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Certificate Curriculum

A total of 12 units is required, with 9 units of required coursework and 3 units of elective coursework.

Required Courses (12 units)

Required Certificate Course (9 units)

Credits

Term Offered

HPS 529: Project Design and Implementation in Global Health
This course will equip students with skills in conceptualizing, developing, implementing, and evaluation small-scale projects in global health and development.

3 Fall

HPS 533: Global Health
Examines major health problems of underdeveloped, developed, and emerging nations. Students conduct in-depth analyses of health problems among various populations in multicultural settings, both nationally and internationally.

3 Spring

HPS 559: Management of Global Public Health Emergencies
Students will develop the knowledge and skills to work in national and international contexts by contributing to and managing global public health humanitarian crises and programs. Graduate students will have advanced level material and additional assignments as shown in the syllabus.

3 Fall

Elective Course (3 units)

Credits

Term Offered

EHS 539a: Outbreaks & Environmental Microbiology- Then & Now
This course will examine historical and present-day outbreaks in regard to the environmental microbiology of pathogens. Different pathogens control interventions that were used to mitigate the outbreaks will also be explored.

3 Summer II

EHS 545: One Health Foundations
This course introduces a trans-disciplinary One Health framework which focuses on the interconnection between people, animals, and the environment to examine health drivers and outcomes at local, regional, national, and global levels.

3 Fall 1st 7 weeks
 

EHS 546: One Health Approach & Case Studies
This course explores the intersections of the environment, animal, and human health, and how diseases are addressed using the One Health approach.

3 Fall 2nd 7 weeks

EPID 572c: Analysis of Public Health Data (online campus students only)
This course focuses on how public health data are used for epidemiologic investigations and prevention programs and develops skills and strategies for the analysis and presentation of public health data; using epidemiological and biostatistical principles to analyze public health data through descriptive statistics, stratified analyses, regression and other basic approaches.

3 Fall 2nd 7 weeks

HPS 534: Infectious Diseases, Global Health and Development
This course will analyze the etiology and distribution of major tropical infectious disease, and the environmental, economic, and cultural factors that lead to their proliferation. Impact on development and global prevention initiatives will be appraised.

3 Spring

HPS 537: Evidence-based Maternal & Child Health
This course examines historical and current principles, programs, policies, and practices related to MCH populations. Participants will be equipped with skills to critically appraise evidence needed to inform MCH programs and policies.

3 Summer

HPS 599: Independent Study in Global Health & Development Issues
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Graduate students doing independent work which cannot be classified as actual research will register for credit under course number 599, 699, or 799.

3 All terms

HPS 628: Public Health Research & Evaluation
This course provides a theoretical introduction and applied experience with methods for undertaking public health research and program evaluation. Activities will involve review and critique of published public health research and evaluation articles, designing and presenting both a research and evaluation plan using standards set by federal funding agencies and practical problem solving in applying research and evaluation methods in the field.

3 Summer II

PHP 521: Administrative Dimensions of Indigenous Health
This course will introduce state and federal administrative processes that impact Indigenous (American Indian/Alaskan Native) the delivery of healthcare and public health measures within the Indian Health Service (IHS) system. The course will further examine the legislative, organizational, and operational frameworks of the IHS that will provide comprehensive and meaningful knowledge for health and/or public health professionals to implement informative policy measures to improve the health of Indigenous people through administrative frameworks.

3 Spring

EHS 528: Indigenous Research & Ethics
This course examines research ethics and review processes through an Indigenous lens. Utilizing research and ethics frameworks from a diverse array of disciplines and geographies, this course explores the history of research and ethics by, with, and for Indigenous Peoples, communities, and nations, and investigates the current practices and future of research ethics and review processes from Indigenous perspectives.

3 Fall

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