Biostatistics
Data are everywhere around us. Making sense of the massive amounts of data for the purpose of improving the population health requires understanding statistical principles and developing skills in ap…
Global Mental Health
The module aims to help you understand some of the risk factors, and size of the burden of mental illness and think about policies and interventions that can help tackle this neglected public health …
Outbreak Investigation
Outbreak Investigation is one of a series of Internet-based training courses of the Skills Online program, which has now closed. The aim of this program was to provide continuing education opportunit…
Screening for Substance Use Disorders in Primary Care
This course teaches about the prevention and treatment of substance use disorders through online didactics, and provides the student a chance to practice techniques with locally and globally availabl…
For our institutional partners: Full Programs/Graduate Medical Education
This is available for institutional partnership only, not individual enrollment.
Climate change and Public Health
Free course for self paced study. Earn a certificate. Aims to inform about the dangers of climate change to Public Health and spur us to action: Climate change and human health; Climate change in the…
Effective Disease Response
Free course for self paced study. Earn a certificate. The course builds on the course Public Health - the basics to provide examples of the practice of Public Health in understanding the burden, caus…
Environmental Health Short Course
Free course which covers the main issues of environmental health - a branch of public health that examines the interaction of the environment with human health and disease. The environment affects hu…
Global Health Informatics
Free course for self paced study. Earn a certificate. The purpose of this course is to focus on Low- to Middle-Income Countries, in order to consider how informatics can be used to help tackle some o…
Human Rights and Public Health
Free course for self paced study. Earn a certificate. Understand the importance of Human Rights to Public Health. Relevant to all, but in particular those with interests in global health. Topics incl…
Promotion and Prevention in Public Health
Free course for self paced study. Earn a certificate. The course emphasises the importance of a population approach to prevention and covers: Social determinants of health; Health Promotion; Policy i…
Public Health: the Basics
Free course for self-paced study. Earn a certificate. A basic introduction to key aspects of the discipline of public health: Definitions; Epidemiology; Health systems; Evidence base for Public Healt…
Disaster Management and Emergency Planning
All communities are vulnerable to disaster and following the event would endeavour to limit the damage from it. Assessing and reducing the risks before a disaster occurs is as important as responding…
Health Systems
As explained by the World Bank "Access to health services is reduced by health system inefficiencies and deficiencies, including ill-equipped facilities, drug shortages, too few staff, and gaps in th…
Injury prevention
This course is designed to learn how to collect information on the burden of injury in your setting, understand the causes and risk factors for injury, and develop and evaluate intervention programs …
Innovation in Healthcare Products
This course is designed to help with the development of pharmaceutical or healthcare technology products. It is designed to help you: Start a discussion with relevant partner and/or to take forward a…
Medical Ethics Online
Free course for self paced study. Earn a certificate. Designed to cover key constituent parts of medical ethics; it is suitable for any healthcare professional wanting to acquire a basic grounding in…
Medical Professionalism
Free course for self paced study. Earn a certificate. Explore the concepts of Medical Professionalism and how they might be applied in various settings. Topics include: Definitions; Altruism and comm…
Patient Safety
Free course for self-paced study. Basic concepts of Patient Safety - with links to WHO handouts. For any healthcare professional anywhere in the world - aims to equip them with the basic concepts of …
- Teacher: Aly Feroze
Preventing Child Mortality
The self-paced course focuses on understanding the burden of childhood disease that results in morbidity and mortality in this vulnerable population. Children are an invaluable population resource an…
Preventing Maternal Mortality
Maternal morbidity and mortality remain major problems in many parts of the world – one of the most important threats to Public Health. The purpose of the course is to provide people with information…
Preventing Non-Communicable Diseases
Despite a focus on the control of communicable diseases in developing countries in the past, it is now apparent that non-communicable diseases have crept up on these populations and create a major th…
Reflective Practice in Healthcare
Explore how reflection can help you in your practice as a healthcare professional. Self-paced course with exercises
Refugee Health
Free course for self paced study. Earn a certificate. Threats to the health of refugees and asylum seekers, potential methods to improve the situation. The scope is global, but there is a focus on re…
The Burden of Disease
Free course for self-paced study. Earn a certificate. Learn about major disease patterns facing populations: global burden of disease; Communicable and Non-Communicable Disease; Neglected Tropical Di…
Weight Optimization
Free course for self-paced study. This course explores the impact of both obesity and physical inactivity on health, the interactions between them, and the evidence base for prevention and control.
