Global Health Monitoring and Evaluation is a 12-credit graduate certificate program that will train students for careers as future leaders prepared to address real-world issues affecting the human condition.
As a student in this program, you will acquire expertise in global health program evaluation. Your classmates will most likely be practicing professionals with a background in health care policies, systems, practices or clinicians and health administrators interested in increasing their knowledge and skills in the global arena.
Program Completion Timeline
- All concentration courses will be offered at least once each year to enable you to complete the program within 9 months.
- Although most students complete the program 9 months, you will be allowed up to 3 years to complete the program.
- Participants can start the program in the spring or fall term.
Our goal is to provide you with advanced knowledge and practical training so that what you learn is both relevant and applicable to your professional context. We have designed the program so that you will develop the expertise in global health that you need to succeed in positions requiring this knowledge.
Educational Objectives
Upon completion, you will be able to do the following:
- Understand program management.
- Plan, implement, and evaluate an evidence-based program.
- Apply project management techniques throughout program planning, implementation, and evaluation.
- Comprehend strategic analysis and identify how demographic and other major factors can influence patterns of morbidity, mortality, and disability in a define population.
- Execute a community needs assessment.
- Conduct a situational analysis across a range of cultural, economic, and health contexts.
- Design context-specific health interventions and evaluations based upon situational analysis.
Certificate students will leave the program prepared to address systemic problems impacting local and global communities.