31 Certificate Programs in Zambia

Logistics Management is the part of supply chain management that plans, implements, and controls the efficient, effective forward and reverse flow and storage of goods, services, and related information between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet customers’ requirements. This course provides a practical and management perspective of logistics and supply management in areas such as understanding the customer value chain, service phases and attributes, strategic logistic management, distribution channels, warehouse management, and logistic outsourcing.

This course will involve the primary focus of constant improvement in the overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) as it relates to equipment and capital assets. Total Productivity Management (TPM) focuses on getting managers, maintenance personnel and equipment users all working together to prevent equipment problems and reduce expenditures. By giving ownership and responsibility of equipment and processes to the right employees, equipment breakdowns are reduced. TPM brings maintenance into focus as a necessary and vitality important part of the business. TPM is used at all levels of the organisation.

This course describes investment methods and plans on how to invest using effective investment management techniques. In addition, it gives knowledge about the environment in which the investment must be made to obtain a good financial return. Financial statements are used by financial experts to study and analyze the profits, liabilities and assets of an organization or individual.

Biostatistics provides an introduction to some important topics in biostatistical concepts, measurements, and reasoning. This course provides students with knowledge of statistics and their applications in biomedical sciences. It represents the need and uses of biostatistics in public health and medicine, data measurement scales, graphical and schematic presentations of various data.

Consumer behavior is a field of study that focuses on individuals, groups, and organizations and the processes that consumers use to choose, obtain, and use products or services. Consumer behavior as a specialized branch of study integrates concepts from psychology, sociology, anthropology, marketing, economics, behavioral science, decision-making science and basic management.

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 offers the concepts and points of view of epidemiology. It provides highly specialized knowledge in the field of public health epidemiology, giving importance to various methods of assessing factors associated with the distribution and etiology of diseases and health-related events in a community. Skills include approaches to identifying and evaluating sources of health information, calculating key epidemiologic metrics, epidemiologic investigation techniques, and evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of different study designs. The course also provides methods to detect health-related events as early as possible through screening techniques. Public health surveillance, observation, monitoring, screening, hypothesis formulation and testing, descriptive, analytical and experimental research and forecasting are part of epidemiology.

This course is a study of the environment and provides the learner with the opportunity to understand the dynamics of how environmental factors integrate with agent and host factors in the causation, prevention and control of disease in human populations. Introduce the concepts of health, disease, environment, behavior and risk. Describe major environmental risks.

The course provides an overview of the evolving global healthcare landscape. The powerful forces of globalization, demographic changes and emerging diseases make the health agenda for the new millennium very challenging. This course introduces students to global health terminology used in the field in line with the priorities of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Advertising and sales promotion are the effective elements of the promotion mix. By large the companies now focus and invest more in advertising. Due to the invention of various technological developments, it has become more important for all the companies to work on the effective advertising strategies with the help of the digital media. To grab the wide market it is essential for the companies to devise various sale promotion techniques too. This program will help the learners to have a deeper understanding of the basics of advertising, its process and the various techniques. Learners will also have an in-depth understanding of the techniques involved in sales promotion.

Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is a systematic approach to help an organisation to analyse and improve its processes. This course clearly explains the various basic concepts, evolution, philosophy, Framework, drivers, approaches and models for Business Process Re-engineering (BPR). It also illustrates the techniques and tools for effectively implementing BPR to effectively transform the organisational practices for improving the efficiency of the firms. It also explains the relationship between the BPR and the information technology and other emerging trends and approaches. This course also describes how different companies have streamlined their processes, reduced their cost of operations, have created cross functional process excellence to increase value proposition to all stakeholders.

Learning this course will enable you to understand the scope and objectives of cost and management accounting, components of direct and indirect costs, cost recording and advanced methods of costing systems. To introduce the theoretical conceptsof cost and management accounting. To describe the basic concepts and processes of material, labour and overhead cost. To explain the various types of costing and budgeting.

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.

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.

This course generally introduces the concept of health and disease and allows you to plan and evaluate strategies to prevent disease. It covers the different approaches and methods for applying acquired knowledge to the control of diseases through prevention and treatment, resulting in the preservation of public health. Understand the study of the etiology, natural history and cause of disease.