Our curriculum grows with a new BSPH in Community and Global Public Health and a Healthcare Management Certificate, fostering innovation and student engagement.
The Gillings School of Global Public Health is excited to present new program offerings and training opportunities for students, faculty and staff.
BSPH Program in Community and Global Public Health
The mission of the Bachelor of Science in Public Health (BSPH) program in Community and Global Public Health is to prepare students to work in partnership with local and global communities to identify and address health problems to achieve health equity.
The curriculum emphasizes equity-centered and high-impact practices such as team-based learning and experiential education and will offer more specialized training in data-driven community and systems-based public health.
The program is designed to build upon student interest in understanding the systems and behaviors that contribute to public health challenges such as climate change, water crises and the opioid epidemic. To address health behaviors, public health professionals must learn how to engage with communities in both local and global settings to identify public health threats and creative, community-driven solutions.
Students can begin applying this fall for the new BSPH program. The first class of students will start in August 2025.
To address health behaviors, public health professionals must learn how to engage with communities in both local and global settings to identify public health threats and creative, community-driven solutions.
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Healthcare Management Certificate
The Department of Health Policy and Management (HPM) will soon offer a new Healthcare Management Certificate, an 11-credit program over 12-15 months that provides core health management competencies for emerging health care leaders. Participants will develop skills in understanding, measuring and leading successful health care units at levels appropriate to their career stage. For those without previous master’s level training, certificates may also meet core requirements for the Residential or Executive Master of Healthcare Administration degrees offered by the HPM department.
Programs to support community wellness, facilitate difficult conversations
In addition to these two new curriculum offerings, the School now offers training and events to facilitate difficult conversations and support wellness among the Gillings community.
Events on campus and in our state, including the recent gun violence on campus and the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene, have led us to develop an inward-focused goal of supporting mental health among Gillings faculty, staff and students. The School has hosted several support gatherings that provide space for participants to share experiences and reflect in a respectful, compassionate environment.
As part of a broader conversation on addressing difficult topics, the School now offers several training programs, including the Heels for Healing and Restoration dialogue program, the Crash Communication Course, the Teaching and Learning Community of Care opportunity, and the Teaching in Challenging Times workshops and resources. Each of these unique activities provides faculty and staff with opportunities to focus on intergroup dialogue and difficult conversations, with trainings specifically designed for faculty and staff from the Gillings School.
The UNC Center for Faculty Excellence also offers programming to support faculty development, including asynchronous resources and events for teaching in challenging times and other leadership, teaching and mentoring resources.
