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.
2022-23 SBS Courses By Term
Fall1 2022
Fall2 2022
Winter Session 2023
Spring1 2023
Spring2 2023
2022-23 SBS Courses By General Topic
Applied Methods and Skills
| SBS 203 |
Program Planning |
| 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 245 |
Social and Behavioral Research Methods |
| SBS 263 |
Multilevel Statistical Methods: Concept and Application |
| SBS 284 |
Effective Leadership in Assessing and Addressing Health Inequities |
| 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 |
| SBS 296 |
Leadership in Minority Health Policy |
| SBS 299 |
Driving Science-Based Innovation in Early Childhood Practice and Policy |
| SBS 503 |
Explaining Health Behavior: Insights from Behavioral Economics |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| SBS 254 |
Social Disparities, Stress, and Health |
| SBS 273 |
Big Shocks and Slow-Moving Processes: How Societal Conditions Structure Health Inequalities |
| SBS 503 |
Explaining Health Behavior: Insights from Behavioral Economics |
| 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 535 |
Global Perspectives on Racism, Poverty, and Power |
Women Gender and Health
| 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 |
| 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 |
