BI 521
Public Health Biology · 3 credits · Fall 2026
Requirements
PREREQ: BI201
About this course
This course is a general survey of basic scientific and biomedical concepts of modern public health problems and explores mechanisms and models of the major categories of disease. It offers biological perspective on public health issues including infectious diseases, vaccines, genetic illnesses, neoplasticprocesses and environmental illnesses. The course content provides an overview of the biological mechanisms of disease prevention and progression and the current research related to public health problems.
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