This certificate program provides participants an opportunity to develop competencies in public health preparedness. The program is intended for public health workers, for professionals interested in careers in public health, and for others who would like to acquire the understanding and skills necessary to conduct successful preparedness activities relating to public health.

Students learn an "all hazards" approach to emergency response, an understanding of public health and medical aspects of agents of mass injury or destruction, to analyze public health problems using a systems approach, to review and discuss critically written health education materials, how to characterize hazards to target populations, the roles of the various tools used to analyze health impacts, and the epidemiologcal approach to prevention.

REQUIRED COURSES (All courses are three (3) credits unless otherwise indicated.)

PHCO 0505 Health Education and Behavioral Science in Public Health
ENOH 0697 Public Health Preparedness I: Agents of Mass Injury or Destruction
ENOH 0696 Public Health Preparedness II: Emergency Management and Response
PHCO 0502 Principles and Methods of Epidemiology
PHCO 0503 Introduction to Environmental Health

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Clinical Epidemiology Environmental and Occupational Health General Public Health Public Health Preparedness Public Policy and Oral Health Services Administration

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