LEARNING OBJECTIVES AND LEARNER OUTCOMES
Advanced Community Public Health Practice Certificate

Through this certificate program learners will acquire basic knowledge, attitudes and skills in community health sciences. These include:

1. In public health needs assessment, program development, evaluation and other applications, design approaches taking into account community and cultural health definitions, culturally-based health behaviors and cultural communication styles in planning and implementing effective programs and evaluations
2. Involve community in assessing need for health programs, selecting health program approach, planning, implementing and evaluating health programs
3. Use analytical synthesis and critical thinking skills to develop solutions to complex public health problems and situations demonstrating creative problem-solving
4. Communicate effectively both in writing and orally, including report and proposal preparation, and in interactions with the media to communicate public health information
5. Understand the research process, from research question through reporting results
6. Explain design strategies used in public health research and the major threats to internal and external validity
7. Critically evaluate a research design (for both proposed and completed projects) in terms of internal and external design validity
8. Apply research designs that are appropriate to addressing specific research questions
9. Select a representative sample of a population under study (for a simple design) and assigning subjects to comparison groups (as appropriate)
10. Understand the principles and basic techniques for developing measurement instruments and evaluating their validity and reliability
11. Independently plan and conduct a small-scale research project
12. Participate as a collaborator for a large-scale research project
13. Be prepared for advanced study in research methodology
14. Describe major events in the recent history of the health education and health promotion field
15. Describe the relationship between theory, research and practice in health promotion
16. Describe and critically examine major models and theories in health education and health promotion and apply them to actual problems in public health
17. Critically analyze how major models and theories of health education and health promotion apply to existing programs and interventions in the community
18. Identify important steps in planning and evaluating health promotion and education programs
19. Design a health promotion program for a selected target group including theory, objectives, activities, management and evaluation.
20. Understand the social, political, psychological and economic values and assumptions that have influenced the development and implementation of health policy in the US with particular emphasis on Maternal and Child Health policy
21. Describe the steps of the policy formation process
22. Describe the various types of policy analysis
23. Understand the components of a social problem analysis as well as an analysis of the historical context in which a policy solution emerges
24. Apply an evaluative policy analysis framework to analyze a policy
25. Collect and summarize data relevant to an issue, to state policy options, and articulate the health, fiscal, administrative, legal, social and political implications of each policy option
26. Appreciate the role of advocacy in the policy formation process and be able to advocate in support of a policy position
27. Describe various strategies for advocacy (including legal, administrative, legislative)
28. Identify current key policy and advocacy issues in public health with an emphasis on Maternal and Child Health
29. Prepare a policy brief that summarizes a key policy issue and makes recommendations for change