Our Public Mental Health Research certificate program provides graduate training in understanding the causes and consequences of mental disorders in populations. The courses describe the clinical and behavioral features and prevalence of mental and behavioral disorders. They also identify factors that influence the occurrence, persistence or severity of these disorders. The goals of the program are to enhance the epidemiologic expertise of psychiatrists and other mental health professionals as well as to increase the number of epidemiologists, biostatisticians and health policy makers interested in psychiatric disorders. 340.601 Principles of Epidemiology 140.611 and 140.612 Statistical Reasoning in Public Health I & II (OR 140.621 and 140.622 Methods in Public Health I & II OR 140.651 and 140.652 Methods in Biostatistics I & II) 330.601 Perspectives of Psychiatry: The Public Health Framework (This course may be waived by psychiatrists and clinical psychologists upon permission of the faculty sponsor—in which case, the minimum number of credits in the Department of Mental Health is 14, not 17). 330.603 Psychiatric Epidemiology 330.607 Prevention of Mental Disorders: Public Health Interventions One course from the following list:
330.643 Alcohol, Tobacco, Other Drugs and Public Health
330.667 Mental Health and the Law
330.628 Principles of Public Mental Health Delivery in the Community Context
330.602 Epidemiology of Drug and Alcohol Dependence
330.612 Introduction to Behavioral and Psychiatric Genetics
330.661 Social, Psychological and Developmental Processes in the Etiology of Mental Disorders
330.622 Development and Psychopathology Over the Life Span
330.623 Neuropsychology of Mental Disorders Two other courses from the list above, or from the following list:
330.606 Economics of Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders
330.618 Mental Health in Later Life
330.608 Drugs, Depression, and Dementia
330.665 Perspectives on Prevention and Treatment of HIV and Drug Dependence | 
