Certificate in Global Health

Point of Contact
Allan Weiss/Dr. Lisa Pawloski
Phone: 703-993-3126
E-mail: aweiss2@gmu.edu

This program develops an understanding of international health through a practicum as well as a sequence of courses that includes global health, anthropology, international relations, communications, and geography.

Certificate Requirements

Applicants must hold a bachelor's degree. Application is made through the College of Health and Human Services. To earn the certificate, students must complete all courses with a 3.00 GPA.

Program of Study

• Required Courses (12 credits)
  • GCH 543 (3:3:0)
    Global health trends and policies
    
  • GCH 590 (3:3:0)
    International health organizations
    
  • GCH 530 (3:3:0)
    Nutrition a global perspective
    
  • GCH 798 (3:1:8)
    Public health practicum I
    
• Elective Courses (6 credits) – Choose 2 courses from the following:
  • ANTH 631 (3:3:0)
    Refugees in the contemporary world
  • COMM 502 (3:3:0)
    Social marketing
    
  • COMM 637 (3:3:0)
    Risk communication
  • GCH 550 (3:3:0)
    Introduction to Rehabilitation Science
    
  • GCH 580 (3:3:0)
    Environmental health
    
  • GCH 602 (3:3:0)
    Global issues related to health and violence
    
  • GCH 605 (3:3:0)
    Social Epidemiology
    
  • GCH 610 (3:3:0)
    Found. of Health Education & Behavior
    
  • GCH 620 (3:3:0)
    Psychosocial Aspects of rehabilitation
    
  • GCH 637 (3:3:0)
    Normal Aging and Health Deviation
    
  • GCH 680 (3:3:0)
    International Research Ethics and Methods
    
  • GCH 712 (3:3:0)
    Introduction to epidemiology
    
  • GCH 722 (3:3:0)
    Infectious Disease Epidemiology
    
  • GCH 752 (3:3:0)
    Nutritional Epidemiology
    
  • GCH 751 (3:3:0)
    Nutrition Assessment, Monitoring, and Surveillance
    
  • GEOG 540 (3:3:0)
    Medical geography
  • GEOG 581 (3:3:0)
    World food and population
    
  • HAP 609 (3:3:0)
    Comparative International Health systems
    
  • HHS 597 (3:3:0)
    Approaches to Data Analysis to Healthcare Research
    
  • PUAD 636 (3:3:0)
    The NGO, managing the international nonprofit organization
    
  • Approved global health electives from the Department of Global and Community Health

Total = 18 Credits

Explanation of Credit Hours

Course titles are followed by numbers in parentheses (0:0:0), separated by colons.  The numbers have the following significance:

• First number: credits for the course
• Second number: hours of lecture or seminar per week for the course
• Third number: hours of laboratory for the course

For independent study, readings, topics, or similar courses, individual instructors set hours.