Certificate Programs

Overview

Sponsoring department

• Population, Family and Reproductive Health

Educational Objectives

The certificate is designed to serve two audiences—masters or doctoral degree students at The Johns Hopkins University and junior and mid-level professionals—desiring to expand their knowledge of population dynamics and its linkages with public health issues and their ability to relate population-level concepts and measures of fertility, morbidity and mortality, and migration to epidemiologic risks. A population’s health is shaped by fertility, mortality and migration patterns; and population numbers themselves provide the denominators of basic measures of public health, such as life expectancy, cause-specific mortality rates, and infection rates. Connecting a population and health perspective with public health epidemiology allows us to measure and assess the aggregate-level structure of and variation in health risks by age, sex, or other major factors and across the human life span. Students completing the certificate will gain competency in; knowledge of the components and measures of population dynamics,knowledge of population dynamics’ linkages with public health issues, and the ability to relate vital events and duration exposures with risk factors at the individual and population level.

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Admissions Criteria

Persons eligible for admission to the certificate program must be enrolled in a masters or doctoral degree program at The Johns Hopkins University (any division) or be a non-degree student with at least a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university.

Bloomberg Degree Students will apply for the certificate no later than the first week of the term in which they commence the last course for the certificate. However, students are encouraged to contact the faculty sponsors prior to beginning the certificate courses to receive advice on elective selection. Applications are available from the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health Academic Coordinator and must be submitted to the certificate faculty sponsors. The certificate program will verify courses and GPA and report the certificate completion to the Bloomberg Office of Records and Registration for inclusion on the student's permanent transcript.

All Others interested in the certificate should contact one of the faculty sponsors prior to applying. Applicants apply through the school’s admissions office in September of the year during which they will begin certificate courses. Applicants apply for special student regular status in the Population and Health “track/division” of the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health. The application includes a copy of all post-secondary transcripts, a statement of purpose, and one letter of recommendation. A committee of faculty will review each application and make the admissions decision. The certificate program will verify courses and GPA and report the certificate completion to the Bloomberg Office of Records and Registration for inclusion on the student's permanent transcript.