HBEH Courses

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Class Number	Class	Meeting Time	Instructor	Room	Unreserved Enrollment	Reserved Enrollment	Total Enrollment	Wait List
14072	HBEH 390 - 001 Special Topics in Global and Community Health	Mo 9:05AM - 9:55AM	Maribel Borger, Brian Hogan	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 2302	0/12	Seats filled	0/12	0/999
Description: Special topics in health behavior. An experimental undergraduate course designed for faculty who wish to offer a new course related to global and community health. Content will vary from semester to semester. 1 - 3 units.
13820	HBEH 510 - 001 Foundations of Equity, Ethics, and Engagement in Public Health	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Patsy Polston	Hooker Research Cen-Rm 0003	Seats filled	29/30	29/30	4/999
Description: Students will 1) explore how health inequities appear in different populations; 2) examine historical and relevant events to unpack how these inequities came to be; and 3) gain an overview of self-reflective and community engagement strategies used by health behavior practitioners and researchers to ethically partner with others to identify and address health inequities. 3 units.
13821	HBEH 520 - 001 Introduction to Global Health	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	NAYA VILLARREAL, Deborah Baron	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 1305	Seats filled	Seats filled	30/30	4/999
Description: This course introduces fundamental terminology, frameworks, problems, and solutions in global health. We will explore the historical and modern-day influences that have shaped the systems, issues, actors, and priorities of global health today. This course will expose students to: critical global health challenges; leaders across diverse sectors who are working to develop innovative solutions, policies, and programs to address these challenges; and roles that students can play to contribute to improving global health. 3 units.
13822	HBEH 690 - 001 Special Topics in Health Behavior	We 4:40PM - 6:40PM	Yesenia Merino	TBA	6/60	Seats filled	6/60	0/999
Description: Special topics in health behavior. An experimental course designed for faculty who wish to offer a new course. Content will vary from semester to semester. 1 - 3 units.
1120	HBEH 700 - 001 Leading for Health Equity	TuTh 5:00PM - 6:15PM	Patsy Polston	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 1304	Seats filled	4/30	4/30	0/999
Description: This course will expose students to the broad context through which public health practitioners and researchers understand and address health equity in public health. It will use an intersectional lens to prepare students to examine persistent health inequities across systems and structures and investigate strategies for change. In addition, this course will promote a commitment from students to applied leadership in public health through a firm understanding and definition of racism, power, and privilege; historic and current structures that sustain racism, power, and privilege; and strategies to advance health equity in research and practice. 3 units.
13823	HBEH 723 - 001 Critical History of Public Health	Tu 3:30PM - 6:30PM	Yesenia Merino	Hooker Research Cen-Rm 0003	9/30	Seats filled	9/30	0/999
Description: This course critically examines the history of public health as a mechanism for understanding current issues in public health. Using critical theory, students will analyze a variety of topics through a historical lens, critiquing the institutions, power dynamics, ideologies, practices, and consequences of various public health efforts, particularly as they relate to engaging with communities. Students should have at least one year of public health coursework. 3 units.
1121	HBEH 730 - 001 Theoretical Foundations of Health Behavior	MoWe 2:30PM - 3:45PM	Natalicio Serrano	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 1304	Seats filled	3/40	3/40	0/999
Description: This course will provide an overview of social and behavioral science theories and frameworks that are currently used to: 1) understand health related behaviors; and 2) guide development of interventions and policies designed to prevent, reduce or eliminate major public health problems. We will use an ecological framework to examine theories at multiple levels of the social ecology, focusing on applications that will impact health at the population level. 3 units.
1367	HBEH 746 - 001 Community-Led Capstone Project	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Meg Landfried	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 2301	Seats filled	49/58	49/58	0/999
Description: Capstone (HBEH 746/992) is a year-long, community-led, group-based, mentored, critical service-learning course that gives students an opportunity to synthesize and apply their MPH training to community-designed public health projects. Over an entire academic year, each team of 4-5 Capstone students works with a partner organization and its constituents to produce a set of 4-6 deliverables that are responsive to the community partner organization's self-identified needs. Capstone serves as a substitute for The Graduate School's master's thesis requirement and satisfies the Council on Education for Public Health's (CEPH) Integrative Learning Experience (ILE) requirements. 3 units.
10176	HBEH 748 - 001 Design Thinking for the Public Good	Tu 5:30PM - 8:30PM	Elizabeth Chen	TBA	15/35	Seats filled	15/35	0/999
Description: This course will train an interdisciplinary group of graduate students to apply the mindsets, methods, and process associated with design thinking (i.e. human-centered design) to solve real world problems. Design thinking is a creative problem solving process that prioritizes ethnographic market research, convergent and divergent thinking, as well as rapid prototyping. Students will collaborate with community members to design solutions (products, services, etc.) that are desirable, feasible, and viable. 3 units.
1123	HBEH 750 - 001 Interpreting Health Behavior Research	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	NOEL BREWER	Hooker Research Cen-Rm 0001	Seats filled	3/50	3/50	1/999
Description: This course reviews quantitative methods in health behavior research, focusing on validity of conclusions drawn from observational and evaluation studies. The goal is to help public health practitioners be savvy consumers of published research studies and to identify the strengths and weaknesses of planned programs. Permission of the instructor required for non-majors. 2 units.
1124	HBEH 750 - 601 Interpreting Health Behavior Research	Fr 11:15AM - 12:15PM	NOEL BREWER	TBA	3/41	Seats filled	3/41	1/999
Description: This course reviews quantitative methods in health behavior research, focusing on validity of conclusions drawn from observational and evaluation studies. The goal is to help public health practitioners be savvy consumers of published research studies and to identify the strengths and weaknesses of planned programs. Permission of the instructor required for non-majors. 0 units.
13858	HBEH 754 - 001 Advanced Qualitative Research Methods in Health Behavior and Health Research	We 9:05AM - 12:05PM	Clare Barrington	Rosenau Hall-Rm 0332	10/20	Seats filled	10/20	0/999
Description: Prerequisite, HBEH 753. This course provides advanced graduate students in public health and related fields the opportunity to explore different analytic approaches and techniques and develop analysis and writing skills. Students will apply methods they learn to analyze, interpret and write-up the results of their own qualitative research. 3 units.
1119	HBEH 760 - 001 Research Methods with Health Behavior Applications I	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Luz Reyes, Lauren Hill	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 2303	Seats filled	3/20	3/20	1/999
Description: Permission of the instructor for non-majors. Fundamentals of quantitative research in health behavior, including conceptualization of research questions and hypotheses, sampling, and experimental and observational research designs. 3 units.
1648	HBEH 762 - 001 Applied Statistical Methods in Health Behavior Research II	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	To be Announced	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 2303	Seats filled	8/20	8/20	0/999
Description: Prerequisite, HBEH 761. This course prepares students to conduct regression with non-continuous outcomes and analyze nested or longitudinal data. 3 units.
1704	HBEH 765 - 001 Cancer Prevention and Control Seminar	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	Melissa Gilkey	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 2305	8/9	Seats filled	8/9	1/999
Description: An interdisciplinary overview of cancer prevention and control. Emphasis on projects and activities from perspectives of epidemiology, health behavior and education, and health policy and management. Appropriate research design and methodologies are covered. 3 units.
1769	HBEH 772 - 001 Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Health Behavior Interventions	Th 2:00PM - 4:00PM	Elizabeth Chen	Rosenau Hall-Rm 0133	Seats filled	36/40	36/40	0/999
Description: Prerequisites, SPHG 711, SPHG 712, SPHG 713, HBEH 730, and HBEH 750. Designed to provide practical tools that can be used in real world settings, this course will examine methods to plan health behavior interventions and determine if and how a particular health-related program works. Several major types of evaluation will be covered, with emphasis on process and impact evaluation. Restricted to Health Behavior MPH Concentration Students. 2 units.
1770	HBEH 782 - 001 Professional Development for Global Health	We 3:35PM - 4:55PM	SUZANNE MAMAN	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 1305	Seats filled	32/35	32/35	0/999
Description: Prerequisites, MHCH 780 and HBEH 781. Professional Development is part of the required training sequence for second year MPH students in the Global Health concentration. 1 units.
1788	HBEH 784 - 001 Implementation Science in Global Health	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Vivian Go	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 1305	23/30	Seats filled	23/30	0/999
Description: Implementation science aims to improve health through the translation of evidence-based intervention into routine care. This course will provide an overview of the foundational skills of implementation science in global health including tailoring to the local context, systematic approaches to identifying implementation barriers and selecting appropriate implementation strategies, and using rigorous study designs to evaluate implementation outcomes. Restricted to students enrolled in the Global Health MPH Concentration. 3 units.
1743	HBEH 785 - 001 Critical issues in work, worker and workplace health	Tu 12:30PM - 3:30PM	LAURA LINNAN, Maija Leff	TBA	5/20	Seats filled	5/20	0/999
Description: This course prepares students to contribute as members of an interdisciplinary team to protect and promote workers' health. Students will learn that work is a social determinant of health and explore the context in which worker health protection/promotion practitioners work. Students will be able to summarize key regulations and policies that impact work and worker health. 3 units.
1805	HBEH 787 - 001 Planning, Implementing and Evaluating Total Worker Health Interventions	Fr 8:45AM - 11:45AM	LAURA LINNAN, Maija Leff	TBA	8/20	Seats filled	8/20	0/999
Description: Pre- or corequisite, HBEH 785 or ENVR 795. Required course for the graduate certificate in Total Worker Health. Students in this course will apply the Comprehensive Planning-Implementation-Evaluation Framework to recommend a Total Worker Health intervention to address the needs of a specific group of workers. They will learn to use multiple data sources to identify a priority worker health/safety issue; identify and/or adapt worker-health interventions from the literature; and write an implementation and evaluation plan for their Total Worker Health intervention. 3 units.
1146	HBEH 811 - 001 Development and Evaluation of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Interventions	Tu 2:00PM - 4:50PM	Beth Moracco	Rosenau Hall-Rm 0332	Seats filled	10/20	10/20	1/999
Description: Permission of the instructor for non-majors. Doctoral seminar on application of theory and empirical evidence to intervention development, evaluation paradigms, and methods of process and outcome evaluations. 3 units.
1125	HBEH 812 - 001 Professional Development for Doctoral Students I	Mo 9:05AM - 11:35AM	Melissa Gilkey	Rosenau Hall-Rm 0332	Seats filled	1/15	1/15	0/999
Description: Focus is on professional development competencies needed for doctoral training and career advancement. Emphasis is on topics relevant to students early in training. 2 units.
1126	HBEH 815 - 001 Foundations of Health Behavior I	Mo 1:25PM - 4:15PM	Dane Emmerling	Rosenau Hall-Rm 0332	Seats filled	3/15	3/15	0/999
Description: A critical examination of the conceptual, theoretical, and empirical bases of public health and health education, health transitions, and globalization. Restricted to doctoral students majoring or minoring in Health Behavior. 3 units.
13900	HBEH 861 - 001 Global Mental Health	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Edwin Fisher	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 1301	14/30	Seats filled	14/30	0/999
Description: Global fundamentals, characteristics, public health impacts, prevention, and management of mental health and mental illness. Master's and doctoral students, fellows, and upper-level undergraduates. 3 units.
1251	HBEH 960 - 001 Principles and Practices of Alternative, Complementary and Integrative Medicine	MoWe 4:40PM - 6:10PM	Susan Gaylord	TBA	4/15	Seats filled	4/15	0/999
Description: This course is designed to introduce medical students and other health professionals to the underlying philosophies, practitioners, techniques, and evidence of efficacy of alternative therapeutics currently in use in the United States, including chiropractic, dietary, mind-body, acupuncture, homeopathy, and healing. 3 units.