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Certificate in Global Health, Pre-Fall 2011 Requirements

Note that the Certificate in Global Health program has been revised (details on update).

Pre-Fall 2011 Certificate in Global Health requirements entailed a minimum of 11 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. Students had to:

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"
   EPID 621& 622 "Cancer Epidemiology" (combination may be substituted in place of EPID664)
   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"
   HBEHED 550 "The Challenge of HIV/AIDS"
   PUBPOL 533 "Public Health in Developing Countries"
   HMP 624 "Health Policy Challenges in Developing Countries"

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"
   HBHE611 "Gender, Sexuality, Health & Human" Rights: Latin America and Caribbean Perspectives"

Students must receive a grade of B or higher in any course they wish to apply toward the Certificate requirements.

Before graduation, a Certificate in Global Health Completion Form for 2010 (PDF) must be submitted during final semester. This form should be turned into Stephannie Moore, Program Manager, in SPH I room 1730.

Students are strongly encouraged to take EPID 554 "Introduction to Globalization and Health" during the first semester of their first year. Any exceptions to this must be cleared through the Global Health Faculty Committee. The remaining 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.