Certificate in Consumer Health Advocacy

The Consumer Health Advocacy certificate program at the Center for Patient Partnerships educates a diversity of learners interested in health advocacy. Students around the country come to this interdisciplinary health advocacy center to learn critical health advocacy skills while helping patients navigate the complex health care system.

The Center for Patient Partnerships is a national resource for strengthening the consumer perspective in health care.We have graduate students from Law, Medicine, Pharmacy, Physician Assistant, Physical Therapy, Public Health, Social Work, Gender and Women's Studies, Engineering, and others participating in our certificate program.

Additional opportunities are available in patient experience research and organizational and legislative policy advocacy through student-led case to cause” projects.

Click on the Requirements tab on the right side navigation bar for general program requirements.

*The certificate requirements differ based on your discipline. Please [email protected] talk to an advisor.

Field Placements, Clerkships, Fellowships, and Individual Courses: detailed descriptions can be found in the documentUW Student opportunities. Please contact [email protected] or call 608-263-7736 for an advising session to get started.

1. Develop advocacy capacity that emphasizes patient empowerment.
2. Develop critical health advocacy competencies including communication, collaborative decision making, cultural humility, and ethics.
3. Experience the discipline of advocacy from a case-based perspective, and explore how various key advocacy roles can be useful in specific situations.
4. Gain familiarity with the U. S. health care delivery system and the systemic problems that give rise to the need for advocacy at the individual organizational and policy levels.