For more information about courses offered by the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and other courses offered at Harvard Chan, please visit the Harvard Course Catalog website.
2023-24 SBS Courses By General Topic
Applied Methods and Skills
| SBS 203 | Program Planning |
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| SBS 204 | Program Implementation and Evaluation |
| SBS 210 | Introduction to Dissemination and Implementation Science |
| SBS 211 | Public Health in Action: Strategies for Policy, Advocacy, and Communication |
| SBS 231 | Community Intervention Research Methods |
| SBS 237 | Grief, Loss, and Death: Population Mental Health Perspectives |
| SBS 245 | Social and Behavioral Research Methods |
| SBS 263 | Multilevel Statistical Methods: Concept and Application |
| SBS 288 | Qualitative Research Methods in Public Health |
| SBS 500 | Developing a Research Protocol |
| SBS 501 | Community-based Participatory Research |
| SBS 502 | Mass incarceration and Health in the US |
| SBS 504 | Substance Use and Public Health |
| SBS 508 | Successes & Challenges in Health Behavior Change |
| SBS 509 | Health Communication in the 21st Century |
| SBS 514 | Reducing Socioeconomic & Racial/Ethnic Inequalities in Health: Concepts, Models, Effective Strategies |
| SBS 515 | Health Literacy: Measuring Accessibility and Usability of Health Information |
| SBS 516 | Organizational Health Literacy: Issues and Assessment |
| SBS 521 | Qualitative Data Analysis for Public Health |
| SBS 523 | Advanced Intervention Evaluation Methods |
| SBS 550 | Program Evaluation |
| ID 225 | Introduction to Life-course Epidemiology |
Health Communication
| SBS 210 | Introduction to Dissemination and Implementation Science |
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| SBS 225 | Engaging with the Press: A Practical Look at Effective Public Health Communications |
| SBS 285 | Practical Communications Strategies and Tactics for Influencing a Healthier World |
| SBS296 | Leadership in Minority Health Policy |
| SBS299 | Driving Science-Based Innovation in Early Childhood Practice and Policy |
| SBS 503 | Explaining Health Behavior: Insights from Behavioral Economics (canceled in Spring 2024) |
| SBS506 | An Intro to History, Politics, & Public Health: Theories of Disease Distr. & Health Inequities |
| SBS507 | Adv Sem on History, Politics, and Public Health: Theories of Disease Distr and Health Inequities |
| SBS509 | Health Communication in the 21st Century |
| SBS 511 | Social Policy and Health in International Perspective |
| SBS 515 | Health Literacy: Measuring Accessibility of Health Information |
| SBS 522 | Multi-Level Theoretical Approaches to Health Behavior |
Maternal and Child Health
| SBS 202 | Child Psychiatric Epidemiology (not offered in 2023-24) |
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| SBS 207 | Race, Ethnicity and Health: Perspectives from the Social and Behavioral Sciences (next offered in Fall2 2021) |
| SBS 208 | Adolescent Health |
| SBS 212 | Developmental Disabilities I: Evaluation, Assessment and Systems |
| SBS 214 | Developmental Disabilities II: Value, Policy, and Change |
| SBS 219 | High-Risk Behavior: Epidemiology and Prevention Strategies |
| SBS 220 | Society and its Effects on Child Health |
| SBS 222 | Social Services for Children, Adolescents and Families |
| SBS 231 | Community Intervention Research Methods |
| SBS 245 | Social and Behavioral Research Methods |
| SBS 246 | Issues in Maternal and Child Health Programs and Policies |
| SBS 263 | Multilevel Statistical Methods: Concept and Application |
| SBS 288 | Qualitative Research Methods in Public Health |
| SBS 296 | Leadership in Minority Health Policy |
| SBS 299 | Driving Science-Based Innovation in Early Childhood Practice and Policy |
| SBS 360 | MCH/CYF Seminar |
| SBS 501 | Community-based Participatory Research |
| SBS 506 | An Intro to History, Politics, & Public Health: Theories of Disease Distr. & Health Inequities |
| SBS 507 | Adv Sem on History, Politics, and Public Health: Theories of Disease Distr and Health Inequities |
| SBS 509 | Health Communication in the 21st Century |
| SBS 515 | Health Literacy: Measuring Accessibility of Health Information |
| SBS 516 | Measures of The Health Literacy Environment |
| SBS 550 | Program Evaluation |
| WGH 201 | Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice |
| WGH 207 | Advanced Topics in Women, Gender and Health |
| WGH 210 | Women, Gender and Health: Critical Issues in Mental Health |
| WGH 220 | Sexuality and Public Health |
Theory and Conceptual Models
| SBS 207 | Race, Ethnicity and Health: Perspectives from the Social and Behavioral Sciences |
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| SBS 254 | Social Disparities, Stress, and Health |
| SBS 503 | Explaining Health Behavior: Insights from Behavioral Economics (canceled Spring 2024) |
| SBS 506 | An Intro to History, Politics, & Public Health: Theories of Disease Distr. & Health Inequities |
| SBS 507 | Adv Sem on History, Politics, and Public Health: Theories of Disease Distr and Health Inequities |
| SBS 514 | Reducing Socioeconomic & Racial/Ethnic Inequalities in Health: Concepts, Models, Effective Strategies |
| SBS 522 | Multi-Level Theoretical Approaches to Health Behavior |
| SBS 524 | From Local to Global Justice: Responses to Structural Inequities and Oppression |
| SBS 535 | Global Perspectives on Racism, Poverty, and Power |
Women Gender and Health
| WGH 201 | Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice |
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| WGH 207 | Advanced Topics in Women, Gender and Health |
| WGH 210 | Women, Gender and Health: Critical Issues in Mental Health |
| WGH 220 | Sexuality and Public Health |
| WGH 250 | Embodying Gender: Public Health, Biology and the Body Politic |
| SBS 208 | Adolescent Health |
| SBS 219 | High-Risk Behavior: Epidemiology and Prevention Strategies |
| SBS 222 | Social Services for Children, Adolescents and Families |
| SBS 246 | Issues in Maternal and Child Health Programs and Policies |
| SBS 506 | An Intro to History, Politics, & Public Health: Theories of Disease Distr. & Health Inequities |
| SBS 507 | Adv Sem on History, Politics, and Public Health: Theories of Disease Distr and Health Inequities |
