Courses

Epidemiology | Public Health

IMPORTANT NOTES:

Students who want to add a Special Topics course for a course number that already appears on their transcript must contact the Student Affairs Office.

Instructions for McGill student from outside of our department who would like to register for one of our courses.

  • No special permission is required for PPHS 501 or PPHS 511.

  • EPIB 507 is open to graduate students in the Faculty of Medicine though space is limited.

  • EPIB 521 is open to all students who have taken EPIB 507. Students requesting an exemption for EPIB 507 must provide a syllabus for a course they have successfully completed that is similar in content to EPIB 507 in order to be granted permission to register in EPIB 521.

  • For all other courses, you should write to the course instructor to request permission to register. Once obtained, forward the permission to graduate.eboh [at] mcgill.ca and include your McGill ID number in your email. Please be sure to use your McGill email address when you contact us.

Fall 2023

Classes begin: August 30

Fall Reading Break: October 6, 10 and 11

Makeup Days: Thursday, Nov. 30 is the make-up lecture day for Monday classes and will follow a Monday schedule (see www.mcgill.ca/importantdates/key-dates)

Classes end: December 5

EPIB 507 Biostats for Health Sciences 3 Credits
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EPIB 601 Fundamentals of Epidemiology 4 Credits
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EPIB 607 Inferential Statistics 4 Credits
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EPIB 613 Intro to Statistical Software 1 Credits
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EPIB 627 Analysis of Correlated Data 3 Credits
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EPIB 632 Mental Dis:Pop Perspec&Methods 3 Credits
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EPIB 635 Clinical Trials 3 Credits
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EPIB 648 Methods in Social Epidemiology 3 Credits
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EPIB 671 Cancer Epidemiology&Prevention 3 Credits
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EPIB 675 Special Topics 6 3 Credits
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Topic: Health Care Systems Analysis Using Administrative Data
This course provides a theoretical and practical foundation for health care systems research and evaluation. The theory covers how we think about the performance of health care systems and how the relevant concepts of performance (e.g. access, appropriateness, and quality) are measured. The practical component provides students with the opportunity to operationalize measures of performance using administrative data and SAS.

The course does not focus on health care system policies or health research study design. Experience with SAS is not a prerequisite.

EPIB 676 Special Topics 7 3 Credits
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Topic: Advanced topics in decision-analytic modeling for health
Advanced methods used to model health policy decisions and conduct model-based health technology assessment, both theory and technical applications. Methods covered include: Markov and microsimulation models, optimization, Bayesian model calibration and evaluation, probabilistic sensitivity analyses, and value of information analysis. Application areas include: disease screening, prevention, and treatment, prioritization of clinical research, and policies to avert drug overdose deaths.

EPIB 684 Princ of Envrnmntl Hlth Sci 1 3 Credits
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EPIB 702 Ph.D. Proposal
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EPIB 703 Principles of Study Design 2 Credits
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EPIB 704 Doctoral Level Epib Methods 1 4 Credits
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EPIB 707 Res Design in Health Sci 3 Credits
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PPHS 501 Population Health&Epidemiology 3 Credits
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PPHS 511 Fundamentals of Global Health 3 Credits
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PPHS 525 HlthCare Systems in Comp Persp 3 Credits
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PPHS 528 Economic Eval of Hlth Programs 3 Credits
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Concepts and methods used to carry out economic evaluations of health programs and interventions, including public health interventions, pharmaceuticals, and other health care interventions. Includes topics such as calculation of unit costs, measurement of quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), methods for conducting trial- and model-based economic evaluations, and assessment of uncertainty in cost-effectiveness analysis, using the R programming language.

Prerequisite:

  • Introductory-level programming skills, introductory-level statistics
  • Students should be able to read a dataset into memory, create a for loop, develop a linear or logistic regression model, and write a function in R (or have similar experience in another language).
  • No prior background in economics is required.
  • Open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates from all departments.

PPHS 529 Global Env Hlth&Burden/Disease 3 Credits
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PPHS 602 Foundations of Population Hlth 3 Credits
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PPHS 615 Intro:Infectious Disease Epid 3 Credits
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PPHS 624 Public Health Ethics & Policy 3 Credits
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PPHS 681 Special Topics: Pop&Pub Hlth 2 1 Credits
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Topic: Indigenous World Views in Health Delivery and Research
This graduate level course will explore the application of Canadian Indigenous worldviews in healthcare and public health practice and research. Students will examine the rich and diverse perspectives of Indigenous peoples in Canada, drawing on traditional knowledge, ways of knowing such as Two-Eyed Seeing and 7 Generations Teachings, and holistic approaches to health and wellness. Through teachings from experts and knowledge keepers, group discussions and reflections, students will critically analyze the impact of colonization on Indigenous health and explore strategies for decolonizing healthcare systems and academic or research spaces. Topics include Indigenous approaches to health, Indigenous health research methods and ethics,, data sovereignty, and policy implications. By the end of the course, students will develop a deeper understanding of incorporating Indigenous worldviews to foster equitable and culturally responsive healthcare and public health systems.

PPHS 684 Special Topics: Pop&Pub Hlth 5 3 Credits
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Topic: Foundations of Health Promotion
Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health and its determinants (Ottawa Charter, WHO 1986; Bangkok Charter, WHO 2005). This course introduces the foundations of health promotion theory, concepts, history, strategies and practice skills. Within the course, health is defined broadly, and the promotion of health is examined at individual, interpersonal, community and societal levels. The course reflects a critical, socio-ecological approach to health and health promotion, recognizing that health is influenced by a complex interplay of biological and social factors.

Winter 2024

Classes begin: January 4

Winter Reading Break: March 4 to 8

Makeup Days: Thursday, April 11 is the make-up lecture day for Monday classes and will follow a Monday schedule. (see www.mcgill.ca/importantdates/key-dates)

Classes end: April 12

EPIB 521 Regression Anal for Health Sc. 3 Credits
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EPIB 603 Intermediate Epidemiology 4 Credits
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EPIB 605 Critical Appraisal in Epid 1 Credits
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EPIB 621 Data Analysis in Health Sci 4 Credits
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EPIB 638 Mathematical Modeling of ID 3 Credits
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EPIB 662 Pharma Basis of Pharmacoepidem 1 Credits
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EPIB 677 Special Topics 8 3 Credits
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Topic: Critical Perspectives on Global Health
This seminar course encourages students to interrogate and critique fundamental aspects of contemporary global health practice. Topics include the historical origins of global health, processes for identifying global health priorities, the role of multinational funding structures, and the ethical and pragmatic challenges of intervening in an effort to improve the health of populations. Throughout the course, discussions will examine how the implicit assumptions of global health practice give rise to growing critiques of it, such as recent calls to decolonize the field.

EPIB 678 Special Topics 9 3 Credits
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Topic: Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research
The focus of this course is qualitative and mixed methods research, with a particular emphasis on the role of mixed methods in public health practice. Integrating quantitative and qualitative methods can be fostered and sustained in health systems or community settings. Mixed methods are becoming more essential in public health because they enable an in-depth consideration of the dynamic context of institutional structures, stakeholder groups’ interests and interactions, human-technology interactions, and political, economic, legal, and social conditions. Students will gain skills in conducting interviews, focus groups, and observations, qualitative and mixed methods data analysis, and innovative approaches such as rapid analysis and feedback and joint display of qualitative and quantitative findings. The course will also cover philosophical foundations, theory, and methodological topics including sampling, generalization, and validity.

EPIB 679 Special Topics 10 3 Credits
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Topic: Genetic Epidemiology
This course will provide students with an overview of the state of the art in genetic and genomic epidemiology with a focus on important or key concepts, study design and interpretation aspects that are specific to these fields. A condensed treatment of the molecular basis of human genetics and classic approaches including family- and population- based studies will be followed by an in-depth exploration of genomewide association studies, with a view to the critical evaluation of such studies. The use of genetic data and multiple disease phenotypes and quantitative traits integrated with other sources of genomic data will be presented in the context of big data biobank cohorts. Considerations when using genetic data for disease outcome prediction and investigation of causal pathways will be presented. References will be made to the larger context of the explosion of genetic data in the public sphere, including policy and ethics implications.

EPIB 685 Princ of Envrnmntl Hlth Sci 2 3 Credits
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EPIB 702 Ph.D. Proposal
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EPIB 705 Doctoral Level Epid Methods 2 4 Credits
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EPIB 706 Doctoral Seminar:Epidemiology 3 Credits
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PPHS 527 Econ for Hlth Serv Res&Policy 3 Credits
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PPHS 612 Principles/Pub Hlth Practice 3 Credits
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PPHS 613 The Practice of Global Health 3 Credits
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PPHS 617 Impact Evaluation 3 Credits
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PPHS 618 Prgrm Planning&Eval: Pub Hlth 3 Credits
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PPHS 683 Special Topics: Pop&Pub Hlth 4 3 Credits
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Topic: Race, Ethnicity, and Culture in Health
This is a practice-based course in which the associations between and the impacts of race, ethnicity, and culture in health will be examined from interdisciplinary perspectives in public health research and practice. Students will be introduced to how race, ethnicity, and culture and the interrelationships with the determinants of health influence individual and population health and services. The students will be presented with principles of community-based research; the existence of many worldviews; anti-oppression frameworks; cultural safety, competency, sensitivity, and awareness as practices; and health promotion. We will be embedding into the lectures intersectionality, critical race theories, and social constructionism to reflect how race intersects other historical, social, political and economic factors such as gender, class, sexuality, and ability as the major determinants of the health of Indigenous and racialized communities.

PPHS 684 Special Topics: Pop&Pub Hlth 5 3 Credits
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Topic: Communicable Disease Surveillance
Public health (PH) surveillance is the ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of data, closely integrated with the timely dissemination of these data to those responsible for preventing and controlling disease. Infectious diseases are a specific case and have a rich history of surveillance methods. Infectious disease surveillance is used to design and evaluate public health measures and is integrated in clinical care and practice.

 

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