PBH 320 - Careers in Public Health

(3 units)

This course provides an overview of the different careers in public health. Public health practitioners from government, non-profit organizations, and the private sector will present and discuss their work and how they make and implement public health decisions that affect a wide range of public health functions and communities.These presentations and discussions will provide students the opportunity to learn how essential public health functions are applied in the day-to-day practice of public health professionals.

Maximum units a student may earn: 3

Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Fall and Spring

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. discuss various public health topics and their related real-world public health practice.
2. identify the socio-economic, behavioral, biological, environmental, and other factors that impact human health and contribute to health disparities.
3. utilize the basic processes, approaches, and interventions that identify and address the major health-related needs and concerns of populations.
4. apply the basic concepts, methods, and tools of public health data collection, use, and analysis and why evidence-based approaches are an essential part of public health practice.
5. communicate public health information with diverse audiences (CEPH BS Foundational Competency).
6. discuss the means by which structural bias, social inequities and racism undermine health and create challenges to achieving health equity at organizational, community, and systemic levels (CEPH MPH Foundational Competency).

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