Academic programs that will appear on a transcript
Certificate in Health Advocacy
A guiding principle of this certificate program is that consumer perspectives must be included in any health care performance improvement initiative. The Health Advocacy Certificate will provide students with: key knowledge of health consumer perspectives, advanced health advocacy competencies, and tools to strategically advance health care reform efforts through inter-professional collaboration, policy initiatives, and systemic interventions.
Certificate in Global Health
The complex, existential problems challenging today’s world — emerging infectious diseases and pandemics, food insecurity and starvation, climate change impacts on health, antimicrobial resistance, fundamental inequities in access to nutrition and healthcare — transcend national boundaries and require expertise and perspectives from across the biomedical, social, and physical sciences to achieve creative solutions. Thus, there is a need for global health knowledge and skills not only among traditional healthcare providers, but also for professionals across multiple disciplines. It is said that “global health takes all of us,” and the Graduate/Professional and Capstone Certificates in Global Health Online give traditional and non-traditional students the expertise to effectively work across cultures and disciplines to improve health for all. The largely asynchronous, online format provides maximum flexibility for students to complete the certificate effectively within the context of primary degree, work and/or family responsibilities.
Certificate in the Fundamentals of Clinical Research
To conduct clinical studies adequately, it is necessary to understand the principles of research design and statistical analysis. With the increasing complexities in clinical research, it is imperative that clinical researchers receive a minimum training in clinical research methods. The objective of this certificate program in clinical research methodology is to provide formalized training and a practicum in research design and statistical analysis for clinical research to professionals in health care and biotechnology and in the pharmaceutical industry.
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Certificate in Implementation Science and Community Health Outcomes
If your career plans include solving problems in community health, health services, and/or health policy, consider earning the Certificate in Implementation Science and Community Health Outcomes. This certificate focuses on research methods now being applied to current issues in health and health care settings including the ability to (1) consider multiple factors that interact to influence a community or organization; (2) form and manage partnerships with communities and organizations; (3) evaluate whether a health intervention or prevention method works or will be used; and (4) articulate policy implications of health issues and interventions.
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