MScPH Students must take a total of 9听credits from three Selective categories (including at least one course from each).
鈥愄� Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
鈥愄� Health Services Research and Policy Management
鈥愄� Population and Public Health Research and Interventions
The remaining elective credits may come from any of the courses listed in this table, based on the student鈥檚 specific interests, and/or the stream they enrolled in (if applicable).
Complementary course choices must receive program approval. Students who wish to take a course not on the list, should obtain a copy of the course syllabus and submit it to the program office for approval.
For students interested in registering for courses outside the Department of EBOH (ie. course numbers do not include PPHS, BIOS, EPIB, OCCH), please ensure that you have the required background for the course. Contact the course instructor and ask for a copy of the syllabus if you are not sure. Grading norms in other departments may differ. Check with the program officer if you have any questions.
Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
EPIB 684
Princ of Envrnmntl Hlth Sci 1
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Epidemiology & Biostatistics: Topics in environmental health sciences: principles of exposure assessment and of toxicology.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Restriction(s): Open to graduate students pursuing a career in Environmental Health Sciences or with permission of the course instructors. Not open to students who have taken or are taking EXMD 670 or NRSC 670 or PHAR 670.
- Terms
- Instructors
- Jill Baumgartner, Koren K Mann, Bernard Robaire, Niladri Basu
EPIB 685
Princ of Envrnmntl Hlth Sci 2
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Epidemiology & Biostatistics: Topics in environmental health sciences: principles of environmental epidemiology.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Restriction(s): Open to graduate students in the Environmental Health Sciences or permission of the course instructors. Not open to students who have taken or are taking EXMD 671 or NRSC 671 or PHAR 671.
GEOG 503
Advanced Topics in Health Geog
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Geography: A critical review of current themes and trends in health geography, with emphasis on geographical perspectives in public health research. Topics include the social and environmental determinants of chronic and infectious disease, health and health-related behaviours. Seminars focus on critical appraisal of conceptual and methodological approaches in health geography research.
Offered by: Geography
- Fall
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite: GEOG 303 or GEOG 403 or permission of instructor
- Restrictions: Course open to U3 undergraduate students and graduate students in the Department of Geography OR others with permission of instructor. Not open to students who took GEOG 503 in Winter 2009.
OCCH 602
Occupational Health Practice
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Occupational Health & Hygiene: This course analyzes the functions, structure and organization of occupational health programs and services.
Offered by: Occupational Health
- Terms
- Instructors
- Elizabeth Czyziw, Genevi猫ve G Ostiguy
OCCH 604
Monitoring Occupational Envnmt
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Occupational Health & Hygiene: Principles and practices of environmental and biological monitoring of workplace hazards are addressed. Familiarization with instrumentation and calibration procedures is undertaken. Students learn to identify workplace health hazards, develop effective sampling strategies, use industrial hygiene equipment and interpret results of exposure measurements.
Offered by: Occupational Health
OCCH 612
Principles of Toxicology
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Occupational Health & Hygiene: General principles of toxicology, routes of toxicant entry, human organs as targets of toxic action, adverse effects, time-course of reactions to toxicants. Risk assessment techniques, in vivo-in vitro toxicity models, links between human population observations and animal, cellular and biochemical models.
Offered by: Occupational Health
OCCH 616
Occupational Hygiene
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Occupational Health & Hygiene: An introduction to the principles and practices of industrial hygiene designed to provide the students with the knowledge required to identify health and safety hazards in the workplace.
Offered by: Occupational Health
PPHS 529
Global Env Hlth&Burden/Disease
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Population&Pub Health Sciences: This course presents the grand challenges in global health from environmental and occupational risks along with the multi-disciplinary methods used to identify, control, and prevent them. It will introduce students to knowledge and skills in core disciplines of environmental health and approaches to environmental risk recognition, control and prevention in a global context.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken EPIB 529.
- 1. Permission of instructor required for undergraduate students.
- 2.This course is open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates from all departments.
- 3. Previous coursework in statistics and environmental science is useful, though not required.
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Health Services Research & Policy Management
EPIB 632
Mental Dis:Pop Perspec&Methods
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Epidemiology & Biostatistics: Semester-long seminar on key issues and concepts integral to the epidemiological study of mental disorders, through the lens of a population perspective. Review of the origins of the field, classical studies, and recent major studies. Survey of where
the field is now. Discussion of national and global burden of mental disorders. Defining and diagnosing mental disorders. Methods to identify psychopathology in community versus clinical settings. Reliability and validity of psychiatric diagnoses
and measurement tools. Research designs including approaches to study etiology, health services delivery, prevention, role functioning, and policy.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Prerequisite(s): EPIB 603 or equivalent, or permission of instructor
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking PSYT 713.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
EPIB 675
Special Topics 6
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Epidemiology & Biostatistics: Study, through lectures, guided reading, practicals, assignments etc., of an elected and approved topic of epidemiologic importance.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Terms
- Instructors
- Dimitra Panagiotoglou
- Alexandra Schmidt
EPIB 676
Special Topics 7
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Epidemiology & Biostatistics: Study, through lectures, guided reading, practicals, assignments etc., of an elected and approved topic of epidemiologic importance.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
PPHS 525
HlthCare Systems in Comp Persp
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Population&Pub Health Sciences: Comparative perspective to illustrate processes involved in the development and evolution of health care systems around the world. Countries examined will represent different welfare state regimes, health care system typologies, levels of development and wealth.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken EPIB 525. Not open to students who are taking or have taken SOCI 525.
- Note: This course is cross-listed in Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and in Sociology
PPHS 527
Econ for Hlth Serv Res&Policy
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Population&Pub Health Sciences: Key health policy topics in developed economies using analytic frameworks and tools from economics. Major topics include health insurance, health care financing, and the roles of individuals and public and private institutions in the health care system.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken EPIB 527.
- NOTE: This course is open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates from all departments, with the permission of the instructor. A background in introductory economics is useful, though not required.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
PPHS 528
Economic Eval of Hlth Programs
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Population&Pub Health Sciences: 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) and assessment of uncertainty in cost-effectiveness analysis.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken EPIB 528.
- No prior background in economics is required.
- Open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates from all departments.
PPHS 617
Impact Evaluation
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Population&Pub Health Sciences: This course will cover methods for estimating the effects of social interventions on health outcomes. We will provide the intuition for conducting impact evaluation studies in population health and discuss recent developments. We will define causal policy effects within the potential outcomes framework and introduce and formally define policy-relevant research questions based on specific causal contrasts. We will cover the use of randomized and cluster randomized trials for impact evaluation, including cost-effectiveness. We will additionally cover quasi-experimental designs such as interrupted time series, difference-in-differences, instrumental variables, and regression discontinuity.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
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Population & Public Health Research and Interventions
EPIB 632
Mental Dis:Pop Perspec&Methods
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Epidemiology & Biostatistics: Semester-long seminar on key issues and concepts integral to the epidemiological study of mental disorders, through the lens of a population perspective. Review of the origins of the field, classical studies, and recent major studies. Survey of where
the field is now. Discussion of national and global burden of mental disorders. Defining and diagnosing mental disorders. Methods to identify psychopathology in community versus clinical settings. Reliability and validity of psychiatric diagnoses
and measurement tools. Research designs including approaches to study etiology, health services delivery, prevention, role functioning, and policy.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Prerequisite(s): EPIB 603 or equivalent, or permission of instructor
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking PSYT 713.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
EPIB 648
Methods in Social Epidemiology
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Epidemiology & Biostatistics: Methods for conducting studies in social epidemiology and population health will be covered. Topics will include causal inference; measurement and concepts of social exposures; methods for study design and analysis. Techniques for descriptive and etiologic investigations of socioeconomic position, gender, race and ethnicity, geography, and social policies will be discussed.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
EPIB 671
Cancer Epidemiology&Prevention
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Epidemiology & Biostatistics: This course will explore the common epidemiologic approaches to studying etiologic relations in carcinogenesis and for assessing the efficacy of cancer prevention interventions. Emphasis will be given on both molecular and social epidemiology domains with examples of different study designs and data analysis methods and of the impact of measurement error and other biases.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Prerequisite(s): EPIB 601 and EPIB 621, or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
EPIB 677
Special Topics 8
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Epidemiology & Biostatistics: Study, through lectures, guided reading, practicals, assignments etc., of an elected and approved topic of epidemiologic importance.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
EPIB 678
Special Topics 9
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Epidemiology & Biostatistics: Study, through lectures, guided reading, practicals, assignments etc., of an elected and approved topic of epidemiologic importance.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Terms
- Instructors
- Alexandra Schmidt
- Ananya Banerjee
PPHS 613
The Practice of Global Health
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Population&Pub Health Sciences: Introduction to core competencies in the practice of global health, including historical, colonial roots of global health, project planning and implementation, equitable and ethical conduct, building partnerships, working within interdisciplinary teams, effective communication and personal-social skills.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Terms
- Instructors
- Charles Palmer Larson, Marilyn N Ahun
PPHS 614
Knowl Transl&Pub Hlth Ldrship
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Population&Pub Health Sciences: An examination of knowledge translation in public health, including synthesis, dissemination, exchange, and ethically-sound application of knowledge to policy and programming. Overview of knowledge translation processes for effective evidence-informed public health leadership.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Prerequisite: PPHS 612 or permission of instructor
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken EPIB 678 when topic was 鈥楰nowledge Translation, Communications, and Evidence-Informed Public Health Leadership鈥�.
- Terms
- Instructors
- Madhukar Pai, Christopher Labos
PPHS 615
Intro:Infectious Disease Epid
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Population&Pub Health Sciences: Introduction to the field of infectious disease epidemiology taught from a public health perspective. Topics include analytic methods, study design, outbreak investigations, surveillance, vaccine development and evaluations, screening, modelling, and infectious causes of cancer or chronic diseases.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Prerequisite: EPIB 601 or Permission of Instructor.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken EPIB 615.
- Note: An undergraduate level biology course is highly recommended.
PPHS 616
Princ&Prac of Pub Hlth Survl
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Population&Pub Health Sciences: The objectives of this course are to familiarize students with the theory and methods of surveillance, a core public health function. The seminars will define surveillance and explore surveillance applications and methods through case studies and in-class exercises. Topics will include: measurement, indicators, analytical methods, and the future of surveillance. Computer-based modules will complement seminars. Topics will include: estimating the burden of a disease, detecting disease outbreaks, and identifying cases of chronic disease.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Prerequisite(s): EPIB 603, EPIB 621, PPHS 612, or equivalent, or permission of the instructor.
- Students are encouraged to use R statistical software and to bring a laptop to class.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
PPHS 617
Impact Evaluation
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Population&Pub Health Sciences: This course will cover methods for estimating the effects of social interventions on health outcomes. We will provide the intuition for conducting impact evaluation studies in population health and discuss recent developments. We will define causal policy effects within the potential outcomes framework and introduce and formally define policy-relevant research questions based on specific causal contrasts. We will cover the use of randomized and cluster randomized trials for impact evaluation, including cost-effectiveness. We will additionally cover quasi-experimental designs such as interrupted time series, difference-in-differences, instrumental variables, and regression discontinuity.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
PPHS 618
Prgrm Planning&Eval: Pub Hlth
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Population&Pub Health Sciences: Major activities in planning and evaluating an evidence-based public health intervention using a structured approach to intervention planning and different evaluation methodologies and techniques. Emphasis on evidence-based program planning, logic model development, participatory approaches, and program evaluation in applied public health settings.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
PPHS 624
Public Health Ethics & Policy
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Population&Pub Health Sciences: Critical assessment of ethical dilemmas and policy considerations raised by the practice of public health. Specific topics include: measuring and defining health; surveillance and privacy; preparedness, quarantine, and distribution of resources during a health emergency; and health inequalities.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken EPIB 624.
- Students from all disciplinary backgrounds are welcome.
PPHS 683
Special Topics: Pop&Pub Hlth 4
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Population&Pub Health Sciences: Study, through lectures, guided reading, practicals, assignments etc., of an elected and approved topic of population and public health importance.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
PPHS 684
Special Topics: Pop&Pub Hlth 5
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Population&Pub Health Sciences: Study, through lectures, guided reading, practicals, assignments etc., of an elected and approved topic of population and public health importance.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Terms
- Instructors
- Ananya Banerjee
- Joanna-Trees M Merckx
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Electives
EPIB 619
Syst. Reviews & Meta-Analysis
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Epidemiology & Biostatistics: An overview of principles, methods and practice of systematic reviews and meta-analysis in the field of medicine and public health.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Prerequisites: EPIB 601 and EPIB 607, or equivalent, or permission of the instructor
- Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fifth lecture day.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
(summer)
EPIB 627
Analysis of Correlated Data
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Epidemiology & Biostatistics: This course will provide a basic introduction to methods for analysis of correlated, or dependent, data. These data arise when observations are not gathered independently; examples are longitudinal data, household data, cluster samples, etc. Basic descriptive methods and introduction to regression methods for both continuous and discrete outcomes.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
EPIB 628
Measurement in Epidemiology
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Epidemiology & Biostatistics: This course will focus on methodological issues related to measures of health status, determinants of health status, and other relevant covariates encountered in clinical and epidemiologic research. Topics to be covered include instrument development, assessment of reliability and validity, item response theory, and latent variable-based measurement models.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
EPIB 629
Knowledge Synthesis
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Epidemiology & Biostatistics: This course will provide a detailed description of the systematic review process, discuss the strengths and limitations of the method, and provide step-by-step guidance on how to perform a systematic review, and how to critically appraise systematic reviews. Specific topics to be covered include: formulation of the review question, searching of literature, quality assessment of studies, data extraction, meta-analytic methods, and report writing. The course will also cover statistical issues of meta-analysis.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Prerequisite(s): EPIB 601 and EPIB 607, or equivalent, or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken EPIB 619. Not open to students who have taken EPIB 675 when topic was 'Knowledge Synthesis'.
EPIB 635
Clinical Trials
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Epidemiology & Biostatistics: Lectures and discussions on issues, approaches and techniques of clinical trials including assessment of feasibility, ethics, randomization, strengths and weaknesses of alternative designs, sample size requirements, protocol development, trial management and analysis, reporting and interpretation of trial results.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
EPIB 637
AdvModel:Survl&OtherMultivData
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Epidemiology & Biostatistics: Advanced applied biostatistics course dealing with flexible modeling of non-linear effects of continuous covariates in multivariable analyses, and survival data, including e.g. time-varying covariates and time-dependent or cumulative effects. Focus on the concepts, limitations and advantages of specific methods, and interpretation of their results. Students will get hands-on experience in the implementation of selected methods by applying them to their own multivariable data, in individual survival analysis projects.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Prerequisite(s): EPIB 621, or equivalent, or permission of the instructor.
EPIB 638
Mathematical Modeling of ID
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Epidemiology & Biostatistics: Mathematical models of infectious diseases 鈥揷omputer simulations of epidemics鈥揺nable detailed analyses and understanding of factors affecting the distribution of infections/diseases in populations and now play a key role in policy making. Covered topics include: short-term dynamics of infections (R0), compartmental models, stochastic models (including agent-based), contact patterns and heterogeneity, and Bayesian model calibration. The learning objectives are: 1)
recognize research questions that can be addressed using modeling; 2) develop, parameterize, calibrate, and analyze simple infectious disease models in R; and 3) critically appraise scientific modeling papers.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Prerequisite(s): EPIB 621 or permission of the instructor
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken EPIB 676 when topic was "Mathematical Models of Infectious Diseases".
- This is an intermediate-level quantitative course. Previous courses in calculus and biostatistics are recommended (in doubt, contact the instructor prior to registration). A working knowledge of the R statistical software (or equivalent) is mandatory (data structures, function, loop, etc.).
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
EPIB 671
Cancer Epidemiology&Prevention
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Epidemiology & Biostatistics: This course will explore the common epidemiologic approaches to studying etiologic relations in carcinogenesis and for assessing the efficacy of cancer prevention interventions. Emphasis will be given on both molecular and social epidemiology domains with examples of different study designs and data analysis methods and of the impact of measurement error and other biases.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Prerequisite(s): EPIB 601 and EPIB 621, or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
EPIB 679
Special Topics 10
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Epidemiology & Biostatistics: Study, through lectures, guided reading, practicals, assignments etc., of an elected and approved topic of epidemiologic importance.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
EPIB 679 - Genetic Epidemiology听
EPIB 677
Special Topics 8
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Epidemiology & Biostatistics: Study, through lectures, guided reading, practicals, assignments etc., of an elected and approved topic of epidemiologic importance.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
EPIB 677 (previously PPHS 682)听- Critical Perspectives on Global Health
PPHS 683
Special Topics: Pop&Pub Hlth 4
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Population&Pub Health Sciences: Study, through lectures, guided reading, practicals, assignments etc., of an elected and approved topic of population and public health importance.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
PPHS 683 - Race, Ethnicity, Culture And Health new course
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