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Public Health Assessment & Analysis

Foundations of Health Science

People, institutions, landmark studies and substantive domains of modern public health.

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HSCI 20712 lessons

Research Methods in Health Sciences

Students learn how health research is done, from the question and the ethics application to data collection, first analysis and write-up.

Research QuestionsEthicsData Collection

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HSCI 23012 lessons

Evaluating Epidemiological Research

Foundational tools to evaluate, critique, and reason about conclusions from observational and experimental epi studies.

Study DesignBiasSystematic Reviews

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HSCI 24112 lessons

Finding and Synthesizing Health Evidence

Students learn to find, appraise and synthesize health evidence in reviews and environmental scans, including AI-assisted search.

Systematic ReviewsSearchingAI Tools

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HSCI 3418 lessons

Fundamental Epidemiological Concepts and Approaches

Measure, sample, and reason causally with epi tools: surveillance, screening, and measures of association.

MeasurementScreeningCausal Inference

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HSCI 4108 lessons

Exploratory Data Analysis for Epidemiology

Linear & logistic regression, multivariable modelling, interaction, and confounding in R.

RRegressionModelling

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HSCI 82610 lessons

Program Planning and Evaluation

Students learn to plan health programs and to evaluate them with randomized, quasi-experimental and economic designs.

Logic ModelsQuasi-ExperimentsImplementation

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HSCI 84112 lessons

Qualitative Research Methods & Analysis in Public Health

Interviews, coding, theme development, content & discourse, and LLM-assisted analysis.

InterviewsCodingLLM Analysis

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Health Promotion, Communication, and Behaviour

HSCI 31211 lessons

Health Promotion: Individuals and Communities

Students learn the social and behavioural theories that explain health behaviour and apply them to communities, settings, communication campaigns and program evaluation.

Behaviour TheoryEcological ModelsCampaigns

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Directed Studies

HSCI 48810 lessons

Directed Studies on Artificial Intelligence in Health Sciences

Students learn how machine learning, large language models and AI agents work, and how to use them well for learning, research, writing, analysis and public health practice.

Language ModelsPromptingAI in Practice

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