Advance your career in healthcare with this accessible, online certificate and learn how to make a positive impact at scale.
Locations
- Online
Why Get a Certificate of Public Health at Georgia Southern?
- Advance your career by gaining public health knowledge and move forward in the workforce.
- Take advantage of our flexible online program—ideal for working professionals.
- Complete your coursework in as little as two semesters.
- Get a head start on a Master’s in Public Health—students who complete the certificate with a 3.0 or higher can transfer their credits, saving time and money.
- Satisfy a key requirement for the national Certified in Public Health (CPH) examination.
Our online Certificate of Public Health is ideal for students who want to obtain graduate-level learning in public health without committing to a full-time Master’s, or for working professionals who want to advance their careers.
Learn how to make positive health impacts on a wide scale with this timely and accessible program and take the next step in your healthcare journey.
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What Can You Do With a Certificate of Public Health?
Our Certificate of Public Health program satisfies a key requirement for taking the official Certified Public Health Exam and provides working professionals an opportunity to advance their career in healthcare.
Where our graduates work:
- State of Georgia
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
- Memorial Health
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- Emory University
- General Dynamics Information Technology
- Baylor College of Medicine
What our graduates do:
- Epidemiologist
- Biostatistician
- Clinical Research Coordinator
- Clinical Research Associate
- Environmental Health Specialist
- Professor
- Public Health Advisor
- Public Health Specialist
- Research Assistant
- Chief Executive Officer
What You’ll Learn
The Certificate of Public Health is open to individuals from all educational backgrounds who wish to broaden their knowledge and credentials in public health. This program covers a range of core topics, including cultural competency, evidence-based public health practices, community assessment, and public health leadership and policy. Expand your expertise and make a meaningful impact in public health, regardless of your academic or professional background.
- Intro to Public Health
- Cultural Competency for Public Health
- Quantitative Methods Public Health Practice
- Community Assessment Applications for Public Health
- Health Systems, Policy, and Leadership
- Environment, Population & Health
Participate in Community Health
Our EPICH program—Eagles Participating in Community Health—gives students greater access to opportunities for participatory learning through engagement in practice-based research with faculty, staff and JPHCOPH partners. Projects are funded for both undergraduate and graduate students.
Faculty Research
At Georgia Southern, we’re proud of the diverse and critical research our faculty does in the realm of public health. To see a full list of projects and get in touch with faculty members go here.
Graduate Student Resources
For general information and to pursue all graduate student resources go here.
Learn About Your Representation and Support
The Graduate Student Organization (GSO) is committed to representing and supporting the interests of all current and prospective graduate students at Georgia Southern University and seeks to support scholarly activities as well as promote social opportunities for the development of graduate students.
Take Action
- Review the certificate requirements.
- Explore the admission requirements and deadlines.
- Complete your application
- Create an application account to complete our online application.
- Carefully follow the certificate instructions to ensure your application is complete.
- Once complete, pay the $50 application fee.
- You can check your application status 3 days after completing it. This page contains live information about your admission status, including a checklist of missing documents we need to decide.
To be awarded a graduate certificate, a student:
- Must not be on probation,
- Must have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher on graduate coursework and on coursework applied to the certificate,
- Must meet all the requirements of the College of Graduate Studies and the student’s certificate program, and
- Must be enrolled during the semester in which the certificate requirements are completed.
Complete the Certificate of Completion Application at the College of Graduate Studies website.
After earning the Certificate, all students are welcome to apply to the MPH program which is offered in a face-to-face format. Certificate earning students will not be required to submit official scores from the GRE in order to apply. Those applicants who are admitted to the MPH program will receive credit for 15 credit hours toward their MPH degree. The MPH degree requires a total of 42 credit hours, whereby in addition to core public health courses, students pursue an area of concentration in public health.
The completion of the Certificate in Public Health program must not be confused with the Certified in Public Health (CPH) Exam offered by the National Board of Public Health Examiners. The Certificate in Public Health is not a credentialing program. However, the completion of the Certificate in Public Health program will satisfy one of the requirements to sit for the CPH Exam. Other specific requirements to sit for the CPH Exam can be found at the website for the National Board of Public Health Examiners.
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Earn your graduate certificate in Public Health and gain valuable and timely knowledge in a high-impact field.
Contact Us
Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health
Armstrong Campus
Solms Hall Suite 109, Savannah, GA
Phone: 912-478-2674
Email: jphcoph-admissions@georgiasouthern.edu
Statesboro Campus
Hendricks Hall, Statesboro, GA
Phone: 912-478-2674
Email: jphcoph-admissions@georgiasouthern.edu