Advanced Certificate in Public Health Disaster Science, Policy and Practice
The Advanced Certificate in Public Health Disaster Science, Policy and Practice offers online and in-person options for students in good-standing who are interested in a multi-disciplinary approach to the scholarship, policies, and practices associated with preventing, preparing for, responding to, and recovering from public health disasters and complex emergencies. The Certificate requires a minimum of five courses and 15 credits.
Program outcomes
Upon completion of the Advanced Certificate in Disaster Science, Policy, and Practice, students will be able to:
1. Develop leadership and management decision-making skills for public health and healthcare incident management
2. Develop communication and coordination skills for engaging the public and optimizing a public health emergency preparedness and response system
3. Refine disaster research skills for evaluating emergency systems, assessing the impacts of disasters on vulnerable populations, and designing interventions that enhance preparedness, response, and recovery
4. Use systems thinking to design or critically analyze response and recovery systems, including agent-based modeling techniques
You will learn…
- The organizational aspects of public health preparedness
- A practical understanding of threats, risks, and hazards
- The complex systems that constitute public health emergency response systems
- Methodological challenges to evaluating individual and system readiness, and to researching the factors associated with community, institutional, and individual resilience
- The evolving standards of professional public health practice for preparedness and response
Join the Population Impact, Resilience, Recovery Lab
The PiR2 Lab examines the health consequences of disasters, individual and community resilience, and long-term recovery from acute collective stressors with a social-ecological lens. The PiR2 Lab offers an opportunity for students to work directly with research datasets, to learn about public health disaster science, and to work on scientific articles.
