Public Health Policy Post-Doctoral Certificate

This course examines the environment as a social determinant of health for individuals and populations. Students will gain understanding of the intersectionality of health disparities and environmental health. Students will examine environmental public health scientific and foundational concepts of importance to the health promotion practitioner. This course focuses on the skills, tools, and approaches needed to address environmental health problems through policy processes and practice of population health.

This course lays the framework for the advanced public health role with an emphasis on public health policy. This course explores conceptual models and frameworks to examine complex public health issues, systems, policies and practice. Students evaluate community issues and integrate clinical health practices emphasizing a health promotion and prevention approach while addressing health disparities of vulnerable and diverse populations.

This course provides a foundation for a systematic process to clarify, prioritize and justify ethical principles and values that guide public health action. Students will compare and contract public health ethics to bioethics and medical ethics that guide biology and clinical medicine, which are individual or patient-centered. Throughout this course students will distinguish public health ethics as a population-based approach to public health as a field of study.

This course uses the Culture of Health framework to examine the role of civic health in the health and well-being of individuals and communities. Students will examine civic health indicators (volunteering, giving, group membership, trust in institutions, social interactions, neighbor connectedness, and voting, registration and political involvement) in relation to population-based care, health policy, ethics and finance. Examination of social change leadership, analysis of civic-related research and exploration of civic identity will further student civic and public purpose as a healthcare professional and educated citizen.

This course engages students in a comprehensive study of the concepts of epidemiology in relation to healthcare practice, public health and health policy. Concepts of health, risk, disease causality and strategies to reduce the incidence and prevalence of health problems will be examined.