Requirements

Core required courses (complete two):

• HBEHED 659: Introduction to Adolescent Substance Use Prevention (Winter, 3 credits) [Previously listed as HBEHED 710: Special MPH Topics: Adolescent Substance Abuse]
• HBEHED 644: Readings in Health Behavior and Health Education: Complete Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention Massive Online Course (MOOC) (Fall, Winter, 3 credits) Please contact Sarah Stoddard (sastodda@umich.edu) to enroll in this course.
• HBHE 710.001: Injury Prevention: Designing and Evaluating Interventions (Not offered 2021-2022)

In addition, please choose from below:

One Elective Methods Course:

• SURVMETH 600 Fundamentals of Survey Methodology (Fall, 3 credits)
• EAS 531 Principles of GIS (Fall, Winter, 4 credits)
• SOC 503 Sociology of Race, Ethnicity, & Immigration (Winter, 3 credits)
• URP 544/EAS 560/SW 710 Behavior and Environment: Transitional Thinking for the New Normal (Fall, 3 credits)(Previously listed as UP 560)
• PSYCH 613 Advanced statistics (Fall, 4 credits)
• PSYCH 614 Advanced statistics (Winter, 4 credits)
• Other advanced methods and statistics courses as approved.
  *Please make an appointment with Sarah Stoddard (sastodda@umich.edu) prior to taking other advanced methods and statistics courses for pre-approval.

Elective Course(s) (3 credits required):

• HS 404/WOMENSTD 404 Gender-Based Violence: From Theory to Action (Fall, 2-3 credits)
• HBEHED 610 Issues in Public Health Ethics (Not offered 2021-2022)
• KINESLGY 505 Topics in Disability Studies (Fall, Winter, 1 – 3 credits)
• HS 520 Assessment for Population Health (Not offered 2021-2022)
• SW 618 Research-informed Practices to Prevent Substance Abuse in Racial and Ethnic Minority Adolescents (Fall, 3 credits)
• SW 706 Neuroscience and Substance Use Disorders (Fall, 1 credit)
• SW 540 Trauma Basics (Fall, Winter, 1 credit)
• SW 541 Trauma Informed Practice (Fall, 1 credit)
• SW 542 Creating and Sustaining Trauma-Informed Systems (Winter,1 credit)
• PUBPOL 573 Socioeconomic Policy and Public Health (No longer offered)
• SW 643 Drug policies: Prevention, treatment, law and social policy (No longer offered)
• SW 702 Family Violence Prevention and Intervention (No longer offered)
• SW 708 Special issues in Interpersonal Violence (No longer offered)
• SW 730 Practice Seminar in Child Maltreatment: Assessment and Treatment (No longer offered)

Field Placement / Practicum:
A field placement/practicum is required for the Injury Science Certificate. This may be fulfilled by your departmental internship requirement, through an Injury Science Independent Study (3 credits that do not count toward the 12-13 required), or through another relevant experience (e.g., work on an injury-related research project). The practicum must be in an area of injury science (for example, violence prevention, prescription drug overdose, motor vehicle safety, traumatic brain injury) and be a minimum of 318 hours. The practicum needs pre-approval. Please e-mail UMInjuryCenter@umich.edu to inquire. Please put 'Injury Certificate' in the subject line.

One Elective Methods Course:

• PUBHLTH 512: Principles Of Epidemiology For Public Health (replaced EPID 503 Strategies and Uses of Epidemiology) (Winter, 3 credits)
• BIOSTAT 501 (Changed from BIOSTAT 503) Introduction to Biostatistics (Fall, 4 credits)
• BIOSTAT 521 (Changed from BIOSTAT 553) Applied Biostatistics (Fall, 4 credits)
• HBEHED 622 Program Evaluation in Health Education (Fall, 3 credits)
• HMP 640 Program Evaluation in Public Health (Winter, 3 credits)
• HBEHED 638 Qualitative Methods in Public Health (Not offered 2021-2022)
• EAS 531 Principles of GIS (Fall, Winter, 4 credits)
• PSYCH 613 Advanced statistics (Fall, 4 credits)
• PSYCH 614 Advanced statistics (Winter, 4 credits)
• Other advanced methods and statistics courses as approved.
  *Please make an appointment with Sarah Stoddard (sastodda@umich.edu) prior to taking other advanced methods and statistics courses for pre-approval.

Elective Course(s) (3 credits required):

• HS 404/WOMENSTD 404 Gender-Based Violence: From Theory to Action (Fall, 2-3 credits)
• HBEHED 610 Issues in Public Health Ethics (Not offered 2021-2022)
• HBEHED 651 Program Development in Health Education (Winter, 4 credits)
• URP 544/EAS 560/SW 710 Behavior and Environment: Transitional Thinking for the New Normal (Fall, 3 credits)(Previously listed as UP 560)
• SOC 503 Sociology of Race, Ethnicity, & Immigration (Winter, 3 credits)
• HS 520 Assessment for Population Health (Not offered 2021-2022)
• SW 618 Research-informed Practices to Prevent Substance Abuse in Racial and Ethnic Minority Adolescents (Fall, 3 credits)  
• SW 706 Neuroscience and Substance Use Disorders (Fall, 1 credit)
• SW 540 Trauma Basics (Fall, Winter, 1 credit)
• SW 541 Trauma Informed Practice (Fall, 1 credit)
• SW 542 Creating and Sustaining Trauma-Informed Systems (Winter, 1 credit)
• PUBPOL 573 Socioeconomic Policy and Public Health (No longer offered)
• SW 643 Drug policies: Prevention, treatment, law and social policy (No longer offered)
• SW 702 Family Violence Prevention and Intervention (No longer offered)
• SW 708 Special issues in Interpersonal Violence (No longer offered)
• SW 730 Practice Seminar in Child Maltreatment: Assessment and Treatment (No longer offered)

Field Placement / Practicum:
A field placement/practicum is required for the Injury Science Certificate. This may be fulfilled by your departmental internship requirement, through an Injury Science Independent Study (3 credits that do not count toward the 12-13 required), or through another relevant experience (e.g., work on an injury-related research project). The practicum must be in an area of injury science (for example, violence prevention, prescription drug overdose, motor vehicle safety, traumatic brain injury) and be a minimum of 318 hours. The practicum needs pre-approval. Please e-mail UMInjuryCenter@umich.edu to inquire. Please put 'Injury Certificate' in the subject line.