The Certificate in Public Health Informatics (Cert-PHI) is a 12-month program designed to prepare professionals for leadership positions that bridge information technology and public heath—an increasingly in-demand skillset. Public health informatics professionals work in local, state, and federal health agencies and in a variety of private-sector health organizations.
Students who complete the certificate will be able to implement and manage public health information systems, including: vital statistics systems, online analytic processing tools that support decision-making, immunization registries, population health surveillance, community health information networks, and electronic public health data interchange.
We expect students who complete the Cert-PHI to have expanded and supplemented their current domain knowledge in a way that opens up new corridors of discovery and employment for them.