Population and Health

Population and Health

OVERVIEW

The certificate is designed to serve two audiences—masters or doctoral degree students at The Johns Hopkins University and professionals—desiring to expand their knowledge of population dynamics and its linkages with public health issues and their ability to relate population-level concepts and measures of fertility, morbidity and mortality, and migration to health conditions. A population’s health is shaped by fertility, mortality and migration patterns; and population numbers themselves provide the denominators of basic measures of public health, such as life expectancy, cause-specific mortality rates, and infection rates. Connecting a population and health perspective with public health epidemiology allows us to measure and assess the aggregate-level structure of and variation in health risks by age, sex, or other major factors and across the human life span.

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

Students completing the certificate will gain competency in;

1. Knowledge of the components and measures of population dynamics,
2. Knowledge of population dynamics’ linkages with public health issues,
3. The ability to relate vital events and duration exposures with risk factors at the individual and population level.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Sponsoring Department
Population, Family and Reproductive Health

Certificate Program Contact
Gilbert Morgan 
(410) 614-6676
gmorga13@jhu.edu
 

Faculty Sponsor
Li Liu

ADMISSIONS PROCESS

All applicants must review the General Certificate Guidelines page, which provides important information about how to apply to a certificate program.   

REQUIREMENTS FOR SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION

The certificate 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; however, the certificate must be completed within three years.

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, 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, and should also check for prerequisites and whether instructor consent is required.

Course List

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.380.600	Principles of Population Change	4
PH.380.603	Demographic Methods for Public Health	4
Elective Courses: Students must complete at least 10 (ten) credits of elective coursework
PH.221.627	Issues in the Reduction of Maternal and Neonatal Mortality in Low income Countries	4
PH.380.604	Life Course Perspectives on Health	4
PH.380.655	SOCIAL and ECONOMIC ASPECTS of HUMAN FERTILITY	3
PH.380.662	Critiquing the Research Literature in Maternal, Neonatal, and Reproductive Health	4
PH.380.664	Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology	4
PH.380.665	Family Planning Policies and Programs	4
PH.380.666	Women's Health	3
PH.380.668	International Perspectives on Women, Gender, and Health	3
PH.380.720	Masculinity, Sexual Behavior & Health: Adolescence & Beyond	3
PH.380.750	Migration and Health: Concepts, Rates, and Relationships	3
PH.380.755	Population Dynamics and Public Health	2
PH.380.756	Poverty, Economic Development, and Health	4
PH.380.765	Preventing Infant Mortality and Promoting the Health of Women, Infants and Children	3
PH.380.767	Couples and Reproductive Health	3