The Graduate Certificate in Maternal and Child Health (MCH) develops students' MCH competencies, enabling graduates to improve health service delivery to all mothers, children, and families.  This certificate focuses on the foundations of MCH, such as understanding Title V programs, health disparities in MCH, life-course approach and general knowledge about MCH populations and common public health concerns.  This is an interdisciplinary certificate that partners with departments across the Texas A&M School of Public Health, including the School of Education and Human Development and the Bush School of Government and Public Service.  This allows the MCH certificate to offer electives in areas ranging from reproductive and perinatal epidemiology to the impact of policy and security on women’s health.

This program is approved for delivery on-campus in College Station and via asynchronous distance education technology.  While many of the required courses are available via distance education, applicants may need to take one or more courses in person in order to obtain the certificate.

To learn more about the program and apply, go to Maternal and Child Health Certificate.

Course List

Code	Title	Semester Credit Hours
HPCH 613	Program Evaluation	3
or HLTH 632	or Health Program Evaluation
PHEB 621	Foundations of Maternal and Child Health	3
Select two of the following:		6
EPSY 605	Effects of Culture, Diversity, and Poverty on Children and Youth
HLTH 634	Women’s Health
HPCH 665	Proposal Writing and Grants Management
INTA 645	Women and Nations
PHEB 615	Disaster Epidemiology
PHEB 622	Reproductive And Perinatal Epidemiology
PHEO 613	Introduction to Environmental Health Disparities
PHPM 608	Overview of Maternal and Child Health Systems and Policy
SOCI 610/WGST 610	Reproduction, Birth, and Power
Total Semester Credit Hours		12