Health and Human Rights

Certificate Program in Health and Human Rights 

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

The Certificate Program in Health and Human Rights is designed to:

1. Increase understanding among public health professionals regarding the key linkages between human rights and public health.
2. Explore the vital roles of health professionals in promoting human rights, including the right to health, advocating for protection of human rights, researching violations, and building a culture of human rights
3. Build familiarity with international human rights standards and institutions
4. Review how human rights concepts can be brought to bear on public health programs and policies, ranging from developing health system to responding to an epidemic of infectious disease.
5. Review how public health professionals can bring epidemiology and other methods of public health to investigate, analyze, and document abuses of human rights.

Hopkins invests in developing global perspectives so students can be engaged citizens wherever they are.

As a global university with students from all over the world, we welcome all kinds of experiences and new ways of thinking. We’re here to connect international students with the resources you need to become leaders and active members in our community and beyond. 

Please email [email protected] with any general international admissions questions. You can also email your regional admissions counselor if you have any questions specific to the area where you live or study.