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Program Description

This Graduate Certificate will provide students and professionals from a wide range of disciplines with the training necessary to contribute to global health efforts in a meaningful and substantial way. Further, this Graduate Certificate will bring multiple disciplines together to seek solutions for challenges faced by much of the world today.

The Global Health Graduate Certificate prepares students to do the following:

  • Partner with other health professionals worldwide to tackle emerging global health issues,

  • Deal with health issues at home that have their origin from other countries and ensure that our population is protected with good health,

  • Learn from other health professionals across the world.

Program Admissions Requirements

  • Earned an undergraduate degree from an accredited college

  • Undergraduate/Graduate grades - at least a cumulative 3.0 GPA (unofficial transcripts may be required)

  • Apply to the certificate program by filling out the following application: https://medicine.utah.edu/programs/certificates

  • Either:

    • Enrolled in a Graduate Program, you must receive permission from your current program to earn the Certificate OR

    • Not enrolled in a graduate program, you must apply through the Graduate School http://admissions.utah.edu/apply/undergraduate/second-bachelors.php as seeking second bachelors or a non-matriculated student.

      • Intended Major - undecided

  • After all of the steps have been completed, your file will be reviewed and you will be contacted by the Division of Public Health