Global Health Certificate
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Global Health Issues for Graduate & Undergraduate Students
The Duke University Global Health Institute is pleased to offer the Global Health Certificate Program to undergraduate and graduate students. Courses in the global health certificate program address two interrelated goals:
- to provide future leaders with tools both to synthesize current knowledge in new ways and to formulate innovative solutions to achieve improvement in the quality of health for underserved populations; and
- to create the requisite interdisciplinary approach that will improve the understanding of global health issues.
The requirement of relevant fieldwork will complement students’ intellectual development with a practical understanding of global health issues. The program will capitalize on Duke’s diverse strengths in medicine, law, nursing, business, humanities and social sciences. It will span the continuum of basic sciences to applied sciences, resulting in an interdisciplinary approach to global health.
View the Global Health Certificate Requirements.
View available courses for fall 2008.
View the Global Health Certificate Mission, Objectives, and Assessment Document.
Registration
Undergraduate students register for the Global Health Certificate Program after declaring a major by emailing the registrar () and Program Coordinator () asking to have the Certificate added to their records.
Graduate students register for the Global Health Certificate Program by filing out the Graduate Certificate Program Application.
For more information, contact Michael G. Russell at .
Mission Statement of the Global Health Certificate Program
The Global Health Certificate Program aims to develop future leaders with tools both to synthesize current knowledge in new ways and to formulate innovative solutions to achieve improvement in the quality of health for underserved populations. Students work in interdisciplinary teams to learn how to make significant contributions to the current challenges facing the world today, while also understanding the ethical concerns of working across cultural and economic boundaries. The Global Health Certificate Program capitalizes on Duke’s diverse strengths in medicine, law, nursing, engineering, the environment, and business, as well as its broad Arts & Sciences base to bring together faculty and students from across campus. In short, the Global Health Certificate Program spans the continuum of basic sciences to applied sciences, resulting in an interdisciplinary approach to global health that fits with the University’s educational mission.
Objectives of the Global Health Certificate Program
- Certificate students will value and be able to implement interdisciplinary approaches to Global Health problems. (Introductory and capstone courses.)
- Certificate students will be able to recognize high-quality research methods, evaluate the validity of qualitative and quantitative research, and identify the methodology appropriate to answer specific global health questions. (Methods course)
- Certificate students will attain a high degree of competency in developing team work skills and negotiating group-based power dynamics during interdisciplinary team projects and presentations. (Introductory, ethics and capstone courses.)
- Certificate students will be able to identify some of the major ethical challenges in Global Health as well as discern potential concerns about their own cross-cultural work. (Introductory course, ethics course and fieldwork.)
- Certificate students will attain strong written and oral communication skills. (Capstone course.)
- Certificate students will exhibit strong creative problem solving skills. (Capstone course.)
