Additional Educational Opportunities

Postdoctoral Fellowships
The Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health accepts postdoctoral fellows interested in population, family, and reproductive health issues. Acceptance into the department as a postdoctoral fellow is based on an agreement between the trainee and a specified supervising faculty member. Applications for a postdoctoral position will not be reviewed without pre-approval from a Population, Family and Reproductive Health department faculty  member. Individuals interested in applying for a postdoctoral position must complete the Application for Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Summer Institute in Reproductive Health and Development
The 2012 summer program offering of the Gates Institute is a two week course entitled, "Reproductive Health and Development: Analytic Skills for Policies and Programs".  This course is designed for mid-career professionals working in a population, reproductive health and development programs in developing countries.  This course is being offered for six academic credits or non-credit.  A certificate of participation is awarded upon completion of the course.  The application deadline is February 24, 2012, COB, EST for applicants seeking funding or requiring a visa to enter the United States.  For all other applicants, the deadline is May 4, 2012. For more information, please click HERE. 

Adolescent Health Certificate Program
This certificate program focuses on the health and welfare of adolescents and youth with particular attention on adolescent pregnancy, substance abuse, violence prevention, and mental health promotion. Those earning the certificate will be able to apply knowledge of adolescent growth and development, positive youth development, and cultural and ethical considerations of youth to design, implement, and evaluate adolescent health-related research, programs, and policies. Some topic areas include: primary causes of adolescent mortality and morbidity; adolescent growth and development; ethical issues inherent in working with adolescents who are legal minors; policy and legislation that affects adolescent health. For more information, please visit
www.jhsph.edu/academics/programs/certificates/program/54

Demographic Methods Certificate Program
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 gain skills in applying demographic analytic methods to identify or forecast public health problems and evaluate the effectiveness of policies or interventions aimed at mitigating them. Demographic  analytic methods are used to calculate denominators of health measures.  For more information visit www.jhsph.edu/academics/programs/certificates/program/57

Maternal and Child Health Certificate Program
The Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health is the locus for studies in Maternal and Child Health (MCH) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.  The Certificate is for graduate students at the School who arelooking to broaden understanding of the health and welfare of women and children through competencies which include understanding the biological, social, and behavioral basis for MCH programs; an understanding of the normal patterns of human growth and development; knowledge of significant past and current national legislative mandates relative to MCH; and an understanding of the design,  implementation, and evaluation of MCH programs domestically and internationally.  For more information, please visit   www.jhsph.edu/academics/programs/certificates/program/7

Public Health Economics Certificate Program
The Certificate in Public Health Economics will interest public health professionals who are just beginning their career as well as mid-career professionals. Participants in this certificate program will gain a broad exposure to general public health economic principles and theories, skills in identifying and applying the theories of economic evaluation to public health problems, and training in the communication and translation of economic principles to public health problems. For more information, please visit www.jhsph.edu/academics/programs/certificates/program/31

Population and Health Certificate Program
The certificate is designed to serve two audiences—master’s 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.  For more information visit  www.jhsph.edu/academics/programs/certificates/program/56