Program Overview
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health offers a fully online, part-time certificate program in Global Tobacco Control, designed for working professionals. The program equips participants with technical skills to develop and communicate evidence-based tobacco control policies and interventions, focusing on global perspectives.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health offers a fully online, part-time certificate program in Global Tobacco Control. This program is designed for working professionals and is offered in collaboration with the Institute for Global Tobacco Control.
Program Description:
The program aims to equip research scientists and public health professionals with the technical skills necessary to develop and effectively communicate evidence supporting effective tobacco control policy development and implementation.
Educational Objectives:
Upon completion of the program, individuals will be able to:
- Describe the history of tobacco use and the tobacco epidemic.
- Identify the types and sources of tobacco control evidence, including surveillance data, epidemiological studies, intervention research, and program and policy evaluation studies.
- Describe specific activities, strategies, and methods undertaken to reduce tobacco use globally.
- Discuss, compare, and critique current global tobacco control efforts and strategies.
- Articulate epidemiological, quantitative, and qualitative research and evaluation methods using specific tobacco control examples.
- Describe applied qualitative research techniques used in tobacco control, including direct observational studies, interviewing and focus groups, and analysis of tobacco industry documents.
- Recognize and describe communication approaches effective in educating, informing, and persuading individuals, communities, and policy decision-makers concerning tobacco control.
- Apply specific methods and approaches to improve leadership and management of tobacco control interventions.
- Discuss tobacco industry strategies that undermine tobacco control interventions.
- Describe tobacco product regulation in the context of the U.S. and abroad.
- Apply writing skills to communicate confidently and effectively in a variety of professional formats.
Other:
- The program is fully online and can only be completed via online courses.
- The program is offered in collaboration with the Institute for Global Tobacco Control.
- The program has a LinkedIn group for networking.
- The program also offers access to Coursera courses from Bloomberg School faculty.
- The program is not accepting applications for new students at this time and no new students will begin the program in AY23-24.
