The Global Health Graduate Certificate provides opportunities for highly motivated graduate and professional students from across Duke to engage in the field of global health through a combination of coursework, field-based experience and engagement with peers and faculty.

The Global Health Graduate Certificate involves the completion of 

• three courses (Global Health Challenges and two graduate-level global health electives)
• a graduate seminar
•  optional field-based experience

Optional Field Experience

The field-based experiential learning activity can provide you with an opportunity to understand the complexity of health in underserved populations and offer you a chance to apply your interdisciplinary knowledge and methodology in the search for solutions. Students who complete an approved, field-based experience may have the option to waive one elective course. 

Each year we offer a limited number of competitive fieldwork grants of up to $5,000 each to enrolled Certificate students.

Applications for the Global Health Graduate Certificate are accepted year-round, but must be submitted at least one calendar year before you anticipate graduating. We strongly recommend that you express interest when you begin your graduate studies to allow sufficient time to meet the requirements.

APPLY:

• Step 1. Complete this Kuali form to let us know you're interested. 
• Step 2: Meet with Amanda Frederick, DGHI Senior Graduate Admissions Coordinator, to discuss your goals and timeline for the certificate.
• Step 3: Confirm with your home department that you have time and space in your curriculum to complete certificate requirements.
• Step 4: Connect with the DGHI community through participation in events! Sign up for our email list.