Online Graduate Certificate – Public Health
Gain expertise—quickly—to help improve public health issues.
Program Overview
Discover why our online Graduate Certificate - Public Health stands out from the rest
Our online Graduate Certificate in Public Health is designed to give you a broad understanding of public health policy, both in the U.S. and abroad. You will learn how to evaluate and improve the health of your community and gain valuable strategies to create and implement public health initiatives.
Coursework in this online program focuses on environmental and occupational health, how to use a systems-based approach to explore public health responses to biomedical outbreaks, and program planning, evaluation and process improvement.
In this EWU public health certificate, you will experience an integrated learning scenario, with both theory and practical tools. In fact, courses are taught by faculty with considerable background in the industry. Upon graduation, you can prepare for in-demand roles such as public health educator, contact tracer, community health advisor or biostatistician.
The Eastern Washington University School of Business is accredited by AACSB International (AACSB).
In this EWU public health certificate online program, you will learn to:
- interpret public health learnings that may complement work in an existing healthcare field;
- understand community public health issues and systems;
- articulate the social and epidemiological factors that affect public health.
- interpret public health learnings that may complement work in an existing healthcare field;
- understand community public health issues and systems;
- articulate the social and epidemiological factors that affect public health.
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If you are interested in pursuing your master’s degree, completed courses in this certificate program count toward your online Master of Public Health from EWU.
The Master’s in Public Health is accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH).
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Tuition
Earning your online certificate is easy on any budget with pay-as-you-go tuition
The online Graduate Certificate – Public Health offers the same affordable, pay-as-you-go rate to all in-state and out-of-state students.
| Program | Per Credit Hour | Per 4-Credit Hour Course | Per Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| Graduate Certificate – Public Health | $335 | $1,340 | $5,360* |
Application Fee: $75
*Tuition and fees subject to change. Total program cost does not include foundation courses. If foundation courses are required, the cost will be added to the total program cost.
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Calendar
Take a glance at the schedule with important dates and deadlines
The online Graduate Certificate – Public Health is designed to be efficient for working professionals, featuring six-week courses and seven start dates a year. View the full calendar to find the best start date for you, along with deadlines for registration, required documents, and tuition payment.
| Term | Program Start Date | Application Deadline | Registration Deadline | Tuition Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer I | 7/7/25 | 6/23/25 | 7/1/25 | 7/5/25 |
| Fall I | 9/22/25 | 9/8/25 | 9/17/25 | 9/20/25 |
| Fall II | 11/3/25 | 10/20/25 | 10/29/25 | 11/1/25 |
| Winter I | 12/29/25 | 12/15/25 | 12/24/25 | 12/27/25 |
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Admissions
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The admission process for the online Graduate Certificate – Public Health is simple and streamlined. You can get started right away, without taking time away from your professional or personal commitments.
Admission Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree
- Cumulative 3.0 GPA
- Professional resume
Online Graduate Certificate – Public Health Admission Requirements
- Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited institution
- Overall cumulative GPA of 3.0 or cumulative GPA of 3.0 in the last 90 quarter or 60 semester-graded postsecondary credit hours**
- If your GPA is lower than a 3.0 and you have relevant work experience, we encourage you to apply. Applicants with GPAs below 3.0 are considered for admission on a case-by-case basis
- Official transcript from the college/university where degree was earned
- Professional resume
Have a question? Call us at 800-826.3411.
**We encourage you to apply if your GPA is lower than a 3.0 and you have at least 3 years of professional work experience. Applicants with GPAs below 3.0 are considered for admission on a case-by-case basis. Please contact an Enrollment Services representative at 800-826-3411 for more information.
This offering is available as an endorsement program for those teachers who hold or who have held an initial, residency, continuing or professional teaching certificate in the state of Washington. If you do not hold a teaching certificate in Washington or do not hold a teaching certificate at all, you are still encouraged to apply. Please note however that this will not lead to a teaching certificate in Washington. Additionally, this program may satisfy the requirements for states other than Washington. Please check with your applicable licensing board to determine whether this program satisfies requirements for licensure in the state in which you reside. For information on certification in the state of Washington, please contact Jill Stinson, Certification Officer, at [email protected]. For current contact information for applicable licensing boards, please refer to our State Authorization page or contact Dianne Selcho at [email protected].
Please note, however, that this will not lead to a teaching certificate in Washington. If you are looking for an initial teaching certificate, please visit the School of Education’s webpage.
Document Submission Information
Order your official, electronic transcripts from the degree-granting institution where you earned your highest degree (bachelor’s or master’s) and have them sent to Eastern Washington University.
- Most EWU graduate programs only require one transcript. Please submit a transcript from your degree-granting institution. This transcript should include the final two years of your degree completion. If it does not, please submit transcripts to cover your final two years of earned credits.
- Please note that transcripts ordered by main may take 4-6 weeks to arrive.
If you are ordering a mailed paper transcript, please have it sent to:
Eastern Washington University
Showalter Hall 206
Cheney, WA 99004
Courses
Explore the syllabus for your online Graduate Certificate in Public Health
In order to earn the online Graduate Certificate - Public Health, you must complete four courses (16 credit hours).
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Apply evidence-based principles and the scientific knowledge base to critical evaluation and decision-making in public health.
- Describe a public health problem in terms of magnitude, person, time and place.
- Draw appropriate inferences from epidemiological data.
- Evaluate the strengths and limitations of epidemiological reports.
- Explain how systems models can be tested and validated.
- Prioritize individual, organizational, and community concerns and resources for public health programs.
- Apply descriptive techniques commonly used to summarize public health data.
- Explain the role of biology in the ecological model of population-based health.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Evaluate social identity and intersectionality at a personal level.
- Identify how inequities manifest themselves at the institutional, individual, and internal levels.
- Discuss the means by which structural bias, social inequities and racism undermine health and create challenges to achieving health equity at organizational, community and societal levels.
- Propose strategies to identify stakeholders and build coalitions and partnerships for influencing public health outcomes.
- Describe the importance of cultural competence in communicating public health content.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Identify the major environmental and occupational risk factors for health-related outcomes in human population.
- Analyze environmental and occupational health problems, risks, and mitigation.
- Evaluate environmental or occupational policies for their impact on public health and health equity.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Describe the pattern of burden of disease in a country using standard fertility and mortality indicators, estimates of disease burden measured in Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs), and data on disease incidence, prevalence, risk factors and geographic disparities.
- Discuss exposure-disease relationships in human populations.
- Communicate biological risks and prevention strategies to potentially affected communities using inclusive language.
- Apply professional responsibility and ethics to mitigating risk of biological disease outbreaks.
- Design an emergency preparedness plan to respond to a global pandemic.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Critically analyze the program development process.
- Support the concepts of cultural diversity and inclusion as it relates to population values and program planning.
- Use an evidence-based design approach to draft a marketing plan to a target population.
- Select appropriate tools to evaluate a public health program based on process, impact, and outcome objectives.
- Apply a process improvement model to a given public health intervention.
- Use a logic model to depict the relationship between program activities and effects
