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Graduate Certificate in Public Health Ethics

Gain a greater understanding of ethical inquiry in public health. 


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The Graduate Certificate in Public Health Ethics is aimed at working public health professionals interested in gaining a greater understanding of ethical inquiry in public health. Public health programs, policies, and laws should be critically analyzed and the Graduate Certificate in Public Health Ethics opens up lines of exploration and prepares the student to assess the limits of what we, as a society do to protect and promote the public’s health.

 

Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop famously proclaimed that anything we do to get people to stop smoking is good; public health ethics questions the extent of that “anything” and asks about the meaning of “the good.” The Graduate Certificate in Public Health Ethics at UMass Amherst encourages public health professionals to ask about what is right and what is good in public health practice and enables students to skillfully engage the contemporary debates of public health ethics. 

Program Highlights

  • 18 credits 
  • 100% online with no residency requirement.  
  • Flexible to seamlessly fit into your busy life.
  • Asynchronous courses-you do not have to be online at any scheduled time.  Log in when you get time.
  • Take as few as one course per term or as many as 3.
  • Taking time off is easy
  • Rolling admissions.  We accept admissions at any time and students can begin the program in spring, summer or fall semesters.
  • Fully accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) and the Council on Education in Public Health (CEPH)