All students must meet the Requirements for the micro-Certificate of Graduate Study.
Overview
Public health is a dynamic and challenging, multidisciplinary field blending public policy, research, and population health sciences. The focus of public health is on promoting healthy practices and preventing disease among entire populations, rather than on treating individual illness.
This University of Vermont’s online micro-Certificate of Graduate Study in Public Health is a 9-credit certificate (3 courses) that provides a graduate-level introduction to this field, encouraging students to explore current public health and health policy issues while gaining a foundation in epidemiology, one the foundation science of public health.
Specific Requirements
REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION TO GRADUATE STUDIES FOR THE MICRO-CERTIFICATE OF GRADUATE STUDY
Students are required to have a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university, and have completed 1 college-level course in mathematics and 1 college-level course in science
MINIMUM DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
The Graduate Micro-Certificate in Public Health requires 9 credits including 2 courses (6 credits) from 2 core content areas and 1 elective course (3 credits) from an approved list of electives.
| 2 required core competency courses (6 credits): | ||
| PH 6010 | Public Health & Health Policy | 3 |
| PH 6020 | Epidemiology I | 3 |
| Choose 1 elective (3 credits) from a list of approved elective courses, including but not limited to: | ||
| Controversies in Public Health | ||
| Biostatistics I:App Rsch in PH | ||
| Environmental Public Health | ||
| Social&Behavioral Public Hlth | ||
| Epidemiology 2 | ||
| Environmental Public Health 2 | ||
| Public Health Biostatistics II | ||
| Public Health Law and Ethics | ||
| Global Public Health | ||
| Food Systems & Public Hlth | ||
| Environmental Risk & Risk Comm | ||
| Public Health Surveillance | ||
| Social Determinants of Health | ||
| Mgmt in Hlth Services&Med Care | ||
| Improving Health in Population | ||
| Public Health Communications | ||
| Controversies in HlthEconomics | ||
| Global Health Leadership | ||
| One Health: Zoonoses | ||
| Public Health Informatics | ||
| Investigating DiseaseOutbreaks | ||
| Climate Change & Human Health | ||
| Health in Humanitarian Crises | ||
| Climate Change Emergencies | ||
| Maternal and Child Health | ||
| Global Mental Health | ||
| Special Topics | ||