The two-year program covers a breadth of disciplines in creating, synthesizing, and implementing evidence to inform clinical practice and policies at all levels of the healthcare system and the research enterprise through an oral health lens. Through elective courses, the MOPH program will allow students to develop a curriculum of their preference following a particular stream.
- Stream 1) oral and population health research,
- Stream 2) health services research, management, and policy in oral health, and
- Stream 3) community and population-based oral health promotion. This stream-based approach will be available for the second cohort of the program (Fall 2024).
Available January 2024
Courses
| Epidemiology and Research Methods in Oral Health |
| Biostatistics and Oral Health |
| Community, Population, and Public Health: An Oral Health Lens |
| Ethics of Science and Policy in Oral and Population Health |
| Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis |
| Health Economics and Oral Health |
| Methodology of Healthcare Guidelines |
| Vulnerable Populations and Oral Health |
| Integrative Global Oral Health |
Seminars
| Scientific Writing (e.g., how to structure a scientific article, deal with peer-review, plagiarism) |
| Grant writing (e.g., how to define the research problem area, question, research team configuration, selecting the right grant opportunity, submission process, practical implications) |
| Searching the Scientific Literature (e.g., how to search in main electronic databases, creation of a search strategy, reporting of a systematic search) |
| Critical Thinking (e.g., principles and application to decision-making, logical puzzles) |
| Introduction to Statistical Packages (e.g., R, SAS, STATA) |
Available 2024-2025
Courses
| Program Planning and Evaluation in Oral Health |
| Evidence Synthesis to Inform Policy and Practice (e.g., systematic reviews, meta-analysis, policy briefs, scoping reviews, evidence mapping) |
| Advanced Statistical Methods for Population Health Research in Oral Health |
| Health Service Research and Evaluation |
| Policy Development and Advocacy |
| Health Equity and Justice in Oral Health |
| Theory and Practice of Health Measurement |
| Theory and Practice of Knowledge Transferring |
| Observational Studies in Oral and Population Health |
| Methods and Conduct of Randomized Controlled Trials in Oral and Population Health |
| Data Science and Oral Health |
| Health Communication in Oral and Population Health |