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SPPH Graduate Courses Term 2
2023W, Term 2
Mon. Jan 8 to Fri. April 12, 2024 (Exam Period is Apr 16-27, 2024)
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.
Monday
SPPH 500 007 | Analytical Methods in Epidemiological Research
Basic epidemiological designs as a framework for commonly used biostatistical techniques such as the Mantel-Haenszel, chi-squared, linear and logistic regression, and survival analysis. Computer packages will be available for computation of assignments.
Section 007 (in-person)
Monday 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Instructor: Dr. Hubert Wong
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=500§ion=007
SPPH 504 BL2 | Application of Epidemiological Methods
This second level course will teach research trainees to apply methods taught in prior courses towards the development of a fundable research protocol and the analysis and interpretation of real epidemiologic data.
Section BL2 (hybrid)
Monday 2:00pm to 5:00pm (weekly) with online asynchronous learning
Instructor: Dr. Rafael Meza Rodriguez
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=504§ion=BL2
SPPH 511 002 | Cancer Control and Epidemiology
Collection and analysis of epidemiological data on cancer; genetic, occupational, and other risk factors; analytic techniques; cancer control, prevention, screening, early detection, and policy issues.
Section 002 (in-person)
Monday 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Instructor: Dr. Rachel Murphy
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=511§ion=002
SPPH 520 002 | Control of Communicable Disease
Epidemiology of viral, bacterial and parasitic infections with emphasis on the control of these infections in human populations. Immunization programs will be stressed.
Section 002 (in-person)
Monday 9:00am to 12:00pm
Instructors: Drs. Mark Gilbert and Abdullah Mamun
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=520§ion=002
SPPH 522 BL2 | Topics in Environmental Health
Role of air, water, food and solid waste as sources of human health risks; global environmental health issues; sustainability.
Section BL2 (hybrid)
Monday 9:00am to 12:00pm (exact meeting dates TBD)
Instructor: Dr. Michael Brauer
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=522§ion=BL2
SPPH 523 002 | Global Health and Human Security
Global threats to human health stemming from conflict, poverty, and environmental degradation.
Section 002 (in-person)
Monday 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Instructor: Dr. Jerry Spiegel
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=523§ion=002
SPPH 552 BL2 | Science and Risk Communication for Public Health
Theory and practice of risk communication in public health, basic principles underlying effective science communication with peers, the media, and the public.
Section BL2 (in-person)
Monday 9:00am to 12:00pm
Instructor: Alice Fleerackers
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=552§ion=BL2
SPPH 581C 002 | Selected Topics - Methods for Analyzing Routinely Collected Data
By seminar and directed readings, certain topics of current interest are explored in depth.
Section 002 (in-person)
Monday 9:00am to 12:00pm
Instructor: Dr. Jason Sutherland
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=581C§ion=002
Tuesday
SPPH 501 002 | Analysis of Longitudinal Data from Epidemiological Studies
To explore and compare methods of analyzing continuous and categorical longitudinal data. The issues of missing data and errors in measurement/misclassification will be covered in depth.
Section 002 (in-person)
Tuesday 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Instructor: Dr. Ying Macnab
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=501§ion=002
SPPH 503 002 | Epidemiological Methods 2
Critical thinking in epidemiology; principles and methods of study design; context for epidemiological investigations of human health.
Section 002 (in-person)
Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Instructor: Dr. Amee Manges
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=503§ion=002
SPPH 510 002 | Survey Methods in Health Measurement
Concepts and techniques of measurement in epidemiological research. Topics covered include validity, reliability and misclassification, scale design and the construction of questionnaires and indices for both health outcomes and exposures.
Section 002 (in-person)
Tuesday 9:00am to 12:00pm
Instructor: Dr. Louise Masse
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=510§ion=002
SPPH 512 002 | The Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials
Ethical considerations, intention-to-treat versus efficacy trials, principles of sampling and exclusion, methods of allocation and techniques of randomization, parallel versus cross over design, monitoring treatment outcomes, adverse effects, stopping rules, analytic techniques and data interpretation, and logistical issues in the management of clinical trials.
Section 002 (in-person)
Tuesday 9:30am to 12:30pm
Instructor: Dr. Khumbo Kalua
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=512§ion=002
SPPH 513 002 | Clinical Epidemiology
Principles and methods of epidemiology are applied to clinical problems. Evaluation and design of laboratory and clinical tests and of therapeutic interventions.
Section 002 (in-person)
Tuesday 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Instructor: Dr. K.S. Joseph
Room: (visit course link below)
SPPH 513 – Syllabus 2024 (2023W Term 2)
UBC Course Schedule (Student Service Centre) : link
SPPH 538 002 | Application of Ethical Theories in the Practice of Public Health
Section 002 (in-person)
Tuesday 9:00am to 12:00pm
Instructor: Dr. Daniel Steel
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=538§ion=002
SPPH 547 BL2 | Health Care Priority Setting
Resource allocation, economics and ethics based approaches for decision making, uptake of evidence to inform resource use in health care.
Section BL2 (hybrid)
Tuesday 2:00pm to 5:00pm (Jan 16, Jan 30, Feb 13, Mar 5, Mar 19, Apr 2) with asynchronous online learning
Instructor: Dr. Craig Mitton
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=547§ion=BL2
SPPH 562 002 | Chemical and Biological Hazard Measurement
Industrial hygiene and environmental exposure monitoring, methods, and instrumentation, and theory. Laboratories demonstrate workplace sampling and analysis techniques.
Section 002 (in-person)
Tuesday 9:00am to 12:00pm
Room: SPPH B112
Thursday 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Room: (visit course link below)
Instructor: Dr. Hugh Davies
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=562§ion=002
SPPH 564 002 | Advanced Topics in Occupational and Environmental Health
Section 002 (in-person)
Tuesday 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Instructor: Dr. Chris McLeod
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=564§ion=002
Wednesday
SPPH 500 002 | Analytical Methods in Epidemiological Research
Basic epidemiological designs as a framework for commonly used biostatistical techniques such as the Mantel-Haenszel, chi-squared, linear and logistic regression, and survival analysis. Computer packages will be available for computation of assignments.
Section 002 (in-person)
Monday 1:00pm to 4:00pm
Instructor: Dr. Mike Marin
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=500§ion=002
SPPH 514 002 | Decision Analysis in Health Care
Methods and application of decision analysis to improve health from the perspective of the policy maker, health professional, and patient.
Section 002 (in-person)
Wednesday 9:00am to 12:00pm
Instructor: Dr. Nick Bansback
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=514§ion=002
SPPH 515 002 | Surveillance and Monitoring in Public Health
Section 002 (in-person)
Wednesday 9:00am to 12:00pm
Instructor: Dr. Nirma Khatri Vadlamudi
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=515§ion=002
SPPH 526 002 | Leadership in Public Health
Organizational structure; engaging others in an organization; inter-organizational networking; building coalitions; identification of opportunities to bring change to organizations through knowledge development, management, synthesis, and implementation.
Section 002 (in-person)
Wednesday 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Instructor: Dr. Sean Tucker
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=526§ion=002
SPPH 526 003 | Leadership in Public Health
Organizational structure; engaging others in an organization; inter-organizational networking; building coalitions; identification of opportunities to bring change to organizations through knowledge development, management, synthesis, and implementation.
Section 003 (in-person)
Wednesday 1:00pm to 4:00pm
Instructor: Dr. David Keselman
Room locations: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=526§ion=003
SPPH 526 004 | Leadership in Public Health
Organizational structure; engaging others in an organization; inter-organizational networking; building coalitions; identification of opportunities to bring change to organizations through knowledge development, management, synthesis, and implementation.
Section 004 (in-person)
* Restricted for MSC OCCH students
Wednesday 9:00pm to 12:00pm
Instructor: Dr. Sean Tucker
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=526§ion=004
SPPH 527 BL2 | Social Determinants of Health
Foundational thinking giving rise to the concept of population health. Overview of the current state of research.
Section BL2 (hybrid)
Wednesday 9:30am to 12:30pm (January 10, January 24; February 7, February 28; March 13, March 27; April 10
Instructor: Dr. Anne Gadermann
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=527§ion=BL2
SPPH 532 001 | Environmental Health Risk Assessment and Communication
Section 001 (in-person)
Wednesday 1:30pm to 4:30pm
Instructor: Dr. Reza Afshari
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=532§ion=001
SPPH 581S 002 | Selected Topics - Pharmacology, Epidemiology
By seminar and directed readings, certain topics of current interest are explored in depth.
Section 002 (in-person)
Wednesday 1:00pm to 4:00pm
Instructor: Drs. Jacquelyn Cragg & Mary De Vera
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=581S§ion=002
Thursday
SPPH 500 BL2 | Analytical Methods in Epidemiological Research
Basic epidemiological designs as a framework for commonly used biostatistical techniques such as the Mantel-Haenszel, chi-squared, linear and logistic regression, and survival analysis. Computer packages will be available for computation of assignments.
Section BL2 (in-person)
Monday 9:30am to 12:30pm
Instructor: Dr. Mike Marin
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=500§ion=BL2
SPPH 503 002 | Epidemiological Methods 2
Critical thinking in epidemiology; principles and methods of study design; context for epidemiological investigations of human health.
Section 002 (in-person)
Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Instructor: Dr. Amee Manges
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=503§ion=002
SPPH 506 BL2 | Quantitative Research Methods
Major quantitative research designs, measurement reliability and validity, common data sources used, internal and external validity, research proposals, and peer review. Credit will be granted for only one of SPPH 506 or SPPH 548.
Section BL2 (multi-access)
Thursday 10:30am to 1:30pm (combines synchronous and asynchronous learning, with optional physical attendance at in-person sessions on-campus)
Instructor: Dr. Mike Law
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=506§ion=BL2
SPPH 519 BL2 | Qualitative Methods in Health Research Design
Purposes, context, procedures, and relationships within qualitative health research and methodologies.
Section BL2 (hybrid)
Thursday 2:00pm to 5:00pm (Jan 18; Feb 1, Feb 15, Feb. 29; Mar. 14, Mar. 28, Apr. 11)
Instructor: Dr. Andrea Krüsi
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=519§ion=BL2
SPPH 533 002 | Toxicology and Public Health
Mechanism of action of commonly encountered occupational toxic agents; relevance of laboratory and epidemiological evidence.
Section 002 (in-person)
Thursday 9:00am to 12:00pm
Instructor:Dr. Parveen Bhatti
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=533§ion=002
SPPH 536 BL2 | Aboriginal People and Public Health: 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.
Section BL2 (hybrid)
Thursday 4:00pm to 7:00pm
Instructor: Janene Erickson, MPH, BKin
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=536§ion=BL2
SPPH 540 002 | Program Planning and Evaluation
Examines the concept of evaluation in health services and how various methodological approaches can be used in evaluative studies.
Section 002 (in-person)
Thursday 9:00am to 12:00pm
Instructor: Dr. Beth Snow
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=540§ion=002
SPPH 549 002 | Advanced Economic Evaluation in Health Care
Economic evaluation of health technologies, considering, in detail, the policy context for the use of economic evaluation.
Section 002 (in-person)
Thursday 9:00am to 12:00pm
Instructors: Drs. Stirling Bryan & Mohsen Sadatsafavi
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=549§ion=002
SPPH 562 002 | Chemical and Biological Hazard Measurement
Industrial hygiene and environmental exposure monitoring, methods, and instrumentation, and theory. Laboratories demonstrate workplace sampling and analysis techniques.
Section 002 (in-person)
Tuesday 9:00am to 12:00pm
Room: (visit course link below)
Thursday 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Room: (visit course link below)
Instructor: Dr. Hugh Davies
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=562§ion=002
SPPH 580P 002 | Directed Studies Bayesian Biostatistics 2
This will be an introductory course on Bayesian statistics and methods, with a particular focus on Bayesian hierarchical models for complex health data in general and for correlated health data and for small area disease mapping data in particular.
Section 002 (in-person)
Thursday 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Room: (visit course link below)
Instructor: Dr. Ying Macnab
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=580P§ion=002
Friday
SPPH 531 002 | Health Care Systems Analysis
Theory, concepts, measurement, and practical skills using administrative data for analysis of health care systems.
Section 002 (in-person)
Friday 9:00am to 12:00pm
Instructor: Dr. Kimberlyn McGrail
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=531§ion=002
SPPH 567 002 | Quantitative Methods for the Assessment and Analysis of Exposure Data
Determinants of exposure, sampling strategies.
Section 002 (in-person)
Friday 9:00am to 12:00pm
Instructor: Dr. Sarah Henderson
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=567§ion=002
SPPH 570 003 | SPPH 570 Current Issues in Public Health Practice
Section 003 (in-person)
Tuesday 12:00pm to 5:00pm
Instructor: Drs. Trevor Corneil & Samuel Kenston
Room: (visit course link below)
Course Link: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=SPPH&course=570§ion=003