The Undergraduate Certificate in One Health will provide the current and future public health workforce professional additional knowledge and skills regarding the protection of the public’s health by being able to create better surveillance on the interaction between human health, animal health and the environment. Students will be able to complete the 12 unit program in one year. The public health workforce will upgrade their knowledge and skills regarding the importance of epidemiology, the environment, outbreaks and disease prevention and surveillance as in relation to protecting the public’s health.

Campuses

Available via Main Campus & Arizona Online

Prerequisites to declare

2.0 UA GPA

• Note: UA GPA requirement will be waived for students who don’t have an established UA GPA.

Admissions Information

Open to degree-seeking and non-degree seeking students from Main & Online campuses.

Advising

• Main campus: determine by your last name, same as COPH degree advising.
• Arizona Online:
  • Degree-seeking students:
    • First-term and continuing students: Abba Kris Maria Versace (abba@arizona.edu)
  • Non-degree seeking students:
    • UG NDS advisor in Arizona Online: Heidi Creel (heidim@arizona.edu)

Courses Required (and semester(s) typically offered) – 12 units:

• EHS 100 – One Health in Action (3; spring)
• EHS 420 – Environmentally Acquired Infections (3; spring)
• HPS 433* – Global Health (3; spring and fall)
• EHS 439A* – Outbreaks and Environmental Microbiology: Then to Now (3; summer)

Relevant Advising Policies

• Minimum GPA for required coursework: 2.0
• Double dipping: No more than 50% of the units of credit used to complete the certificate can also be used for a current degree requirement (i.e., major, minor, or General Education), second certificate, or previously awarded degree program.

Relevant Advising Notes

• *Pre-req info: prerequisite requirements are waived for One Health certificate participants.