Certificates allow you to complete a specific group of university courses (for credit) as either part of your degree studies or separately. Additional details on certificates are available here.
Rethinking health through culture, power, and lived experience.
The Certificate in Culture, Medicine & Health offers students a critical and cross-cultural lens on health, illness, and healing. Drawing on the insights of medical anthropology, this certificate explores how systems of medicine and care are shaped by social, political, environmental and historical forces—and how people around the world experience, make sense of, and respond to suffering and well-being.
This program is ideal for students in fields such as Global Health, Health & Society, Social Work, Equity Studies, International Development Studies and Disaster & Emergency Management, as well as for those pursuing careers in medicine, healthcare, public health, advocacy or medical research.
Through this certificate, students will:
- Examine diverse medical systems and healing practices across cultural contexts
- Analyze how social inequalities—such as race, class, gender, and colonialism—shape health outcomes and access to care
- Explore topics like disability, mental health, global health governance and the politics of care
- Develop qualitative and ethnographic research skills for working in health-related fields
- Engage with case studies that connect theory to practice in local and global settings
The certificate can be completed on its own (after graduation) or concurrently with an undergraduate degree.
In a world marked by overlapping crises in health, equity, and care, this certificate equips students with the critical tools and cultural awareness needed to make a meaningful impact.