Online certificates and interdepartmental concentrations

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO | SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

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ONLINE CERTIFICATES

HPA offers three online programs that lead to a UIC Campus certificate as well as five interdepartmental concentrations. Students receive academic credit which may be applied toward a degree if the student later chooses to pursue one.

Health Disparities Research (13 SH)

Designed to provide easily accessible training in health disparities research skills. HDR provides practitioners with essential research skills and is taught by experienced and well-funded faculty.

Public Health Geographic Information Systems (13 SH)

Provides students with an understanding of fundamental GIS tools and their practical applications.

Combining cartography, spatial analysis and data management, GIS is a rapidly emerging field in public health.

Public Health Informatics (16-19 SH)

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Develop proficiency in health data definitions and standards, knowledge of the basic functions and operations of public health information systems, ability to plan and manage public health information systems projects, and expertise to specify the requirements for the development or adaptation of public health information systems.

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO | SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Discover the Division of Health Policy and Administration

CONTACT US: ASKHPA@UIC.EDU | PUBLICHEALTH.UIC.EDU/HPA | UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO | SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

INTERDEPARTMENTAL CONCENTRATIONS Global Health

The Global Health Concentration (GHC) is interdisciplinary, representing students from all School of Public Health divisions. In addition to individual division and school-wide requirements, students must fulfill GHC requirements, detailed below. Among other activities, students in the GHC will discuss key historical events that have shaped public health on an international scale; they will apply theory to program development in an international context; and students will examine and apply health prevention and intervention models effective in diverse global settings.

Women's Health

Students who are interested in a career that includes researching and/or caring for women throughout the lifecycle, and who wish to learn about women's health from alternative perspectives, may be interested in this interdisciplinary concentration, sponsored by the UIC National Center of Excellence in Women's Health and UIC Center for Research on Women and Gender.

Comprising students from UIC's College of Nursing, School of Public Health and Department of Sociology, the 12-credit concentration is open to MS and PhD students.

Gender and Women's Studies

Violence Studies

Gender and Women’s Studies Program is a vibrant interdisciplinary department made up of scholars who study a wide range of topics critical to an expansive understanding of how and why gender and sexuality matter in the world.

The vision underlying the Interdepartmental Graduate Concentration in Violence Studies as conceived by the faculty from various academic units is that it will provide an educational nexus for research, graduate training, and locally and globally engaged scholarship at UIC. Violence is a major public health and social problem. A graduate concentration in violence studies is needed at UIC to provide students with a set of courses that introduce them to various forms of violence and their study from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

Survey Research Methodology The Interdepartmental Graduate Concentration in Survey Research Methodology provides UIC graduate students state-of-the-art knowledge and skills in scientifically grounded survey research methodology.

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