Full-Time MPH Program
Students are required to successfully complete two electives (6 credits). These courses may be within the School of Public Health, or from other academic units within the University. It is the student’s responsibility to determine course restrictions and registration process for main campus electives.
A link to elective courses available at Drexel main campus is provided below.
Biostatistics
Biostatistical Computing
PBHL 623
To train students with sufficient data management and computing skills so that they can independently manage small to intermediate size research projects. Students will learn to manipulate data and to program using two leading statistical software systems, SAS and R.
3 credits
Survival Data Analysis
PBHL 628
This course provides basic techniques of survival analysis. This technique is useful in analyzing longitudinal and cohort studies data, which are common in health studies, when the main interest outcome is the onset of event and time to event is known. SAS and R leading statistical packages will be taught.
3 credits
Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials
PBHL 629
The purpose of this course is to cover the design and conduct of clinical trials. The course will also cover how to evaluate the scientific rigor of studies of clinical trials published in the scientific literature. Topics which will include missing data, ethical issues and statistical analysis methods.
3 credits
Community Health and Prevention
Community Epidemiology
PBHL 806
This course covers key principles and methods of community epidemiology. Topics include the epidemiologic perspective on health, epidemiologic study designs, surveillance databases, and survey design. Students will design and implement a community survey, analyze and interpret results, and discuss the contributions of epidemiology to prevention and policy formulation.
3 credits
Community Health Policy and Development
PBHL 815
This course examines how communities accomplish planned change. We will consider a number of models including community development, social planning, social action and public advocacy using historical and contemporary examples.
3 credits
Environmental and Occupational Health
Public Health Readiness and Disaster Preparedness
PBHL 648
Public Health Readiness & Disaster Preparedness is an elective course. This course will provide students with an understanding of the recognition and evaluation of chemical, physical and biological hazards related to terror attacks, and other man-made/natural disasters.
3 credits
Occupational and Environmental Cancers
PBHL 649
Occupational & Environmental Cancers is an elective course for the Masters of Public Health and MPH program of study, concentration in Environmental and Occupational Health. It covers topics in courses of cancer, the prevention of cancer, and public policy regarding cancer.
3 credits
Occupational and Environmental Diseases
PBHL 661
Occupational & Environmental Diseases is an elective course for the Masters of Public Health and MPH program of study, concentration in Environmental and Occupational Health. It covers topics related to lung diseases caused by occupational and or environmental exposures.
3 credits
Epidemiology
Biostatistical Computing
PBHL 623
To train students with sufficient data management and computing skills so that they can independently manage small to intermediate size research projects. Students will learn to manipulate data and to program using two leading statistical software systems, SAS and R.
3 credits
Social Epidemiology/Psychiatric Epidemiology
PBHL 635
This course focuses on the content and methods of social epidemiology and the clinical, methodologic, and epidemiologic aspects of psychiatric illness. In focusing on social and psychiatric/psychological issues, students are required to explore theoretical and empirical aspects of disease etiology and disease course that extends beyond a biomedical model.
3 credits
Infectious Disease Epidemiology
PBHL 636
Course will provide training in the methods specific to infectious disease epidemiology within the context of the study of several major classes of infectious diseases with global impact on public health. Students will learn about population-level data sources and surveillance methods and techniques in outbreak investigations.
3 credits
Health Management and Policy
The Management of Healthcare Outcomes
PBHL 601
This course allows students to develop an appreciation of theory and the application of analysis of health outcomes through examination of such topics as quality of care, medical error, and evidence-based medicine, as well as gaining familiarity with data sets reporting on health services outcomes and tools for their analysis.
3 credits
The Evolution of the U.S. Health System
PBHL 607
The Evolution of the US Health System is a required course for the Master of Public Health (MPH) program of study, Concentration in Health Management and Policy. This course will provide students with an understanding of the organizational and financial foundations of the US Health system.
3 credits
Fundamentals of Disaster Management
Fundamentals of Disaster Management will provide an understanding of the broad range of disaster management issues, and study strategies used to help a community plan for, manage, and recover from a natural or man-made disaster. Coursework will include case studies, small group planning, presentations by local experts, and individual research.