Advanced Certificate in Public Health Disaster Science, Policy and Practice

New York University

The Advanced Certificate in Public Health Disaster Science, Policy and Practice offers online and in-person options for students in good-standing who are interested in a multi-disciplinary approach to the scholarship, policies, and practices associated with preventing, preparing for, responding to, and recovering from public health disasters and complex emergencies. The Certificate requires a minimum of five courses and 15 credits. Upon completion of the Advanced Certificate in Disaster Science, Policy, and Practice, students will be able to: 1. Develop leadership and management decision-making skills for public health and healthcare incident management. 2. Develop communication and coordination skills for engaging the public and optimizing a public health emergency preparedness and response system. 3. Refine disaster research skills for evaluating emergency systems, assessing the impacts of disasters on vulnerable populations, and designing interventions that enhance preparedness, response, and recovery. 4. Use systems thinking to design or critically analyze response and recovery systems, including agent-based modeling techniques

School of Global Public Health