Implementation Science and Community Health Outcomes, Graduate/Professional Certificate

Program Overview

The Certificate in Implementation Science and Community Health Outcomes equips students with skills to address health issues in real-world settings. It emphasizes research that tests effectiveness and explores factors influencing positive health outcomes. The program offers a range of electives in community engagement, qualitative research methods, and implementation science, preparing students for careers in community health, health services, or health policy.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The Certificate in Implementation Science and Community Health Outcomes is designed for students interested in solving problems in community health, health services, or health policy. It aims to develop skills in considering multiple factors that influence a community or organization, forming and managing research partnerships with communities and organizations, evaluating the effectiveness of health interventions or prevention methods, and articulating policy implications of health issues and interventions. The certificate addresses the gap between basic health and medical research discoveries and their application in clinical and public health practice. It emphasizes research that tests effectiveness in real-world settings and explores factors that facilitate or impede positive health outcomes.

Outline:

Core Requirement:

• POP HLTH 709: Translational and Outcomes Research in Health and Health Care

Electives:

Working with Communities and Implementation Science:

• HDFS 872: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Action
• JOURN/ COM ARTS/ LSC 617: Health Communication in the Information Age
• HDFS/ ED PSYCH/ NURSING/ SOC WORK 880: Prevention Science I
• SY E 417: Health Systems Engineering I
• SY E/ POP HLTH 703: Quality of Health Care: Evaluation and Assurance
• NURSING 702: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Diverse Communities
• NURSING 761: Health Program Planning, Evaluation, and Quality Improvement
• OTM 753: Healthcare Operations Management
• OTM 758: Managing Technological and Organizational Change
• OTM 770: Sustainable Approaches to System Improvement
• S&A PHM 652: Pharmacist Communication: Educational and Behavioral Interventions
• S&A PHM 704: Dissemination, Implementation and Sustainment of Change in Health Services Research
• POP HLTH/ I SY E 703: Quality of Health Care: Evaluation and Assurance
• PUBLHLTH 780: Evidence-Based Decision-Making
• SOC/ C&E SOC 573: Community Organization and Change
• SOC/ C&E SOC/ URB R PL 617: Community Development

Qualitative Research Methods Relevant to Implementation Science and Community Outcomes Research:

• ANTHRO 909: Research Methods and Research Design in Cultural Anthropology
• COUN PSY/ CURRIC/ ED POL/ ED PSYCH/ ELPA/ RP & SE 788: Qualitative Research Methods in Education: Field Methods I
• CURRIC/ COUN PSY/ ED POL/ ED PSYCH/ ELPA/ RP & SE 719: Introduction to Qualitative Research
• ELPA 824: Field Research Designs & Methodologies in Educational Administratn
• NURSING 804: Qualitative Design and Methods
• SOC/ ED POL 955: Seminar-Qualitative Methodology Project

Seminar:

Select one of the following:

• I SY E/ PSYCH 859: Special Topics in Human Factors Engineering (Implementation of Systems Interventions in Healthcare)
• POP HLTH 699: Independent Reading

Teaching:

The program is taught by a team of faculty from various disciplines, including pharmacy, education, nursing, medicine and public health.