MPH Program Electives for General MPH Credit The following courses are approved for use as general MPH electives. They are also approved for specific concentrations as concentration electives. Electives that are approved for specific concentrations are listed on that concentration s webpage. The following courses can only count for MPH General Elective credit if they have not been used to fulfill any other requirements (e.g. already used as a concentration elective). MPH 206: Intermediate Biostatistics: Regression Methods MPH 210: Law in Public Health MPH 211: Public Health Advocacy MPH 214: Health Law and Ethics *Course equiv. to MPH 210, both cannot be taken MPH 217: Negotiation and Conflict Resolution MPH 219: Fundamentals of Nutrition Science MPH 220: Cardiovascular Epidemiology MPH 221: Public Health Research Methods MPH 222: Survey Research Methods and Data Management MPH 224: Infectious Disease Epidemiology MPH 225: Qualitative Tools for Public Health Research and Programs MPH 226: Cancer Epidemiology MPH 227: Snort, Swallow, Smoke; Drugs and Behavior MPH 234: Public Health Economics MPH 235: Advanced Public Health Economics MPH 239: Pharmacoepidemiology; Bioethics and Regulatory Policy MPH 240: Environmental Epidemiology MPH 241: Biology of Water and Health MPH 244: Research Methods in Global Health MPH 247 Global Health Priorities & Approaches: Research Methods in Global Health MPH 248: Introduction to Global Health & Development MPH 260: Maternal & Child Health Policy in the US MPH 261: Maternal & Child Health: A Global Perspective MPH 265: Introduction to SAS MPH 285: Evaluation of Health Programs MPH 542: Race, Culture, and Ethnicity MPH Approved Electives Offered by Other Tufts Departments Electives approved for credit in the MPH program can be found on course schedules (with links to course descriptions) as well as concentration websites. Go to the individual school or department's web site for details such as semester offered, day, time and location. PHPD: Health Communication (CEMR courses are at Emerson College) HCOM 504: Introduction to Medicine HCOM 505: Ethical Issues in Health Communication
HCOM 506: Online Consumer Health HCOM 508: Technology and Health Communication HCOM 509: Seminar in Health Literacy HCOM 510: Patient Provider Interaction HCOM 511: Introduction to Writing about Health and Medicine HCOM 512: Web Strategies for Health Communication HCOM 514: Social Media and Health HCOM 536: Health, Culture and Communication HCOM 543: Public Relations-Framing the Dialogue for Public Health HCOM 544: Professional Communication HCOM 546: Risk Communication in Public Health Practice HCOM 547: Adult Learning Theory HCOM 560: Health Communication and the Web CEMR 614: Applications of Communication Theory to Health Communication CEMR 651: Media Strategies for the Health Professional CEMR 652: Social Marketing PHPD: Pain Research Education and Policy PREP231 Pharmacoeconomics PREP232 Ethical and Sociocultural Aspects of Pain PREP233 Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues School of Arts and Sciences: http://webcenter.studentservices.tufts.edu/courses/main.asp Biology BIO 107 Humanitarian Policy and Public Health BIO 142 Population and Community Ecology BIO 189 Social Capital and Mental Health Child Development CD 182: Social Policy for Children and Families CD 188: Seminar in Government & Family Civil and Environmental Engineering CE 102A: Probability and Statistics in Engineering CE 136: Air Pollution Control CE 138: Hazardous Waste Treatment Technologies CE 139; Bioremediation: Natural and Enhanced CE 143: Site Remediation CE 154: Principles of Epidemiology CE 158: Occupational and Environmental Health
CE 164: Epidemiologic Methods CE 167: Environmental Toxicology CE 168: Exposure Assessment CE 172: Chemical Fate and Transportation CE 172; Fate & Transport of Chemicals in the Environment CE 173: Health Effects & Risk Assessment CE 175: Hazardous Materials Safety CE 194: Water Quality Measurements CE 201: Land Use Planning (Cross-listed UEP 201) CE 207: Environmental Law (Cross-listed UEP 207) CE 221: Corporate Management of Environmental Issues (Cross-listed UEP 221) CE 265: Corporate Management of Environmental Issues CE 267: Methods in Environmental Impact Assessment (Cross-listed UEP 267) Community Health CH 185: Community Health & Drugs CH 186: International Health Policy CH 190: Social Capital and Mental Health Seminar Philosophy PHIL 124: Bioethics PHIL 141 Global Justice PHIL 143: Philosophy of Public Affairs PHIL 195B: Environmental Ethics (Cross-listed UEP 294C) Political Science PS 169: International Organization Urban and Environmental Policy UEP 166A: International Environmental Policy UEP 200: Land Use Planning I: Non-Regulatory Tools and Techniques UEP 201: Land Use Planning (Cross-listed CE 201) UEP 203: Political Economy, Ethics, and Environment UEP 207: Environmental Law (Cross-listed CE 207) UEP 221: Corporate Management of Environmental Issues (Cross-listed CE 221) UEP 222: Biotechnology: Social Issues and Environmental Issues UEP 230: Negotiation, Mediation, & Conflict Resolution UEP 263: Natural Resource Policy UEP 267: Methods in Environmental Impact Assessment (Cross-listed CE 267) UEP 278: Environmental Justice UEP 281: Urban & Environmental Policy and Planning UEP 284: Developing Sustainable Communities
UEP 293B: Current Issues in Environmental Policy UEP 294: Physical Planning and Design UEP 294B: Climate Change Policy, Planning and Action UEP 294C: Environmental Ethics (Cross-listed PHIL 195B) UEP 294G: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy http://fletcher.tufts.edu/academic/course-descriptions.shtml DHP 9216 International Humanitarian Policy and Public Health DHP P222 Development Aid in Practice DHP P224 Cultural Values and Development DHP D238 Globalization, Development and Humanitarianism: Ethics and Personal DHP P297 African Communities in Crisis: Perspectives of War and Its Aftermath EIB E241 Micro Development Economics: Poverty Reduction Policy Analysis for Developing Countries ILO L240 Legal and Institutional Aspects of International Trade EIB Global Food Business Friedman School of Nutrition http://webcenter.studentservices.tufts.edu/courses/main.asp NUTR 201: Fundamentals of Nutrition Science NUTR 202: Scientific Principles of Human Nutrition & Food (check prereqs) NUTR 203: Fundamentals of Nutrition Policy and Programming: How Science and Practice Interact NUTR 205: Communicating Health Information to Diverse Audiences NUTR 210: Survey Research in Nutrition (Course Equivalent: MPH 222; cannot take both) NUTR 211: Theories of Behavior Change and their Application in Nutrition and Public Health Intervention NUTR 212: Agricultural Science and Policy I NUTR 216: Management, Planning, & Control of Nutrition Health Programs & Organization NUTR 217: Seminar on Program Monitoring & Evaluation NUTR 218: Communicating Strategies for Health Promotion NUTR 220: Intro to Writing about Nutrition and Health Communication NUTR 221: The Global Food Business NUTR 222: Gender, Culture and Conflict in Humanitarian Complex Emergencies NUTR 224: Community Food Planning NUTR 226: The Public Policy of Health Claims of Food NUTR 227: International Nutrition Programs NUTR 228: Community and Public Health Nutrition NUTR 229: Humanitarian Aid in Complex Emergencies NUTR 277: Nutrition and Exercise NUTR 301: Nutrition in the Life Cycle
NUTR 302: Daily Risks and Crisis Events: How People and Planners Cope with Vulnerability NUTR 303: Determinants of Food Policy NUTR 304: Nutrition, Food Security, and Development NUTR 305: Nutritional Epidemiology NUTR 308: Nutrition in Complex Emergencies: Practice, Policies, and Decision-Making NUTR 310: Qualitative Research Methods for Nutrition NUTR 311: Nutrition Data Analysis NUTR 312: Nutrition and Chronic Disease NUTR 314: Design of Epidemiologic Studies for Nutrition Research NUTR 315: Nutritional Biochemistry NUTR 316: Advanced Medical Nutrition Therapy NUTR 317: Positive Deviance for Behavior Change: A Course for Practioners NUTR319: Intermediate Epidemiology NUTR 320 Impact of Nutrition on the Immune System and Related Diseases NUTR 324: Humanitarian Studies in the Field NUTR 370: Nutritional Biochemistry and Physiology: Macronutrients Sackler School of Biomedical Sciences http://sackler.tufts.edu/student-life/student-services/registration-information.aspx CRES 535: Biostatistics II (Note: students cannot receive credit for CRES535 and either MPH206 or NUTR318) CRES 566: Introduction to Health Services Research CRES 581: Introduction to Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis CRES 594: Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology