Public Health Certificate Program

This survey course introduces public health concepts and practice. Students examine the origin and development of the modern public health system and the relationship of public health to the overall healthcare system. The philosophy, purpose, essential dimensions, critical issues, and values related to public health practice are also explored and discussed. This course is the first required course in the MPH program.

This course introduces concepts related to global health promotion and public health education. Students examine common behavioral and social science theories used in health communication, education and health promotion. Coursework examines various settings, roles and agencies for promoting health as well as effective program designs used in community, school, worksite, and healthcare settings.

The course addresses factors associated with biological, physical and chemical environmental health issues. Students examine interaction among individuals, communities and the environment, the potential health impact of environmental agents and specific applications of environmental health policies and practices. Also examined are approaches for assessing, preventing, and controlling environmental health hazards, as well as regulatory programs that control environmental health issues.

This course introduces basic principles of epidemiology and biostatistics and their application in assessing and addressing current public health issues. Students will draw inferences; apply findings to prevent or control health-related events; and explore concepts such as sampling, exploratory data analysis, prevalence, incidence, risk, and frequency distribution. Types of studies (i.e., quantitative, qualitative, mixed, observational, experimental, cohort, case, and more), biases, and appropriate use of these studies will also be explored and applied. The course will interweave the concepts of behavioral and social issues, social responsibility, policy, policy-making, and ethical and legal principles related to collecting, maintaining, using, and disseminating data.

This course will be a continuation of epidemiological and biostatistical principles, case studies and exercises. Students will continue in this course to draw inferences; apply findings to prevent or control health-related events. Hypothesis development and data testing (i.e., T-tests, ANOVA, regression analysis, and more) will be explored and utilized through the use of statistical software and in the context of application to real-life scenarios. The course will also include discussions and work related to disease association, infectious disease, disease prevention, policy making, behavioral epidemiology, and special studies related to health disorders. The course will also interweave the concepts of ethical and legal principles related to collecting, maintaining, using, and disseminating data.

This introduction course is required to be taken by all MPH students. The focus of this course is to orient students to graduate studies at Chamberlain within the MPH program. Students will be introduced to Chamberlain Care® and explore how it is integral to their success as a student in the MPH program. In addition, this course introduces students to self-care and the importance of maintaining a healthy school/work/family balance. Finally, this course is designed to help MPH students learn and improve skills and strategies that are essential to their academic success.

This course is a pre-requisite course for students wishing to enroll in MPH-500. It is designed to reorient students with the basic elements of writing expected at the graduate level with a primary focus on APA, scholarly tone, sentence structure, grammar, composition, and plagiarism. This course requires students to do proactive brainstorming, free-writing, sentence construction (in the context of short writing assignments), paragraph construction, the organization of ideas, and the several types of purposes of, and audiences for, general essays. Students will build on these basic skills by planning, writing, and revising essays, and experiencing writing and reading as a multi-step process. In addition, students will also learn the process and value of peer-to-peer editing. Through activities, application, and reflection, the materials covered in this course will support students as they progress through the MPH program.