The Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals are a consensus set of foundational skills for the broad practice of public health. The Core Competencies for Public Health in Canada are organized into seven skill areas or domains that transcend the boundaries of specific disciplines and provide a baseline for all public health professionals.
The seven categories include:
- Public health sciences
- Assessment and analysis
- Policy and program planning, implementation and evaluation
- Partnerships, collaboration, advocacy
- Diversity
- Communication
- Leadership
Subject matter and related skill development covered in our PHDA courses support professional development in many key core competency domains listed above. See the table below for details.
| 1 Public Health Sciences |
2 Assessment and Analysis |
3 Policy and Program Planning, Implementation and Evaluation |
4 Partnerships, collaboration, advocacy |
5 Diversity |
6 Communication |
7 Leadership |
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| PHDA 01: Working with Administrative Data | |||||||
| PHDA 02: Epidemiological Statistics | |||||||
| PHDA 03: Population Health and GIS | |||||||
| PHDA 04: Spatial Epidemiology and Outbreak Detection | |||||||
| PHDA 05: Longitudinal Analysis and Multi - level Modelling of Population Health Data | |||||||
| PHDA 06: Health Services Program Monitoring and Evaluation |
Duration and credits
PHDA courses are fully online and delivered over a 12 week period that includes 36 "instructional contact hours" of class activities including readings, videos and forum discussions. To complete these activities along with related weekly assignments or labs/peer review work, students can expect to spend approximately 8 - 12 hours per week.
Credits: Statement of completion for each course.