BIO4800: Introduction to Public Health

Abstract

Course Description This lecture-based course will provide a general overview of the field of public health. We will explore topics in Environmental Health, Social Determinates of Health, Epidemiology, Health policy, Research Methods, and Biostatistics. Public health is a deeply interdisciplinary field and the course will reflect such. In addition to lectures, we will be discussing peer-reviewed articles and discussing translating public health research to the general public. While explore research methods and biostatistics in public health, we will have a brief introduction to R, a widely used statistical analysis coding program.