Graduate Certificate in Public Health
Jump start the next step in your career
Taking the next step in your career doesn’t have to include a full MPH degree. Nor does it require you to quit your job and move locally. SPHHS is pleased to offer our Graduate Certificate in Public Health. The 12-credit program prepares you to apply for one of our MPH concentrations or simply gain knowledge of core public health concepts and earn a micro credential.
Offered fully online, the program includes just 4 classes that can be completed in two semesters. All coursework, pending a successful application, can be transferred toward your MPH degree. The transfers are accepted into any of the SPHHS MPH programs, including the campus and online programs. You just need to pass all 4 with a B or better.
Benefits list
100% Online
UMass Amherst’s Graduate Certificate in Public Health is fully online, with asynchronous courses that let you log in whenever it’s convenient for you. Busy schedule? Take as few as one course per term. Need a semester off? You can pause at any time.
Transfer credits to the full MPH
Should you decide to apply and matriculate into our any one of our MPH degree programs, all 12 credits will transfer. Conversely, as an MPH candidate, you can apply for admission into the Public Health certificate program at any time.
Earn a micro credential
Upon completion of 12 credits students earn a graduate certificate and skills to help them advance their career.
Featured class
Offered Summer Session One
The purpose of this course is to introduce you to graduate level public health practice through a health equity lens. Together with SPHHS 615, this course will allow you to grapple with important questions of racism, justice and health to understand the many complex factors that contribute to the health of our nation and its peoples. You will be encouraged to think about the ways in which you will accomplish the mission of public health (i.e., assuring the conditions in which everyone can be healthy) through critical self-reflection of your own perspectives on the health of the population.
Featured faculty
Lawrence Pellegrini
Senior Lecturer in Health Policy and Management
Focus on Social Security disability, health economics, mental health
Application information & deadlines
To apply, complete the application here.
Interested applicants submit a résumé/CV, official transcripts from all degrees completed, two letters of recommendation, and TOEFL/IELTS if necessary.
Rolling Admissions
Admissions are rolling and the application can be submitted at any time.
Professional and Online Programs
Fully asynchronous and flexible undergraduate and graduate programs for working professionals at UMass Amherst