{"id":88104,"date":"2016-08-09T12:17:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T16:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/?page_id=88104"},"modified":"2025-08-04T13:59:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:59:30","slug":"global-health","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/education\/degrees-and-programs\/master-of-public-health-programs\/certificates\/mph-context-certificates\/global-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>As part of Boston University\u2019s on-campus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/education\/degrees-and-programs\/master-of-public-health-programs\/\">Master of Public Health (MPH) degree<\/a>, you have the option to add a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/education\/degrees-and-programs\/master-of-public-health-programs\/certificates\/mph-context-certificates\/\">Context Certificate<\/a> to your functional area of concentration, deepening your knowledge in an area or population of greatest interest to you.<\/h4>\n<p>This MPH certificate program considers new approaches and delivery systems to improve health behaviors around the world. MPH students are prepared to become researchers and work in global health administration and management.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sph\/files\/2016\/08\/CUGH_Logo.Badge_.150.jpg\" alt=\"CUGH_Logo.Badge_.150\" width=\"121\" height=\"150\" class=\"wp-image-93511 alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Global Health Context Certificate<\/h3>\n<p><span>The mission of the Department of Global Health is to improve the health of underserved global populations through policy-relevant research; empowerment of citizens, governments, and organizations; and education of future global health leaders. We focus on the world\u2019s three overriding health problems: poverty, disease, and inequity. The department focuses on infectious diseases (including HIV\/AIDS), maternal and child health\/reproductive health, noncommunicable diseases, access to medicines, health systems strengthening, and economic and policy analysis. Practice-based education is an area of particular focus, with coursework that teaches skills relevant to running programs to reduce disease and inequality in lower-middle and low-income countries. Our faculty have major research programs in South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, and India, and other research in Mexico, Ghana, the Gambia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Lebanon. Faculty in the Department of Global Health mentor students in the MPH degree and interdisciplinary master\u2019s and doctoral degrees across SPH.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Upon graduation, students will be able to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Describe health challenges faced at global, national, regional, and community levels, including major causes of morbidity and mortality, and context-specific reasons for geographic variation in population health and well-being;<\/li>\n<li>Analyze a health system and its component elements in order to examine performance, identify strengths and weaknesses, and compare it to health systems in other countries;<\/li>\n<li>Explain the ways in which culture, social norms and institutions, laws, gender, economic status, access to education and health care, and other factors influence health;<\/li>\n<li>Conduct a situation analysis across a range of cultural, economic, and health contexts; and<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrate ability to access, summarize, synthesize, analyze, and communicate background information and public health evidence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t<div class=\"editorial-featured\">\n\n\t\t\t<figure class=\"featured-image\">\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"600\" height=\"362\" src=\"\/sph\/files\/2024\/05\/Charlotte-Greenhill-edited2-600x362-1.png\" class=\"attachment-sph_thumb size-sph_thumb\" alt=\"Charlotte Greenhill stands with arms crossed in front of the Talbot Building\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"featured-text\">\n\t\t\t\t<h6>Featured Story<\/h6>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/news\/articles\/2024\/sph-graduate-selected-for-fulbright-award\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"hed\">SPH Graduate Selected for Fulbright Award<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"dek\">Charlotte Greenhill, a graduate of Boston University&#039;s 4+1 program with a bachelor&#039;s degree in Latin American studies and an MPH with concentrations in global health and epidemiology and biostatistics from the School of Public Health, received a prestigious English Teaching Assistantship to Brazil.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<h3>Sample Course Titles<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Foundations of Global Health<\/li>\n<li>Managing Disasters and Complex Humanitarian Emergencies (4)<\/li>\n<li>Confronting \u00a0Non-Communicable Diseases in the Developing World<\/li>\n<li>Global AIDS Epidemic: Social and Economic Determinants, Impact, and Responses<\/li>\n<li>Global Mental Health<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/sph\/programs\/mph\/global-health-2\/\" class=\"button btn-arrow\" target=\"_blank\" >View the BU Bulletin for Course Requirements<\/a>\n<h3>Sample Practicum<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Brookline Sister City Project (Nicaragua) \u2013 Analyzing childhood malnutrition, sexual education, and contraceptive availability<\/li>\n<li>Calmette Hospital (Cambodia) \u2013 Conducting acute kidney injury research<\/li>\n<li>Lesotho-Boston Health Alliance (Lesotho) \u2013 Conducting root cause analysis for home deliveries in Lesotho<\/li>\n<li>Mildmay (Uganda) \u2013 Evaluating the effectiveness of the Wisepill among pregnant and postpartum women<\/li>\n<li>Intern\/Secretariat, People that Deliver Initiative at the UNICEF Supply Division (Denmark)<\/li>\n<li>World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Western Pacific (Philippines) \u2013 Improving the accessibility of Hepatitis medicine<\/li>\n<li>World Vision USA (Washington D.C., USA) \u2013 Coordinating research efforts related to social services from the perspective of para-social workers in Sub-Saharan Africa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Certificate Director<\/h3>\n<div class=\"row\"><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"col-sm-6\">\n\n\t<div class=\"profile-listing-container single-profile-format\">\n\t\t<ul class=\"profile-listing profile-format-single\">\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"sph-profile-basic-card\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/profile\/monica-onyango\/\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sph-profile-basic-media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sph-profile-basic-image\"><figure class=\"profile-photo profile-single-photo\"><img width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"\/sph\/files\/2013\/10\/Monica-Onyango-2.jpg\" alt=\"Monica Onyango\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sph-profile-basic-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"sph-profile-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"sph-profile-name\" data-name=\"Monica A Onyango\"><span class=\"sph-profile-name-full\">Monica A Onyango<\/span>, <span class=\"sph-profile-name-degrees\"> PhD<\/span><\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"sph-profile-main-position\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"sph-profile-main-position\"><span class=\"sph-profile-position-title\"> Clinical Associate Professor<\/span><span class=\"sph-profile-position-department\"><span>, <\/span>Global Health<\/span> <span class=\"sph-profile-position-institution\"> <span>- <\/span>Boston University School of Public Health<\/span><\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h6>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/ul>\n\t<\/div><!--\/.profile-listing-->\n\n<\/div><div class=\"col-sm-6\">&#8220;Global health is public health. Global health is local health. We have achieved dramatic reductions in preventable Illness, injury, and death around the world over the last 50 years, but there is still much to do. Pregnant women should not die from postpartum hemorrhage. HIV-positive parents can have healthy HIV-negative children and live to watch them grow up. People living with addiction in Boston should not be dying from overdoses. Everyone at BUSPH has a part to play.&#8221;<\/div><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Are you a current student in need of advising?<\/h6><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<p><a href=\"\/sph\/files\/2025\/08\/GH-Context-Roadmaps-3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Global Health Context Roadmap 2025-2026<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Academic Program Administrator<\/h4>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:marykgry@bu.edu\">Mary Gregory<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/students\/advising-and-registration\/registrar-contact\/\" class=\"button btn-arrow\" >Registrar<\/a>\n<p><a href=\" https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/students\/student-services\/graduate-student-life-team\/\" class=\"button btn-arrow\" >Graduate Student Life<\/a><span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Which course bulletin should I use if I matriculated several years prior?<\/h6><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">Find any previous academic year&#8217;s bulletin in the BU <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/bulletin\/archive\/\">archive<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>For more information about MPH degree requirements and admissions, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/admissions\/request-information\/\">request information to learn more<\/a>.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of Boston University\u2019s on-campus Master of Public Health (MPH) degree, you have the option to add a Context Certificate to your functional area of concentration, deepening your knowledge in an area or population of greatest interest to you. 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