Graduate Certificate in Epidemiology

Graduate Certificate in Epidemiology

Need to enhance your career with practical and professional epidemiological skills? The Graduate Certificate in Epidemiology is designed to teach you how to identify priority needs in populations and create data-rich, needs-based solutions at a micro and macro level. This certificate is a specialized and immersive program for students passionate about epidemiology, offering perspectives from both scientific and service-oriented approaches.

Here, you can learn how to improve your transferable skills in data analytics, interpretation of epidemiological data, and population-level science. You’ll also have the opportunity to enhance your data-driven decision-making, which can broaden your job eligibility and increase your cross-disciplinary value.

Focusing on disease research and prevention, while highlighting a Christian worldview, this certificate will give you the opportunity to specialize in:

• Disease investigations
• Disease pattern recognition
• Qualitative and quantitative software applications for data collection and analysis

This certificate is associated with Liberty University’s Master of Public Health degree programs and is available to graduate students in any major.

Hands-On Experience

Engage in multiple hands-on research projects where you can be challenged to identify real-world public health problems. Learn how to code and analyze data from outbreaks and disease data banks. And discover how to make data-informed decisions and policy recommendations.

Public Health Professors and Opportunities

Professors are all CEPH-accredited and approved for educational instruction in an MSPH and an MPH program. Each class is taught by a subject matter expert with both a doctorate and practical/research experience in their core subject.

Gain access to in-class computer stations and software programming for data collection and analysis during research courses and projects. Certificate earners can join Public Health student club organizations, such as LUPHSA and Eta Sigma Gamma (learn about our student clubs). Students can also engage in research and Research Week.

Academics: Graduate Certificate in Epidemiology

Enhance Your Career

Career Opportunities for the Graduate Certificate in Epidemiology