Certificates
Flexible Education
Degree Seeking | Non-Degree Seeking
Local Learning
Austin | Brownsville | Dallas | El Paso | Houston | San Antonio
Global Reach
Research | Education | Community Impact
We offer a wide range of certificate courses, workshops, and training that can help you advance your career or dive into new areas of public health. Whether you’re looking to refresh your skills, expand your resume, secure your continuing education credit hours, we provide a number of ways to help you keep learning throughout your career. Our certificate programs are designed with our students in mind—to be flexible regardless of your location or the modality of your program, all students are welcome at our physical spaces in Austin, Brownsville, Dallas, El Paso, Houston, and San Antonio. Students have access to resources, expertise, faculty, and research opportunities across all six Texas locations.
Genomics and Bioinformatics Certificate
This certificate is intended for professionals in academic, clinical, and research settings who are now or soon to be faced with genomic and related data. The goal is to enable a generation of investigators and academicians capable of integrating genomic and related high-dimensional data seamlessly into population and personalized health.
Please see the Genomics and Bioinformatics certificate planner for more information about course requirements.
The coordinator for this certificate is JR Bright.
Infectious Disease Epidemiology Certificate
This certificate is intended for students to gain skills and expertise in infectious disease epidemiology, covering fundamental concepts of infectious disease epidemiology, outbreak investigation, microbiology and immunology, and tropical infectious diseases. The goal is to prepare students for public health positions that require knowledge and expertise in infectious disease epidemiology.
Please see the Infectious Disease Epidemiology certificate planner for more information about course requirements.
The faculty coordinators for this certificate are Blake Hanson, PhD and Eric Brown, PhD.
Global Health Certificate
This certificate is intended for students interested in exploring how globalization is affecting the determinants of health, the health status of the population, and the capacity of nation-states to deal with the determinants of health and disease. The goal is to prepare students for positions that involve public health decision-making and research in a changing world.
Please see the Global Health certificate planner for more information on course requirements.
The faculty coordinator for this certificate is Lu-Yu Hwang, MD.
Maternal and Child Health Certificate
This certificate is designed to equip students with skills to professionally promote and enhance the health of women, children, and their communities on a local, state, federal, and international level, while working as advocates in health care organizations, academic institutions, and other public and private organizations. An in-depth diverse curriculum provides skills development in reproductive, perinatal, child, and adolescent health.
Please see the Maternal and Child Health certificate planner for more information about course requirements.
The faculty coordinator for this certificate is Courtney E. Byrd-Williams, PhD.
Nutrition and Public Health Certificate
This certificate provides opportunities and training for students to focus on dietary assessment methodology, nutritional epidemiology, food policy and systems, behavioral nutrition interventions, and medical nutrition therapy. The goal is to prepare students to understand the role of nutrition in disease prevention and health promotion, dietary assessment, nutritional epidemiologic methods, nutritional physiology, and food and nutrition policy.
Please see the Nutrition and Public Health certificate planner for more information about course requirements.
The faculty coordinator for this certificate is Shreela V. Sharma, PhD.
Physical Activity and Health Certificate
This certificate provides opportunities and training for students to focus on physical activity assessment, epidemiologic methods, intervention planning, physiologic mechanisms and health outcomes, and policy development. This certificate also focuses on the possible causes and consequences of physical inactivity on health in individuals and populations and provides hands-on opportunities for skills development in the areas of measurement, intervention, and environmental and policy change.
Please see the Physical Activity and Health certificate planner for more information about course requirements.
The faculty coordinators for this certificate are Natalia I. Heredia, PhD, Timothy Walker, PhD, and Augusto Cesar Ferreira de Moraes, PhD