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Certificate in Global Health

Engaging in analysis and action towards understanding and improving how globalization affects human well-being.

The Certificate in Global Health entails a minimum of 12 credits of coursework focusing on public health issues resulting from the globalization of the world's economies, cultures, production systems, transnational policies, and increasingly shared environments.

For students who want to do an internship, funding may be available; complete the Internship Funding Form (PDF) by March 4, 2009.

Requirements for the Certificate

1. Complete EPID 554 "An Introduction to Globalization and Health"
2. Complete three of the following courses (courses must be taken in at least two different content areas):

   Exposures/Diseases:
   EHS 502 "Environmental Health in Developing Areas"
   EPID 666 "Health and Socioeconomic Development"
   HBEHED 540 "Fundamentals of Reproductive Health"

   Methods/Measurement/Analysis:
   HBEHED 516 "Global Health Anthropological Perspectives"
   EPID 663 "Health, Evidence and Human Rights"
   EPID 664 "Field Methods in Epidemiology for Developing Countries"
   EHS 507 "Principles of Exposure Assessment"

   Policies/Programs:
   HMP 671 "Cross-national Comparisons of Aging and Health"
   HMP 677 "Health Care Organization: An International Perspective"
   HMP 625 "Health and Health Systems in the Developing World"
   HBEHED 550 "The Challenge of HIV/AIDS"

3. Complete one of the approved seminars addressing the intersection of globalization and health:

   EPID 555 "Globalization and Health"
   EPID 665 "Research Seminar in International Health"
   HBEHED 603 "Population Change: Gender, Family & Fertility in Africa and Asia"
   HMP 671 "Cross-national Comparisons of Aging and Health"

Before graduation, submit a Certificate in Global Health Completion Form (PDF) during your final semester

Students are also strongly encouraged to take EPID 554 "Introduction to Globalization and Health" the first semester of their first year. The required courses may be taken during any term that works best for students, though special care should be taken by students to complete any necessary course prerequisites.