121 Public Health Certificate Programs

The programme in Public Health equips you to address diverse public health issues in both high and low income environments.

The Certificate in Foundations in Public Health trains highly skilled professionals with a fundamental understanding of the five core areas of public health, enabling them to protect and improve the health of communities. Challenges to optimal health and well-being are increasingly multifaceted. To meet them, the public health graduate certificate provides you with the fundamental skills and knowledge of the five core areas of public health: social and behavioral health, epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental health, and health systems. You’ll get state-of-the-art interdisciplinary training that applies across multiple sectors to help you understand the dynamic behavioral, biological, social, cultural, and economic influences affecting local and global outcomes. Our certificate program prepares you to improve public health through assessment, policy development, environmental change, and health promotion research.

The Specialist Certificate in Public Health is designed to provide foundational knowledge and skills needed to work effectively in the field of public health. The program covers key areas such as epid...

The Public Health Policy course is designed to provide students with a broad understanding of how federal, state, and local policies shape the health care system, why health policy is important, and how to set policy. Course content is designed to advance understanding of evidence-based policies and practices to address social determinants of health and create health equity for all.

This course introduces students to the major introductory public health concepts and tools that underpin current public health practice at the local, regional, national, and international levels. It covers the philosophy, purpose, history, organization, functions, tools, activities and outcomes of evidence-based public health practice. Defining health and its determinants in the context of public health.

The certificate program in public health offers a flexible pathway for those interested in gaining key skills to improve community health. It covers a broad range of topics, including epidemiology, he...

The Certificate in Medical Partners in Public Health is designed for healthcare professionals who want to expand their skills and understanding of public health principles. The program emphasizes prac...

The Environmental Health Sciences Certificate is designed for individuals interested in understanding how environmental factors impact health. It provides a foundation in key topics like environmental...

The program in Health and Health Policy aims to prepare students to analyze and improve the organization, delivery, and financing of healthcare. It combines coursework in health policy, economics, and...

Globally, care and emphasis on population and family health is a major goal to achieve optimal community health. This course is designed to cover the issue related to family and population health with emphasis on potential risks and vulnerable groups. In the community, in this course the student will explore the population cycle, measuring the population model of family nursing, and assessing the socioeconomic and cultural factors that influence population and family health. This course will provide educational and clinical learning experiences on the principles of community health, public and family health nursing, this course covers public health methods applied in a family assessment based intervention.

The health-care sector is one of the largest and most complex in Canada, providing a broad range of career opportunities from direct patient/client care to related teaching and research. It’s so broad that you may have an interest, but not have a clear direction you want to take. The Health Sciences certificate program offers a way for you to explore your interest, gain foundational knowledge and take courses that are transferable to a diploma or degree. The courses you take to earn your one-year Health Sciences certificate can be applied to six health-related diploma and degree programs at Lethbridge College and to programs at other institutions.

A one-year, online certificate program that prepares students to effectively collect, map, and interpret geographic information to test and refine hypotheses to answer a set of questions within the public health sector.

Illustrate how communication concepts and theories are used to understand communication behaviors in a variety of public health and/or healthcare contexts, including small groups, organizations, interpersonal and professional relationships, and public discourse.

The Graduate Certificate Program in Global Health is designed to advance the knowledge and capabilities of individuals who have a baccalaureate degree and who have an interest in understanding health issues that transcend national boundaries. Learning activities focus on human diversity, and are designed to prepare students to better serve the health needs of people at home and abroad.

Women and children are a unique and vulnerable group in global health. Global health interventions often target women and children because they suffer unique health disparities and yet they also show the most promise for improving health. The “Continuum of Care” for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (RMNCH) includes the provision of integrated services for mothers and children, from pre-pregnancy through delivery, the immediate postnatal period and the 'childhood. This care is provided by families and communities, through outpatient services, clinics and other health facilities.