A two-year, four-semester program for students, working professionals, and career changers entering healthcare technology, public health, health data, behavioral medicine, and integrated care.
The Foundational Professional Certificate balances theory and practice, with core courses, skills labs, case discussions, data and project training, internships or simulated practice, and a Capstone applied project.
Beyond technical content, the program emphasizes professional ethics, data responsibility, interdisciplinary communication, health equity, project execution, and awareness of professional boundaries — preparing students to contribute in healthcare institutions, public-health organizations, community programs, health-technology companies, and research and data-support teams.
Health data is reshaping clinical care, public health, hospital management, health insurance, and clinical decision support. This program prepares entry-level health-data professionals with domain understanding, analytic skills, data-governance awareness, and basic AI literacy.
Students study healthcare systems, clinical workflows, biomedical terminology, health statistics, Python, SQL, databases, health-information standards, data governance, data visualization, foundations of machine learning, privacy and security, and responsible AI.
Graduates can interpret the sources and limits of health data, perform basic analyses with Excel, BI tools, Python, and SQL, build clear data reports and dashboards, and contribute to health-data projects in line with ethics and governance requirements.
Career Pathways: Healthcare Data Analyst Assistant, Clinical Data Coordinator, Public Health Data Support, Health-Tech Product Analyst, Quality Improvement Support.
Public health is the discipline of protecting and improving the health of populations — covering disease prevention, health promotion, equity, advocacy, community assessment, environmental health, surveillance, and emergency preparedness. This program builds the core competencies needed to enter public-health practice.
Students study public health and health systems, social and behavioral health, biostatistics, epidemiology, environmental and occupational health, health policy and ethics, research methods, community health assessment, program planning and evaluation, health communication, global health, One Health, emergency preparedness, public-health informatics, and GIS fundamentals.
Graduates can describe core public-health functions, analyze how social and environmental factors influence health, apply basic epidemiologic and statistical methods, and design community assessments and public-health programs.
Career Pathways: Public Health Program Assistant, Community Health Worker, Health Education Assistant, Disease Prevention & Surveillance Support, Public Health Data & Reporting Support.
Behavioral medicine is an interdisciplinary field bringing together medicine, psychology, public health, health education, and chronic-disease management — focused on how behavior, psychology, physiology, and social context shape health and disease. This program prepares foundation-level professionals to support behavior change, chronic-disease self-management, patient engagement, health coaching, and integrated-care programs under qualified supervision.
Students study introduction to behavioral medicine, integrated care models, health psychology, behavior-change theory, human biology and psychophysiology, foundations of chronic disease, behavioral screening and measurement, motivational interviewing, health coaching, stress management, sleep health, pain and lifestyle medicine, ethics and professional boundaries, cultural humility, chronic-disease self-management, and digital and remote behavioral medicine.
