Electives

Students also have the opportunity to take a broad range of elective courses from multiple departments throughout Brown University and the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Anthropology, history, and sociology are just a few of the disciplines in which elective courses may be taken.

Approved electives for the MPH Program are listed below. Additional courses at Brown University may count toward the MPH degree, with permission from the Program Director and the student's advisor, if the courses meet the educational objectives of the student. For a full listing of courses offered at Brown, see the online course announcement.

To enroll in a Brown University course not listed as a core course or approved elective, students must follow the procedure outlined in the Elective Course Approval Procedure.

PHP 1070
The Burden of Disease in Developing Countries (McGarvey)

PHP 1100
Comparative Health Care Systems (Trivedi)

PHP 1680A
AIDS in International Perspective(Symonds)

PHP 1680B
Alcohol Use and Misuse Monti/O'Leary (Tevyaw)

PHP 1680E
Conceptual Issues in Health Policy: Occupational and Environmental Health(Egilman)

PHP1680L
Science and Power: A Bioethical Inquiry (Egilman)

PHP 1680N
Tobacco, Smoking and the Evil Empire (Monti)

PHP 1680P
Case Studies in Public Health: The Role of Government, Community and the Profession (Staff)

PHP 1680Q
Behavioral and Social Science Theory for Health Promotion (Rakowski)

PHP 1740
Principles of Health Behavior and Health Promotion Interventions (Rakowski)

PHP2030
Clinical Trials Methodology (Goldberg and Gatsonis)

PHP 2060
Qualitative Methods in Health Research (Terrie Wetle)

PHP 2080
Ethics and Public Health (Raiola)

PHP 2090
Scientific Writing in Public Health (Staff)

PHP 2180
Critical Epidemiology (Staff)

PHP 2200
Advanced Methods in Epidemiological Research

PHP 2210
Epidemiology of Chronic Disease (Baylin)

PHP 2220A
Epidemiology of Violence and Its Consequences (Verhoek-Oftedahl)

PHP 2220B
Nutritional Epidemiology (Baylin)

PHP 2360
Designing, Implementing and Evaluating Public Health Interventions (Gans)

PHP2410A
Analyzing Population Data for Health Policy

PHP 2410C
Pharmacoepidemiology (Staff)

PHP2410D
Quality Measurement and Improvement in Health Care (Trivedi)

PHP 2420
Health Program and Policy Analysis (Allen)

PHP 2501
Introduction to Multivariate Regression (half credit) (Staff)

PHP 2502
Regression Analysis Discrete and Event Time Data (half credit) (Staff)

PHP 2510
Principles of Biostatistics and Data Analysis (Hogan)

PHP 2511
Applied Regression Analysis (Staff)

PHP 2601
Generalized Linear Models (Staff)

PHP 2602
Analysis of Lifetime Data (Staff)

PHP 2603
Analysis of Longitudinal Data (Staff)

PHP 2720
Health Policy and Advocacy (Lewis)

PHP 2980
Graduate Independent Study and Thesis Research (Full Credit) (Instructor)

PHP 2985
MPH Independent Study for Thesis Preparation and Research (Half Credit)(Instructor)

Approved Electives from Other Disciplines

BIOL 1920A
Colonialism, Imperialism, and Public Health in Africa: Past and Present (Braun)

ENVS 1700A
Community and Environmental Health Research Ethics (Quigley)

ENVS 1710
Environmental Health and Policy (Staff)

PPAI 1700J
GIS and Public Policy (Jack Combs)

PPAI 2000
Institutions and Policy Making (Staff)

PPAI 2040
Policy Analysis

SOC 1550
Sociology of Medicine (Lange)

SOC 2310
Health Institutions and Providers (Phil Brown)

SOC2380
Mortality and Morbidity

Approved electives offered periodically

PHP 1210
Stress & Disease (Giddon)

PHP 1680H
Nutritional Problems in the Developing World (Risica/Gans)

PHP 1680J
Public Health in the US and the Role of Government (Lindenmayer)

PHP2010
Health of Women (Staff)

PHP 2019
Measurement Issues in Health Care (Staff)

PHP 2530
Bayesian Statistical Methods (Staff)

ECON 1360
Health Economics (Foster)