Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Graduate Certificate in Global Health PracticeUSA Online, USA
DURATION
1 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Part time
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
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Introduction
The Certificate in Global Health Practice is a fully online, part-time graduate program offered by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
The program is geared towards early-to-mid-career health professionals in the public, private, and NGO sectors. The certificate program will provide students with an overview of the basic components of global or international health, including health systems, health information, epidemiology/disease control, maternal and child health, and social, cultural, and behavioral factors in health and disease.
This innovative program prepares students from diverse personal and professional backgrounds to organize, lead, and support effective global health practice initiatives across the globe.
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Curriculum
First Term
- Academic & Research Ethics at BSPH
- Seminars in Public Health or Essential Medicines, Commodities and Supplies Needed for Community Level Primary Health Care Interventions
- Fundamentals in Global Health Practice
Second Term
- Design and Planning of Primary Health Care Projects
Third Term
- Global Epidemiology Policies and Programs
- Introduction to Epidemiology or Planning Training and Learning Programs for Community Health Workers
Fourth Term
- Social & Cultural Basis for Community and Primary Health Programs (Social and Cultural Basis for Community and Primary Health Programs)
Program Outcome
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the Certificate program in Global Health Practice, the individual will acquire skills necessary to:
- Apply capacity building processes to global health programming in low and middle-income countries
- Identify and collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders whose active participation is required for successful global health programming at the community, sub-national, national and regional levels
- Apply ethical reasoning to the policy and programming decisions needed for designing and implementing global health programs in low and middle-income countries
- Exhibit a health equity and social justice lens in the design and conduct of global health programs
- Apply appropriate management processes in the design, implementation and evaluation of global health programs
- Demonstrate social, cultural and political awareness of the context in which global health programming takes place
- Conduct strategic analysis of factors that influence the success of global health programming.