All Program in Public Health electives are offered online and open to students from various backgrounds.  If you are interested in taking a program elective and you are not a Program student you must request an override. 

Override Requests:
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Fall Semester Courses
HM 833:  Introduction to Pharmaceutical Counterfeiting and Public Health (3 Credits)
Introductory course establishing the general principles of counterfeiting, counterfeit pharmaceuticals, and how it impacts public health. Scope, policy, supply chain management, and health effects are examined using current case examples. Taught as a hybrid course fall 2009. This course will not be available fully as an online course until fall 2010.

Spring Semester Courses
HM 830: Practical Applications of Public Health Law  (3 Credits)
Overview of legal basis of public health authority, use of law to direct public health practice.

HM 832:   Global Public Health (3 Credits)
Factors and dynamics that affect global public health. Application of public health principles and policies in international settings. Incorporation of cultural dynamics into public health practice.  Typically a fall semester course, this course will be moving to fall semesters beginning fall 2010.

HM 834:  Advanced Readings in Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals  (3 Credits)
Advanced topics on the impact of counterfeit pharmaceuticals on public health.

HM 836: Comparative Healthcare Systems (3 Credits)
Public health and culture, environment, psychosocial and economic issues.  Healthcare systems and health policies.  Community health assessments.  This course is a pre-requisite for the Brazilian practicum experience.

HM 837 Poverty and Public Health (3 Credits)
This course provides an in-depth examination of the concepts of health and poverty and their interrelatedness from a global and public health perspective. The roles of international agencies, national policy, gender, socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, culture, access to resources, and conflict will be considered in this examination of poverty and health. The profound centrality of poverty to the health of populations, the role of public health programs in the achievement and maintenance of healthy populations and in the struggle to help eliminate poverty will be primary focuses of the course.  Typically a fall semester course, this course will be moving to fall semesters beginning fall 2010.