BSH-C600 
Health Promotion Program Evaluation This course teaches the principles and procedures to evaluate health promotion and disease prevention programs. Evaluation design, reliability and validity, formative and process evaluation and meta-analysis are introduced. 

BSH-C601 Research Methods in Behavioral Science 
This course provides an overview of selected methods used in conducting behavioral science research. It also addresses all methodological aspects of behavioral science research from study design to evaluation, with an emphasis on data collection methods and survey research. 

BSH-C602 Intervention Research 
Using a case-study approach, this course introduces students to intervention research for a wide range of health problems and populations in community, health care, work site and school settings. 

BST-C502 Theory of Biostatistics 
This course introduces the principles of probability and biostatistical inferences. 

BST-C520 Survival Data Analysis 
This course treats statistical methods for analyzing survival data derived from laboratory, clinical and epidemiological studies of humans. Both parametric and nonparametric approaches are presented. 

BST-C531 Cluster Analysis 
This course is an introduction to the analytic method of cluster analysis. Students learn how cluster analysis methods are used to explore and analyze patters of relationships among cases. 

BST-C521 Categorical Data Analysis 
This course introduces the theory and application of methods for categorical data, with emphasis on biomedical and social science applications. 

EOH-C550 Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology 
This course presents the epidemiological methods used to investigate the health effects of occupational and environmental exposures to toxins. Epidemiological evidence concerning the health effects of selected occupational and environmental exposures are critically reviewed and evaluated. 

EOH-C640 Exposure Assessment Methodologies 
This course presents an overview of methodologies and applications, representative exposure monitoring strategies and methods, exposure categories, assessing exposure histories and risk assessment models. 

EPI-C501 Epidemiology Methods I 
This course offers intensive training in epidemiologic research methods, including measures of disease frequency, measures of association, disease surveillance, causal inferences, experimental and quasi-experimental study designs and screening. 

EPI-C502 Epidemiology Methods II 
This course offers intensive training in epidemiologic research methods, including observational study designs, infectious disease outbreak analysis, sampling methods, statistical power, multivariate analysis, types of bias and causal inferences. 

EPI-C523 Applied Epidemiology 
This course provides students with an understanding of the applications of epidemiology in public health and health care settings. It includes a brief review of key epidemiologic concepts; examples of the use of epidemiologic data in public health planning, health services decision-making and policy making; and case studies of current issues in epidemiology. 

EPI-C601 Advanced Epidemiology Methods 
The purposes of this course are to develop the practical statistical skills to analyze an epidemiologic data set, and to learn to write a scientific paper in the form of a journal article from the results of epidemiologic data analysis. 

EPI-C602 Measurement in Epidemiology and Health Services Research 
This course emphasis is on the principles of measurement in epidemiology and outcomes research, particularly primary data collection. Special emphases include: questionnaire design, interviewing methods and reliability and validity studies. Outcomes research examples include health-related quality-of-life, health status, function and physical performance. 

HA-C601 Economic Evaluation 
This course compares different interventions or proposed interventions to determine which is the best use of society’s scare resources. It includes cost-minimization, cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness and costutility analysis. The course covers the theoretical basis for economic evaluation, its use in health and the mechanics of the four types of analysis. 

PHS-C601 Proseminar in Health Services Research 
The purpose of this proseminar is to lay a foundation for the incoming student in the Doctoral Program that all subsequent courses may build upon. 

PHS-C602 Measurement in Epidemiology and Health Services Research 
This course emphasizes the principles of measurement in epidemiologic and outcomes research, particularly data collection. Special emphases include questionnaire design, interviewing methods, reliability and validity studies; and the extension of data quality methods to the use of various record resources and laboratory and biological specimens. 

PHS-C603 Clinical Epidemiology 
The purpose of this course is to explore how epidemiologic methods are applied to clinical research questions. Clinical epidemiology evaluates factors that are related to variation in the outcomes of illness. Topics that may be covered include the evaluation of diagnostic tests and screening studies, research in therapeutic efficacy including clinical trials and nonrandomized studies, nosocomial infections, health outcomes issues, and the synthesis of existing study results including critical literature review and the use of meta-analysis. 

PHS-C605 Seminar: Context for Evidence-Based Policy 
Doctoral students are presented with a framework for understanding health and health policy. Institutions involved in health require good data and professional analysis to guide goal-setting and policy decision. Students will explore how to focus their research careers on issues integral to the field of public health. 

PHS-C606 Applied Research Skills in Public Health Studies 
Provides doctoral students with exposure to a broad spectrum of opportunities to perform actual tasks and endeavors characteristic of those of practicing research professionals in a variety of settings in the field of Public Health. Course embodies professional activities integral both to completing doctoral training and the onset of the professional career. 

PHS-C694 Teaching Internship (0) 
Introduces students to the methods of undergraduate and graduate level teaching, including syllabus preparation and presentation skills. 

PHS-C604 Secondary Analysis 
This course introduces students to the concepts, strategies and methods associated with secondary analysis of data and how secondary analysis is related to health outcomes research. Particular attention is paid to data base acquisition, manipulation and maintenance, meta-analysis and critical reviews, clinical and population-based surveys. 

PHS-C695 Special Study for Examinations 
PHS-C697 Advanced Research Topics 
PHS-C698 Advanced Graduate Reading Course 
PHS-C699 Dissertation Research