SFU Faculty of Health Sciences
People, institutions, landmark studies and substantive domains of modern public health.
Students learn how health research is done, from the question and the ethics application to data collection, first analysis and write-up.
Foundational tools to evaluate, critique, and reason about conclusions from observational and experimental epi studies.
Students learn to find, appraise and synthesize health evidence in reviews and environmental scans, including AI-assisted search.
Measure, sample, and reason causally with epi tools: surveillance, screening, and measures of association.
Linear & logistic regression, multivariable modelling, interaction, and confounding in R.
Students learn to plan health programs and to evaluate them with randomized, quasi-experimental and economic designs.
Interviews, coding, theme development, content & discourse, and LLM-assisted analysis.
Students learn the social and behavioural theories that explain health behaviour and apply them to communities, settings, communication campaigns and program evaluation.