Program Overview

Program Overview

The Physical Activity and Health Certificate provides opportunities and training for students to focus on physical activity assessment, epidemiologic methods, intervention planning, physiologic mechanisms and health outcomes, and policy development.

Program Details

This certificate also focuses on the possible causes and consequences of physical inactivity on health in individuals and populations and provides hands-on opportunities for skills development in the areas of measurement, intervention, and environmental and policy change.

Program Faculty

The faculty coordinators for this certificate are:

• Natalia I. Heredia, PhD
• Timothy Walker, PhD
• Augusto Cesar Ferreira de Moraes, PhD

Program Requirements

For more information about course requirements, please refer to the Physical Activity and Health certificate planner.