Public Health Courses and Certifications

Community Change in Public Health

10 ratings

Learn to diagnose community structure and norms, apply ecological and community change models, and design participatory interventions such as community-directed treatment for onchocerciasis and malaria.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Public Health in Humanitarian Crises 1

580 ratings at Coursera

Examine how disasters upend health: assess water and sanitation, food security, malnutrition, shelter, disease burden and displaced-population protection, and design humanitarian interventions.

• Coursera
• 10 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Major Depression in the Population: A Public Health Approach

384 ratings at Coursera

Apply public health thinking to depression: measure disease burden, use case-control and cohort designs, weigh genetic, stress and social causes, and examine unmet treatment need.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

The People, Power, and Pride of Public Health

265 ratings at Coursera

Explore public health's achievements through interviews on vaccines, air bags, and WIC, its tools of data, messaging, and policy, and local health workers in Baltimore County.

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

Career Certificate

Foundations of Public Health Practice

726 ratings at Coursera

This specialisation will enable you to reflect on and cultivate the behaviours you require to become an effective public health professional –whether as an academic, practitioner, clinician, manager or leader.

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

Tobacco & Nicotine: Public Health, Science, Policy, and Law

1 rating

Examine how cigarette smoking became the leading preventable cause of death: health effects, industry tactics, tobacco control policy, litigation, harm reduction debates, and policy modeling.

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

A Public Health Approach to Hearing Loss and Aging

17 ratings at Coursera

Examine hearing loss in older adults as a public health issue: epidemiologic study design, evidence linking hearing loss to dementia and healthcare use, and policy translation.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Humanitarian Health: A Public Health Approach in Crises

Explore public health responses to natural and conflict disasters, covering water and sanitation, food security, nutrition, shelter, health services, and protection of displaced populations.

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

Foundations of Public Health Practice: The Public Health Approach

551 ratings at Coursera

The scope and content of this course has been developed from the ground up by a combined team of academics and practitioners drawing on decades of real-world public health experience as well as deep academic knowledge.

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

Foundations of Public Health Practice: Health Protection

124 ratings at Coursera

The scope and content of this course has been developed from the ground up by a combined team of academics and practitioners drawing on decades of real-world public health experience as well as deep academic knowledge.

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

Foundations of Public Health Practice: Behaviour & Behaviour Change

110 ratings at Coursera

The scope and content of this course has been developed from the ground up by a combined team of academics and practitioners drawing on decades of real-world public health experience as well as deep academic knowledge.

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

Public Health Leadership: Leadership in Crisis

Apply leadership theory to public health crises: essential public health services, leadership models and practices, role models, and lessons learned about what works in crisis management.

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

Foundations of Public Health Practice: The Public Health Toolkit

76 ratings at Coursera

In this course we cover health needs assessment, evaluation and public health intelligence-approaches.

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

Career Certificate

Participatory Approaches in Public Health

34 ratings at Coursera

Design participatory approaches to public health challenges, working through their history, theory and practice, the social and cultural contexts of programmes, and public involvement in research.

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