Provides students with an overview of concepts and strategies used in social marketing and public health information campaigns. Emphasis is placed on developing skills to create consumer-oriented public health intervention efforts. These skills include formative research, audience segmentation, and channel analysis, and the application of behavioral theory.

Introduces the study of public health communication including its theoretical foundations, organizational models, and strategies for intervening at multiple levels with diverse populations.

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.

This course focuses on exploring the systems-level factors that influence health equity in maternal and child health (MCH) populations and their implications for program management and design. This course introduces program design and management principles and the history, ethical dimensions, and scope of reproductive health problems, programs, and policies.? Lectures and case studies will?examine managing and implementing?programs in socially diverse settings. Students will learn contextually appropriate management?skills?in program development, implementation?and logistics,?budgeting, monitoring, evaluation and using logic models, as well as team dynamics and leadership.???Students will apply learned skills in ethical reflections, case studies, and a final project.

In this course, we critically examine the history of public health to gain perspective on current health problems. Students analyze the history of public health institutions, concepts, and practices in the contexts of the history of the social determinants of health, culture, and changing ecologies of health and disease. This course also uses history to analyze health inequities with the goal of promoting health equity.