Several certificate programs are offered through the School of Public Health Sciences and Professions and its parent academic unit, the College of Health and Human Services. Click the title below to read more details about each program.
AFRICAN COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES
Explores research on health-care services, disease prevention, environmental sanitation, politics and economics of health care, and the use of health information and communication systems and processes to promote African community health development/organization and social action.
HEALTH CARE SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
Designed for health and health-related professionals who want the basic administrative and managerial knowledge that this program can provide. Students are exposed to the competencies, knowledge and skills needed to function more effectively in a variety of administrative and managerial roles throughout health services organizations.
HEALTH POLICY
Addresses the educational needs of graduate students and professionals in health care and related industries who have already earned a bachelor’s or graduate degree. Candidates include those planning to work in business, government, health sciences, hearing and speech sciences, medicine, nursing, nutrition, political science, physical therapy, psychology, or social work.
UNDERGRADUATE GERONTOLOGY
Designed for students in any major who want to gain knowledge and skills for a career that involves working with the elderly. Health care, social services, recreation, mental health, education, administration, and business are examples of service areas that now employ large numbers of persons working with and for the aging population.
GRADUATE GERONTOLOGY
Designed for graduate students and professionals not only in health care but a variety of other disciplines who work with the aging or elderly population and who have a bachelor’s or graduate degree. You may be interested in the program if you work or plan to work in business; exercise physiology; family studies; government; health sciences; hearing, speech and language sciences; medicine; nursing; nutrition; physical therapy; psychology; recreation; sociology; or social work.