Global Health.
As part of Boston University’s on-campus Master of Public Health (MPH) degree, you have the option to add a Context Certificate to your functional area of concentration, deepening your knowledge in an area or population of greatest interest to you.
This MPH certificate program considers new approaches and delivery systems to improve health behaviors around the world. MPH students are prepared to become researchers and work in global health administration and management.
Global Health Context Certificate
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Upon graduation, students will be able to:
- Describe health challenges faced at global, national, regional, and community levels, including major causes of morbidity and mortality, and context-specific reasons for geographic variation in population health and well-being;
- Analyze a health system and its component elements in order to examine performance, identify strengths and weaknesses, and compare it to health systems in other countries;
- Explain the ways in which culture, social norms and institutions, laws, gender, economic status, access to education and health care, and other factors influence health;
- Conduct a situation analysis across a range of cultural, economic, and health contexts; and
- Demonstrate ability to access, summarize, synthesize, analyze, and communicate background information and public health evidence.
Sample Course Titles
- Foundations of Global Health
- Managing Disasters and Complex Humanitarian Emergencies (4)
- Confronting Non-Communicable Diseases in the Developing World
- Global AIDS Epidemic: Social and Economic Determinants, Impact, and Responses
- Global Mental Health
View the BU Bulletin for Course Requirements
Sample Practicum
- Brookline Sister City Project (Nicaragua) – Analyzing childhood malnutrition, sexual education, and contraceptive availability
- Calmette Hospital (Cambodia) – Conducting acute kidney injury research
- Lesotho-Boston Health Alliance (Lesotho) – Conducting root cause analysis for home deliveries in Lesotho
- Mildmay (Uganda) – Evaluating the effectiveness of the Wisepill among pregnant and postpartum women
- Intern/Secretariat, People that Deliver Initiative at the UNICEF Supply Division (Denmark)
- World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Western Pacific (Philippines) – Improving the accessibility of Hepatitis medicine
- World Vision USA (Washington D.C., USA) – Coordinating research efforts related to social services from the perspective of para-social workers in Sub-Saharan Africa
Certificate Director
“Global health is public health. Global health is local health. We have achieved dramatic reductions in preventable Illness, injury, and death around the world over the last 50 years, but there is still much to do. Pregnant women should not die from postpartum hemorrhage. HIV-positive parents can have healthy HIV-negative children and live to watch them grow up. People living with addiction in Boston should not be dying from overdoses. Everyone at BUSPH has a part to play.”