5 credits
The goal of this course is to provide an understanding of public health approaches to complex problems at multiple levels (individual, group, organization, community, and population), including advanced quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research methods. Students undertake a scholar-practitioner project to plan a Community Health Assessment, and they cover the stages of this project, including ethical and cultural considerations, community participation, data collection and analysis, and using data to plan and develop programs, in this course.