Speciality Requirements Student must complete 21 credit hours

Course Code	Course Name	Credit Hours	Prerequests
7106501	Biostatistic	3
This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to methods and concepts of statistical analysis. It focuses also on Sampling situations, with special attention to those occurring in biological sciences. Topics include distributions, tests of hypotheses, estimation, types of error, significance and confidence levels, sample size. Statistical software mainly SPSS will be used to supplement hand calculations.
7106502	Epidemiology	3
This course provides an introduction to the basic methods and principles of epidemiology. It gives the student an understanding of disease present in the community in the past and present, it will allow the student to conceptualize, analyze, and evaluate an epidemiological study relevant to the community. Topics include: measures of disease frequency and associations, study designs used in epidemiological research, concepts of confounding and bias, screening and diagnostic tests, causation concepts and basics of scientific research in infectious and chronic diseases.
7106503	Health Policy and Management	3
This course aims at providing students with the theoretical framework and background to analyze the environment in which health care organization operate and to determine how organizations in the health care sector develop and implement strategies to achieve short term and long term goals. Strategic management theory will be used to integrate knowledge across functional areas of management.
7106504	Behavioral and Social Sciences	3
The aim of this course is to provide students with the knowledge about social behavior in health and illness. In addition, the course is expected to discuss some theories of social behavior, learning, attitudes and change. Concentration will be on health behavior and psychosocial stress. The course is expected also to concentrate on the social determinants of health as well as cognitive models and stress theories.
7106505	Research Methodology	3	7106501
This course concentrates on practical issues in the conduction of epidemiological, and health services research studies with an emphasis on survey research methods. Both quantitative and qualitative methods of research will be covered. Topics will cover the whole research process including research ethics, formulating studies, aims, objectives, hypothesis formulation and testing, quantitative and qualitative sampling strategies, quantitative and qualitative research designs, validity and reliability, measurement types, data collection methods and criteria, the analysis and interpretation phase of the research process and dissemination, proposal development phases.
7106601	Principles of Environmental Health	3
This course affords Students the opportunity to study the general principles and strategies concerning dealing with environment and methods to control pollution. Study diseases resulted from environment and ways to prevent and control those diseases.
7106606	Field Project	3
In this course, students will carry out a written project of public health importance and present it to the students and department members. Students will have to spend a full-time working day per week during the academic semester (14 working days) at the institution chosen to do their project. The student is expected to find and/or directed to find a position in a health care or public health institution such as a hospital, a PHC, a government or non-governmental agency, or any other health care institution. This field project course requires students to apply and test the theories, skills and knowledge acquired in the academic setting. Practical application of skills and knowledge is an essential part of professional degree programs, offering learning opportunities not available in classrooms. The field project is coordinated with the target institutions and mentors within the institutions will guide the students. However, the students will be supervised and monitored by the course instructor at the department of Public Health.
7106607	Seminar	0
This will provide a deep discussion of important current public health issues at the international level in general and at the Palestinian/national level in particular. Topics will be identified in the beginning of the course and students will be encouraged and directed by the course instructor to tackle these issues in-depth.
7106609	Comprehensive Test	0

Speciality Optional Requirements Student must complete 15 credit hours

Course Code	Course Name	Credit Hours	Prerequests
7106506	Communicable and non-Communicable Diseases	3
This course introduces the basic methods for communicable disease epidemiology and case studies of important disease syndromes and entities. Methods include definitions and nomenclature, outbreak investigations, disease surveillance, dynamics of transmission, measures of prevention. Focus will be directed toward acute respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases, hepatitis, HIV, tuberculosis, sexually transmitted diseases, malaria, and other vector-borne diseases. The course aims also to introduce most of the non-communicable diseases of importance to Palestine and to the region. Examples of different non-communicable diseases including malnutrition, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancers, arthritis, mental and behavioral disorders concerns. The major epidemiological methods for investigating and assessing strategies for surveillance should be explained to identify groups at risk and preventive measures for each of these diseases. Exploring the risk factors and measures and controls. Students should gain knowledge in epidemiology related to chronic diseases.
7106507	Maternal and Child Health	3
This course focuses on the basic needs of mothers and children. Planning and implementation of health program in Palestine. It also focuses on the enhancement of health to both mothers and children.
7106508	Health Promotion	3
This course is designed to acquaint students with the program of health promotion in the country and elsewhere and uses the knowledge to promote our health education system to raise the health practice in the population. It also introduces students to health programs which are used for health planning in schools and other institutions.
7106509	Populatiion Demography and Dynamics	3
This course aims to explore the demographic transition theories and their application with population changes in developing countries, with specific application to Palestine. The course will also explain the different theories (social, economic) including indicators and measures used in studying population and demographic change used for population projection and estimation. It will also discuss the discuss the effect of population growth and demographic changes including migration, fertility, mortality, on the social, economical, environmental and health conditions of people utilizing different development theories and arguments.
7106510	Public Health Nutrition	3
It focuses on the general and essential understanding of basic knowledge of food elements that participate in building the human body. Study the value of food and the role of external factors that affect food patterns and the negative consequences.
7106511	Reproductive Health	3
This will study the basic aspects of human reproductive health, including human sexual response, development of sex roles and sexual lifestyles, reproduction and control of reproduction, AIDS and other STD?s and societal legal implications of sexuality. The course addresses also the reproductive processes, functions and system at all stages of life. It also focuses on the ways of enhancement of life and personal relations, and not merely counseling and care related to reproduction and sexually transmitted diseases.
7106602	Advanced Biostatistics	3
This course focuses on Test hypotheses for one group or more, equip students with statistical analysis programs and tests such as SPSS, ANOVA, T-Tests, applied regression analysis, nonparametric statistical measures. Students have to be acquainted with Application of Statistical analysis programs using real projects to perform during the course. Topics presented include measures of disease effect: cross sectional analysis, cohort analysis; case-control studies, diagnostic testing and evaluation, bias, interaction and adjustment. Therefore, course application will include major types of applied epidemiological studies.
7106603	Principles of Occupational Health	3
The course is intended to introduce students to the basic core concepts of occupational health. Work?related health disorders and diseases that arise due to the interaction of employees and self?employed persons with their working environment will be presented. Modern approaches in occupational health aiming to improve workers? health and well?being, as well as productivity will be discussed. Students will be introduced to major occupational health related diseases including those of the musculoskeletal system, the lungs, and the skin, as well as accidents. Overall, this course is intended to allow students to understand the interaction of the workplace and environment on the health and well?being of the workforce.
7106604	Environmental Epidemiology	3
This course will review the basic epidemiological principles and presents issues unique to environmental epidemiology. The application will be using case studies that represents assessment of environmental health risk: concepts and risk analysis: including hazard identification; dose-response assessment, exposure assessment and risk characterization using different study designs to illustrate the application of epidemiological principles to the study of exposures occurring in the general environment.
7106605	Qualitatiave Research Methodology	3	7106501 7106505
It aims to discuss the theoretical information that are related to the designing of qualitative research methods, including: major concepts and methods, sampling techniques, data collection techniques and data analysis.