Curriculum

The Certificate of Graduate Study in Public Health is an 18-credit, one-year online program.

Among the highlights:

• Five required courses (15 credits) from five core content areas, as well as one elective course (3 credits) from a relevant area of your choosing
• The five core content areas cover:
  • PH 6010 Public Health & Health Policy
  • PH 6020 Epidemiology
  • PH 6030 Biostatistics
  • PH 6040 Environmental Public Health
  • PH 6050 or PH6170 Health Policy and Management
• Students choose one course from topical electives
• Courses taught by faculty experts from UVM’s College of Medicine, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, the Vermont Department of Health, and experts trained at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Individualized academic advising
• Courses offered during Spring, Fall, and Summer terms to ensure that you can fit the program into your professional schedule

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Curriculum

The Certificate of Graduate Study in Epidemiology is an 18-credit, online program that requires two courses in each of the core areas of Epidemiology and Public Health Biostatistics, and two electives. This assures a solid foundation in population health science while allowing students some flexibility to pursue their own areas of interest. Among the highlights:

• Two core content areas:
  • PH 6020, PH 6070 Epidemiology (6 credits)
  • PH 6030, PH 6090 Public Health Biostatistics (6 credits)
• Students choose two courses from topical electives
• Courses are taught by faculty experts from UVM’s College of Medicine, the Vermont Department of Health, and experts trained at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Individualized academic advising
• Courses offered during fall, spring and summer terms to ensure that you can fit the program into your work or academic schedule

Curriculum

The Certificate of Graduate Study in Global and Environmental Health is an 18-credit, one-year online program. 

Among the highlights:

• Four required courses (12 credits), as well as two elective courses (6 credits) from a relevant area of your choosing
• The four core courses are:
  • PH 6040 Environmental Public Health I (3 credits)
  • PH 6080 Environmental Public Health II (3 credits)
  • PH 6020 Epidemiology (3 credits)
  • PH 6110 Global Public Health (3 credits)
• Students choose two courses from topical electives
• Courses taught by faculty experts from the UVM Larner College of Medicine, the Vermont Department of Health, and experts trained at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Individualized academic advising
• Courses offered during Spring, Fall, and Summer terms to ensure that you can fit the program into your work or academic schedule

Curriculum

The Certificate of Graduate Study in Healthcare Management and Policy is an 18-credit, online program that requires three core courses and three electives. This assures a solid foundation while allowing students some flexibility to pursue their own areas of interest.

Three required courses

• PH 6170 Management in Health Services and Medical Care or PH 6050 Policy, Organization, and Finance in Healthcare
• PH 6240 Public Health Informatics
• PH 6260 Legal Issues in Healthcare

Students choose three courses from topical electives

• Courses taught by faculty experts from the UVM Larner College of Medicine, the Vermont Department of Health, and experts trained at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• Courses offered during the fall, spring and summer terms ensure that you can fit the program into your work or academic schedule.

Develop Your Fluency in the Language of Public Health

This one-year, online program is a collaboration of The Larner College of Medicine at The University of Vermont, Professional and Continuing Education, and the UVM Graduate College. Graduate and medical students, as well as health professionals, practitioners, and researchers may enroll as a stand-alone program or as part of a master’s, MD, or PhD program.

The Epidemiology Certificate provides students with a framework for problem solving and critical thinking in analyzing disease and health-related conditions within diverse populations. Students will develop expertise in disease outbreak investigation, prevention and control, and applied research methods in public health.

The program teaches you to:

• Define a population, especially in terms of disease risk
• Describe the different ways to express disease frequency in a given population
• Apply basic concepts of probability, random variation, and commonly used statistical distributions in data analysis
• Apply the methods used in public health surveillance and disease outbreak investigation
• Evaluate, promote, and improve health across diverse populations
• Explain barriers to public health and discuss health-promotion strategies
• Prepare for further graduate study or research in public health and related fields