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HSERV 100 Personal and Public Health (3) SSc
Provides an overview of the key components of health and wellness. Presents a balance between individual responsibility and social determinants of public health, emphasizing a holistic preventative model. Incorporates self-assessment and considers the impact of personal, family, social, cultural, and environmental factors on health.

HSERV 204 Communicating about Health: Current Issues and Perspectives (3)
Provides an overview of health communication topics and perspectives for students who are interested in pursuing careers in the health industry and those with a research interest in health communication such as caregivers, health care administrators, marketing and public relations professionals, media planners, public health promoters, and educators, researchers and others. Offered: WSp.

HSERV 230 Sleep and Population Health (3) SSc/NSc
Examines the role of sleep in population health, including risk factors and short and long-term consequences for inadequate sleep. Expands understanding of sleep science and how sleep can function as not only an outcome, but also as a predictor, mediator, confounder, and effect modifier of health outcomes and disparities. Also explores established and emerging sleep interventions and their potential to improve population health outcomes. Offered: W.

HSERV 290 Special Topics (1-6, max. 12) SSc
Explores current or evolving areas of interest in public health.

HSERV 343 Health Behavior and Health Promotion (5)
Introduction to health behavior change and health promotion. The course will cover theoretical foundations of health behavior and health promotion, as well as how to apply theory and evidence in health promotion practice. It will also introduce strategies for implementing and evaluating health promotion programs. Course overlaps with: B HLTH 435. Offered: A.

HSERV 344 Public Health and Health Systems Management (5)
Introduces public health and health systems management concepts. Students learn key tenets of high-performing public health and healthcare organizations, and environments in which these organizations operate. Examines a variety of health system models, including governmental public health, healthcare delivery systems, accountable communities of health and other collaborative models. Offered: W.

HSERV 345 Community Health Assessment (5)
Introduces role of assessment in planning for community health improvement through health promotion activities. Considers determinants of health; methods to find, collect, and analyze quantitative and qualitative data; interpret findings to describe the health resources, risks, and outcomes; role of assessment in identifying health disparities and patterns of health inequities. Offered: Sp.

HSERV 346 Using Economics to Solve Today's Healthcare Problems (4) SSc
Health economics is a growing field and an important aspect of public policy. Introduces health economics and the tools economists use to analyze current issues in health care. Furthers the understanding of economics and how it is used in current debates. Prerequisite: ECON 200. Offered: jointly with ECON 346; A.

HSERV 415 War and Health (4) SSc
Explores the health consequences of war (injury, infectious diseases, mental health, chronic disease, malnutrition, infrastructure) and the role of health professionals and others in preventing war (advocacy, measurement and application of epidemiology methods, promotion of social equity). Offered: jointly with G H 415; Sp.

HSERV 454 Homelessness in Seattle: Destitute Poverty in a City of Affluence (1/3, max. 3) SSc, DIV
Covers the landscape and types of homelessness in Seattle and beyond. Topics include: causes and health consequences of homelessness, the role of destitute poverty in the loss of housing stability, history and politics of homelessness in Seattle, the effects of COVID-19 on homeless policy, hearing the voices of the unhoused, activism, shaming and saviorism, and solutions, big and small. May only be taken for credit once.

HSERV 473 Topics in Indigenous Health (2/3) SSc, DIV
Covers the fundamentals of Indigenous health, including Indigenous conceptual frameworks specific to health, wellness, and resilience. Topics include Indigenous social determinants of health, Federal Indian health policy, and American Indian and Alaska Native trends in population health outcomes within the context of the socio-ecological model.

HSERV 475 Perspectives in Medical Anthropology (5) SSc
Introduction to medical anthropology. Explores the relationships among culture, society, and medicine. Examples from Western medicine as well as from other medical systems, incorporating both interpretive and critical approaches. Offered: jointly with ANTH 475.

HSERV 476 Introduction to Applied Qualitative Methods in Public Health (4)
Covers qualitative methods in public health research and practice, including exploratory and descriptive studies, human subjects and ethics review, frameworks, theory and hypothesis generation, content and thematic analysis, sampling approaches, and interviews, focus groups, document review, observations, and photovoice. Students apply practical skills to code, analyze, interpret, and visually present qualitative data.

HSERV 479 Black Lives and Police Violence: Racism and the Public's Health (4) SSc, DIV
The effects of racism on health are profound and multi-dimensional. Critically analyzes theories of human behavior in relation to epidemiological concepts of race, against the backdrop of the current Black Lives Matter movement in the United States. Offered: Sp.

HSERV 482 The Health of Populations (4) SSc, DIV
Explores what makes a population healthy or unhealthy. Examines why the United States is less healthy than all other rich countries, despite being one of the healthiest fifty years ago. Offered: jointly with G H 482; W.

HSERV 488 Dark Empire: Race, Health, and British Society - Abroad (6) SSc, DIV
Explores factors responsible for the well-being and health of black and other racial/ethnic minorities in Britain. Addresses: the National Health Service; ethnic diaspora, anti-immigration laws; urban riots; inequality, and the rise of Muslim fundamentalism and Islamophobia. Conducted in Britain.

HSERV 490 Advanced Topics (1-6, max. 12) SSc
Explores current or evolving public health problems. Offered: W.

HSERV 493 Public Health Uganda (2) DIV
Prepares students to conduct a research project in Uganda. Students refine a research question, conduct a literature review, prepare data collection instruments, and make Institutional Review Board applications. Faculty recruit and cultivate the research project topics in advance from their contacts in Uganda. Offered: jointly with G H 493; W.

HSERV 499 Independent Study in Health Services (1-12, max. 12)
Individual library or field study project selected in consultation with a faculty adviser.

HSERV 504 Health Promotion and Behavior Change Communication ([1-3]-, max. 3)
Overview of the theory and practice of designing, producing, and evaluating public health communication campaigns, including the use of mass media. Develops greater capacity for critical judgment about the use of communication strategies for achieving public health goals.

HSERV 507 Health Communication and Marketing for Health Promotion: Theory and Practice (3)
Provides an introduction to the field of health communication and social marketing. Focuses on how persuasive communication and marketing are most effectively used to improve population health and reduce inequities. Students develop and present a health communication campaign proposal.

HSERV 508 Dynamics of Community Health Practice (3)
Analysis of principles of community health as applied to the delivery of clinical services in order to improve public health, reduce disparities, provide leadership in delivery of care, and synthesize one's clinical role with public health. Examines environmental, social, cultural, and behavioral determinants of health. Includes family, aggregates, and populations. Offered: jointly with NURS 560.

HSERV 509 Public Health and Informatics (3)
Introduction to the emerging field of public health informatics. Covers general public health topics as well as key public health informatics issues and applications. Evaluates a public health information system. Prerequisite: either BIME 530 or permission of instructor. Offered: jointly with BIME 533; W.

HSERV 510 Social and Behavioral Sciences in Health Program Planning and Implementation (3)
Provides an overview of three core areas in the social and behavioral sciences of public health practice and research: social determinants of individual and population health, health promotion and disease prevention, and cultural competency and community collaboration. Offered: A.

HSERV 511 Introduction to Health Services and Public Health (3-4)
History, organization, and effectiveness of U.S. healthcare and public health systems. Determinants of health, need, and utilization. Public and private financing. Supply and provision of personal and public health services. Managed care. Government and private sector roles. Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor.

HSERV 512 Health Systems and Policy (3)
Students review and examine selected topics from literature. Includes need and access to care; theory and effects of health insurance; private and public insurance programs; managed care; costs/expenditures; availability and organization of health resources; and quality assessment and improvement. Enrollment priority for Health Services PhD students.

HSERV 513 Health Policy Research (3)
Extends students' understanding of the nature of health policy and health policy development in the context of a market-based economy. Enrollment priority for Health Services PhD students.

HSERV 514 Social Determinants of Population Health and Health Disparities (3)
Explores the elements and actions of a population health approach, including conceptualizing the determinants of health, synthesizing knowledge about major social determinants, and applying knowledge to improve population health and reduce health disparities. Enrollment priority for Health Services PhD students. Offered: jointly with EPI 547.

HSERV 515 War and Health (4)
Explores the health consequences of war (injury, infectious diseases, mental health, chronic disease, malnutrition, infrastructure) and the role of health professionals and others in preventing war (advocacy, measurement and application of epidemiology methods, promotion of social equity). Offered: jointly with G H 515; Sp.

HSERV 516 Introduction to Health Services ([3-4]-)
Provides overview of healthcare system, exposes students to current issues and developments affecting organization and delivery of health services, helps students develop ability to frame and analyze questions and issues related to health services. Prerequisite: registration in Extended MPH degree program.

HSERV 517 Qualitative Research Methods for Health Systems and Population Health (3)
Builds on introductory training in qualitative research methods by diving deeper into different frameworks, study designs, sampling approaches, and data collections tools. Covers various data analytic approaches, as well as data visualization, interpretation, writing and presenting qualitative research findings. Students learn to apply these concepts and execute a qualitative research project from start to finish. Course overlaps with: NMETH 535 and NMETH 588.

HSERV 518 Social and Ethical Issues (2-4, max. 4)
Presents introduction to ethical issues in public health policy and practice. Additional one credit option focuses on health administration/managed care. Coursework designed to train students in basic skills of ethical analysis and increase competency in recognizing, researching, and analyzing issues arising in public health and health services delivery.

HSERV 519 Study Design and Causal Inference (1)
Increases depth of knowledge about causal inference in impact evaluation. Applies the elements of causal inference to impact study design and statistical analysis, including th