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HMS 510 Principles of Health Metrics (3)
Introduces methodological approaches and metrics to comprehensively measure health at the population level. Addresses the question, "What is health?", and provides an overview of the rationale, conceptual, and historical basis of population health measurement and health metrics sciences. Offered: A.

HMS 511 Problems in Global Health ([0-4]-, max. 4)
Explores social, political, economic, and environmental determinants of health and societal responses to health problems globally. Covers impact of colonialism, equity strategies, Primary Health Care, neoliberalism, war, international agencies, the climate crisis, water, sanitation, and traditional health systems. Student groups develop proposals to improve health systems or address social determinants of health in a specific low-income country. Offered: jointly with G H 511; A.

HMS 512 Mortality Analysis for Health Metrics Sciences (3)
Introduces students to the fundamentals of demographic analysis for mortality. Provides a thorough overview of the conceptual, methodological and empirical basis for quantifying health among individuals and populations. Students learn about the strengths and limitations of applying mortality analysis methods, especially in developing countries with limited empirical data. Offered: Sp.

HMS 520 Introduction to Programming, Version Control, and Data Wrangling for Health Metrics Sciences (3)
Covers basics of programming, including communicating with machines, writing clean code, and collaborative programming. Students learn to build code base to deal with a series of tasks focused on data manipulation. Offered: A.

HMS 530 Global Burden of Disease: Methods and Results (3)
Covers (1) the history and importance of the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD), (2) the quantitative methods used by the GBD to develop estimates of mortality, morbidity, and risk factors from often sparse data, (3) major findings from the GBD, including leading causes of disease burden and the pattern and variability in burden globally, (4) implications and uses of GBD findings for global health policy. Offered: W.

HMS 535 Advanced Methods for Global Health I (4)
Focuses on the advanced concepts, theories, and methods of implementation science in global health, with a specific focus on fidelity, adaptation, strategy selection, de-implementation, sustainability, scale-up, advanced trials designs, qualitative methods, and mixed methods. Assumes prior knowledge of the fundamentals of implementation science. Prerequisite: G H 541 or permission of instructor. Offered: jointly with G H 535/HSERV 526; A.

HMS 536 Advanced Methods for Global Health II (4)
Presents applications of the cluster-randomized trial design to estimate the impact of interventions for a global health and implementation science audience. Covers trial design and implementation, reviews methods commonly used for analysis. Assumes prior knowledge of generalized linear models and modern methods to analyze correlated data, including generalized estimating equations (GEE) and random-effects models. Prerequisite: either BIOST 540, CS&SS 560/SOC 560/STAT 560, or permission of instructor; recommended: EPI 512 and EPI 513. Offered: jointly with BIOST 528/EPI 553/G H 536; W.

HMS 537 Advanced Methods for Global Health III (4)
Focuses on applying advanced non-randomized methods to quantitatively evaluate global health implementation science questions, including a specific focus on applying difference-in-differences, interrupted time-series, and regression discontinuity designs. Assumes prior knowledge of generalized linear models and modern methods to analyze correlated data, including generalized estimating equations (GEE) and random-effects models. Prerequisite: either BIOST 540, CS&SS 560/SOC 560/STAT 560, or permission of instructor; recommended: EPI 512 and EPI 513. Offered: jointly with BIOST 525/EPI 556/G H 537; Sp.

HMS 539 Methods, Tools, and Data in Global Health (2)
Familiarizes students with current global health issues and their analytical challenges. Introduces analytical methodologies, quantitative concepts, statistical packages applied to global health challenges, and software used in health metrics and evaluations research. (Two weeks). Credit/no-credit only. Offered: jointly with G H 530; A.

HMS 540 Health Economics and Health Systems in Low and Middle Income Countries (3)
Explores applications of health economics in health systems in low and middle income. Students examine the drivers of differences in health across countries with different income groups. Highlights the challenges and peculiarities of addressing key questions about health care access, interventions, and systems in low and middle income settings. Recommended: previous college-level coursework in either economics or microeconomics; and previous college-level coursework in statistics; probability; and the fundamentals of calculus. Offered: Sp.

HMS 541 Fundamentals of Implementation Science in Global H