The Global Health eLearning Center courses are organized into Certificate Programs to help you focus your learning with a more comprehensive study of key topics of global health.
You can earn a certificate in a variety of global health areas by successfully completing all courses within a program area. As always, specific course certificates are available on an individual course basis. Certificates Programs will be expanded as new courses are developed.
Can integrating climate into health programming improve health outcomes? This is the question that we want to explore. Climate change is a pressing threat to humanity. This series explores the intersection between climate and health and highlights the interconnected nature of the two through stories, evidence, and lessons learned.
Listen to what the team of experts have to say about this series.
Child survival and disease control including oral rehydration therapy (ORT) and zinc supplementation to treat diarrhea; basic immunizations for common ailments; micronutrient supplementation to treat malnutrition; and more; save the lives of approximately 6 million children under 5 each year.
Cross-cutting topics address areas such as the management of logistics and commodities for health, environmental issues, and health systems strengthening, which apply across one or more technical areas in health sector programming at USAID.
Globally, 200 million children are not meeting their developmental potential. Ensuring a strong beginning for children will enable them to live healthy, productive lives. Evidence shows that Early Child Development programs benefit children, families, and communities.
Over 200 million women living in developing countries do not want to become pregnant and yet are not using effective contraceptive methods. Family planning methods are very effective in preventing pregnancy when used correctly and are an important part of a program's contraceptive method mix.
Family planning programs are critical in enabling couples to determine whether, when, and how many children to have is vital to ensure safe motherhood and healthy families. Voluntary family planning has profound health, economic, and social benefits for families and communities.
Taking into account both the differences and the inequalities between men and women in program planning, implementation, and assessment is vitally important to USAID programming. The roles and activities of men and women affect who does what in carrying out an activity, and who benefits.
Improving governance is one of the essential elements of realizing the dream of a strong health system achieving greater health impact. Good governance enables the effective use of medicines, information, human resources, and finances to deliver better health service performance and better health outcomes.
Health systems strengthening programs provide support to ensure that developing country health systems are effective, efficient, and equitable. Fully functioning health systems are vital to ensure widespread use of effective health measures.
This series of courses prepares learners to rigorously evaluate the impact of health communication interventions, determine the psychosocial mechanisms underlying social and behavioral change, test models and hypotheses of communication influence at the population level, inform program practice and contribute to implementation science. This is a highly valued skill set among donor agencies and the public and private sectors, which place a premium on strategic and cost-effective investment decision-making.
Preventing infectious diseases, such as malaria and tuberculosis, while simultaneously strengthening the treatment and control programs that exist in health care systems is vital to decreasing the global disease burden.
The major direct causes of maternal morbidity and mortality include hemorrhage, infection, high blood pressure, unsafe abortion, and obstructed labor. The health of the mother is critical to ensuring the health of the whole family.
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is about collecting, storing, analyzing and finally transforming data into strategic information so it can be used to make informed decisions for program management and improvement, policy formulation, and advocacy.
The first days and weeks of life are critical for the future health and survival of a child. Nearly two-thirds of the 6.5 million infant deaths each year occur within the first four weeks of life, and about two-thirds of those occur within the first week.
One-third of the world’s population experiences some form of poor nutrition, leading to increased rates of illness, mortality, and lost productivity. There are interventions that can be employed to address poor nutrition and diarrheal disease.
In today’s ever-changing and interconnected world, public health organizations, program managers, and health care workers need to be agile in their ability to constantly acquire, change, and adapt their practices based on the latest life-saving evidence. Adopting change management and knowledge management strategies and practices can strengthen the performance of health care workers and programs.
Pharmaceutical systems strengthening topics address areas related to strengthening country systems to ensure access to safe, effective, quality-assured, and affordable essential medical products and to related services that promote their appropriate use. This includes a 101 overview of pharmaceutical systems strengthening and an in-depth look at strengthening country medical product quality assurance systems, combating antimicrobial resistance, governance in the pharmaceutical sector, and logistics for health commodities. Another free, 11 module, online course called Foundations of Good Manufacturing Practices is also available here.
PQM+ developed two free e-Learning courses offered through the USP Education platform - 1) Foundations of Good Manufacturing Practices and 2) Medical Devices and Classifications: Focus on Maternal Neonatal and Child Health. Medical Devices and Classifications: Focus on Maternal Neonatal and Child Health is a free, self-paced introductory course developed for program and technical staff who wish to acquire an overview of the regulation of medical devices, with a focus on devices for maternal, neonatal and child health in LMIC settings. This interactive course demystifies the often-complex field of medical device regulation and quality assurance and makes it easy and fun to acquire a foundational understanding of 1) medical devices; 2) international standards for medical devices; and 3) quality assurance for medical devices. Foundations of Good Manufacturing Practices is a free online course that explains Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) requirements. GMP ensure the quality and safety of medical products around the world. This 11-module course gives an overview of essential GMP requirements and principles, such as WHO and Pharmaceutical Inspection Cooperation Scheme (PIC/S) standards. Each module takes about 30-40 minutes to complete. This course is designed for anyone who works in medical products production and quality assurance, including manufacturers and regulatory authorities.
Engaging the private sector is critical to meeting priority health goals in developing countries. The sector plays an important role in many countries and is an integral part of the health system serving urban and rural areas, rich and poor. It offers valuable resources and can help relieve the demands placed on the public sector.
Reproductive health addresses the reproductive processes, functions, and system at all stages of life from menarche through menopause. It is the focal point for issues related to reproductive health, maternal health, and infant health.