Prerequisites: Students should have taken BIOS 500 and EPI 530. It is preferred that students also take BIOS 501 or BIOS 591P. Students should be comfortable using R. While not required, it is preferable that students take BIOS 544 concurrently or prior to taking this course. In the Methods for Environmental Mixtures course, students will learn the importance of evaluating environmental exposures as mixtures, as well as an overview of selected environmental mixture methods and data analysis techniques commonly used in public health research. This course focuses on developing an understanding of when to use a specific method, the pros and cons of different approaches, and hands-on applications of environmental mixture methods in R. The course is an elective that is open to second year MPH students and PhD students. It is required that students bring their laptops to class.

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.

As our climate continues to warm, threats to public health will intensify. Translating climate science for various audiences is key to promoting understanding and acting on climate change. Climate change communication seeks to understand the influences on audiences' perception of climate change and how these perceptions promote or inhibit action. In this course, students will learn how to employ public health communication theories, skills, and strategies to create a climate change communication campaign plan that includes key audiences and messages, products, and evaluation plan.

This course in injury prevention and control is designed to introduce public health students to basic concepts of injury prevention and control, to the statistics, surveillance and epidemiology of various types of injury, and to the public health approach to controlling or eliminating injuries using concepts of engineering, enforcement, and education (policy, environmental modification and behavior modification). This class features content experts from CDC and other local agencies as well as student-generated case studies.

This course considers public health aspects of preparedness and management of natural and man-made disasters, including hurricanes, floods, and biosecurity threats, with an emphasis on understanding their complexity and impact. The course is taught using texts, peer-reviewed articles, and presentations by top field experts. The course is designed to stimulate understanding and to encourage an exchange of ideas regarding lessons learned from the past and the implications for current and future polices and disaster planning.

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.

Recommended prerequisite: EH 582/GH 582. Building on EH/GH 582, this course offers an advanced examination of climate and health research and solutions. On the research side, this course will use an in-depth climate health impact assessment study to demonstrate scientific premise, study design, data access and processing, research methodology, results visualization and interpretation. On the solutions side, we will unpack the history and current state of play of global and national climate policy while also diving deep into state and local efforts. In addition, we will pursue emerging topics related to climate change research and policy. Throughout the semester, students will work on a project that will contribute to the Georgia Climate Project, a multi-university consortium co-founded by Emory. Through this effort we will apply systems thinking tools to propose strategies and identify stakeholders important for implementing climate solutions.