Public Health Certificate Programs

Enhance your knowledge and career prospects with our graduate certificates. The University of Michigan School of Public Health Public Health offers several certificates that allow students to delve deeper into their areas of interest. Additionally, several certificates administered through other units at the University of Michigan are available to School of Public Health students

View our Certificates of Interest to learn more about certificate programs administered through other units at the University.

For more information on Michigan Public Health certificates, contact the registrar at sph.registrar@umich.edu. Current students can also learn more by registering for our residential graduate certificate information sessions.

Certificate in Global Health

The Certificate in Global Public Health engages students in analysis and action toward understanding and improving the ways globalization affects human well-being. The certificate focuses on public health issues resulting from the globalization of the world's economies, cultures, production systems, transnational policies, and increasingly shared environments.

Certificate in Health Care Infection Prevention and Control

The Certificate in Health Care Infection Prevention and Control (CHIP) provides students with the knowledge and skills needed to work in this field including surveillance, clinical microbiology, and infectious disease epidemiology. Participants will be given preference for infection control internships in the state of Michigan.

Certificate in Injury Science

The Certificate in Injury Science provides students with an understanding of urgent injury issues through research, education, outreach, practice, and prevention. Many injury topics are covered with a focus on transportation safety, violence interventions, prescription drug misuse, substance abuse, suicide, and concussions.

Certificate in Public Health Genetics

The Certificate in Public Health Genetics features interdisciplinary training that provides students with knowledge and skills required to apply advances in genomic science to improve population health.

Maternal and Child Nutrition Certificate

The Maternal and Child Nutrition certificate provides students a foundation in maternal and child nutrition and the skills to work in public health settings that aim to advance the nutrition and health of women and children in communities.

Certificate in Risk Science and Human Health

The Certificate in Risk Science and Human Health prepares students for increasingly complex health risks in a rapidly changing technological, social, economic, and political landscape through science-informed and socially responsive decision making on risks to human health.

Certificate in Social Epidemiology

Students who complete the Certificate in Social Epidemiology will develop the interdisciplinary skills needed to understand and address the ways that social factors influence population health and health disparities.

Public Health Certificate Programs

Certificate in Global Health

Certificate in Health Care Infection Prevention and Control

Certificate in Injury Science

Certificate in Public Health Genetics

Maternal and Child Nutrition Certificate

Certificate in Risk Science and Human Health

Certificate in Social Epidemiology

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