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SPPH Graduate Courses Summer Term 1 & 2

2024 Summer Session, Term 1

Mon. May 13 to Thurs. June 20, 2024 (Exam Period is June 24-28, 2024)

SPPH 519 | Qualitative Methods in Health Research

Purposes, context, procedures, and relationships within qualitative health research and methodologies.

Thursdays – 12:00pm to 4:00pm (in-person)

UBC Course Schedule link:  https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=519&section=921

SPPH 522 | Topics in Environmental Health

Role of air, water, food and solid waste as sources of human health risks; global environmental health issues; sustainability.

 **Blended learning section, involving asynchronous online learning, as well as synchronous in-person and online sessions.

Synchronous online Tuesdays weekly from 4:30pm to 6:30pm (weekly, virtual meetings)
Synchronous in-person, bi-weekly Fridays from 10:00am to 3:30pm (bi-weekly on May 17, May 31 and June 14)

Instructor: Dr. Anders Erickson

UBC Course Schedule Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=522&section=SB1

SPPH 527 | Social Determinants of Health

Foundational thinking giving rise to the concept of population health. Overview of the current state of research.

 **Blended learning section, involving asynchronous online learning, as well as synchronous in-person sessions.

Synchronous in-person Wednesdays 9:00am to 1:00pm

Instructor: Drs. Silvia Stringhini and Eva Oberle

UBC Course Schedule Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=527&section=SB1

SPPH 538 | Application of Ethical Theories in the Practice of Public Health

**Blended learning section, involving asynchronous online learning, as well as synchronous in-person sessions.

Synchronous in-person Thursdays 9:00am to 1:00pm

Instructor: Dr. Daniel Steel

UBC Course Schedule Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=538&section=SB1

SPPH 541 | Economic Evaluation

Economic evaluation of health service interventions and programs, with emphasis on methods and components of program costing

**Blended learning section, involving asynchronous online learning, as well as synchronous in-person sessions.

Asynchronous online first week of Term.

Synchronous in-person Thursdays from 9:00am to 1:00pm (May 23, May 30, June 6, June 13 and June 20)

Instructors:  Drs. Stirling Bryan and Craig Mitton

UBC Course Schedule Link:  https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=541&section=SB1

SPPH 555 | Principles and Practices of Injury Prevention

Injury epidemiology; surveillance; development, implementation, and evaluation techniques of preventive strategies; determinants of health; social marketing; injury policy; evidence-based prevention strategies; utilization of injury datasets.

**Blended learning section, involving asynchronous online learning, as well as synchronous in-person sessions.

In-person sessions:

Monday 9:00am to 10:30am
Wednesday 9:00am to 12:00pm

Instructor: Drs. Mariana Brussoni, Shelina Babul and Ian Pike

UBC Course Schedule Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=555&section=SB1

2024 Summer Session, Term 2

Tues. July 2 to Fri. Aug 9, 2024 (Exam Period is Aug 13-17, 2024)

SPPH 536 | Indigenous Public Health in Canada: Ethics, Policy and Practice

Experience of colonization; Indian Act; the histories and intergenerational impact of the residential school; child-welfare systems; communicable disease prevention; the challenge of ethical public health practice; and traditional healing.

**Blended learning section, involving asynchronous online learning, as well as synchronous in-person sessions.

In-person sessions:

Thursday 1:00pm to 5:00pm

Instructor: Dr. Patricia Spittal

UBC Course Schedule Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=536&section=SB2

SPPH 581H | Selected Topics - Qualitative Research for Public Health Practice

Overall aim is to provide students with the understanding and skills necessary to conduct an objective appraisal of published qualitative literature and assess its relevance and application to their field of practice. The course will provide students with an overview of what constitutes qualitative research, the common philosophical assumptions and paradigms underpinning this research, the essential elements of a study design, the common methods of data collection, ethical consideration during qualitative research, and what makes a good piece of qualitative research.

**Blended learning section, involving asynchronous online learning, as well as synchronous in-person sessions.

In-person sessions:

Wednesday 1:00pm to 5:00pm

Instructor: Dr. Rosemin Kassam

UBC Course Schedule Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=581H&section=SB2

SPPH 581O | Selected Topics: Intervening in Global Public Health, Sustainability and Preventative Medicine

This course will provide a skills/practice-oriented experience, like many courses for health professionals, a case-/problem-based learning approach using real cases/problems on which you choose to intervene.  It provides opportuntiy to safely practice solving real problems, in a time-constrained environment, collaboratively intervening in small teams of your construction to improve global public health, sustainability, and preventive medicine outcomes, framed didactically through the problem-solving lens of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and of the Social Determinants of Health

In-person format – in-person attendance required

Tuesdays, 4:00pm to 8:00pm

Instructor: Dr. Erica Frank

Syllabus

UBC Course Schedule link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=581O&section=SB2

For non-SPPH students wishing to register in an SPPH graduate-level course, please see the Visiting Students page for instructions.

For additional course information, please visit this page to view the full list of courses.

Please note: due to COVID-19, this schedule is subject to change.