Population Health Concentration

This concentration focuses on health policy and planning for health care delivery, health promotion and disease prevention, and applied methods for assessing population health. The Population Health concentration prepares established professionals and recent university graduates for positions of leadership in population and public health.

Population Health Requirements

In addition to the core requirements, students in this concentration must complete the following courses:

All of:

• HSCI 815-3 Concepts of Population and Public Health Practice
• HSCI 827-3 Analysis of the Canadian Health Care Delivery System
• HSCI 835-3 Social and Behavioural Contexts of Health and Disease
• HSCI 855-3 Disease Prevention and Control

A minimum of one methods or skills course chosen from the following list:

• HSCI 804-3: Biostatistics for Public Health Practice II
• HSCI 805-3: Intermediate Epidemiological Methods
• HSCI 806-3: Principles of Demographic Analysis for Health Researchers
• HSCI 825-3: Advocacy and Communication
• HSCI 826-3: Program Planning and Evaluation in Global Health
• or a course providing appropriate methods/skills, chosen from HSCI offerings, or from another Department or Faculty, with the permission of the senior supervisor and the Graduate Program Director

Three additional elective courses drawn from HSCI offerings or from relevant course offerings in other faculties or departments with permission of the senior supervisor and course instructor.