SPRING 2014
Loyola University
Master’s degree Program
in Public Health
CRME 422; Multivariate
Analysis
Class # 3682; 10w; Traditional
classroom at Medical Center; 3 cr/h
Class will meet Thursday
evenings January 9- March 13 (6-9 PM) for 10 weeks
Liping Tong
CRME
424; Meta Analysis
Class
# TBA; 10w; Traditional classroom at
Medical Center; 3 cr/h
Class will meet Tuesday evenings
March 25- May 27 (6-9 PM) for 10 weeks
Holly
Kramer and Ramon Durazo
MPBH
404; Biostats for Biomedical Sciences
Class # 3557; Online; 3 cr/h
January
13-May 6; Jim Sinacore
This
course aims to help students acquire skills and knowledge that will enable them
to manage basic statistical tasks that confront researchers in the health and
biological domains. From this, students
will be better prepared to interpret research journal articles and to conduct
their own data analysis for future research projects.
MPBH
407; Public Health Policy: Concepts and Practice
Class # 3191; Online; 3 cr/h
January
13-May 6; Dru Bhattacharya
The
course provides students with theoretical frameworks to approach public health
policy issues, and empowers them with practical analytical tools to develop
position papers. This course is founded on the premise that there is no single
approach to policy-making. Consequently, students are provided with the
knowledge and skills to conduct meaningful research for health policy and the
opportunities to apply those skills to engage pressing health policy problems.
Perspectives will be drawn from epidemiology, law, economics, political
science, and ethics to engage and examine the policy-making process, articulate
positions advocating for (or against) particular interventions, and develop
materials for different audiences to further a health policy intervention.
MPBH 410;
Public Health Practicum; 1-3 cr/h; January 13-May 6
MPBH 410-1 Class# 3655 Epidemiology track- session1; David Shoham
Students must
contact Dr. Shoham before enrolling
MPBH 410-2 Class# 6003 Policy
& Management track- session 2; Dru Bhattacharya
Students must
contact Dr. Bhattacharya before enrolling
MPBH 411;
Public Health Capstone; 3 cr/h; January 13-May
6
MPBH 411-1 Class# 3656
Epidemiology track- session1; David Shoham
Students must
contact Dr. Shoham before enrolling
MPBH 411-2 Class# 6004 Policy
& Management track- session 2; Dru Bhattacharya
Students must
contact Dr. Bhattacharya before enrolling
MPBH 495-1;
Special Topics: Public Health Law: Theories and Cases
Class # 3579; Online; 3 cr/h
January
13-May 6; Dru Bhattacharya
This course explores how the law can
be utilized to promote, or impede, proposed public health
interventions at the local, state,
and federal level. Students review popular theories of public
health law that examine the role of
the legislature, executive agencies, and the courts in crafting,
executing, and reviewing public
health policy. The class examines popular cases in public health,
from the turn of the 20th century to
contemporary disputes that may shape the future direction
of public health as it is practiced
in the U.S. This course is geared towards MPH students
concentrating in the health law and
policy track, and no prior training in law or legal analysis is assumed or
required.
MPBH 495-2;
Special Topics: The Epidemiology of Obesity: an energy balance
Class # 3648; Traditional
classroom at Medical Center; 3 cr/h
Class will meet Tuesday evenings
January 7-
March11 (6-9 PM) for 10 weeks
Amy
Luke
This course will cover the current
world-wide obesity epidemic, exploring factors and possible determinants such
as the obesogeneic environment, diet, physical activity, socio-economic status
as well as the consequences and prevention of obesity from an epidemiological
perspective. The course will also review common epidemiologic methods to
conduct obesity research and provides students with skills to critically
analyze studies in obesity epidemiology.
MPBH
495-3; Special Topics: Public Health Response to Climate Change
Class 4652; Hybrid: Traditional classroom
at Medical Center and online,
3 cr/h
Class will meet Monday evenings
January
13- May 6 (6-9 PM)
Justin Harbison
In 2009, a group of the world’s leading experts declared
climate change to be the “biggest global health threat of the 21st century”.
This course provides an introduction overview of the health consequences
associated with climate change and the local, federal, and global response to
mitigate these negative health outcomes. During the course students will be
expected incorporate course content and develop a realistic response public
health plan to climate change for a locality of their choosing.
MPBH
495-4; Special Topics: Health Services and Policy Research Methods I
Class #4653; 3 cr/h
Online:
synchronous meetings (recommended) on Sakai on Thursdays from 6-7pm
January
13-May 6
Talar
Markossian
This course introduces students to the scope of health
services research with an emphasis on primary data collection methods. It
addresses the conceptualization and design of health services research, choice
and assessment of measures for such research, sampling and instrument design,
and ethical consideration. It is the first of a two-classes sequence on design
and methods used in conducting HSPR. Through the course, students will define a
primary data collection research project and develop the methods necessary to
conduct the research.
SOWK
500-1; Human Behavior in Social Environment
Class #1199; Online; 3 cr/h
January
13-May 6
This course is designed
to provide students with a basis from which to understand human behavior and
development over the course of the life span. The course material is
taught from bio-psycho-social-spiritual perspectives. A variety of
theories are utilized to assist students in understanding the complexity of
human behavior, including traditional and recent psychodynamic, family systems,
cognitive, and neurobiological theories. Course content includes and is
sensitive to human diversity and specifically includes materials on race,
ethnicity, gender, sexual minorities, physical challenges, spirituality, and
socioeconomic factors as they affect human behavior and development.
Modal and expectable behaviors are thus contextualized and used to develop students’
abilities to view clients through a bio-psycho-social-spiritual
framework. Students are to utilize this material as a background for
assessing strengths, limitations, risk, protective, and resiliency facts that
affect clients’ social functioning. The course supports the value of
diversity in society and social justice.
SOWK
602-1; Health Policy and Health Systems
Class #4111; Online; 3 cr/h
January
13-May 6; John Orwat
This course provides students with frameworks
for understanding the interrelationship between developments in health policy,
the health care delivery system and social work practice settings. Important
aspects of the health care delivery system and financing system are identified
including their effects on health care access and utilization.
BEHP
405; Research Ethics
Class #2139; Online; 3
cr/h
January
13-May 6; Emily Anderson
BEHP
406; Principles of Health Care Ethics
Class #2140; Online; 3
cr/h
January
13-May 6
BEHP
407; Social Science and Bioethics
Class
#3101; Online; 3 cr/h
January
13-May 6
BEHP
408 Ethics, Genetics & Health Policy
Class #2501; Online; 3
cr/h
January
13-May 6
LAW
902; Introduction to Health Law and Policy
Class # 2452 Online; 3
cr/h; January 6-April 13; Voss
This course is designed to expose students to the legal
issues that arise from the relationship between and among patients and health
care providers. Areas of focus include: conflicts between cost effective and
high quality health care, access to care, individual and institutional
liability, public and private regulation, accreditation and licensure,
hospital/medical staff relationships, patient rights, with a special focus on
informed consent, and other legal issues in the acute care setting.
LAW
903; Health Care Business and Finance
Class #3033 Online; 2cr/h;
January 6-April 13; Unland
This course is designed to establish a basic foundation of
the key business and financial characteristics of the healthcare
industry—especially the provider and payment sectors—for students who may have
little financial background or education. Considerable focus is placed
upon definition, history, and methods by which providers of health care
services are reimbursed by third parties.
LAW
906; Health Care Contracts
Class #5281; Online; 2cr/h
January 6-April 13
LAW
907; Law and Bioehics
Class #4263; Online; 2cr/h
January 6-April 13
LAW
909; Health Care Risk Management
Class #4268; Online; 2cr/h;
January 6-April 13
LAW
910; Health Care Compliance
Class #3354; Online; 2cr/h;
January 6-April 13
LAW
912; Liability and Dispute Resolution in Health Care
Class #5277; Online; 2cr/h;
January 6-April 13
LAW
955; Administrative Law and Health Care Regulation
Class #5274; Online; 3cr/h;
January 6-April 13
LAW
959; Physician Regulation & Practice Management
Class #5278; Online; 2cr/h;
January 6-April 13
CMAN
434; Health Program Planning and Evaluation
Class# 1291; Online; 3cr/h; 10w: 1/14/2014 - 3/21/2014
CMAN
439; Outcomes Performance Management:
Theory
Class# 2712; Online; 3cr/h;
1/13/2014 - 5/6/2014
CMAN
490; Decision Support in Health Care
Class# 3855; Online; 3cr/h;
1/13/2014 - 5/6/2014
CMAN
533; Fiscal Management in Health Care Organizations
Class# 3142; Online; 3cr/h;
1/13/2014 - 5/6/2014
