Spatial Analysis for Public Health, Certificate
Program Overview
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health offers an online certificate program in Spatial Analysis for Public Health. Upon completion, individuals can synthesize how geography affects public health, design and implement spatial analysis protocols, and apply spatial analysis to real-world public health problems.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health offers a fully online, part-time certificate program in Spatial Analysis for Public Health. This program is designed for working professionals and focuses on the emerging field of spatial analysis, which has vast applications in public health at both local and global levels.
Educational Objectives:
Upon completion of the certificate program, individuals will be able to:
- Synthesize how geography affects public health.
- Analyze maps using tools from spatial statistics to describe and interpret distributions of health outcomes in a population.
- Design and implement a spatial analysis protocol for addressing a public health problem.
Program Description:
The program introduces and reinforces a comprehensive spatial science paradigm, encompassing Spatial Data, GIS, and Spatial Statistics. It is a fully online program, meaning all courses are delivered remotely.
Outline:
Course of Study:
The certificate program requires a minimum of 18 term credits and a minimum GPA of 2.75. Students must earn a minimum grade on a set of required program-specific core courses: "Pass" for courses offered only on a pass/fail basis and "C" or higher for courses offered for letter grading. The program length is flexible, allowing completion in as little as one year and a maximum of three years.
Plan of Study Grid:
First Year:
- First Term:
- PH.550.860 Academic & Research Ethics at BSPH (4 credits)
- Second Term:
- PH.601.731 Spatial Analysis for Public Health (4 credits)
- Third Term:
- PH.601.732 Spatial Data Technologies for Mapping (4 credits)
- Fourth Term:
- PH.601.733 Applied Spatial Statistics (4 credits)
- PH.601.733 Applied Spatial Statistics: This course covers the application of spatial statistics to analyze and interpret spatial patterns in public health data.
- PH.601.734 Spatial Applications: This course explores real-world applications of spatial analysis in public health, including disease surveillance, environmental health, and health service planning.
- Additional Public Health Learning Resources: The program provides links to various online learning resources, databases, and public health organizations, including the Mid-Atlantic Regional Public Health Training Center, the Welch Medical Library at Johns Hopkins, and Coursera.
- Notification of Certificate Program Completion: Students must contact the OPAL program office before the end of the add/drop period of the term of the last certificate course to ensure timely processing of their certificate.