Professional Health Education

Whether you’re looking to enrich your education, stay on top of the latest learning, or make a career move, our professional education programs in health and medicine are designed to help you reach your goals. Take a course or earn a certificate and stand out above the crowd.

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Advanced Topics in Genetics and Genomics

Dive deeper into the fields of genetics and genomics with up-to-date information on the cutting-edge research and technologies revolutionizing the health and medicine industries.

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Program

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

Explore the current and future applications of AI in healthcare with the goal of learning to bring AI technologies into the clinic safely and ethically.

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Child Development

Learn how adults must capitalize on each child’s individual interests to create the context for optimal learning and positive interactions.

COVID-19 Training for Healthcare Workers

Following completion of this short course physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals will have a unified, evidenced-based approach to saving the lives of patients with COVID-19, including those who are critically ill.

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Digital Health Product Development

Learn to identify unmet clinical needs, develop ideas into products, and bring those products to market.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Healthcare

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Healthcare

Discover how to mitigate healthcare inequities on both a systemic, organizational, and individual level.

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Employee Wellness and Stress Management

Optimize your productivity and engagement at work with a mental and emotional toolkit to empower you to prioritize and support the well-being of self and others.

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Exercise Physiology

Gain an understanding of exercise science and the impact that physical activity has on slowing the trajectory of aging and improving general health. 

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Foundations of Genetics and Genomics

Gain the fundamental knowledge needed to understand how we can progress in our work targeting human health and disease, and prepare you to explore more advanced topics.

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Gut Health and the Microbiome

Gain foundational insight into the science behind the gut microbiome and its effect on health.

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Health Communication: Strategies for Impact and Success

Connect and build trust with patients, colleagues, the public, and the media as you gain the communication skills to ensure the dissemination of accurate health information.

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Healthcare Crisis Management

Learn to identify and address the steps you can take in the disaster management cycle, from preparedness through response and recovery to mitigation.

Healthcare Leadership

Healthcare Leadership

Gain the practical tools to effectively lead innovative improvements in your healthcare setting.

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Machine Learning Projects in Healthcare

Explore the unique data challenges of the healthcare industry and how machine learning can be applied to help solve them.

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Mastering Medical Teaching

Learn practical, non-prescriptive approaches for improving medical teaching practice.

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Medical Statistics

Learn to apply statistical concepts and methods to answer important questions in any industry using real-world examples from medical literature and the popular press

Nutrition Science

Nutrition Science

Discover the value of optimal nutrition in preventative care and learn how to critically examine contemporary research in nutrition science.

Positive Psychology and Well-Being

Positive Psychology and Well-Being

Positive Psychology and Well-Being: The Psychological, Biological, and Social Aspects of Happiness

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Preventing Heart Disease

Learn a practical approach to the prevention and recurrence of cardiac events by recognizing the impact of lifestyle choices.

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Psychology of Addiction and Recovery

Learn about the complex relationship between doctors and patients, the science of addiction, and the barriers to successfully addressing drug addiction and dependence at a personal and systemic level. 

Strategies for Debriefing Healthcare Scenarios

Strategies for Debriefing Healthcare Scenarios

Learn the art of debriefing, one of the most effective strategies for empowering healthcare professionals to deliver safe, high-quality patient care.

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Telehealth: Strategy, Implementation, and Optimization

Gain insights into the strategic considerations and best practices for driving healthcare in a shifting technological landscape.

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