The Graduate Certificate in Disaster Management provides students with an understanding of the principles of disaster management. Students receive advanced training in planning, mitigating, responding and recovering from human-made and natural disasters to improve health outcomes and reduce property losses in affected regions around the world.
The certificate program is open to current graduate students in any discipline, provided the student has a satisfactory academic and/or professional background. Post-baccalaureate individuals not currently enrolled in a graduate program may be admitted as non-degree graduate students.
The certificate requires 12 credit hours (6 core and 6 elective). Core courses include DMAN 7100 – Introduction to Disaster Management and either DMAN 7200 –
Disaster Management for Health Professionals or DMAN 7560 – Healthcare Emergency Management. Elective courses must include a minimum of 3 hours of DMAN credits. The full list of classes can be found here.
