Online Course – Certified Professional Internship in Google’s Public Health Fundamentals.

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Professional Certificate

Beginners

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

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Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Using principles that guide public health to set goals in the field
  • Critical analysis of public health challenges using data and information
  • Developing effective interventions to improve population health outcomes
  • Assessing threats to health protection and recommending appropriate management actions
  • Improving leadership skills and personal effectiveness in public health work
  • Implementing appropriate interventions to protect health and prevent disease

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Public health professional
  • Academic in the field of public health
  • Public health practitioner
  • Public health clinician
  • Public Health Manager
  • A leader in public health
  • Public Health Data Analyst
  • Public health program developer
  • Public health consultant
  • Public Health Project Manager

Internship – Series of 4 courses

This specialization will enable you to think and develop the behaviors required to become an effective public health professional – whether as an academic, practitioner, clinician, manager, or leader. The specialization consists of four courses:

  • Public Health Resources
  • Improving health
  • Behavior change
  • Health protection

At the end of the internship, you will be able to:

  1. Use the principles that guide public health as a field to determine the goals of public health;
  2. Critically analyze public health challenges using health data and information to identify need and prioritize actions for key stakeholders;
  3. Develop effective interventions using behavior change theory and other public health methods to improve population health outcomes;
  4. Assess threats to health protection operations and strategic threats to recommend appropriate management actions to relevant parties;
  5. Consider your professional skills, attitudes, and behaviors to improve your leadership ability and personal effectiveness in public health work;
  6. Implement appropriate interventions for health protection, health promotion, and disease prevention to enhance public health programs.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Fundamentals of Public Health Practice

Public health approach

Course 1
12 hours
4.8 (433 ratings)

The “Public Health Approach” course is the first course in the “Fundamentals of Public Health Practice” specialization of the Master of Public Health degree program at Imperial College London. The course content was developed in collaboration with a team of academics and professionals with extensive experience in the field of public health.

  • Modules: 4 (four weeks of learning)
  • Topics: field, sources, ethics, and fundamental concepts of public health practice.
  • Objective: To identify and describe public health challenges.

Public Health Toolkit

Course 2
14 hours
4.5 (63 ratings)

  • Using principles that guide public health to formulate public goals.
  • Implementing interventions to maintain public health and prevent disease.

Behavior and behavior change

Course 3
16 hours
4.7 (98 ratings)

The “Health Preservation” course is the third course in the “Fundamentals of Public Health Practice” specialization. Over three modules (three weeks of learning), students will learn about the principles of behavior change in the field of public health.

  • Topics: Early understandings, risk communication, “assumption” principles.
  • Goal: Proficiency in using behavior change tools.

Health preservation

Course 4
8 hours
4.9 (103 ratings)

The “Health Preservation” course is the fourth course in the “Fundamentals of Public Health Practice” specialization. Over the course of three modules (three weeks of learning), students will learn about the principles of health preservation within the framework of public activities.

  • Topics: Water, Sanitation, Microbiology.
  • Objective: To discuss health preservation issues in the context of practice.