Certificate Program in Health and Human Rights
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
The Certificate Program in Health and Human Rights is designed to:
- Increase understanding among public health professionals regarding the key linkages between human rights and public health.
- Explore the vital roles of health professionals in promoting human rights, including the right to health, advocating for protection of human rights, researching violations, and building a culture of human rights
- Build familiarity with international human rights standards and institutions
- Review how human rights concepts can be brought to bear on public health programs and policies, ranging from developing health system to responding to an epidemic of infectious disease.
- Review how public health professionals can bring epidemiology and other methods of public health to investigate, analyze, and document abuses of human rights.
SPONSORING DEPARTMENT
CONTACT INFORMATION
Certificate Program Contact
Sheila Small
ssmall2@jhu.edu
Faculty Sponsor
Leonard Rubenstein
ELIGIBILITY
The Certificate Program in Health and Human Rights is open to all enrolled graduate degree or nursing degree program candidates from any academic unit within the Johns Hopkins University, with the exception of JHSPH MAS students, who are not eligible to apply until they have completed their primary degree program.
ADMISSIONS PROCESS
Students already enrolled in graduate degree programs at JHU are not required to complete the School's electronic admissions application.
APplying as a JHU Degree Student (NON-DEGREE STUDENTS ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR THIS PROGRAM)
JHSPH degree students are encouraged to email the Certificate Program Contact and the faculty sponsor early in their coursework for the certificate program. Students with a potential interest in the certificate should take the 1-credit seminar, Current Topics in Human Rights, 340.840, which provides a weekly overview of issues in the field and the work of faculty addressing them.
JHU graduate students enrolled in programs in divisions of JHU other than JHSPH must ask their advisor to send an email to the Certificate Director providing approval for the student to pursue the certificate program, and this should include a tentative outline of the courses to be taken. Student may begin coursework only after receiving approval from the Certificate Director.
Start terms: 1, 2, 3, & 4.
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. The certificate program length is flexible; it varies from student to student, however, the certificate must be completed within three years.
In addition to the course requirements listed below, any certificate students who do not already complete Epidemiology coursework as part of their degree program must complete at least one Epidemiology course.
The student should review the section of the website that addresses completion before completing certificate program requirements. The student's transcript will not indicate that the certificate was earned until the Notification of Completion has been submitted and verified by the certificate program and processed by the Registrar.
COURSE OF STUDY
Students should check the JHSPH course directory to confirm when courses are offered. Students should also check for prerequisites and whether instructor consent is required for courses.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| PH.550.860 | Academic & Research Ethics at JHSPH (All students are required to complete this noncredit course in their first term of study) | |
| Required courses: | ||
| PH.340.840 | Special Studies and Research Epidemiology (Please note, the course "Current Topics in Human Rights" will be offered in the 1st term only. ) | 1 - 22 |
| PH.340.639 | Assessing Epidemiologic Impact of Human Rights Violations | 2 |
| Students must complete two of the following courses: | ||
| PH.180.600 | Public Health Implications of Health As A Human Right | 2 |
| PH.180.636 | Human Rights and Health Seminar | 3 |
| PH.340.683 | Human Rights in Public Health Practice | 2 |
| PH.700.622 | Bioethics, Human Rights, and Global Health | 3 |
| Students must complete additional elective courses for a total of at least 18 credits, including credits from required courses | ||
| PH.180.626 | Environmental Justice and Public Health Practice | 3 |
| PH.221.656 | Conceptual and Evidential Foundations of Health Equity and Social Justice | 4 |
| PH.301.615 | Seminar in Health Disparities | 3 |
| PH.306.670 | Issues in LGBTQ Health Policy | 3 |
| PH.308.610 | The Political Economy of Social inequalities and Its Consequences for Health and Quality of Life | 3 |
| PH.308.842 | SS/R: Emerging Dimensions of Social Determinants of Health inequalites: A Transdiciplinary integrated Approach | 3 |
| PH.318.623 | Social Policy for Vulnerable Populations in the U.S. | 3 |
| PH.330.667 | Mental Health and the Law | 3 |
| PH.340.629 | The Epidemiology of LGBTQ Health | 3 |
| PH.340.692 | Prisons, Public Health, and Human Rights | 2 |
| PH.340.698 | Methods For Assessing Power, Privilege, and Public Health in the United States | 4 |
| PH.380.663 | Gender-Based Violence Research, Practice and Policy: Issues and Current Controversies | 3 |
| PH.380.668 | International Perspectives on Women, Gender, and Health | 3 |
| PH.380.750 | Migration and Health: Concepts, Rates, and Relationships | 3 |
| PH.380.768 | Selected Topics in Women's Health and Women's Health Policy | 4 |
| PH.410.605 | Fundamental Tools for Promoting Health Equity | 3 |
| PH.410.606 | Local and Global Best Practices in Health Equity Research Methods | 2 |
| PH.410.611 | Under Pressure: Health, Wealth & Poverty | 3 |
| PH.410.681 | Gay, Bisexual and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSM) and HIV: Theoretical Perspectives on the Us Epidemic | 3 |
| PH.410.683 | Global Perspectives on LGBT Health | 3 |
| PH.700.622 | Bioethics, Human Rights, and Global Health | 3 |
| PH.700.644 | Justice Theory and Health | 3 |
| SA.650.766 | Corporate Sustainability, Business and Human Rights | 4 |