Courses Taught by William Lopez
HBHEQ591: Planning And Implementing Health Promotion Programs
- Graduate level
- Online MPH only
- This is a first year course for Online students
- Spring-Summer term(s) for online MPH students;
- 3 credit hour(s) for online MPH students;
- Instructor(s): William Lopez, William Lopez, (Online MPH);
- Prerequisites: none
- Advisory Prerequisites: none
- Description: This course examines focuses on planning and implementing health promotion programs broadly defined, including health communication, health education, policy advocacy, environmental change, health service provision, and community mobilization. By the end of the course, students will understand and apply key concepts related to developing a health promotion program.
- Learning Objectives: Course Goals: By the end of this course, students should be able to: Describe approaches to health promotion programs; Identify a health issue and priority population; Consider historical and structural factors that may impact the priority population and/or the health promotion program; Critically assess the relevant literature; Develop a vision, SMART goals, and program objectives that address the health issue; Create program activities and evaluation plans that link to goals and objectives; Construct a program implementation timeline (i.e. Gantt Chart) and work plan; Calculate a budget and justify budgetary expenses; and Consider the needed membership for a multisector collaboration. By successfully completing this course, students will acquire the Following Foundational competencies: HBHE Concentration Competencies: Specify approaches for planning, implementing, and managing sociobehavioral health education-focused programs and/or policies to promote human health. Foundational Competencies: Design a population-based policy, program, project or intervention. Program Competencies: Design multisector collaborations that will support all phases of population health improvement (assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation). This course substantially covers material related to the following competencies: HBHE Concentration Competencies: Assess population needs, assets and capacities that affect communities’ health. By the end of this course, students will have been exposed to the following Foundational Learning Objectives:
| Department | Program | Degree | Competency | Specific course(s) that allow assessment | Population and Health Sciences | MPH | Design multisector collaborations that will support all phases of population health improvement (assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation) | PUBHLTH515, HBHEQ590, HBHEQ591, PUBHLTH511 |
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HBHEQ651: Developing Strategies To Improve Health
- Graduate level
- Residential
- Winter term(s) for residential students;
- 3 credit hour(s) for residential students;
- Instructor(s): William Lopez (Residential);
- Prerequisites: None
- Description: Focuses on design of effective interventions to improve health and advance health equity. Moves between theoretical bases for intervention development and practical applications of program planning strategies. Topics covered include equitable community partnerships, creating goals and objectives, logic models, budgets, and other key elements of successfully creating strategies to improve health.
- Learning Objectives: Not applicable
| Department | Program | Degree | Competency | Specific course(s) that allow assessment | HBHE | MPH | Specify approaches for planning, implementing, and managing socio-behavioral health education-focused programs and/or policies to promote human health and health equity. | HBHEQ651 | HBHE | MPH | Integrate principles and methods of community engagement, including ethical considerations, relevant to the design and implementation of health education programs and policies, with the goal of promoting health equity. | HBHEQ651 |
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HBHEQ710: Special Mph Topics In Health Behavior And Health Equity
- Graduate level
- Residential
- Winter term(s) for residential students;
- 1-6 credit hour(s) for residential students;
- Instructor(s): William Lopez, Justin Heinze, (Residential);
- Prerequisites: None
- Description: Master's level seminar designed to provide an extensive review of a number of substantive and methods and skill areas in health behavior and health education. Readings, discussion and assignments are organized around issues of mutual interest to faculty and students. Reviews and reports on topics required in the areas selected. May be elected more than once.
- Learning Objectives: Not applicable
- This course is cross-listed with Not applicable.
PUBHLTH508: Social Determinants of Health
- Graduate level
- Online MPH only
- This is a first year course for Online students
- Fall term(s) for online MPH students;
- 1 credit hour(s) for online MPH students;
- Instructor(s):
- Prerequisites: SPH MPH and SPH MHSA Residential Students Only or By Instructor Permission
- Description: This course is designed to increase students' awareness, knowledge, and understanding of issues related to behavioral, psychological, and structural factors that contribute to understanding population health and health inequities. We will discuss key roles of health professionals in ensuring equitable treatment at multiple levels of influence to enhance population health and reduce health inequities through opportunities to practice skill building using case studies, deliberative dialogues and active listening strategies. This course will have a hybrid style (online & in-class) of instruction.
- This course is required for the school-wide core curriculum
PUBHLTH510: Communication Fundamentals
- Graduate level
- Online MPH only
- This is a first year course for Online students
- Winter term(s) for online MPH students;
- 1 credit hour(s) for online MPH students;
- Instructor(s): Brian Zikmund-Fisher (Online MPH);
- Prerequisites: SPH MPH and SPH MHSA Residential Students Only or By Instructor Permission
- Description: This course will cover fundamental skills in how to communicate science and health information clearly to both scientific and non-scientific audiences. This course uses a blended format combining in-person sessions and online tasks to maximize students' ability to practice these skills.
- This course is required for the school-wide core curriculum
