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Professional Development for Non-Degree-Seeking Students
Enroll as a Special Standing Student
Special standing students are non-degree-seeking students. As a special standing student, you can enroll in available courses that interest you for which you meet the course prerequisites.
Certificate for Practicing Professionals
Rollins offers a certificate option for non-degree-seeking working professionals interested in gaining in-depth training in specific content areas. To register for these certificates, candidates will need to apply for admission.
Certificate in Quantitative Methods in Public Health
The quantitative methods in public health certificate is offered through the Executive MPH program and is designed for working professionals who have determined that they need additional quantitative skills to advance their employment opportunities. These individuals already have a master’s degree or higher OR they have a bachelor’s degree with three or more years of relevant work experience.
Training Sessions for Public Health Professionals
The Region IV Public Health Training Center offers various opportunities for continued training including webinars, lectures, skill-based training, and more.
The Emory Centers for Training and Technical Assistance offer training on a variety of public health skills and topics. Their dedicated centers have provided capacity-building services for over a decade.
Offered in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), these courses are primarily held at CDC's site training facilities except for the computer sessions, which are held at Rollins. We utilize staff from CDC in lectures, discussions, and in proctoring the applied epidemiological case study exercises conducted in the classroom. Epidemiology in Action is offered annually in the spring and the International Course in Applied Epidemiology is offered in the fall.
Rollins offers a range of training workshops on qualitative research. We offer scheduled training workshops and mentored sessions that provide individual guidance on your own research project. Workshops are held twice per year. We also offer custom workshops to meet the training needs of your organization.
This course aims to provide the necessary training and tools to key healthcare stakeholders to improve WASH in HCF and build the capacity of UNICEF personnel involved in WASH services, healthcare delivery, and health programming.
This speakers series fosters collaborations across the school and promotes the exciting work of our faculty by highlighting the breadth of public health science and how innovative research is moving the field forward.
The Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics often hosts training associated with topics in biostatistics and bioinformatics.
Master of Science in Clinical Research
The Rollins School of Public Health collaborates in teaching the master of science in clinical research, which is administered by the School of Medicine and offered through Laney Graduate School. For more information, please click here.