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
| BC 121 Stress & Disease (Giddon) |
| BC 136 Health Economics (Foster) |
| BC 168:01 Public Health in the US and the Role of the Government (Lindenmayer) |
| BC 168:05 Conceptual Issues in Health Policy: Occupational and Environmental Health (Egilman) |
| BC 168:08 Nutritional Problems in the Developing World (Risica/Gans) |
| BC 168:11 Comparative Health Care Systems (Tinajero) |
| BC 168.12 Tobacco, Smoking, and the Evil Empire (Abrams) |
| BC 174 Principles of Health Behavior and Health Promotion Interventions (Rakowski) * |
| BC 208 Introduction to Multivariate Regression (Half Credit) (B Lu) ** |
| BC 213 Principles of Biostatistics and Data Analysis (J. Hogan) * |
| BC 214 Health of Women (Zierler) |
| BC 216 Applied Regression Analysis (Toledano) |
| BC 217 Measurement Issues in Health Care (Staff) |
| BC 218 Critical Epidemiology (Zierler) |
| BC 220 Advanced Methods in Epidemiological Research (Lapane) |
| BC 221.01 Epidemiology in Reproduction and Cancer (staff) |
| BC 222:01 Epidemiology of Violence & Its Consequences (Verhoek-Oftedahl) |
| BC 225 Disability over the Life Course (Allen) |
| BC 230 Ethical Issues in Public Health (Wetle) |
| BC 234 Clinical Trials Methodology (Blume/Dickersin) |
| BC 236 Public Health Intervention Research (Gans/Assaf) * |
| BC 241:01 Assessing Outcomes in Health Care (Staff) |
| BC 241.02 Analyzing Large Data Sets (Staff) |
| BC 242 Health Program and Policy Analysis (Allen) |
| BC 250 Modern Methods for Categorical Data Analysis (Papandonatos) |
| BC 251 Generalized Linear Models (staff) |
| BC 252 Analysis of Lifetime Data (Hogan) |
| BC 253 Analysis of Longitudinal Data (Staff) |
| BC 260 Bayesian Statistical Methods (Gatsonis) |
| BI 284 Environmental Epidemiology (Kane) (offered every other year) |
| BC 297 MPH Independent Study for Thesis Preparation and Research (Instructor)** |
| BC 298 MPH Independent Study for Thesis Preparation and Research (Instructor)** |
| SOC 155 Sociology of Medicine (Lange) |
| SOC 243 Sociological Theory and Methods (Staff) |
*May be taken as an elective if not taken as a core course
**half credit electives |
