Public Health CGS

Program Overview

If you’re committed to improving health outcomes for everyone — and passionate about improving health access and equality — then the field of Public Health needs you. When you join UVM’s top-ranked online Public Health program, you’ll learn to ask provocative questions about the ways in which housing, racism, health policy, and the environment impact population health. And you’ll explore how an interdisciplinary approach that blends public policy, research, and population health science is critical to implementing public health interventions that prioritize the lived experiences of diverse populations

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

Costs and Funding

Please refer to Certificates of Graduate Study on the Graduate Program list in Student Financial Services.