Program Overview

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REQUIREMENTS FOR SUCCESSFUL COMPLETIONThe certificate program requires a minimum of 18 term credits. All required and elective courses must be taken for a letter grade and a 2.75 or better overall GPA for all certificate courses is required. The certificate program length is flexible; it varies from student to student, however, the certificate must be completed within three years.The student should review thesection of the website that addressescompletionbefore completing certificate program requirements. The student's transcripts will not indicate that the certificate was earned until the Notification of Completion has been submitted, verified by the certificate program, and processed by the Registrar.COURSE OF STUDYStudents should check the BSPHcourse directoryto confirm when the courses are offered. Students should also check for pre-requisites and whether instructor consent is required.Please note that although course number 221.649 Introduction to Digital Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries is no longer offered, certificate students who completed the course previously as part of their certificate program may count it as an elective course towards the total number of credits.Course ListCodeTitleCreditsPH.550.860Academic & Research Ethics at BSPH (All students are required to complete this noncredit course in their first term of study; course is typically offered online in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th terms, as well as Summer,and Summer and Winter Institute )Required Courses: 309.631 and EITHER 315.707 OR 312.633PH.309.631Population Health Informatics (course is typically offered online in 2nd term)3PH.312.633Health Management Information Systems (course is typically offered online in term 3)3PH.315.707Introduction to Biomedical and Public Health Informatics (course is typically offered online in term 1)3Elective Options (12 academic credits)PH.221.637Health Information Systems (course is typically offered online in term 2)3PH.309.635Population Health: Analytic Methods and Visualization Techniques (course is typically offered online in term 4)3PH.315.700Health Information Systems: Design to Deployment (course is typically offered online in term 3)3PH.315.703Leading Change Through Health Informatics (course is typically offered online in term 2)3PH.315.709Health Sciences Informatics, Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support (course is typically offered online in term 4)3PH.315.727Database Querying in Health (typically offered online in 2nd term)3PH.550.714Secondary Uses of Electronic Health Record Data (course is typically offered online in term 3)3Students may complete no more than 2 of the following GIS coursesPH.340.696Spatial Analysis I: ArcGIS (course is typically offered onsite in term 1)3PH.340.697Spatial Analysis II: Spatial Data Technologies (course is typically offered onsite in term 2)2PH.340.701Epidemiologic Applications of Gis (course is typically offered online in term 3 and onsite in Summer Institute)2