Courses and Trainings
Prove It! Let the Data Tell the Story
Prove It! Let the Data Tell the Story is a hands-on course focusing on the use of data and basic statistics commonly used in
public health. NH community leaders expressed the need for training about using data to support their efforts to improve the health of their
communities, and Prove It! was conceptualized by the Empowering Communities project to meet that need. Prove It! provides a basic understanding
of why we use data and how to use data in community health assessment and monitoring, using the specific focus on writing grant applications
as the example.
Prove It Curriculum [.pdf]
Masters in Public Health (MPH) Continuing Education Program
This project entails providing assistance to the University of New Hampshire’s Master of Public Health (MPH) Program. Project activities include:
- Assisting the UNH MPH Program Director with administration of the MPH Program and managing the Public Health Certificate (PHC) Program. The MPH Program is a two-year degree program and the PHC is a one year graduate certificate. Information about both the MPH and the PHC is available at the website below.
Website: http://www.shhs.unh.edu/hmp/gradhmp_main.html. - Organizing the annual public health grand rounds lecture series: Sponsored by the UNH MPH Program, this annual lecture series canvases pertinent NH public health issues. The Grand Round lecture series serves as a vehicle to: provide timely information to and encourage networking within NH’s public health community as well as build relationships between the NH’s public health community and UNH. To view previous and forthcoming lectures as well as sign up to receive lecture announcements, see the website below.
Website: http://www.shhs.unh.edu/hmp/hmp_cont_ed.html. - Coordinating MPH Program Workshop Offerings: The UNH Master of Public Health Program offers two workshops per year, one in fall and one in spring semester, to further build the competency of MPH and Public Health Certificate (PHC) students. These workshops are designed to complement what students are learning through their formal coursework. If space is available, workshops are opened up to other public health professionals. To learn more about upcoming workshops, see the below website.
Website: http://www.shhs.unh.edu/hmp/gradhmp_ced_workshops.html.
Courses Taught by Institute Staff
Applied Topics in the Essentials of Public Health, PHP 996 Graduate
This course will require a student to attend at least six approved workshops on concepts related to the Ten Essential Services of Public Health. After attending the required workshops, a student will write an integrating paper summarizing what s/he has learned across these workshops as it relates to the Ten Essential Services and identify the types of skills s/he will need to be more effective as a public health professional.
Evaluation in Public Health, PHP926 Graduate
This elective course provides an introduction to program evaluation as it relates to public health practice and research, primarily in the United States. Public health-specific examples will be presented throughout the course. Striking a balance between scientific rigor and the practicalities often faced by program evaluators is discussed.
Health Policy, HMP 746 Undergraduate
Analysis of the public policy process, the development of health policy in the United States, and a discussion of specific health policy issues. This course begins with an analytical framework for analyzing the American political system and process. It is followed by a general introduction to health policy in the United States with examples of specific policies and programs. Students will be asked to examine in depth a specific policy area.
Health Policy Analysis, HMP 748 Undergraduate
Analysis of the public policy outputs from the perspectives of effectiveness, efficiency, and equity by applying analytical tools to public policies in the United States. This course begins by examining the major methods used to examine health policy outputs. The perspectives of effectiveness, efficiency and equity are used as a framework for the course. Students read and critique articles from health services research literature that use previously learned methodologies. Students are then required to be part of a team to analyze an existing policy or policy proposal.
Health Systems Research I, HMP 711 Undergraduate
This course introduces students to decision science and applied decision making techniques in the areas of health care management and policy analysis. There will be a lab section for this course where students will learn and use computer based software to generate, calculate, analyze and present data for decision making.
Health Systems Research II: Quantitative Methods in Health Services Research HMP 712 Undergraduate
This course introduces students to intermediate techniques for data manipulation and analysis. Students will learn how to conceptualize the purposes for collecting and analyzing data using a variety of techniques. The course also introduces methods for survey research as well as an understanding of data applicability and validity. There will be a lab section that utilizes the SPSS statistical software package where students will perform tasks from large data sets.
Managed Care, HMP 730 Undergraduate
This course describes and analyzes in detail the conventions, operations, and utility of managed care techniques and managed care as a health care delivery vehicle. It further examines the history of managed care from its inception through its current place within the U.S. health care system to better allow students to understand how managed care has integrated within the U.S. health care delivery system and what place managed care might hold in the future.
Social and Behavioral Health, PHP904 Graduate
This required core MPH course provides grounding in the fundamental concepts of the social and behavioral sciences as they illuminate public health. Predominant models of health behavior change at the individual, interpersonal, and community levels are introduced. The focus is on understanding the strengths and limitations of various theories, and building a skill and knowledge base that allows practical application of theories in intervention design. An ecological view of the interaction between health and society as related to human behavior is explored.
US Health Care Systems, HMP 401 Undergraduate
This course describes and analyzes the nature and functions of health care services and health care professionals. It further examines the impact of a wide range of environmental influences including social values, politics, economics, as well as ethical, professional, legal and technological forces on them and the system they compromise