Graduate Programs
Student Learning Outcomes
Graduate Certificates
Public Health Certificate Competencies
- Use biostatistical methods to analyze and report public health data.
- Specify approaches to assess, prevent and control environmental and occupational hazards to human health and safety.
- Use epidemiologic methods to collect, study, analyze and report the patterns of disease in human populations for diverse audiences.
- Apply policy process, development and analysis methods to address current national, state and local public health issues.
- Identify social and behavioral science factors, theories and models and develop, implement and evaluate interventions designed to positively affect health behaviors in populations.
- Exhibit high standards of personal and organizational integrity, compassion, honesty and respect for all people.
- Identify the impact of diversity and culture on public health across discipline areas.
- Identify the basic ethical and legal principles pertaining to the collection, maintenance, use and dissemination of public health data.
Health Policy Certificate Competencies
- Background information on the health care system
- Understand an organization’s place within the health care system and the larger community;
- Understand how decisions are made within the private, non-profit and government sectors;
- Understand connections across these sectors
- Health Law/ethics
- Have a broad understanding of legal context for health administration
- Have a broad understanding of the values and ethics that underpin health care administration
- Be sensitive to diversity in the population and its implications for health care delivery
- Quantitative Skills
- Have a basic working knowledge of statistical analysis
- Be able to measure and assess health status and health risks
- Evaluate health care process improvements and performance
- Decision Making
- Develop analytic skills for effective decision making, including economics and management science
- Personal Development
- talent development
- initiative
- innovative thinking
Health Systems Management Certificate Competencies
- Background information on the health care system
- Understand an organization’s place within the health care system and the larger community;
- Understand how decisions are made within the private, non-profit and government sectors; understand connections across these sectors
- Leadership/professionalism
- Develop verbal and written communication and negotiation skills
- Understand the principles of effective human resource management
- Develop skills in relationship/team building
- Develop an awareness of ethical standards for the profession
- Human resource management
- Understand the principles of effective recruitment and personnel management
- Health Law/ethics
- Have a broad understanding of the values and ethics that underpin health care administration
- Be sensitive to diversity in the population and its implications for health care delivery
- Financial Skills
- Have a command of the basic skills of accounting and financial management (e.g., prepare and manage budgets)
- Understand principles of sound investment decisions
- Decision Making
- Develop analytic skills for effective decision making, including economics and management science