5 credits

This course presents a comprehensive look at public health and behavior change theoretical and conceptual models that apply to public health research and practice. Students review and assess predominant social and behavioral principles at the individual, interpersonal, and community levels. Students learn to integrate knowledge on different public health theoretical and conceptual frameworks, research approaches, methods, values and potential contributions from multiple professions and systems in addressing public health problems. Finally, students learn to apply theories to public health quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods research and practice.