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Professional Certificate in Total Worker Health®

Change workplace culture, support employees, and set yourself apart from other professionals.

About the certificate


This online certificate is designed for working professionals seeking career advancement. This certificate is conferred by the Center for Health, Work & Environment and has flexible credit hours and course requirements depending on experience.

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 our center.

For those seeking a more traditional graduate certificate program, a Certificate in Total Worker Health® conferred by the Colorado School of Public Health is available. To learn more, please visit the Certificate in Total Worker Health® page. The deadlines, application processes, and registration steps are different for that program.

Total Worker Health® is defined as policies, programs, and practices that integrate protection from work-related safety and health hazards with promotion of injury and illness-prevention efforts to advance worker well-being.

— National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

Curriculum


This certificate is designed for working professionals by offering flexible requirements. To review our course descriptions and compare your prior coursework, please see the coursebook on the Courses & Registration page. If you have not taken courses in this area previously, the graduate Certificate in Total Worker Health may be more appropriate.

 

Courses

 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
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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

Application and scholarship information


You must have received a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution with a minimum cumulative GPA 3.0. If your GPA is below a 3.0, please include an explanation of why it fell below a 3.0 and how you plan to address any prior academic deficiencies as a graduate student.

Scholarship-specific requirements:

All scholarship 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.

  1. Complete the application form
  2. Apply for the program and scholarship (if applicable) by July 1st for a Fall start or November 1st for a Spring start.*
  3. Applications will be reviewed by the Mountain & Plains Education and Research Center (MAP ERC) Certificate in TWH core faculty. Official notifications will be made within weeks via email.
  4. Upon acceptance into the program, register as a non-degree seeking student by the deadline. Visit the non-degree applicants page for details on when to register and how to register.

*Note: You can submit your scholarship application at the same time as you apply to the program, but you must be accepted into the program to be eligible to receive the scholarship.

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

Frequently asked questions


 Professional Certificate in Total Worker Health®Graduate Certificate in Total Worker Health®
Conferred by
Center for Health, Work & Environment
Colorado School of Public Health
AudienceWorking professionals
Working professionals and graduate students
Course requirements
6 required courses (15 credits), but flexible credit hour requirement options depending on experience6 required courses (15 credits)
Registration process
Register as a non-degree seeking student one week before the start of classesRegister as a certificate student soon as registration opens
Where to find program information
On this webpage
On the Certificate in Total Worker Health® webpage
Who to contact for more information

For questions related to this Professional Certificate in Total Worker Health, please contact the Center for Health, Work & Environment.

 

 

For questions related to the graduate Certificate in Total Worker Health®, please contact the Office of Admissions & Student Affairs.

If you enroll in the graduate Certificate in Total Worker Health® at a later date, a total of 9 credit hours taken as a non-degree student may be applied to that program. You must receive a grade of B- or higher to apply credits.

If you enroll in an MPH program at a later date, a total of 9 credit hours taken as a non-degree student may be applied to the program. You must receive a grade of B- or higher to apply credits.

Please visit the Cost of Attendance page for tuition and fee information. Individuals accepted into this program will be considered non-degree seeking students.

This program is not eligible for federal financial aid. However, we do offer scholarships to help offset the program costs. If you wish to complete a certificate that is eligible for federal financial aid, we encourage you to explore the graduate Certificate in Total Worker Health program.

  1. Enroll as a non-degree seeking student by the appropriate deadline for your desired start date and follow all steps needed to register.
  2. Register for courses starting one week before the start of classes for the semester. To review that deadline, please see the academic calendar.

For questions related to this Professional Certificate in Total Worker Health, please contact the Center for Health, Work & Environment. For questions related to the graduate Certificate in Total Worker Health, please contact the Office of Academic & Student Affairs.

Program faculty


Program director

katherine dickinson photo

Katherine Dickinson PhD, MS

Assistant Professor
  • Department of Environmental & Occupational Health

Email Address:katherine.dickinson@cuanschutz.edu

Primary Phone:303-724-4093

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Twitter
  • Bio
  • Courses
  • Research, Publications, Projects

An environmental economist by training, Dr. Dickinson’s interdisciplinary research focuses on the impacts of policies and interventions on environmental, social, and health outcomes. Much of her current work involves community-engaged environmental justice research in Colorado, exploring issues that include public housing, oil and gas development, and city planning. Meanwhile, several past and current projects have addressed problems at the nexus of environmental quality, economic development, and human health, including sanitation in India, malaria in Tanzania, and improved cookstoves in Ghana. Other branches of research look at responses to natural hazards, including wildfire and hurricanes, and vector-borne disease risks in the US. Several projects have examined the role of social interactions and social networks in shaping risk perceptions and behaviors.

Dr. Dickinson received her PhD from the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke Univeristy, and did her postdoctoral training as a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society scholar at the University of Wisconsin from 2008 to 2010, and at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) from 2010 to 2013. Before joining the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health at ColoradoSPH, Katie spent four years as a Research Scientist/Project Scientist with joint positions at NCAR and CU Boulder. Katie is currently a JPB Environmental Health Fellow, a program run by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health that aims to support scholars in studying the social and environmental determinants of health.

Areas of Expertise

  • Environmental economics
  • Environmental justice
  • Social survey design and analysis
  • Impact evaluation
  • Community-engaged research

Education, Licensure & Certifications

  • PhD, Environmental Economics, Duke University, 2008
  • MS, Earth Systems, Stanford University, 2003
  • BA, Earth Systems, Stanford University, 2002

Resumes/CV:

  • Katherine-Dickinson-CV

Awards

  • JPB Environmental Health Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2018-2021

Courses

  • EHOH 6601 Public Health Concepts for Non-MPH Students
  • EHOH 6618 Environmental Health Policy and Practice

Research

  • National Science Foundation, Oil and Gas Siting, Housing Choices, and Environmental Justice in Colorado. January 2020-December 2022. Role: PI
  • JPB Foundation, Sun Valley Public Housing Redevelopment Study. 2019-2021. Role: PI
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Social feasibility and economic cost-benefit analysis of mosquito control in Texas. 2018-2021. Role: PI
  • National Science Foundation. Prices, Peers, Perceptions (P3): Improved Cookstoves in Northern Ghana. 2015-2018. Role: PI

Publications and Presentations

  • Dickinson, K.L., Brenkert-Smith, H., Madonia, G. and Flores, N.E., Risk interdependency, social norms, and wildfire mitigation: a choice experiment. 2020. Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, pp.1-28.
  • Dickinson, K.L., Brenkert-Smith, H., Madonia, G. and Flores, N.E., Risk interdependency, social norms, and wildfire mitigation: a choice experiment. 2020. Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, pp.1-28.
  • Hannigan, M.P., Moro, A., Dickinson, K.L., Oduro, A., Banacos, N., Pfotenhauer, D., Begay, T., Agao, D., Mukherjee, A., Dalaba, M. and Coffey, E.R. 2019. Kitchen Area Air Quality Measurements in Northern Ghana: Evaluating the Performance of a Low-Cost Particulate Sensor within a Household Energy Study.
  • Kroepsch, A.C., Maniloff, P.T., Adgate, J.L., McKenzie, L.M. and Dickinson, K.L., 2019. Environmental justice in unconventional oil and natural gas drilling and production: A critical review and research agenda. Environmental science & technology, 53(12), pp.6601-6615.
  • Dickinson, K.L., A. Monaghan, I.J. Rivera, L. Hu, E. Kanyomse, R. Alirigia, J. Adoctor, R. Kaspar, A.R. Oduro, and C. Wiedinmyer. 2017. Changing weather and climate in Northern Ghana: comparison of local perceptions with meteorological and land cover data. Regional Environmental Change: 1-14. doi:10.1007/s10113-016-1082-4.
  • Wiedinmyer, C., Dickinson, K.L., Piedrahita, R., Kanyomse, E., Coffey, E., Hannigan, M., Alirigia, R., andOduro, A.. 2017. Rural-urban differences in cooking practices and exposures in Northern Ghana. Environmental Research Letters 12(6): 065009. PMID:11445512

Program assistant director

katherine dickinson photo

Katherine Dickinson PhD, MS

Assistant Professor
  • Department of Environmental & Occupational Health

Email Address:katherine.dickinson@cuanschutz.edu

Primary Phone:303-724-4093

View Website

View Research Profile

Twitter
  • Bio
  • Courses
  • Research, Publications, Projects

An environmental economist by training, Dr. Dickinson’s interdisciplinary research focuses on the impacts of policies and interventions on environmental, social, and health outcomes. Much of her current work involves community-engaged environmental justice research in Colorado, exploring issues that include public housing, oil and gas development, and city planning. Meanwhile, several past and current projects have addressed problems at the nexus of environmental quality, economic development, and human health, including sanitation in India, malaria in Tanzania, and improved cookstoves in Ghana. Other branches of research look at responses to natural hazards, including wildfire and hurricanes, and vector-borne disease risks in the US. Several projects have examined the role of social interactions and social networks in shaping risk perceptions and behaviors.

Dr. Dickinson received her PhD from the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke Univeristy, and did her postdoctoral training as a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society scholar at the University of Wisconsin from 2008 to 2010, and at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) from 2010 to 2013. Before joining the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health at ColoradoSPH, Katie spent four years as a Research Scientist/Project Scientist with joint positions at NCAR and CU Boulder. Katie is currently a JPB Environmental Health Fellow, a program run by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health that aims to support scholars in studying the social and environmental determinants of health.

Areas of Expertise

  • Environmental economics
  • Environmental justice
  • Social survey design and analysis
  • Impact evaluation
  • Community-engaged research

Education, Licensure & Certifications

  • PhD, Environmental Economics, Duke University, 2008
  • MS, Earth Systems, Stanford University, 2003
  • BA, Earth Systems, Stanford University, 2002

Resumes/CV:

  • Katherine-Dickinson-CV

Awards

  • JPB Environmental Health Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2018-2021

Courses

  • EHOH 6601 Public Health Concepts for Non-MPH Students
  • EHOH 6618 Environmental Health Policy and Practice

Research

  • National Science Foundation, Oil and Gas Siting, Housing Choices, and Environmental Justice in Colorado. January 2020-December 2022. Role: PI
  • JPB Foundation, Sun Valley Public Housing Redevelopment Study. 2019-2021. Role: PI
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Social feasibility and economic cost-benefit analysis of mosquito control in Texas. 2018-2021. Role: PI
  • National Science Foundation. Prices, Peers, Perceptions (P3): Improved Cookstoves in Northern Ghana. 2015-2018. Role: PI

Publications and Presentations

  • Dickinson, K.L., Brenkert-Smith, H., Madonia, G. and Flores, N.E., Risk interdependency, social norms, and wildfire mitigation: a choice experiment. 2020. Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, pp.1-28.
  • Dickinson, K.L., Brenkert-Smith, H., Madonia, G. and Flores, N.E., Risk interdependency, social norms, and wildfire mitigation: a choice experiment. 2020. Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, pp.1-28.
  • Hannigan, M.P., Moro, A., Dickinson, K.L., Oduro, A., Banacos, N., Pfotenhauer, D., Begay, T., Agao, D., Mukherjee, A., Dalaba, M. and Coffey, E.R. 2019. Kitchen Area Air Quality Measurements in Northern Ghana: Evaluating the Performance of a Low-Cost Particulate Sensor within a Household Energy Study.
  • Kroepsch, A.C., Maniloff, P.T., Adgate, J.L., McKenzie, L.M. and Dickinson, K.L., 2019. Environmental justice in unconventional oil and natural gas drilling and production: A critical review and research agenda. Environmental science & technology, 53(12), pp.6601-6615.
  • Dickinson, K.L., A. Monaghan, I.J. Rivera, L. Hu, E. Kanyomse, R. Alirigia, J. Adoctor, R. Kaspar, A.R. Oduro, and C. Wiedinmyer. 2017. Changing weather and climate in Northern Ghana: comparison of local perceptions with meteorological and land cover data. Regional Environmental Change: 1-14. doi:10.1007/s10113-016-1082-4.
  • Wiedinmyer, C., Dickinson, K.L., Piedrahita, R., Kanyomse, E., Coffey, E., Hannigan, M., Alirigia, R., andOduro, A.. 2017. Rural-urban differences in cooking practices and exposures in Northern Ghana. Environmental Research Letters 12(6): 065009. PMID:11445512

Faculty

katherine dickinson photo

Katherine Dickinson PhD, MS

Assistant Professor
  • Department of Environmental & Occupational Health

Email Address:katherine.dickinson@cuanschutz.edu

Primary Phone:303-724-4093

View Website

View Research Profile

Twitter
  • Bio
  • Courses
  • Research, Publications, Projects

An environmental economist by training, Dr. Dickinson’s interdisciplinary research focuses on the impacts of policies and interventions on environmental, social, and health outcomes. Much of her current work involves community-engaged environmental justice research in Colorado, exploring issues that include public housing, oil and gas development, and city planning. Meanwhile, several past and current projects have addressed problems at the nexus of environmental quality, economic development, and human health, including sanitation in India, malaria in Tanzania, and improved cookstoves in Ghana. Other branches of research look at responses to natural hazards, including wildfire and hurricanes, and vector-borne disease risks in the US. Several projects have examined the role of social interactions and social networks in shaping risk perceptions and behaviors.

Dr. Dickinson received her PhD from the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke Univeristy, and did her postdoctoral training as a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society scholar at the University of Wisconsin from 2008 to 2010, and at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) from 2010 to 2013. Before joining the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health at ColoradoSPH, Katie spent four years as a Research Scientist/Project Scientist with joint positions at NCAR and CU Boulder. Katie is currently a JPB Environmental Health Fellow, a program run by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health that aims to support scholars in studying the social and environmental determinants of health.

Areas of Expertise

  • Environmental economics
  • Environmental justice
  • Social survey design and analysis
  • Impact evaluation
  • Community-engaged research

Education, Licensure & Certifications

  • PhD, Environmental Economics, Duke University, 2008
  • MS, Earth Systems, Stanford University, 2003
  • BA, Earth Systems, Stanford University, 2002

Resumes/CV:

  • Katherine-Dickinson-CV

Awards

  • JPB Environmental Health Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2018-2021

Courses

  • EHOH 6601 Public Health Concepts for Non-MPH Students
  • EHOH 6618 Environmental Health Policy and Practice

Research

  • National Science Foundation, Oil and Gas Siting, Housing Choices, and Environmental Justice in Colorado. January 2020-December 2022. Role: PI
  • JPB Foundation, Sun Valley Public Housing Redevelopment Study. 2019-2021. Role: PI
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Social feasibility and economic cost-benefit analysis of mosquito control in Texas. 2018-2021. Role: PI
  • National Science Foundation. Prices, Peers, Perceptions (P3): Improved Cookstoves in Northern Ghana. 2015-2018. Role: PI

Publications and Presentations

  • Dickinson, K.L., Brenkert-Smith, H., Madonia, G. and Flores, N.E., Risk interdependency, social norms, and wildfire mitigation: a choice experiment. 2020. Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, pp.1-28.
  • Dickinson, K.L., Brenkert-Smith, H., Madonia, G. and Flores, N.E., Risk interdependency, social norms, and wildfire mitigation: a choice experiment. 2020. Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, pp.1-28.
  • Hannigan, M.P., Moro, A., Dickinson, K.L., Oduro, A., Banacos, N., Pfotenhauer, D., Begay, T., Agao, D., Mukherjee, A., Dalaba, M. and Coffey, E.R. 2019. Kitchen Area Air Quality Measurements in Northern Ghana: Evaluating the Performance of a Low-Cost Particulate Sensor within a Household Energy Study.
  • Kroepsch, A.C., Maniloff, P.T., Adgate, J.L., McKenzie, L.M. and Dickinson, K.L., 2019. Environmental justice in unconventional oil and natural gas drilling and production: A critical review and research agenda. Environmental science & technology, 53(12), pp.6601-6615.
  • Dickinson, K.L., A. Monaghan, I.J. Rivera, L. Hu, E. Kanyomse, R. Alirigia, J. Adoctor, R. Kaspar, A.R. Oduro, and C. Wiedinmyer. 2017. Changing weather and climate in Northern Ghana: comparison of local perceptions with meteorological and land cover data. Regional Environmental Change: 1-14. doi:10.1007/s10113-016-1082-4.
  • Wiedinmyer, C., Dickinson, K.L., Piedrahita, R., Kanyomse, E., Coffey, E., Hannigan, M., Alirigia, R., andOduro, A.. 2017. Rural-urban differences in cooking practices and exposures in Northern Ghana. Environmental Research Letters 12(6): 065009. PMID:11445512

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