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2023-2026 Academic Catalog
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MPH 5502 - Public Health Policy
This two-credit course exploring inter- trans- and multi-disciplinary and team-based approaches to public health policy is a core requirement for MPH learners. Learners use a variety of problem identification, problem analysis and problem-solving strategies from all disciplines of public health in building an understanding of current local, national, and international public health issues. Learners assess the impact of other factors (e.g., social, legal, economic, ethical, and political) on contemporary public health issues drawing on the perspectives and skills of epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental and occupational health, global health, management, exercise science, nutrition, health communications, behavioral health, health policy, law, philosophy, and prevention. The course provides learners with the ability to apply a range of principles to specific case studies and intervention examples from local, state, national and global public health agencies. In this course, the emphasis is on learning how to best define, describe and assess the policies related to a public health problem and the various policy and program options for addressing the challenge. The course uses several didactic approaches, including reading, case study analysis and discussion, lectures, teamwork, and problem-based learning.
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