2024-2025 Academic Catalog

Global Health and Global Health Engagement Certificate

Overview

The Global Health and Global Health Engagement Certificate is a five-course graduate program that offers coursework in global health science and policy with an extra emphasis on real-world applications relevant to the U.S. military, the U.S. federal government, and our allies and partners. Begun in 2016 and fully accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, the program’s students earn a “Graduate Certificate in Global Health and Global Health Engagement” after successful completion of 13.5 credits of coursework, all of which can be completed now by distance learning. With the permission of the program director, the required courses listed below can be replaced with other elective courses offered by USU that are relevant to the field of global health. This certificate program is administered through the Division of Global Public Health in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics.

Certificate Requirements

Complete the following:

PMO 528Foundations in Global Health

2.25

PMO 547Joint Health Operations

3

PMO 613Public Health Issues of Disasters

3

PMO 1007Advanced Seminar in Global Health Policy and Planning

2.25

PMO 1037DoD Global Health Engagement

3

Total Credit Hours:13.5