OVERVIEW
PLEASE NOTE: THIS PROGRAM CAN ONLY BE COMPLETED VIA FULLY ONLINE COURSES.
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health offers fully online, part-time master's degree and certificate programs, designed for working professionals. Our Online Programs for Applied Learning (OPAL) focus on emergent industry sectors that have a resounding need for highly skilled professionals, with one of these sectors being Global Health. Our certificate program in Global Health Practice is geared towards early-to mid-career health professionals in the public, private, and NGO sectors. The certificate program will provide students with an overview of the basic components of global or international health, including health systems, health information, epidemiology/disease control, maternal and child health, and social, cultural, and behavioral factors in health and disease. This innovative program prepares students from diverse personal and professional backgrounds to organize, lead, and support effective global health practice initiatives across the globe.
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of the Certificate program in Global Health Practice, the individual will acquire skills necessary to:
- Apply capacity building processes to global health programming in low and middle-income countries;
- Identify and collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders whose active participation is required for successful global health programming at the community, sub-national, national and regional levels;
- Apply ethical reasoning to the policy and programming decisions needed for designing and implementing global health programs in low and middle-income countries;
- Exhibit a health equity and social justice lens in the design and conduct of global health programs;
- Apply appropriate management processes in the design, implementation and evaluation of global health programs;
- Demonstrate social, cultural and political awareness of the context in which global health programming takes place;
- Conduct strategic analysis of factors that influence the success of global health programming.
LinkedIn© Group
We have established a LinkedIn© group for each of the OPAL program areas in order to strengthen connections between current students, faculty, and alumni of OPAL programs, as well as to facilitate student-to-student peer networking.
Participation is voluntary, but we encourage you to join this professional networking community.
BSPH OPAL Programs in Global Health
Additional Public Health Learning Resources
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Public Health Training Center provides links to many of its online learning resources, as well as external resources, databases and public health organizations. These can be used to supplement learning on a particular topic, or provide background material. Many of these resources are available for free via their website.
The Welch Medical Library at Johns Hopkins has many resources related to research, writing and documentation on their YouTube channel.
The School has a number of research and practice related seminar series that occur throughout the year and contribute to the intellectual community of the School, for students, staff, and faculty. The Bloomberg School has a website that provides some additional resources for practitioners as well.
Practitioners can also access dozens of courses from Bloomberg School faculty on Coursera. Practice-focused offerings include courses on topics such as gun violence, food systems, health equity, biostatistics, and epidemiology, among others.
Admissions
Contact information and complete information about applying to this certificate program can be found on the certificate program page on the Bloomberg School of Public Health website.