Global Health Monitoring and Evaluation, Certificate

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‌‌This 12-credit graduate certificate uses online facilitation to help advance your career in the field of Global Health.

Are you ready to elevate your impact in global health? Our Global Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) graduate course is designed to equip you with essential tools to develop and implement M&E frameworks for health programs.

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Program Details

Class Format

Online, Full Time, Part Time, Asynchronous

Asynchronous learning means that learning takes place at all different times for students enrolled in a course.

Program Length

12 months

Credits to Complete

12

Cost/Credit Hour

In State: $769
Out of State: $994

  • Online application
  • $75 application fee
  • Official transcripts
  • 300–500 word essay
  • Proof of English language proficiency
  • CV or resume

Dates & Deadlines

Fall Deadline: July 1

What You'll Learn

In this course, you will:

  • Address Systemic Problems: Learn how to tackle challenges impacting local and global communities through effective M&E practices.

  • Analyze Health Needs: Gain skills in assessing population health needs using both qualitative and quantitative information.

  • Evaluate Programs: Understand how to identify key program elements, monitor costs and effectiveness, and evaluate the success of implementations.

  • Develop Essential Tools: Create a program logic model, develop an M&E plan, and set quantitative and qualitative indicators and targets.

  • Data Mastery: Use relevant data collection and analysis methods, identify effective tools, and leverage program data for informed decision-making.

  • Ethical Guidelines: Apply ethical standards in data collection and reporting.

This course provides cutting-edge M&E concepts and practices, including results-based and participatory approaches. Upon completion, you'll be equipped to monitor and evaluate interventions at every level—including at the project, program, micro, and macro levels.

Enroll in the course to gain the competencies needed for impactful M&E in global health. Transform your understanding and become a leader in Global Monitoring and Evaluation.

Maximum Flexibility

The Global Health Monitoring and Evaluation certificate is a 12-credit graduate program offered in an asynchronous online environment. This means that we offer maximum flexibility to meet the needs of working professionals. There are no online meetings or set times when you'll need to log in; just submit your coursework before the posted deadline, and check back in for feedback from your instructors and classmates. 

As a student in this program, you will acquire and expand expertise in global health. Your classmates will most likely be practicing professionals with a background in health care policies, systems, practices or clinicians and health administrators interested in increasing their knowledge and skills in the global arena.

Program Completion Timeline

  • All courses will be offered at least once each year to enable you to complete the program within 9 months. 
  • Although most students complete the program 1 year, you will be allowed up to three years to complete the program.

Program Contacts

Admissions

Arielle Faulkner
Admissions Counselor
afaulkner@umaryland.edu 
410-706-7132 

Academics

Dr. Peter Memiah, Dr.Ph., MSc.
Program Director
petermemiah@umaryland.edu 

                                                                        

  • Meet Your Faculty

    This interprofessional, university-wide global health program offers courses taught by faculty from across the different UMB schools (University of Maryland Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Law, Pharmacy, Dentistry, and Social Work.

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