Certificate Programs

Overview

Sponsoring department

• Mental Health

Educational Objectives

This program is offered through the Department of Mental Health, this program provides graduate training in understanding the causes and consequences of mental disorders in populations. Courses describe clinical and behavioral features, the incidence and prevalence of disorders, and identify factors that promote or influence the occurrence, persistence, or severity of mental and behavioral disorders. Effective research strategies in public mental health include operationalization of case definitions, measurement in populations, design of prevention strategies, and analytical techniques. The goals are to increase the epidemiologic expertise of psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, and to increase the number of epidemiologists, biostatisticians, and health policy makers, with an interest in psychiatric disorders.

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Intended Audience

The certificate is intended for current students in the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health including M.P.H. students, M.H.S. students, doctoral candidates interested in mental health, psychiatrists in residency training, postdoctoral fellows, as well as non-degree seeking students who have at least an undergraduate degree from an accredited college or university.

Admissions Criteria

Current JHBSPH students. Applicants must declare their intent to obtain a certificate, in an email to the Administrative Contact, before enrolling in their final term of courses.

Non-degree seeking students must have at least an undergraduate degree from an accredited college or university. Students must submit a formal application via the School's website for the Department of Mental Health to be a Special Student Regular. The GRE test score requirement will be waived. Please email the Administrative Contact after submitting the application.