Graduate Certificate in Informatics for Public Health
The Graduate Certificate in Informatics for Public Health (IPH) offers to further and meet the growing demand for professional education and development in the field of public health informatics. The certificate provides participants with basic knowledge of issues and application of informatics in areas of public health including surveillance, prevention, preparedness, and health promotion, and competence in evaluating and discovering solutions for the current and future public health informatics challenges.
The IPH Certificate is designed to serve as a stand-alone certificate program for non-degree seeking students, public health care professionals and as an additional option for Master of Health Administration students, Master of Science in Health Informatics students, Master of Public Health students, and other Graduate students. Courses taken for the certificate program are not intended to fulfill the requirements of any current Graduate degree at MU. The IPH can be completed 100% online, however, some courses may be offered only in person.
Requirements
Successful completion of the certificate requires a total of 12 credit hours.*
| Required Core Courses | ||
| HLTH_ADM 7431 | Foundations of Public Health Informatics | 3 |
| HLTH_ADM 8545 | Methods in Public Health Informatics | 3 |
| or HLTH_ADM 8450 | Methods of Health Services Research | |
| Electives | ||
| HLTH_ADM 7432 | Health Database Management and Public Health Data Systems | 3 |
| HLTH_ADM 7436 | Telehealth | 3 |
| HLTH_ADM 7580 | Project Management for Health Administration | 3 |
| HLTH_ADM 8460 | Administration of Health Care Organizations | 3 |
| HLTH_ADM 8461 | Managing Human Resources in Health Care Organizations | 3 |
| HLTH_ADM 8470 | Strategic Planning and Marketing for Health Care Organizations | 3 |
| HLTH_ADM 8544 | Managerial Epidemiology (Population Health Management) | 3 |
| HLTH_ADM 8571 | Decision Support Systems for Health Administration | 3 |
| HLTH_ADM 8573 | Decision Making for Health Care Organizations | 3 |
| HLTH_ADM 8575 | Health Policy and Politics | 3 |
| P_HLTH 8470 | GIS for Public Health | 3 |
| BBME 7566 | Health Informatics Ethics | 3 |
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Course not used as a required core course may be used as an elective.
Semester Plan
Please contact Health Administration in the Department of Health Sciences in the College of Health Sciences for further information about the certificate program and plan of study options. Additional information also available at https://gradschool.missouri.edu/degree-programs/.
Sample Plan of Study #1
| First Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| HLTH_ADM 7431 | 3 | HLTH_ADM 7580 | 3 |
| HLTH_ADM 7436 | 3 | HLTH_ADM 8545 | 3 |
| 6 | 6 | ||
| Total Credits: 12 | |||
Sample Plan of Study #2
| First Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| HLTH_ADM 7431 | 3 | HLTH_ADM 7432 | 3 |
| Public Health GIS Elective (in development) | 3 | HLTH_ADM 8545 | 3 |
| 6 | 6 | ||
| Total Credits: 12 | |||
Admissions Contact
Diki Lama
ldlpdp@missouri.edu