Careers
Skills developed from the Certificate in Global Health include:
- Understanding key global health concepts
- Working effectively in interprofessional teams and with diverse groups
- Identifying critical stakeholders for the development and implementation of global health programs
- Applying a global lens to address health issues
- Have interdisciplinary perspectives
You can apply global health to your respective academic program, or you can use your skills to improve health locally or globally. Global health careers are broad and include health and non-health professions. Example job titles include:
- Health Analyst
- Health Educator
- Health Specialist
- Clinical Research Professional
- Community Wellness Administrator
- Environmental Scientist or Specialist
- Government Employee
- Medical and Health Services Manager
- Public Health Project Manager
- Research Associate
- Urban Planner
Global health organizations include:
Environmental Organizations
Environmental Organizations
- A Rocha International
- Earth Charter Initiative
- Earth Times Foundation
- European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals
- The Green Belt Movement
- Green Cross International
- Greenpeace
- International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)
- International Water and Sanitation Centre
Faith Based Organizations
Faith Based Organizations
- American Jewish World Service
- American Friends Service Committee
- B'nai B'rith International
- Catholic Relief Organization
- Christian Aid
- Christian Connections for International Health
- Episcopal Relief and Development
- The Galilee Society
- International Association for Religious Freedom
- International Council of Jewish Women
- International Human Rights Association
- Lutheran World Relief
- MAP
- Salvation Army
- World Vision
General Public Health Organizations
General Public Health Organizations
- Action Health Incorporated
- Africare
- Aga Khan Foundation
- Aid Workers Network
- American International Health Alliance
- American Red Cross
- Americares Foundation
- Amnesty International
- Carnegie Corporation
- Devex International
- Friends United Meeting (FUM)
- Foreign Policy Association Job Board
- Global Health Action
- Going Global
- Harvard Global Health Institute
- Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID)
- Helen Keller International Inc. (HKI)
- Interaction
- International Civil Service Commission
- International Committee of the Red Cross
- International Council on Social Welfare
- International Health Organization (IHO)
- Oxfam America
- PATH
- The Rockefeller Foundation
- Relief International
- SAMS Jobsonline
- William J. Clinton Foundation
- World Neighbors
Governmental Organizations
Governmental Organizations
- The Communication Initiative
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- International Civil Service Commission
- Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
- Peace Corps
- United Nations Development Programme
- United Nations Human Resources
- UNICEF
- United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
- U.S. FDA - International Organizations and Foreign Government Agencies
- World Bank
- World Health Organization
Medical Organizations
Medical Organizations
- AmeriCares
- CBM International
- Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences
- Direct Relief International
- Doctors without Borders
- Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research
- Health Poverty Action
- International Federation of Medical Students Associations
- International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent
- International Federation of Sports Medicine
- International Medical Corps (IMC)
- International Medical Informatics Association
- Medical Care Development
- Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Population Council
- Project Hope
- WellShare International
Relief Organizations
Relief Organizations
- AmeriCares
- Episcopal Medical Missions Foundation
- Episcopal Relief and Development
- Catholic Relief Organization
- Christian Aid
- Counterpart International
- Doctors without Borders
- Food for the Hungry
- International Committee of the Red Cross
- International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent
- International Medical Corps
- MercyCorps
- Oxfam America
- Relief International
- Relief Web
- World Relief
- World Vision International
Women, Children, and Family Organizations
Women, Children, and Family Organizations
- Association for Women in Science
- Association for Women's Rights in Development
- Engender Health
- Family Health International
- Foster Parents Plan International
- Global Alliance for Women's Health
- Isis Women
- The International Alliance for Women
- International Center for Research on Women
- International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
- International Women's Health Coalition
- International Youth Foundation
- Intrahealth International
- Population Action International
- The Population Council
- Population Services International (PSI)
- Save the Children
- Sisterhood is Global Institute
- Vital Voices
- WIDE Network
- Womankind Worldwide
- Women for Women