PHSM 501 (Introduction to Healthcare Management):
This course will introduce students to key management concepts and principles that are essential to the day-to-day business of healthcare management. In addition, we will set out the wider context in which healthcare organizations exist.
PHEB 501 (Principles of Epidemiology):
This core MPH course is designed to help the participants to acquire skills that will enable them to achieve knowledge and understanding of measuring health and disease. Students will learn different types of epidemiological study designs. In addition, students will acquire the necessary skills to plan, conduct and evaluate epidemiologic studies, and critically appraise and interpret data from scientific papers and epidemiological reports.
PHPH 501 (Environmental Health):
The aim of the course is to introduce students to the nature and scope of environmental and occupational health theory and practice. Emphasis is placed on the importance of environmental health science issues and how they relate to public health in the Saudi Arabian economic and socio-cultural context.
PHPH 502 (Social and Behavioral Sciences for Healthcare):
The aim of the course is to equip students with a background in socio-ecological factors leading to behaviors that constrain or promote health so that they may better address the complexities of health care issues, and to address the philosophical underpinnings, conceptual frameworks, and strategies for effective behavioral and social change efforts in public health.
PHEB 502 (Principles of Biostatistics):
This core course on biostatistics provides the students with an introduction to basic statistical techniques used to analyze and interpret data in health sciences. Emphasis is on applications of these methods, but enough derivation will be presented to allow a thorough understanding of the philosophy of the procedures. Topics include graphical methods, descriptive statistics, probability, measures of association, discrete and continuous distributions, inferential statistics (estimation and hypothesis testing) for numeric and categorical data, and nonparametric methods.
PHEB 512 (Health Research Methods):
This course will give students the opportunity to establish and advance their understandings of research methods in public health. The course is designed to provide the students with an introduction to the research process, research ethics, as well as proposal writing. Students will be provided with guidance on how to understand the language of research, ethical principles and challenges around research, and research methods qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods. In addition, during this course, students will use the theoretical knowledge gained to critically review the literature relevant to public health. After completing the course, students will be able to prepare a research proposal, collect data, address research questions and hypotheses, and put together a research project paper.
PHEB 511 (Statistical Models in Epidemiology):
This course serves as an introduction to statistical modeling, which are used as statistical analysis tools in almost every field of study. A variety of topics related to modeling quantitative responses (e.g. simple/multiple regression, one/two-way analysis of variance), binary responses (e.g. logistic regression), and time to event responses (e.g. Cox Regression) in terms of several risk factors are investigated. The course will familiarize students with model-building procedures and diagnostics with applications in health research. Additional topics may include calculating and reporting the results of sample size, data reduction, and group discussion of 4 published papers. The emphasis will be on general understanding and applications, rather than detailed theoretical development. However, some derivations will be presented to allow for a better understanding of the many procedures used. The SPSS statistical software computer package will be used extensively.
PHEB 616 (Advanced Observational Study Designs):
This MPH course is designed to help the participants to acquire skills that will enable them to achieve knowledge and understanding of the design, interpretation, and evaluation of observational epidemiological study designs, namely, cross-sectional, ecological, cohort, classical and nested case-control studies.
PHEB 514 (Advanced Biostatistics):
Longitudinal data are measurements made at different times on the same subjects. This type of data occurs extensively in both observational and experimental biomedical and public health studies. The course will emphasize model development, use of SAS, and interpretation of results. This course covers traditional and modern methods for the analysis of diverse types of longitudinal data arising in the health sciences. Problems will be motivated by applications in epidemiology and clinical trial studies.
PHEB 611 (Nutritional and Genetic Epidemiology):
This course is designed to discuss the specific concepts and familiarize the students with the basic research methods in genetic and nutritional epidemiology.
PHEB 612 (Healthcare Epidemiology):
The purpose of this course is: to introduce the epidemiological aspects of healthcare-associated infectious diseases, to recognize healthcare challenges that potentially can affect patients and healthcare workers, to discuss effective control measures and preventive strategies for different types of infections, to outline appropriate surveillance methodology and to be able to interpret its findings, and finally to strengthen the knowledge base of students in conducting epidemiologic investigations related to infectious diseases in healthcare settings.
PHEB 613 (Advanced Experimental Study Designs):
This MPH course is designed to help the participants to acquire skills that will enable them to achieve knowledge and understanding of the design, interpretation and evaluation of experimental epidemiological study designs, namely classical non-randomized clinical and field trials, randomized clinical trials, cross-over clinical trials, factorial and double-dummy trials.
PHEB 614 (Systematic reviews and meta-analysis):
This course would increase the overall knowledge on how to establish a proper systematic reviews and meta-analysis. It will also introduce tools for getting essential skills in a systematic review of interventional and effectiveness studies. That includes defining eligibility criteria (population, intervention, comparators, outcomes, methodological eligibility criteria), outlining a comprehensive search strategy, selection process, methods for measuring agreement, a priori hypotheses to explain heterogeneity, data abstraction, assessment of risk of bias, defining the level of quality of evidence (GRADE) and plans to summarize and present the results. In addition conducting (when applicable) Meta-analysis of the results of multiple studies into a single pooled estimate. Finally, getting basic knowledge of other types of systematic review and meta-analysis.
PHEB 615 Epidemiology & Biostatistics Project
All students are required to complete a “Research Project" in their final term of the program. The research project serves as students' formal culminating experience and provides students with the knowledge and skills to design, carry out, and present a scholarly public health project. Students will utilize the information acquired from previous courses to design, carry out, and present their research projects. It is a culminating experience in which students get to display their competencies. Each student will be assigned to research supervisor form the faculty members within the program to provide the necessary support to complete the research project.