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Certificate in Global Public Health

This certificate program, offered at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, will help you address the health challenges that have arisen with increasing globalization. As the world becomes more interconnected, governments and non-governmental organizations have changed the ways they tackle health issues like HIV/AIDS, communicable diseases, malnutrition, diabetes, and access to medical care. In this program, you'll learn how to address global health disparities on community and systems levels.

Gain new perspective

Understand contemporary and historic global health issues, as well as their long-lasting and far-reaching impacts.

Advance your career

Gain practical knowledge about how to identify effective public health field methods in the global arena.

Learn from the experts

Take advantage of faculty, research, and seminars from our Center for Global Health.

Curriculum

Course requirement	Course ID	Credits
Public Health in the Global Community	CBHS 6619	3
Geographic Perspective on Global Health	EHOH 6623	1
Applied Biostatistics I	BIOS 6601	3
Epidemiology	EPID 6630*	3
Electives	See approved electives	5
		15

*It is highly recommended that students complete EPID 6630 prior to, or concurrently with, CBHS6619

Students enroll in a minimum of 5 credit hours of approved electives. Substitutions for the elective courses may be reviewed and approved by the program director.

Course name	Course ID
Health & Human Rights	CBHS 6629
Public Health in the Caribbean & Latin America	CBHS 6632
Intensive Study of Public Health Services in Cuba	CBHS 6633
GIS for Public Health Services in Cuba	EHOH 6621
International Travel and Health	EHOH 6633
Disasters, Climate Change & Health	EHOH 6710
Public Health Surveillance	EPID 6624
Infectious Disease Epidemiology	EPID 6635**
Investigation of Disease Outbreaks	EPID 6640**
Epidemiology of Foodborne & Diarrheal Diseases	EPID 6641**
Epidemiology & Prevention of TB/HIV/STD's	EPID 6643**
Health Equity	HSMP 6602
Current Global Health Policy Issues	HSMP 6615

**EPID 6630 is a prerequisite course.

Upon successful completion of the certificate in global public health, students will be able to:

Describe and analyze the determinants and the globalization of health as well as the health status of a given jurisdiction using credible data sources.
Critically analyze the political, economic, and ethical issues relevant to methods and contemporary issues in global health.
Recommend data collection methods in a global context, taking into account unique resource and cultural aspects of the geographic setting.
Apply concepts of global burden of disease, especially disability-adjusted life years, across national and international settings to address health challenges.
Identify and recommend public health field methods in the global arena and their correct application.

Total credits: 15

MPH students also completing a concurrent specialty certificate will need to meet the requirements of both the MPH and the certificate with only nine overlapping credits and have a minimum of 48 total credits to graduate with both.

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Colorado School of Public Health

CU Anschutz

Fitzsimons Building

13001 East 17th Place

3rd Floor

Mail Stop B119

Aurora, CO 80045

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Certificate in Global Public Health

Curriculum

Total credits: 15

Colorado School of Public Health

Certificate in Global Public Health

Curriculum

Required courses

Electives

Learning objectives

Total credits: 15

Colorado School of Public Health