Global Health Certificate

The Global Health Certificate will provide students with broad-based knowledge in global health, and can serve as a valuable qualification and differentiator in an increasingly competitive job market. Awarded through the UCLA Center for Global and Immigrant Health, the certificate is open to any graduate or professional student at UCLA. In conferring the certificate, the UCLA School of Public Health recognizes a student’s capacity to work as a public health or health care professional with a global health perspective.

To earn the certificate, students:

• Take courses related to global health
• Complete an international fieldwork experience
• Complete a departmental project on a global health topic
• Attend two global health seminars at UCLA

The UCLA Center for Global and Immigrant Health will award a certificate in Global Health to any graduate or professional student who meets ALL of the following requirements:

• Completes required courses Epi 273 and CHS 200 (see global health courses for course descriptions)
• Completes at least 12 additional units with global health content (see global health courses for a list of electives. Students can also submit electives not on this list for approval)
• Completes an international experience
• Completes a departmental project on a Global Health Topic. It can be a class paper on global health topic, a project used as student’s master thesis or doctoral thesis, or a poster presented in a conference.
• Attends at least two Global Health lunchtime lectures or other lectures sponsored by the UCLA Center for Global and Immigrant Health, the UCLA School of Public Health of the UCLA Center for World Health.

The Global Health Certificate is only available to graduate or professional students who are currently enrolled in study at UCLA. If you are a current or prospective UCLA student and are interested in more information about the Global Health certificate, please send an e-mail to: globalhealth@ph.ucla.edu.

For more information please see the Global Health Certificate Webpage.