Public Health Certificate Programs

University of Michigan School of Public Health residential graduate students have the option to earn graduate certificates in a variety of concentrations that help them dive deeper into their passions and support their career ambitions. There are seven residential graduate certificates offered by the School of Public Health and several more administered through other units at the University.

View our Certificates of Interest. These certificates are administered through other units at the University:

For more information on Michigan Public Health certificates, contact sph.registrar@umich.edu.

If you're interested in the Residential School of Public Health Graduate Certificates, please register for one (or more!) upcoming information sessions this September!

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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