The health program evaluation certificate offers students offers students employable skills in areas such as Excel, research methods, program evaluation, biostatistics, and epidemiology.

This certificate is offered by BYU-Idaho, with support and resources from BYU-Pathway Worldwide.

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Why choose this certificate?

Training in health program evaluation will give you the experience with community health programs and public health science needed for an understanding of the public health industry. This understanding will increase your effectiveness in research, evaluation, and improvement of community health and public health practices.

BYU-Pathway has found that certain combinations of certificates lead to better job opportunities. Most degrees have a recommended plan of certificates that will help students increase their income and improve their employment possibilities.

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Looking Ahead

Potential Employment

Health educator
Health coordinator
Peer educator
Evaluator

Essential Knowledge and Skills

Outcomes

Create innovative solutions to social problems
Describe the function of the healthcare industry
Evaluate health information using best practices
Collect/communicate health data
Engage communities in health interventions
Develop interventions that address behavior change interventions

Certificate of Health Program Evaluation

Program Requirements

This certificate builds into the Applied Health degree.

This is an advanced certificate. Prior to working on this certificate, you must complete

Community and Environmental Health

and Health Program Strategies.

Certificate

15 CREDITS

Associate

60 CREDITS

Bachelor's

90–96 CREDITS

Certificate of Health Program Evaluation

Course Code

Course Name

# of Credits

BUS115

Business Applications

BUS115 — 3 credits

Business Applications

Students will acquire, develop and apply intermediate spreadsheet analysis skills in a business context as well as demonstrate basic database use. After individually completing spreadsheet tutorials and assignments, students will then develop and apply their skills in business projects and exams. The projects and exams, which are designed to be realistic and representative of business activities students might encounter in the workplace.

MATH221B

Biostatistics

MATH221B — 3 credits

Biostatistics

In this course students will study graphical representations of data, measures of center and spread, elementary probability, sampling distributions, correlations and regression, statistical inference involving means, proportions, and contingency tables, odds ratio and relative risk.

PUBH370

Epidemiology

PUBH370 — 3 credits

Epidemiology

This course is the study of the distribution of diseases and pathophysiological conditions of humans and of factors which influence their occurrence. The course requires an understanding of statistical principles.

PUBH381

Program Evaluation

PUBH381 — 2 credits

Program Evaluation

Evaluation is one of the 10 essential public health functions, one of the seven core competencies of health education, and is critical to effective practice. This course will cover the skills and knowledge necessary to conduct program evaluation. Students will be able to design appropriate process, impact and outcome evaluation. They will also discuss the ethical issues involved in evaluation.

PUBH391

Research Methods - Health

PUBH391 — 3 credits

Research Methods - Health

This course is an introduction to scientific writing, assessment instruments, data collection, research design, and statistical analysis. This will help prepare students to take the CHES exam. Students will be able to define plagiarism and recognize when it is present in their own writing and in the writing of others. They will also be able to propose, design and conduct a small research project, work collaboratively and effectively with other people to meet a common goal, and present their research findings through written and oral communication. Students will understand their relationship between scientific and spiritual inquiry, the strengths and limitations of each, and the role of each in the pursuit of truth.

PUBH399

Applied Health Capstone

PUBH399 — 1 credits

Applied Health Capstone

PUBH 399 serves as the capstone course for the Applied Health degree. Students will create a portfolio of assignments and projects and update their resumes to highlight the skills they developed and display how they achieved the program learning outcomes.

For questions about this program, contact BYU-Pathway Support