Graduate Certificate in Informatics for Public Health Professionals in Indianapolis United States | Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis

Get ready for the future by obtaining a graduate certificate in public health from IU School of Informatics and Computing at IUPUI. Enhance your data management skills and modernize your capabilities to more effectively safeguard and improve community health, establishing new benchmarks for professionals in this vital sector. Our Public Health Leader program equips professionals with the knowledge to create, acquire, and deploy information systems tailored for public health initiatives. Key focus areas include: Establishing strategic vision for public health informatics, Applying informatics standards, Overseeing IT infrastructure, Assessing system performance and applications, Helping build interconnected public health information networks, Deploying solutions that maintain data privacy, security, and accuracy while optimizing information accessibility for public health purposes

This curriculum aligns with CDC-defined core competencies for public health informatics specialists. Applicants should possess graduate or doctoral-level public health training, including coursework in epidemiology and data analytics.

Exceptions to the advanced degree requirement may be granted for professionals with extensive public health service and leadership experience at government health agencies.

Certificate candidates will undertake a guided health informatics project centered on either public health research or community initiatives.