Public Health Disaster Science, Policy and Practice (Advanced Certificate)
Program Description
The Advanced Certificate in Public Health Disaster Science, Policy and Practice offers online and in-person options for students in good-standing who are interested in a multi-disciplinary approach to the scholarship, policies, and practices associated with preventing, preparing for, responding to, and recovering from public health disasters and complex emergencies. The Certificate requires a minimum of five courses and 15 credits.
The Advanced Certificate in Public Health Disaster Science, Policy and Practice is open to all professionals in public health or related disciplines as a stand-alone certificate. Current NYU students can complete the certificate in conjunction with the GPH Master of Public Health (MPH).
Skills You Can Acquire
- Develop leadership and management decision-making skills for public health and healthcare incident management
- Develop communication and coordination skills for engaging the public and optimizing a public health emergency preparedness and response system
- Refine disaster research skills for evaluating emergency systems, assessing the impacts of disasters on vulnerable populations, and designing interventions that enhance preparedness, response, and recovery
- Apply systems thinking and critically analyze the design of response and recovery systems, using agent-based modeling techniques
- Access and build a network of public health disaster practitioners and scholars
- Connect with quality professional mentorship opportunities with committed and highly experienced certificate faculty
You Will Learn
- The organizational aspects of public health preparedness
- A practical understanding of threats, risks, and hazards
- The complex systems that constitute public health emergency response systems
- Methodological challenges to evaluating individual and system readiness, and to researching the factors associated with community, institutional, and individual resilience
- The evolving standards of professional public health practice for preparedness and response
Who Should Enroll?
This certificate provides two paths for students: one for public health practice, and the other for the evolving field of disaster science. The program will be of particular interest to students seeking to enhance their training by gaining additional analytic tools for public health policy making, disaster research, and emergency management in public health and healthcare settings; to mid-career professionals in public health and related fields such as nursing, medicine, or public administration; and to students seeking preparation for further study in doctoral programs of public health, social and behavioral sciences, or public administration.
Students enrolled in the NYU MPH program in Community Health Science and Practice, Environmental Public Health Sciences, Epidemiology, Global Health, Public Health Nutrition, Public Health Policy & Management, Social and Behavioral Sciences and Sustainable Development Goals are eligible for this certificate.
Admissions
All applicants are required to submit the following:
- Application form: Applicants not currently enrolled in a GPH Master's program must apply through SOPHAS Express. Current GPH Master's students should apply through this application form.
- Official transcripts from each institution attended (or an evaluation of your credentials if you graduated from a foreign institution)
- One letters of recommendation
- Personal statement
- Resume/CV
- English language proficiency exam (TOEFL iBT or IELTS Academic) results for all applicants whose native language is not English and who did not receive the equivalent of a US bachelor's degree at an institution where English is the primary language of instruction.
- International students requiring a visa to attend NYU must complete the IELTS exam in person at an authorized test center. If you are required to take the exam but will not need it for visa purposes you may choose to take it online or at a test center.