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Global Health Certificate Curriculum

There are two required courses and three electives. Students are allowed to choose the three electives and may opt to complete a 200-hour international practicum.

Required Courses

  • HPP 580: Delivering & Strengthening Healthcare Systems
  • HPP 583: Global Health Foundations

Elective Courses

  • EPI 663: Communicable Disease Epidemiology
  • HPP 601: Application of Social and Behavioral Theory in Public Health Interventions
  • HPP 507: Violence as a Public Health Issue
  • HPP 560: Globalization and Health
  • HPP 614: International Health, Population & Development
  • HPP 622: Program Evaluation in Health and Human Service Organizations
  • HPP 636:  Global Maternal and Child Health
  • HPP 662: Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • HPP 644: International Organizations and Population Health
  • HPP 698: Global Health Practicum
  • HPP 704: Health Program Planning
  • Nutr 578: International Nutrition

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