Program Overview

Program Overview

The Population Health Risk Assessment and Management (PHR) program offers a range of courses that provide students with a comprehensive understanding of population health risk assessment and management.

Course Descriptions

• PHR 5181: Population Health Risk Assessment I (3 units)
  • National and international policy frameworks for health risk assessment and management
  • Determinants of population health
  • Epidemiological, clinical, and toxicological methods for identifying health hazards
  • Population health surveillance
  • Methods of population health risk assessment
  • Regulatory, economic, advisory, and technological approaches to population health risk management
  • Community action and social marketing
  • Selection of risk management strategies
  • Risk perception and risk communication
  • Lectures and case studies
  • Preparation of term paper on a current issue in population health risk assessment
• PHR 6101: Risk Management in Government (3 units)
  • Study of risk management frameworks, guidelines, and principles for decision makers
  • Review of ethical grounding and risk evaluation techniques and follow-up
  • Written report to be submitted by the student on a current risk management project
  • Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
• PHR 6102: Selected Topics in Risk Sciences (3 units)
  • Flexible content covering issues of current debate in risk sciences
  • Risk assessment methods
  • Risk management and risk policy development
  • Presentations by invited experts, participants, and seminar discussion
• PHR 6182: Population Health Risk Assessment II (3 units)
  • Scientific methods for population health risk assessment
  • Characterization of population health risks and attendant uncertainties
  • Risk modeling
  • Combining risk information from different sources
  • Risk acceptability
  • Principles of risk management decision making
  • Evidence-based risk management policy development
  • Audit and evaluation of risk interventions
  • Priority setting
  • Case studies on current population health risk assessment issues
  • Term paper on a current methodological issue in population health risk assessment required
  • Prerequisite: PHR 5181
• PHR 6900: Directed Studies in Population Health Risk Assessment (3 units)
  • Directed study on a topic relevant to population health risk assessment or management
  • Addressing risk issues related to topics such as the environment, social determinants, genetics, or the health system
  • Prerequisite: PHR 5181 or EPI 5181
• PHR 6910: Practicum in Population Health Risk Assessment and Management (3 units)
  • Field work placement of 10 hours/week in a health policy setting
  • Participation in the application of population health risk assessment or management principles
  • Hands-on experience in the risk policy and evaluation field
  • Graded: S (satisfactory)/NS (not satisfactory)
  • Prerequisite: EPI 5181 or PHR 5181

Course Components

• Lecture
• Seminar
• Work Term

Prerequisites

• PHR 5181 or EPI 5181 for certain courses

Exclusions

• EPI 5181 for PHR 5181
• PHI 6182 and EPI 6182 for PHR 6182