Requirements

Certificate Requirements

All Students must take one of the following core courses (plus 12 additional credits):

• EPID 506: Health of Nations: Introduction to International Health (Fall)
• EHS 690: Practice In Global Environmental Health (Fall)
• HBEHED 617: Global Public Health {Not offered 2021-2022}

Requirements for the 12 additional credits:

• Students must take one course aligned with Competency 1.
• Students must complete courses addressing at least three of Competencies 2-6.
• Students may only count up to two non-Public Health courses towards the certificate.
• Students must achieve a grade of B (3.0) or higher in each certificate course.

MPH/MHSA Students Must take at least two courses outside their home department (in addition to a core course).

Non MPH/MHSA Students Must take at least two Public Health courses (in addition to a core course).

Although not a requirement, we encourage all students to participate in the Office of Global Public Health events.

Competency List

1. Understand definitions, concepts, and principles of the evolving concept of global health, and the policies and processes that underlie its historic development and contemporary context;
2. Recognize how recent cultural, political-economic, and environmental trends shape health both locally and globally;
3. Effectively utilize the many global health data sets available in the public domain;
4. Characterize local, regional and global patterns of health and disease;
5. Develop appropriate global health interventions (e.g. policies and programs), and evaluate their impact;
6. Demonstrate the capacity to value and promote health equity, human rights, and social and environmental justice

Global Public Health Course and Competency List

Please search courses within Wolverine Access for the most up-to-date term offerings.

Public Health Courses		Term	Competencies
Environmental Health Sciences			1	2	3	4	5	6
EHS 614	Water and Global Health {not offered Winter 2022}		Y	Y		Y	Y
EHS 690	Practice in Global Environmental Health	Fall	Y	Y
EHS 796	Special Topics (Varies) E-mail sph.registrar@umich.edu to inquire
Epidemiology			1	2	3	4	5	6
EPID 506	Health of Nations: Introduction to International Health	Fall	Y		Y	Y
EPID 605	Infectious Disease Epidemiology	Fall		y		Y
EPID 607	Communicable Diseases in Public Health Practice {Not Offered 2021-2022}		Y			Y		Y
EPID 513 (formerly EPID 609)	Vaccines in Public Health	Fall	Y	Y		Y	Y
EPID 618	Global Social Epidemiology {Not Offered 2021-2022}		Y	Y		Y		Y
EPID 621	Cancer Epidemiology	Winter		y
EPID 634	Foundations in Infectious Disease Transmission Modeling	Winter	Y			Y	Y
EPID 650	Principles and Practice of Preventive Medicine {Not Offered 2021-2022}		Y	Y		Y		Y
EPID 663	Health, Evidence and Human Rights	Fall	y					y
EPID 664	Field Methods for Epidemiology for Developing Countries	Winter		y	y	y
EPID 665	Research Seminar in International Health	Winter			y
EPID 666	Health and Socioeconomic Development	Winter		y		y		y
EPID 673	Epidemiology of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease {Not Offered 2021-2022}					y		y
EPID 822	Malaria and Other Important Vector-Borne Diseases {No Longer Offered}			y		Y	Y
Health Behavior/Health Education			1	2	3	4	5	6
HBEHED 540	Fundamentals of Reproductive Health	Winter	Y	Y		Y
HBEHED 550	HIV/AIDS: Perspectives on the state of affairs, science and response to a global pandemic	Fall		Y	Y		Y
HBEHED 617	Global Public Health	Fall	Y	Y				Y
HBEHED 710-002	Women’s Health Note: For this course to count towards the GPH certificate, students' final papers must focus on a global public health issue. {Not Offered 2021-2022}			Y		Y	Y	Y
Health Management and Policy			1	2	3	4	5	6
HMP 624	Health Policy Challenges in Developing Countries {Not offered 2021-2022}					Y	Y
HMP 625	Comparative Health Policy and Management in High Income Countries	Fall			Y		Y
HMP 671	Cross-national Comparisons of Aging and Health {Not offered 2021-2022}			Y		Y	Y
HMP 672	Population Health in China {No Longer Offered}			Y		Y	Y
HMP 673	Health Program Management and Evaluation in Resource Poor Countries {No Longer Offered}		Y	Y			Y	Y
HMP 677	Health Care Organization: An International Perspective {Not Offered 2021-2022}			Y		Y	Y
Nutritional Sciences			1	2	3	4	5	6
NUTR 555	Foundations of Sustainable Food Systems {Not offered 2021-2022}	Fall	Y	Y		Y		Y
NUTR 633	Evaluation of Global Nutrition Programs {Not offered 2021-2022}		Y		Y		Y
NUTR 644	Global Food Systems Policy	Fall	Y	Y			Y	Y
Public Health			1	2	3	4	5	6
PUBHLTH 616	Public Health in Action - International	Winter	Y	Y		Y
Non-Public Health Courses			1	2	3	4	5	6
AAS 462	Globalization and African Health {Not offered 2021-2022}			Y		Y		Y
BA 685	International Business Immersion	Winter		Y	Y		Y
EAS 555	Climate and Development: Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation in Less Developed Countries {Not offered 2021-2022}		Y	Y		Y
HS 528	Global Perspectives on Research in Vulnerable Populations {Not offered 2021-2022}			Y		Y	Y	Y
LAW 775	ID'ing Human Traff Victims {Not offered 2021-2022}		Y					Y
NURS 642	Global Health Leadership	Winter	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y
PUBPOL 534	Economics of Developing Countries {Not offered 2021-2022}		Y	Y				Y
PUBPOL 662	Global Corporate Social Responsibility {Not offered 2021-2022}		Y	Y				Y
PUBPOL 676	International Politics of Poverty{Not offered 2021-2022}			Y		Y		Y
PUBPOL 717	Social Activism, Democracy, and Globalization from the Perspective of the Global South	Fall	Y	Y				Y
PUBPOL 763	Global Issues: Drugs, Crime and Terrorism {offered every other year}	Fall		Y				Y
SI 537	Crisis Informatics	Fall	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
SOC 430	World Population Dynamics	Fall	Y	Y		Y	Y
SOC 630	Research Methods in Population and Human Ecology: Demographic Methods	Winter	Y		Y	Y
STRATEGY 562/TO 563	Innovation in Global Health Delivery	Fall	Y	Y		Y	Y
	400 graduate-level approved foreign language course, specify:			Y
	400 graduate-level approved Area Studies course, specify:		Y	Y				Y

Other UM programs also offer an incredible range of courses involving issues of globalization.

• Anthropology
• Business
• Economics
• Law
• Literature, Science, and the Arts
• Medicine
• Psychology
• Public Policy
• Social Work
• Sociology