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Appendix 2.6.c. Sub-Competency: Public Health Certificate in Core Competencies (PubH Cert-CC)

The public health practice major brings together the science and art of public health. Students in the public health certificate programs choose either a broad background in core public health competencies or a focus area of public health based on their academic goals in population science. The Focus Area Curriculum gives the student the opportunity to investigate specific public health applications. Students are required to choose across four goals incorporating public health practice domains as established by the Council on Linkages found at http://trainingfinder.org/competencies/:

1. Public policy development using a systems framework;
2. Interventions based on the dimensions of community and culture;
3. Assessment and application of basic public health sciences; and
4. Program management and communications principles.

Sub-competencies: Public Health Certificate in Core Competencies (PubH Cert-CC)

The PHCert-CC Program focuses on public health knowledge, skills and attitudes to understand, assess, and manage population health in public health, health care, and human resources settings. Coursework blends competencies drawn from the core public health content. The public health core provides foundational skills in epidemiology, biostatistics, social and behavioral sciences, ethics, management, and environmental health sciences. These courses are the basis for designing, conducting, analyzing, and interpreting studies from which insights may be drawn to influence population health