Certificate in Health and Health Policy

The Certificate Program
The Woodrow Wilson School offers a Certificate in Health and Health Policy, sponsored by the Center for Health and Wellbeing. The Certificate trains graduate students for careers in health-related areas in the public and not-for-profit sectors. The program is designed for students with domestic and international health interests and provides both broad training in core topics in health and health policy as well as courses in specialized areas. Woodrow Wilson School MPA and MPP students are eligible for the Certificate. Graduate students in other departments may also make arrangements to complete the Certificate. The certificate is not open to undergraduates.

The Certificate program, started in 2003-04, reflects the growing importance of health as a major public policy issue, and underscores the School's commitment to teaching and research in health and health policy. The Center for Health and Wellbeing, which is part of the Woodrow Wilson School, has 22 faculty associates and hosts a number of visiting scholars and practitioners.

Requirements and Course Offerings
Students who anticipate completing the Certificate in Health and Health Policy should enroll as soon as possible, but no later than the completion of their first HHP course by emailing Judie Miller at jlmiller@princeton.edu. The enrollment is non-binding. 

Certificate students are required to complete two core courses and two approved electives on health-related topics. The two core courses, Political Economy of Health Systems and Epidemiology, are offered every year. MPA students may take the core courses in any sequence their first or second years. The core courses may not be taken P/D/F.

The list of approved electives varies from year to year. One of the two elective courses may be a graduate-level course offered by a department outside of the Woodrow Wilson School. Students who wish to count a non-WWS course toward the Certificate should seek advance permission from the Certificate director.

Other departments throughout the University - especially Psychology, Anthropology and History of Science - may offer courses that are relevant to Certificate students. These courses may be counted as an elective with prior permission of the Certificate Director.
 
Certificate Director, 2007-2008
Professor Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong
ema@princeton.edu
To schedule an appointment, please contact Judie Miller at 258-5833 or email her at jlmiller@princeton.edu

Elective Courses
The following is a list of WWS elective courses in health and health policy that will be offered in 2007-08 and will qualify as electives for the Certificate. Two half-term courses count toward one of the two electives that are required:

Fall 2007
WWS 571c: Topics in Devt: Global Infection: Burden, Control and Public Policy, Mahmoud
WWS 591h: Health Impact Assessments of Large Development Projects, Singer
*WWS 597: The Political Economy of Health Systems, Reinhardt and Frist

Spring 2008
WWS 582c: Topics in Econ: Poverty, Inequality and Health in the World, Deaton
WWS 594g: The Politics of US Healthcare Reform, Frist (Session I)
WWS 594h: The Economics of Health in Developing Countries, Hammer (Session II)
WWS 594j: Nutrition and Health in Developing Countries, Cameron (Session II)
WWS 594k: The Development Challenge of HIV/AIDS, Hansen (Session I)
WWS 594m: Mental Health, Singer (Session I)
*WWS 598: Epidemiology, Singer

*HHP Certificate Requirements