Graduate Embedded Certificate in Climate Change and Health (Public Health)

General Information

The Graduate Embedded Certificate (GEC) in Climate Change and Health complements the education of graduate students with an interest in public health and/or the human dimensions of climate change impacts and responses. The action-oriented focus of the Graduate Embedded Certificate positions graduates to effectively apply their knowledge and skills to consider climate change as central to all health programs, policies, practice, and research. Students pursue the embedded certificate in Climate Change and Health by fulfilling their graduate degree requirements and the GEC requirements. The degree and the GEC must be completed concurrently.

Entrance Requirements

The embedded certificate is open to students enrolled in all School of Public Health (SPH) graduate degrees, as well as students enrolled in graduate degrees in other Faculties.

Students must be in good academic standing at the time of application for the embedded certificate.

SPH students are required to register for the embedded certificate no later than September 30 of their second year OR, if studying part-time, no later than completion of 12 units of their degree program.

For information on the application process for the embedded certificate, refer to the School of Public Health website.

Program Requirements

The Graduate Embedded Certificate in Climate Change & Health comprises 12 units.

Students must complete the following:

Required courses 7 units:

SPH 556 - Climate Change and Human Health (3 units)
SPH 557 - Hot Topics in Climate Change and Health (3 units)
SPH 558 - Climate Change & Health Integrative Project (1 unit)

Approved Elective Options 5 units:

Approved elective options include courses that have direct relevance to climate change and health practice and research such as: determinants of health, strategies for addressing climate change & health, climate change impacts on human health, and methods relevant to studying climate change impacts on health:

SPH 562 - Understanding and Improving the Health of Populations (3 units) OR
SPH 501 - Determinants of Health (3 units) OR
equivalent course related to determinants of health
SPH 514 - Introduction to Environmental Health (3 units)
SPH 523 - Advocacy for Public Health (3 units)
SPH 600 - Health Policy Development (3 units)
SPH 603 - Scientific Communication in Public Health (2 units)
SPH 527 - Food Safety (3 units)
SPH 516 - One-Health (3 units) OR
SPH 561 - Topics in Public Health (1 unit) - One Health
SPH 561 - Topics in Public Health (1 unit) - Vaccine Preventable Diseases OR
SPH 561 - Topics in Public Health (1 unit) - Malaria
SPH 566 - Special Seminars (3 units) - WASH in the Arctic
SPH 640 - Introduction to Global Health (3 units) OR equivalent course related to global health
SPH 512 - Environmental Risk Assessment and Management (3 units) OR equivalent course related to environmental risk assessment
SPH 596 - Epidemiology Methods I (3 units) OR
SPH 697 - Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases (3 units) OR
SPH 515 - Investigation of Foodborne Illness (3 units) OR
SPH 561 - Topics in Public Health (1 unit) - Environmental Epidemiology
SPH 623 - Qualitative and Community-Based Approaches in Health Research OR
MACE 550 - Introduction to Qualitative Inquiry OR
MACE 503 - Methods of Community Based Research OR
INT D 500 - An Introduction to Community-Based Participatory Research

Additional elective options

Additional elective options must be approved by the GEC coordinator in consultation with the student’s supervisor or academic advisor.

Note

The embedded certificate will be awarded at the time the student earns their degree.