Program Overview

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Public Health Certificate Program

Overview

The LGBTQ Public Health Certificate Program is designed to address the growing need for trained professionals in the field of LGBTQ public health. The program aims to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the social and behavioral factors that affect the health of LGBTQ individuals and communities.

Educational Objectives

Upon successful completion of the certificate program, students will be able to:

• Assess what is known and unknown in LGBTQ health research and critically read public health literature related to LGBTQ health.
• Describe a range of psychological and sociological conceptualizations of LGBTQ health, health behavior, stigma, and illness in a cross-cultural context, and integrate these into culturally competent skills and attitudes.
• Apply an ecological perspective to LGBTQ health, linking individual, social, community, and environmental causes of disease and LGBTQ community health through theory and research.
• Locate and evaluate health disparities both within and facing LGBTQ populations in the context of social behavioral, socio-ecologic, and other theoretical frameworks.
• Analyze changes in political climates and how legal, policy, and structural changes affect the translation of research findings regarding the health of LGBTQ populations.
• Integrate an ecological perspective on LGBTQ health into the design of effective interventions, translating research findings through communications, advocacy, health policy, and the law, to reduce health problems and disparities in LGBTQ populations.

Sponsoring Department

The program is sponsored by the Department of Health, Behavior, and Society.

Admissions

Admissions information is available on the Bloomberg School of Public Health certificate program page.

Requirements for Successful Completion

The certificate program requires a minimum of 18 term credits. All required and elective courses must be taken for a letter grade; a minimum grade of C is required in all certificate coursework, and students must maintain a 2.75 or better overall GPA for all certificate coursework.

Course of Study

Students should check the Bloomberg School of Public Health course directory to confirm when courses are offered. Students should also check for prerequisites and whether instructor consent is required.

• Required Core Courses: Students must complete 3 out of the listed courses, for a minimum of 9 credits required.
  • PH.410.626: The Epidemiology of LGBTQ Health
  • PH.410.683: Global Perspectives on LGBT Health
  • PH.220.630: Adapting Health Programs for Sexual & Gender Minorities
  • PH.220.631: Measuring Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression (SOGIE)
  • PH.221.621: Gender and Health: Foundational Theories and Applications
  • PH.306.660: Legal and Public Health Issues in the Regulation of Intimacy
  • PH.306.670: Issues in LGBTQ Health Policy
• Key Area 1: Develop LGBTQ cultural competency skills and attitudes (minimum of 2 credits required)
  • PH.410.861: Graduate Seminar in Community-Based Participatory Research
  • PH.410.864: Critical Issues in Health Disparities
  • PH.221.701: Applications to Gender Analysis Within Health Research and Interventions
  • PH.301.615: Seminar in Health Disparities
  • PH.330.634: Stigma and Public Health: Issues and Interventions
  • PH.330.701: Intersectionality in Public Mental Health
  • PH.330.643: The Science of Narrative: Intersectionality of Storytelling and Public Health
  • PH.380.640: Children in Crisis: An Asset-Based Approach to Working With Vulnerable Youth
  • PH.380.720: Masculinity, Sexual Behavior & Health: Adolescence & Beyond
• Key Area 2: Linking social and environmental causes of disease and LGBTQ community health through theory and research (minimum 2 credits required)
  • PH.410.604: Harm Reduction: A Framework for Evidence-Based Policy and Practice
  • PH.410.612: Sociological Perspectives on Health
  • PH.410.613: Psychosocial Factors in Health and Illness
  • PH.410.616: Social and Behavioral Aspects of Public Health
  • PH.308.610: The Political Economy of Social Inequalities and Its Consequences for Health and Quality of Life
  • PH.330.602: The Epidemiology of Substance Use and Related Problems
  • PH.330.674: Suicide As A Public Health Problem
  • PH.340.627: Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
  • PH.340.639: Assessing Epidemiologic Impact of Human Rights Violations
  • PH.340.646: Epidemiology and Public Health Impact of HIV and AIDS
  • PH.340.666: Foundations of Social Epidemiology
  • PH.340.683: Human Rights in Public Health Practice
  • PH.340.705: Advanced Seminar in Social Epidemiology
  • PH.380.623: Adolescent Health and Development
  • PH.380.663: Gender-Based Violence Research, Practice and Policy: Issues and Current Controversies
  • PH.380.666: Women's Health
  • PH.380.725: The Social Context of Adolescent Health and Development
  • PH.380.761: Sexually Transmitted Infections in Public Health Practice
• Key Area 3: Community dimensions of practice skills and attitudes to include communications, advocacy, health policy, and the law (minimum of 2 credits required)
  • PH.410.620: Program Planning for Health Behavior Change
  • PH.410.650: Introduction to Persuasive Communications: Theories and Practice
  • PH.410.663: Media Advocacy and Public Health: Theory and Practice
  • PH.410.668: Policy Interventions for Health Behavior Change
  • PH.410.672: Organizing for Public Health with the Evidence-Based Effective Advocacy: Turning Public Will into Public Policy
  • PH.410.721: Translating Research into Public Health Programs and Policy
  • PH.224.692: Methods in Formative Research and Human-Centered Design for Intervention Development
  • PH.301.627: Understanding and Preventing Violence
  • PH.301.645: Health Advocacy
  • PH.301.692: The Role of Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Improving Global Public Health
  • PH.305.684: Health Impact Assessment
  • PH.308.604: Effective Writing for Public Health Change
  • PH.308.701: Media Interviews and Applied Public Health Communications
  • PH.380.620: A Coalition-Based SMART Approach to Public Health Advocacy