MPH 601 - Introduction to Epidemiology (3 credits)
Epidemiology and its uses. Occurrence, distribution and dynamic behavior of disease and public health problem in human population. Descriptive epidemiology, observation cross-sectional study, longitudinal study and analytic epidemiologic study. Principles and methods of epidemiologic investigation. Evaluate the efficacy of preventive and therapeutic modalities and of new pattern of health care delivery. Measurement and interpretion of the morbidity and mortality indices. Application of findings to public policy. Evaluating public policy.

MPH 602* - Introduction to Biostatistics (3 credits)
Introduction to biostatistical concepts and methods utilizing a lecture format followed by computer laboratory sessions to apply statistical methods to problems commonly encountered by public health professionals.

MPH 603 - Principles of Environmental Health (3 credits)
Examines the environmental, occupational, residential factors and agents that have an impact on the health of people and the community. Structural and non-structural intervention to prevent, mitigate and minimize the impact as well as intervention benefits and limitations such as the role of biodiversity; ecological influences and impact; community perceptions; behavior impact; the role of culture, tradition and education; legal and regulatory remedies; government agencies; monitoring and technological interventions.

MPH 604 - Introduction to Health Care Systems and Policy (3 credits)
History, organization, financing and regulation of U.S. medical and public health services, particularly among under-served and urban populations. Social and behavioral factors that shape health and health services.

MPH 605* - Health Education and Public Health Issues (3 credits)
Consists of five sessions on health education; one each on public health, history, ethics, nutrition and Newark health problems; and ten half sessions devoted to emerging infections, health promotion, aging, tuberculosis, malaria, sexually transmitted diseases, HIV/AIDS, alcohol and drugs, the genetic revolution, and violence.

MPH 632 - Behavioral Research Design and Analysis (3 credits)
Provides an understanding of human behavior through research tools. Students learn how to make meaning of structured inquiry through observation, modeling, sampling plan design, and surveys. Emphasis is on document or website users. Effective From: Spring 2000

MPH 644 - Social Foundations of Urban Health (3 credits)
Theory used to explain and predict individual and aggregate behavior from the operationalization standpoint. Theories from economics, psychology, sociology, social psychology and geography. Theories of rational and habitual behavior under certain and uncertain outcomes. Statistical models in the estimation of structural models. Simulations using Resampling Stats.

MPH 645 - Society, Chronic Illness, and Disability: An Urban Perspective (3 credits)
Extend and intensity of chronic illness and disability with emphasis on urban populations. Conduct functional status assessments. Prepare sickness impact profiles. Perform physical performance tests. Depression and costs of several forms of long term care.

MPH 646 - Urban Child in a Global Perspective (3 credits)
Protective, rehabilitative and preventive strategies addressing the failure to meet the survival, nurturing and participatory rights of children as specified in the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, the UNICEF programs for children in especially difficult circumstances, and the human capability approach of Amartya Sen. Covers the social and economic conditions that affect the care taking arrangements for infants, young children and adolescents at one or more epochs of their physical and psychosocial development.

MPH 647 - Perinatal Health and Family Planning (3 credits)
Extent of perinatal health problems in the United States particularly inner city populations. Etiology including chemical and behavioral factors. Clinical specialists discuss current issues. Covers clinical solutions and public policy initiatives. Team project includes preparation and presentation of a major project.

MPH 648 - Community and Environmental Approaches to Health Behavior Change in Urban Disadvantaged Populations (3 credits)
Socio-environmental factors influencing health-related behavior, role of groups, institutions and social structures in encouraging healthy or unhealthy behavior. Intervention designed to improve health behavior through changes in the social environment; economic, social and political structures and practices creating barriers to effective interventions. Examples include environmental characteristics affecting alcohol and tobacco use, diet, and injury control.

MPH 650 - Medical Geography (3 credits)
Organization of society and the elaboration of disease; spatial vocabulary; geographic concepts related to disease distribution and adaptability; disease as an initiator of social and economic change in geographic constructs, economic development and population; contemporary health policy in the United States and its geographic influences and determinants.

MPH 660 - Health Economics (3 credits)
Explores questions of policy with regard to quality, cost and distribution of personal health care services and the proper role of government. Involves microeconomic and macroeconomic issues, theories and analysis tools.

MPH 698/699 - Special Topics in Public Health I, II (3 credits each)
Special area course given when suitable interest develops. Topics are announced in advance.

MPH 725 - Independent Study (3 credits)
Prerequisite: approval of track coordinator. Covers a topic that is either not offered in the master of public health degree program curriculum or is offered but the student wishes to study the topic in greater depth and or breadth. Work is supervised by a public health faculty member.