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Certificate in Total Worker Health®

This online program is designed for public health graduate students and current working professionals who are seeking career advancement. In this program, you'll learn how to develop and manage Total Worker Health (TWH) initiatives—workplace safety, wellness, and health promotion programs. You'll learn how to assess organizational culture, plan and evaluate health and safety programs, and become a better leader. In addition, you'll take classes taught by expert faculty from the Center for Health, Work & Environment—one of 10 Centers of Excellence for TWH. With this certificate, you'll become part of a community of business leaders and academics committed to workplace health and safety.

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Learn in a flexible online format

You can complete this certificate on a part-time basis over a one-year period, and it's available entirely online.

Prepare for the future

TWH is a new, integrated approach to workplace health and safety that's being adopted by more employers around the world.

Advance your career

Gain practical knowledge about how to improve workplace health, safety, well-being, and productivity through a TWH approach.

What is Total Worker Health?


According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), TWH includes policies, programs, and practices that integrate protection from work-related safety and health hazards with the promotion of injury and illness prevention efforts to advance worker well-being.

Curriculum


Course requirement*

 Course ID
 Credits
Health Promotion & Health Protection in the WorkplaceEHOH 66283
Spectrums of Professions Protection & Promoting Worker HealthEHOH 66341
Occupational Health Psychology: Improving Health & Well-Being at WorkEHOH 66393
Intro to Environmental & Occupational HealthEHOH 66143
Intro to Occupational Safety & Ergonomics (Intro to Workplace Health Protection)EHOH 66292
Communication Skills for Public Health ImpactEHOH 66383
  15
*If you have taken courses similar to our program offerings, please contact chwe@cuanschutz.edu before applying to the program.

Upon successful completion of the Certificate in Total Worker Health (TWH), students will be able to:

  • Explain why TWH is an emerging field
  • Define key terminology and frameworks for TWH
  • Identify significant workplace wellness or safety-related government agencies or organizations and discuss their perspectives and policies on health promotion or protection
  • Describe the role of advocacy or leadership in TWH
  • Apply health behavior, leadership, or organizational change theories or intervention approaches in the workplace setting
  • Compare the elements of a "culture of health" to the elements of a "culture of safety" and how they can be integrated
  • Recognize "best practices by reading, critiquing, or applying research to workplace practice
  • Identify evidence-based, practical policy or programmatic strategies for organizations implementing TWH
  • Design, implement, or evaluate TWH systems and programs
  • Communicate the business case (value proposition) for implementing TWH
  • Discuss future trends, needs, or solutions for promoting TWH

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.

View the student program guide >

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​View the course book and course schedule >

NIOSH MAP ERC Scholarship


Existing ColoradoSPH students should apply to the program via the ColoradoSPH certificate declaration form by February 15 (summer start) or October 15 (spring start). New ColoradoSPH students should apply to the program via the SOPHAS Express Application by February 15 or October 15.*

*Note: Additionally, all recipients need to be citizens or noncitizen nationals of the United States or have been lawfully admitted as permanent residents. Non-citizen nationals are generally persons born in outlying possessions of the United States (for example, American Samoa and Swains Island). Individuals on temporary or student visas are not eligible.

Step 1: Existing ColoradoSPH students should apply to the program via the ColoradoSPH certificate declaration form by February 15 (summer start) or October 15 (spring start). New ColoradoSPH students should apply to the program via the SOPHAS Express Application by February 15 or October 15.

Step 2:  Apply for the scholarship by February 15 (summer start) or October 15 (spring start). Applicants must submit the application form and all materials as one PDF file to Natalie Schwatka at Natalie.Schwatka@cuanschutz.edu.*

Step 3: Students will be reviewed by the Mountain & Plains Education and Research Center (MAP ERC) Certificate in TWH core faculty. Students may be contacted to complete a 30-minute virtual interview.

Step 4: Official notifications will be made within weeks via email.

*Note: Students can submit their scholarship application at the same time as they apply to the program, but to be eligible to receive the scholarship, they must be accepted into the program. Students may be awarded up to $10,000 per scholarship.


Students must 1) receive a passing grade (at least a B-) in all coursework, 2) represent themselves as professionals and candidates in the Certificate in TWH (e.g., include in their email signature), and 3) complete the program in accordance with ColoradoSPH and MAP ERC requirements. Failure to meet these expectations will result in a discontinuation of scholarship.  

Students must complete the curriculum within two years and enroll in at least one of the required courses the first semester they are enrolled in the program.

Colorado School of Public Health

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13001 East 17th Place

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Mail Stop B119

Aurora, CO 80045


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