Population and Health

Population and Health

OVERVIEW

The certificate is designed to serve two audiences-masters or doctoral degree students at The Johns Hopkins University and professionals-desiring to expand their knowledge of population dynamics and its linkages with public health issues and their ability to relate population-level concepts and measures of fertility, morbidity and mortality, and migration to health conditions. A population's health is shaped by fertility, mortality and migration patterns; and population numbers themselves provide the denominators of basic measures of public health, such as life expectancy, cause-specific mortality rates, and infection rates. Connecting a population and health perspective with public health epidemiology allows us to measure and assess the aggregate-level structure of and variation in health risks by age, sex, or other major factors and across the human life span.

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

Students completing the certificate will gain competency in;

1. Knowledge of the components and measures of population dynamics,
2. Knowledge of population dynamics' linkages with public health issues,
3. The ability to relate vital events and duration exposures with risk factors at the individual and population level.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Sponsoring Department
Population, Family and Reproductive Health

ADMISSIONS

Contact information and complete certificate program admissions information is available on the certificate program page on the Bloomberg School of Public Health website. 

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