Health equity, access to healthcare, aging, federally qualified health centers, population composition, AI in higher education.
Teaching
courses taught
GEOG 2692 - Foundations in Public Health
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Fall 2025 / Spring 2026
Get a comprehensive overview of public health as well as an in-depth introduction to specific public health-related topics. Beginning with a historical overview, students will explore major public health concepts such as the basic principles of epidemiology, the biomedical basis of disease, social and behavioral determinants of health, and systems thinking. Learn about the concepts of measuring and evaluating the health of populations, principles of communicable and non-communicable diseases, environmental and occupational health, the economics of health, and the role of public health workers in society. Same as IPHY 2692 and PBHL 2692.
PBHL 4000 - Special Topics In Public Health
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Spring 2026
Examines various topics in public health that are not typically covered in the curriculum. Offered intermittently depending on student demand and availability of instructors. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours.
PBHL 4242 - Capstone in Public Health: Career Exploration in Public Health
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Fall 2025 / Spring 2026
This class fulfills the bachelor�s capstone requirement and introduces students to career paths in Public Health. Throughout the semester, the instructor will invite a diverse group of public health practitioners from interdisciplinary backgrounds to speak with students. In addition to weekly seminars, this class requires that students write a Capstone paper on a Public Health career of interest to them. Students are required to present their paper in an approved professional forum (poster or oral).
PBHL 4342 - Public Health Capstone: Honors Thesis
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Fall 2025
This course will cover the many phases of the scientific research process in public health including: research methods, generating and testing hypotheses, conceptualizing and designing studies, obtaining human subjects ethics approval, conducting literature reviews, collecting and analyzing data, writing a journal article, presenting research findings, and the peer review process. This course is intended for students doing an honors thesis in Public Health or otherwise actively involved in public health research with a faculty member. Recommended restriction: Students must be doing an honors thesis or be actively involved in research with a faculty member (this will be determined by the instructor).
