2024-2025 Graduate & Professional Studies Catalog
Public Health Genetics Certificate
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The overall goal of the certificate program in public health genetics is to give public health trainees or professionals the core genetics competencies that they need to integrate genetics into any public health discipline. Students enrolled in this certificate program are trained to incorporate knowledge of how genes, together with the environment and behavior, influence health and to apply this insight into their area of practice or research. The certificate program assumes that participants already have standard public health competencies or are in the process of acquiring them through other coursework.
The curriculum consists of 15 credits, of which at least 12 must be traditional classroom courses. The remaining 3 credits may be additional coursework, seminar, project, or practicum work, as described below.
Students enrolled in Human Genetics degree programs other than the MPH in Public Health Genetics may receive the certificate, with the stipulation that the certificate curriculum must include at least 9 credits of coursework, seminar, project, or practicum work that is not part of the coursework for their degree.
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