Global Health and Development
Graduate Certificate
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To our friends, neighbors and colleagues across the globe, welcome, benvenuto, bienvenidos, Shalom, Karibu, Soo Dhowow, jī āiā nū̃! Your participation in this program ensures that the most up-to-date thinking in public health becomes readily available to communities virtually everywhere.
The Graduate Certificate in Global Health and Development is designed for working professionals and individuals entering the field of global health. This online program is a flexible, academically rigorous option for those who wish to balance coursework and career. Using emerging technologies that are rapidly transforming the ways we communicate, students from around the world will collaborate on new approaches to old problems and gain needed skills in a flexible format.
The Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health launched the Global Health Institute (GHI) to find evidence-based solutions to global health problems through the education and training of tomorrow’s global health leaders. This unique partnership promotes collaboration between the University of Arizona, partner universities, organizations, and individuals around the world.
*Residents of some U.S. Territories may not be eligible. Please see our Eligibility & State Authorization page for more information.
The curriculum for this program includes:
This course is designed to equip participants with skills in conceptualizing, developing, implementing, and evaluating small-scale projects in global health and development. The course will provide instructions on sources of funding for health and development projects, how to assess and prioritize community health needs, how to write projects goals and objectives that are SMART, how to select appropriate designs, how to collect and organize data, how to implement and evaluate the project, including how to develop project logic models, how to develop and justify a budget, how to foster community participation, and approaches to promote project sustainability.
This course introduces students to the world’s immense diversity of determinants of health and disease. It provides an opportunity for students to critically appraise health care delivery systems in different parts of the world. Current and emerging global health priorities are analyzed, including emerging infectious diseases, poverty, wars and other civil conflicts, health inequalities, principles and impact of health systems reforms, and major global initiatives for disease prevention including the rapidly growing non-communicable diseases pandemic.
The purpose of this course is to equip participants with up-to-date knowledge on major infections of global importance, and prevention and control strategies so that infections and large disease outbreaks can be prevented and/or easily contained.
Students will develop the knowledge and skills to work in national and international contexts by contributing to and managing global public health humanitarian crises and programs. Graduate students will have advanced level material and additional assignments as shown in the syllabus.
