GLHCRTU - Global Health

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Public Health, Col ofUndergraduate CertificateCERTU - Undergraduate Certificate

Program Type

Undergraduate Certificate

College

Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health

Career

Undergraduate

Program Description

Undergraduate Certificate in Global Health will equip participants with foundational knowledge and skills that are necessary to engage effectively in global health practice - whether at home in a diverse setting, along the border in a bi-cultural environment, working side-by-side in indigenous homelands or abroad where populations and communities are displaced and under-resourced, and where health systems are severely constrained.

Learning Outcomes

- Identify the role of health data and epidemiology in the development of the field of public health and efforts to affect individual behavior in order to control disease.
- Use standard approaches to identify public health priorities.
- Develop an evaluation and sustainability plan for a small-scale project in global health program.
- Develop effective presentation and training skills for media advocacy to influence health policy.
- Apply community and public health education methods and strategies at the community and policy level.