Courses Taught by Alexa Eisenberg

HBHEQ624: Needs Assessment Methods for Public Health

  • Graduate level
  • Residential
  • Winter term(s) for residential students;
  • 3 credit hour(s) for residential students;
  • Instructor(s): Alexa Eisenberg (Residential);
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Description: This course will cover a mixed-methods approach to conducting needs assessments; including collection of primary data (e.g. surveys, focus groups, and interviews) and secondary data (e.g. agency, state statistics, and census). Furthermore, a global perspective will be used to study various international efforts using health equity needs assessments.
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Alexa Eisenberg

HBHEQ672: Professional Development In Hbheq - 1

  • Graduate level
  • Residential
  • Fall term(s) for residential students;
  • 1.5 credit hour(s) for residential students;
  • Instructor(s): Alexa Eisenberg (Residential);
  • Offered Every Fall
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Advisory Prerequisites: None
  • Description: This course supports you in thinking critically and intentionally about the purpose, vision, and values that guide your professional journey in public health. Class activities, discussions, and assignments will help you understand the ethical foundations of public health; plan for the HBHE curricular requirements; prepare for your summer internship and APEx projects; build professional relationships; and explore professional development resources.
  • Learning Objectives: Articulate the purpose, vision, and values that guide your professional goals; Understand the ethical foundations of public health; Reflect on positionality and professional identity; Consider and begin to develop professional relationships; Set goals for the MPH and create a program completion plan; Prepare for your summer internship and APEx requirements.
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Alexa Eisenberg

HBHEQ673: Professional Development In Hbheq - 2

  • Graduate level
  • Residential
  • Fall term(s) for residential students;
  • 1.5 credit hour(s) for residential students;
  • Instructor(s): Alexa Eisenberg (Residential);
  • Offered Every Fall
  • Prerequisites: HBHEQ672
  • Advisory Prerequisites: HBHEQ672
  • Description: This course supports you in completing the HBHEQ program and navigating career opportunities. The course will provide a structure for integrating and disseminating lessons from your internship, writing the ILE Culminating Essay, and developing materials and skills necessary to advance your job search or other professional development goals.
  • Learning Objectives: Integrate and disseminate lessons from your internship experience; Develop and demonstrate visual, written, and verbal communication skills; Build community and learn from peers and alumni; Explore the array of professional directions your HBHEQ degree can take you; Build confidence and skills in developing professional relationships; Plan your job search and take steps toward career development goals.
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Alexa Eisenberg

HBHEQ679: Historical Roots of Health Inequities

  • Graduate level
  • Residential
  • Fall term(s) for residential students;
  • 3 credit hour(s) for residential students;
  • Instructor(s): Alexa Eisenberg (Residential);
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Advisory Prerequisites: None
  • Description: This 3-credit course offers an examination of U.S. health inequities from a historical lens and discussion of present-day issues. Through the readings, discussions, and assignments in this class, students will better understand historical policies, events, and movements that have led to health inequities and connect those to contemporary issues in the United States and within the field of public health. The course takes an intersectional perspective to examine health inequities, with a focus on inequities related to race, ethnicity, gender, and class.
  • Learning Objectives: (Note, these are from the CEPH Foundational Learning Objectives) 1. Explain public health history, philosophy and values 4. List major causes and trends of morbidity and mortality in the US or other community relevant to the school or program 10. Explain the social, political and economic determinants of health and how they contribute to population health and health inequities
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Alexa Eisenberg

PUBHLTH680: Applied Practice And Integrative Experience I

  • Graduate level
  • Online MPH only
  • This is a second year course for Online students
  • Fall term(s) for online MPH students;
  • 2 credit hour(s) for online MPH students;
  • Instructor(s): Elizabeth Levin-Sparenberg, Alexa Eisenberg, Alexa Eisenberg, Elizabeth Levin-Sparenberg, (Online MPH);
  • Prerequisites: PubHlth 512, Biostats 501
  • Description: Students will partner with a community organization to develop, complete, and submit two written products that are needed for the real world of public health, fulfilling the program’s applied practice experience (APEx) requirements. Students will also launch the integrated learning experience (ILE) that will be completed in PUBHLTH 681.
  • Learning Objectives: At the end of this fall-semester course, students should: - Have partnered with a community partner to complete two APEx written products that achieve specific purpose(s) for the real world of public health, are appropriate for specific audience(s), and are written in a particular public health style. - Demonstrate and apply core public health competencies that they identify. - Have identified the focus and competencies they will apply to develop their integrated learning experience/capstone product in PUBHLTH 681, the culmination of their experiences and learning in the MPH program. - Have further developed their public health communication skills (writing and verbal) through reflection, discussion, and trying new approaches. - Have gained experience collaborating with their peers and have connected these collaborative activities to public health practices.
  • Syllabus for PUBHLTH680
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Elizabeth Levin-Sparenberg
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Alexa Eisenberg

PUBHLTH681: Applied Practice And Integrative Experience Ii

  • Graduate level
  • Online MPH only
  • This is a second year course for Online students
  • Winter term(s) for online MPH students;
  • 2 credit hour(s) for online MPH students;
  • Instructor(s): Elizabeth Levin-Sparenberg, Alexa Eisenberg, Elizabeth Levin-Sparenberg, Alexa Eisenberg, (Online MPH);
  • Prerequisites: PubHlth 512, Biostats 501
  • Description: Students will continue with research, analysis, evaluation and writing to complete their capstone project. They will also explore different professional writing formats.
  • Learning Objectives: Objectives: - Complete integrated learning experience project, through research, analysis and evaluation - Produce a written capstone in a professional format - Understand how to tailor written product (aka your capstone) to a specific audience (intended readers of student's work) - Be able to develop effective written and oral communications - Get practice using conventions specific to practice-based and/or academic writing - Further develop writing process through reflection and trying new approaches - Revise own writing based on feedback from advisor - Explain the critical importance of evidence in advancing public health knowledge
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Elizabeth Levin-Sparenberg
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Alexa Eisenberg