Reviews arithmetic, including percents, proportion, and geometric formulae. Covers equations polynomials, rational expressions, and problem solving.

This course examines unique aspects of the health industry that influence institutional decision-making and industry business performance. The course is designed for students who are finishing an MBA, and have some basic micro economic experience, but who are not familiar with the non-profit sector, Health Economics, or Healthcare Finance.

This course introduces students to qualitative and mixed methods research design used in public health and health equity. Students learn survey design, needs assessment, monitoring and evaluation, and impact evaluation. Students are also prepared with methods in community-based participatory research and action research targeting social change. Research ethics are a core consideration, covering human subjects protections and ethical issues arising in partnered research. Students study effective techniques for engaging stakeholders across the research process.

This course prepares students to analyze health systems and policies. Students study the history and foundations of the US health system and engage in comparative analyses of global healthcare systems through a lens of access, efficiency, and quality. Students learn core concepts of healthcare financing and insurance and examine coverage gaps. Students also examine law and policy processes and study how health is impacted by policies with and outside of traditional health domains, including education, transportation, housing, welfare, and labor. Finally, students consider opportunities and policy frameworks amenable to change and learn strategies for policy change.

This course examines global health challenges through a political and economic lens. Students study the global burden of disease and its intersections with poverty and inequality. They critically analyze historic and contemporary contexts and forces shaping health outcomes, including gender, culture, sexuality, colonialism and imperialism, globalization, labor and migration systems, war and militarism, privatization, trade, aid, and development. Students consider the roles and promise of various institutions, including national and global governance institutions, for-profit organizations and corporations, and non-profit and non-governmental organizations in shaping global health outcomes.

Health Communication is an emerging field in the health and social sciences whereby health care professionals inform and influence individual, institutional, governmental, and public audiences about health issues for the advancement of health equity outcomes. It includes understanding health communication theory and application as well as the challenges of low health literacy on public health and patient-provider communications. MHEO 486 is a skills-based course that examines and builds upon theoretical foundations and practical applications of interpersonal, organizational, and mass communication relevant to health communications and today's health care consumer. The course reviews strategies of persuasion and message framing theory in addressing problems related to health inequities among patient populations, along with understanding the role of social justice issues in health settings, the relationship between attitudes and health behaviors, and health promotion and prevention, and various health belief models. Students understand and discuss the importance of structural, economic, social, and other determinants of health in health disparities. They regularly participate in online discussions, interactive case studies, small group work, and the development of a final health communication campaign that addresses a specific problem area related to health disparities, as identified in the literature, and proposes actionable solutions for the betterment of society and the human condition.

This course serves as the second in a two-course sequence that incorporates the integrative learning and practice experience for the MPH degree. Through an applied practicum experience across two terms, students gain skills in designing, implementing, and evaluating a project to address a health inequity. In this course, students implement and evaluate the project they designed during the prior course, in consultation with their practicum supervisor and community and organizational partners. Students produce a final report and portfolio, evaluating their project and analyzing their attainment of program learning competencies.

This independent study is intended to allow students to supplement their MPH studies in an area of special interest to them. Students choose the topic and complete the independent study under the supervision of a member of the faculty. Objectives and deliverables will vary depending on the topic and approach, agreed upon in advance by the student and faculty. The independent study requires approval of the supervising faculty and the program director.