to the advanced topics course for a specific semester.
  • SPH EH 914: Environmental Health Doctoral Seminar
    This is a doctoral-level seminar course. A new central topic in environmental health is covered each semester. Topics include carcinogenesis/mutagenesis, vaccine development and application, molecular epidemiology, microbial pathogenesis, etc. Each semester proceeds from an historical perspective, and includes both basic science and policy issues. Students are assigned readings from the literature for presentation as a formal lecture, with related discussion to be led by the student.
  • SPH EH 961: Directed Studies in Environmental Health
    Directed Studies in Environmental Health provide the opportunity for students to explore a special topic of interest under the direction of a full-time SPH faculty member. Students may register for 1, 2, 3, or 4 credits. Directed studies with a non-SPH faculty member or an adjunct faculty member must be approved by and assigned to the department chair. To register, students must submit a paper registration form and signed directed study proposal form. Students are placed in a section by the Registrar’s Office according to the faculty member with whom they are working. Students may take no more than eight credits of directed study, directed research, or practica courses during their MPH education.
  • SPH EH 962: Directed Research in Environmental Health
    Directed Research provide the opportunity for students to explore a special topic of interest under the direction of a full-time SPH faculty member. Students may register for 1, 2, 3, or 4 credits in any SPH academic department. To register, students must submit a paper registration form and signed directed research proposal form. Students are placed in a section by the Registrar’s Office according to the faculty member with whom they are working. Students may take no more than eight credits of directed study, directed research, or practica courses during their MPH education.
  • SPH EH 980: Continuing Study
    Doctoral students who have completed all academic course requirements, must register for Continuing Study every Fall and Spring semester until they have successfully defended their dissertation and applied to graduate from SPH. Students are charged the equivalent of two credits of tuition and for student health insurance and are certified as full time. EH980 is a non-graded, no academic credit status. All students registered for continuing study will attend EH Doctoral Seminars scheduled by the Director of Doctoral Education for EH.
  • SPH EP 711: Introduction to Epidemiology
    This course is recommended for students who are not Epidemiology concentrators. The purpose of this course is to introduce the basic principles and methods of epidemiology and demonstrate their applicability in the field of public health. A further objective is to provide an introduction to the basic skills needed to critically interpret the epidemiologic literature relevant to public health professionals. This course or EP712 satisfies the epidemiology core requirement for MPH students. Students who take this course cannot take EP712 for degree credit. This course does not count for concentration credit.
  • SPH EP 712: Epidemiologic Methods
    This course or EP711 satisfies the epidemiology core course requirement for MPH students; Epidemiology concentrators are advised to take EP712 to meet the core course requirement. Students who take EP712 cannot also take EP711 for degree credit. EP712 covers the same materials as the EP711 core course, but does so in greater depth, with more emphasis on methodologic issues, and increased focus on critical assessment of contemporary substantive epidemiologic research. This course is intended for those students who have interest in a more intensive exploration of the basic principles of epidemiology, with greater rigor and with a quantitative orientation. This course is recommended for students who intend to concentrate in Epidemiology or Biostatistics and others whose public health interests entail quantitative skills. This course does not count for concentration credit.
  • SPH EP 721: Survey Methods for Public Health
    This course stresses the theory and practice of conducting high quality survey research in health fields. Classes are a mixture of lectures, examples from real world studies, and skill exercises. Topics include research design, question construction, sampling, data collection methods, interviewing, coding, reliability,validity and preparing data for analysis. The course is appropriate for those who will do research as well as those who will be research consumers.
  • SPH EP 740: Introduction to Epidemiology of Aging
    This 2-credit course introduces public health students to major research topics regarding age-related diseases, disorders, and disabilities, as well as the special considerations in the design and execution of epidemiologic studies in this field. The main objectives of each session are to 1) use web-based or public-use data on the incidence, prevalence, risk factors, and health consequences of the disease or condition to describe why it is important to study in elderly adults; 2) critically review 1-2 articles to understand the current state of knowledge on the topic; and 3) examine the special methodological issues that conducting studies of the topic in an elderly study population pose. These objectives will be met by brief student presentations each week of the epidemiology of the disease/condition, lectures by researchers who are performing studies on that condition, and “journal club” discussions of relevant articles that students will critique. Students will synthesize this information in a short (8-10 page) grant proposal for a study on the prevention or treatment of a disease/condition that affects elderly adults.
  • SPH EP 745: Pharmacoepidemiology
    Pharmacoepidemiologic principles of study design and interpretation will be illustrated in a case-study format of real world examples. Topics include drug regulation, the study of intended and unintended effects, postmarketing surveillance, and monitoring for birth defects. The goal is for students to be able to evaluate the epidemiologic evidence related to drug safety using historical and recent examples like thalidomide, hormone replacement therapy, and Vioxx.
  • SPH EP 751: Cardiovascular Epidemiology
    The goal of this course is to enable students to understand major aspects of cardiovascular epidemiology and current strategies for primary and secondary prevention of major cardiovascular diseases (i.e. stroke, heart attack, heart failure or hypertension). The course concentrates on physiologic mechanisms leading to atherosclerosis; traditional and novel CHD risk factors; prediction models for CVD; and the role of lifestyle, dietary, and genetic factors on the development of CVD. In addition, relevant historical breakthrough and current controversies in CVD are discussed using the latest publication from lay press and peer-reviewed journals. A fair amount of time is devoted to acquiring skills in scientific writing and data interpretation. These latter skills are used by the students to design and complete a CVD epidemiology project on a topic of their choosing. Each student (group of students) then presents his/her completed project in class during the last 2 sessions of the course. The course is taught by the course Director and other senior investigators who are experts in different areas of cardiovascular disease.

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