This course will introduce students to the breadth of SDOH related research that is being conducted by Emory RSPH and ECAS faculty affiliated with the SDOH certificate program. Students will also be exposed to community groups addressing SDOH issues. This course is a required core course for the SDOH certificate program.

Pre-requisites: EPI 504 or EPI 530. This course will focus on social factors influencing health and disease in human populations. With an emphasis on theory, methods, and evidence, several topics of contemporary interest to public health research will be covered: (1) social status; (2) race, ethnicity and racism; (3) discrimination; (4) sex and gender; (5) police brutality; (6) health literacy; (7) immigration/acculturation/assimilation; (8) religion; (9) geography and place; (10) neighborhood; (11) social support; (12) stress; (13) love/compassion. This is a breadth course intended to provide an overview of the field of social epidemiology.

Provides the student with information and skills related to basic measurement issues involved in assessing variables in health behavior research.

This course will introduce students to how racism operates at multiple ecological levels to create and maintain health inequities and proposed frameworks and approaches to promote health equity. Students will gain an understanding of racism as a public health issue.

This course provides an overview of racism as a driver of health inequities and interventions designed to dismantle racism to promote health equity. Racism causes harm at multiple ecological levels from the individual level (e.g., internalized racism) to the systemic level (e.g., oppressive & unjust policies & practices). This course will introduce students to how racism operates to create and maintain health inequities and proposed interventions (programs & policies) to promote health equity.

This graduate seminar introduces students in Public Health and other health sciences to Critical Race Theory (CRT) primarily as it originated in the field of Law with some consideration of its use in Education, American Studies and other disciplines (e.g., philosophy). While students will learn about CRT's origin and use outside of Public Health, the course focuses on how CRT has been used within the field of Public Health or may be used to advance health and healthcare equity. The Public Health Critical Race Praxis (PHCRP) model provides the framework around which the course is organized, the key concepts as well as the skills and approaches of the class. Key resources that PHCRP provides include a lexicon for advancing discussion of racial phenomena, a set of racism-conscious empirical approaches, and several guiding principles to encourage iterative attention to issues of equity in public health research and practice.

Explores and analyzes selected topics in health education and promotion. Topics have included: health equity, health advocacy, and emerging topics in public health.

Introduces students to the concept of violence as a public health problem and focuses on the epidemiology, surveillance, and prevention of interpersonal and self-directed violence.

This course will focus on the possible benefits and costs of public health organizations' approach to consider the LGBTQ populations as special health populations with distinctive needs like those based on race, gender, or age. This course will explore key issues in LGBTQ health including analyzing public health for gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered persons.

Prerequisites: EH Department student, EPI 530 and BIOS 500. Students will gain experience reading, evaluating, and interpreting epidemiologic studies on the impact of both workplace and environmental exposures, and thinking through practical considerations. The course aims to strengthen each student?s ability to read epidemiological literature critically. This aim will be realized through in-depth exploration of major study designs including cross-sectional studies, cohort studies, and case-control studies; and through the weekly readings and case studies. Although some data analysis is required, the focus of the class is on conceptual issues common in environmental and occupational epidemiology research and on the interpretation of findings. Successful completion of the course will also contribute to a richer appreciation of how the environment affects public health.

This course introduces students to the major laws, regulations, and policies applicable to environmental health, primarily in the United States. Readings, discussions, and expert guest speakers are designed to explore the history, politics, economics, and ethics of environmental health policy, including issues around environmental justice. Case studies, in-class activities and policy analysis assignments will emphasize practical skills in policy development and promotion while exposing students to the challenges of advancing evidence-based environmental health policy in the context of competing political perspectives and priorities.

Politics ? who gets what, when and how ? stands at the intersection of power and policy. This course aims to prepare students to navigate political challenges faced by public health practitioners. Since public health reforms lead to winners and losers, this means ?political mapping:? identifying key players, their interests, and the institutions through which they operate. It means moving away from idealized ?best practices,? and toward politically feasible strategies that fit local contexts. To promote such political competence, the course makes use of ?frameworks? applied to specific cases, such as heat exposure of migrant farmworkers in the U.S. and family planning in Indonesia.

The goal of environmental justice is to create a world with socially and environmentally equitable outcomes and a world wherein all have equal opportunity to participate in processes leading to evidence- based, positive policy. The methods of environmental justice are based on what is necessary for creating that space: engagement of communities and cultivation of capacity to understand and respond to environmental concerns; moral and empirically sound collaborations, and the goal of making a visible and positive difference for communities. This elective course will review intellectual contributions by community-based, anti-colonial and social theory leaders; frameworks for structuring and maintaining community ties; special ethical considerations for working with indigenous and other historically colonized communities; and will offer examples of environmental justice in public health research.

This course will explore the public health impacts of global climate change, the responses undertaken by the health sector to become more resilient to those impacts, and potential mitigation efforts and activities. Public health responses will cover examples from around the world, and include issues around risk communication and implementation of the adaptation strategies. It will provide a practical approach to conducting vulnerability and risk assessments, and students will be introduced to a range of skills to assess and respond to climate-related health impacts. Cross-listed with GH 582.

This interdisciplinary course examines how cities and neighborhoods can have both positive and adverse effects on human health and produces recommendations to improve these outcomes. This seminar is an elective planning and public health course that explores the interconnections between these fields and equips students with skills and experiences to plan healthy communities. This course covers planning and public health foundations, natural and built environments, vulnerable populations and health equity, and health policy and global impacts. This course is offered in conjunction with Emory?s Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health and the Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning program and brings together students from both programs and perspectives. When offered in person, half of the course may take place at Georgia Tech; allow for travel time.

Various topics by GDEH faculty. Check OPUS/Atlas for current topics and descriptions.

Prerequisite: EPI 504 or EPI 530 and BIOS 500. This course presents issues in women of being female but not pathologies of reproduction. These include cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, and breast and cervical cancer. In addition, health problems related to the physiological and psychological aspects of being female are addressed. These include depression, premenstrual syndrome, addictive behavior, and violence perpetrated by and against women.

Prerequisites: EPI 530 or EPI 504 and BIOS 500 or instructor permission. Roughly ten million persons pass through a jail or prison each year in the United States. This half-semester, seminar-style course will explore the possible impact of the criminal justice system on the epidemiology of infectious diseases and on health indicators in general. The correctional setting will be used as a case study to illustrate how environment, public policy, behavior and biology all interact to determine the well-being of a population. Lessons learned from studying correctional health are applicable to understanding the determinants of health for other institutionalized populations and in other controlled settings. We have plans to make a trip to a local correctional facility.

Prerequisites: Prior coursework in introductory GIS (e.g. INFO530) and multivariable regression. Spatial EPI includes both the characterization of the geographic distribution of disease, and the investigation of the role of spatially structured processes/exposures as determinants of disease in populations. Upon completion, students will be able to evaluate epidemiologic research using common spatial analytic approaches; match appropriate methods to specific epidemiologic needs or questions; prepare effective visualizations of spatial data; conduct statistical cluster or autocorrelation analysis; estimate model-based disease risk maps; and conduct basic exploratory spatial regression.

Provides an introduction to the entire spectrum of vaccines and immunization: from basic bench research through testing, licensure, and use; program design, implementation and evaluation; and social, economic, and political factors affecting the use of vaccines. Primary emphasis will be on the international setting but examples will also be taken from developed countries. Cross-listed with GH 566.

Prerequisites: EPI 530 or instructor permission. This course introduces the student to the epidemiology of aging populations. Aging and health are characteristics of both individuals and populations. Students will be introduced to the distribution of and trends in chronic disease morbidity, functional disability, and mortality, with a focus on methods for epidemiologic research in aging populations.

Pre-requisites: EPI 504 or EPI 530. Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of disease. Psychosocial Epidemiology is growing subfield of Epidemiology that examines how psychological and social factors influence physical health and disease in human populations. Because the field of Psychosocial Epidemiology is heavily influenced by observational data, the concepts of confounding, mediation and effect modification

will be emphasized throughout the course. Class sessions will consist of presentations by the professor; interactive discussions about key topics, assigned readings and in-class assignments; viewing and discussion of educational DVDs; and student presentations.

Prerequisites: EPI Methods sequence (e.g. EPI 530, 540/545) and generalized linear regression modeling (e.g. EPI 550 or BSHES 532). This course introduces concepts and applications in several areas including the measurement of health inequalities, challenges to causal inference in social epidemiology, and multi-level thinking and analysis.

Examines a spectrum of issues related to health and human rights including three main topics: health as a human right, the impact of human rights abuses on health, and strategies for the adoption of a human rights framework to public health program planning and practice. A flipped classroom approach and case based learning is used across topics to support critical inquiry into the field of health and human rights.

Open to students from all of the graduate and professional schools pursuing the graduate certificate in human rights. Examines the theory and practice of global and human rights from an interdisciplinary perspective. Examines issues of history, origins, and legitimacy of universal human rights, and discusses standards, institutions, and processes of implementation. Considers human rights across a variety of substantive areas, including: conflict, development, globalization, social welfare, public health, and rights of women and other vulnerable groups.

This course will explore the changing ways in which religion has been utilized to make sense of illness, mobilize or hinder productive responses, and impact policies in the global HIV response. These processes have played out in different ways across cultures; the course will critically explore a broad spectrum of religious, political, and public health contexts to assess religions' influences. The first half of the course will explore a conceptual framework for analyzing four ways that religions influences the global HIV response; the second half will consist of an extended roleplay with students representing a global faith-based organization to develop a proposal and related budget for carrying out HIV programs. Alternates with GH 588. GH 536 is offered Spring J-term of even years. GH 588 is offered Spring J-term of odd years.

This course provides an overview of theories, case studies, and social interventions related to gender and global health, with a focus on poor settings. Students are exposed to major theories in the social sciences and public health that have advanced an understanding of the institutional and ideological bases of gender inequities and of the power dynamics within couples and families that influence women's and men's health and wellbeing in these settings. The theoretical and empirical underpinnings of existing social policies and interventions intended to empower women in resource-poor countries are stressed, and case studies of the health-related consequences of these policies and interventions are discussed. By the end of the course, students will have developed the ability to evaluate critically and to identify the relationships between theory, evidence, and social interventions related to gender and health in poor settings. This course is offered on even Spring semesters.

Prerequisites: GH 500 or GH 501. This course is an applied course that uses economic theory and concepts to focus on critical public health issues in low and moderate income countries, particularly focusing on public goods, their use and provision. We will also apply evolving theories of behavioral economics to decisions faced by individuals and households in very resource constrained environments using examples and cases from sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, south and central Asia where the greatest proportion of those living in absolute poverty reside.

Prerequisites: BIOS 500 and EPI 530. The course covers the technical and management principles that are the basis of planning, implementing, and evaluating health programs for acutely displaced populations in developing countries. Emphasis is placed on refugees in camp situations. The course also includes modules on assessment, nutrition, epidemiology of major health problems, surveillance, and program management in the context of an international relief operation.

Prerequisites: A pre-assignment is required. Through participatory learning, this course introduces a process that can be used to help communities identify and reflect on their key issues and take action. Additionally, it expands the understanding of methods for community empowerment and facilitates, through group exercise and reflection, approaches to the community empowerment process.

This course provides an overview of theories, case studies, and interventions related to gender-based violence, with a focus on lower-income settings and populations. Students are exposed to major theories that have advanced an understanding of the multilevel, social-ecological determinants of GBV, and the implications of GBV for adverse health outcomes across the life course, with a focus on sexual and reproductive health. Issues regarding GBV in highly vulnerable populations (including for example conflict-affected, adolescent, LGBTQ populations) are discussed to gain an understanding of GBV as gender justice and social justice issue, more broadly. Promising interventions for the primary and secondary prevention of GBV victimization and perpetration are emphasized with a focus on evidence based on rigorous impact evaluations. Ethical issues in conducting research on GBV are thoroughly addressed, enabling students to conduct their own research following international ethical guidelines. Legal frameworks and grass-roots social movements also are discussed. By the end of the course, students will have developed the ability to evaluate critically and to identify the relationships between theory, evidence, and practice related to gender-based violence in lower-income settings. This course is offered on alternate spring semesters.

This course will offer a sustained critical analysis of the complicated relationship between religion and sexuality, particularly in relation to issues of central concern to sexual and reproductive health. In the course, students will examine the teachings of various religious traditions (with a focus on Christianity and Islam) on sexuality from global perspectives, place those teachings in historical contexts, critically assess the impact of those teachings in the context of sexual and reproductive health initiatives in both national and international contexts, and work to align religion and sexual and reproductive health initiatives through group projects, debates, and case studies. *Alternates with GH 536. GH 588 is offered Spring J-term of odd years. GH 536 is offered Spring J-term of even years.

Prerequisite: HPM 500 or HPM 501 or permission of instructor. Explores the problems of uninsured Americans in obtaining health care. Reviews the scope of the current problem and the role of existing programs, as well as future directions for health policy. Addresses practical issues in program administration, with an emphasis on Medicaid and other indigent care programs.

Instructs students in understanding the historical, social, political, legal, and economic factors and values that have influenced the development and implementation of health policy pertaining to women in the United States. Addresses current key policy and advocacy issues and examines varying views of women's rights, roles, and responsibilities in the health care system.

Topics in the course include the measurement of access and examination indicators of access over time and across states and constituent groups. The determinants of access including age, race, ethnicity, income, insurance and health risk are presented. Current topics in access are integrated into the course. These include racial disparities, immigrant status, geographic variation, the uninsured and access under Medicaid.