Global Health Courses and Certifications

Career Certificate

Impacts of the Environment on Global Public Health

325 ratings at Coursera

Examine how air and water pollution, hazardous waste, radon, noise, and climate change shape health, using risk assessment to evaluate policies and advocate for environmental justice.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 4 courses

Non-Communicable Diseases in Humanitarian Settings

119 ratings at Coursera

According to the World Health Organization, 70 percent of global deaths are due to NCDs. The four main disease groups which cause the greatest number of deaths are cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (includ…

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Migration and health

Examine how migration shapes health: key global migration trends, health risks at each migration stage, treaties protecting migrants' rights, and universal health coverage for migrants.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Strengthening Community Health Worker Programs

35 ratings at edX

Learn to deliver high-quality primary health care at scale through national community health worker programs.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 2-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Stanford Medcast Episode 38: Hot Topics Mini-Series - Role of Surgery in Humanitarian Aid

An expert surgeon examines how surgery addresses humanitarian health needs in low- and middle-resource countries, drawing on experience with Doctors Without Borders and global surgical partnerships.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Environmental Hazards and Global Public Health

109 ratings at Coursera

Examine how air and water pollution, noise, radon, and solid and hazardous waste harm human health, and how urbanization and the built environment shape global health.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Health Equity Research & Practice: Local & Global Lessons

1 rating

Examine how structural drivers and systems of power shape health equity, with inequities in reproductive and immigrant health and stakeholder-engaged intervention development across global settings.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Data to Advance Population Health: Global Perspectives

Learn to use population-level data to strengthen health programs: the data-generation-to-use cycle, health services data for decision-making, and a gender and equity lens on data systems.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Data Use for Disease Control & Global Health Decision-Making

Conduct epidemiologic surveillance for disease control: study polio eradication in settings like Nigeria and the DR Congo, and collect quality data for program decisions.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Menstruation in a Global Context: Addressing Policy and Practice

43 ratings at edX

Recently, menstruation has attracted attention as an important public health issue, resulting in the proliferation of new research, programs, and policies aimed at tackling menstrual health and hygien

• edX
• 14 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Global Health at the Human-Animal-Ecosystem Interface

370 ratings at Coursera

Explore global health challenges at the human-animal-ecosystem interface: zoonotic emerging infections, antimicrobial resistance, neglected tropical diseases, snakebite, and the One Health, Eco-Health and Planetary Health approaches.

• Coursera
• 10 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Global Health Innovations

302 ratings at Coursera

Examine how health innovations get adopted: apply innovation management terminology, ethics, financing and IP protection, and entrepreneurship frameworks to case studies from idea to market.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

Global Adolescent Health

129 ratings at Coursera

Examine the health of the world's largest-ever youth generation: apply a life-course framework to puberty, brain development, sexual and mental health, injury, and adolescent-friendly policy.

• Coursera
• 7 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Medicine Grand Rounds - Haiti after the Earthquake: A Reflection 10 Years, March 6, 2020

A reflection on Haiti’s post-earthquake healthcare transformation and the community-based lessons it offers for responding to disasters and epidemics.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Urban Health in Crisis: Response from Sub-Saharan Africa

Learn about the complex health challenges urban environments face, and how these issues are being addressed. Join world-renowned lecturers and researchers to delve into an understanding of urban popul

• edX
• 12 weeks, 1-2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate