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2024-2025 Catalog

BIOL 257 Public Health Biology

This course provides students with a comprehensive and integrative overview of biological perspectives on public health problems. An emphasis is placed on infectious and chronic disease case studies in the US and abroad. It will provide opportunities to: (1) apply practical knowledge about biological mechanisms to better understand the relationships between biological, behavioral, and environmental causes of health and disease, and (2) develop a new evidence-based public health intervention and education module. [W]

Prerequisite

BIOL 112

Instructor

Mitchell