Educational Objectives
This program is offered through the Department of Mental Health, this program provides graduate training in understanding the causes and consequences of mental disorders in populations. Courses describe clinical and behavioral features, the incidence and prevalence of disorders, and identify factors that promote or influence the occurrence, persistence, or severity of mental and behavioral disorders. Effective research strategies in public mental health include operationalization of case definitions, measurement in populations, design of prevention strategies, and analytical techniques. The goals are to increase the epidemiologic expertise of psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, and to increase the number of epidemiologists, biostatisticians, and health policy makers, with an interest in psychiatric disorders.

Intended Audience
The certificate is intended for current students in the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health including M.P.H. students, M.H.S. students, doctoral candidates interested in mental health, psychiatrists in residency training, postdoctoral fellows, as well as non-degree seeking students who have at least an undergraduate degree from an accredited college or university.

Admissions Criteria
Current JHBSPH students. Applicants must declare their intent to obtain a certificate, in an email to the Administrative Contact, before enrolling in their final term of courses.

Non-degree seeking students must have at least an undergraduate degree from an accredited college or university. Students must submit a formal application via the School's website for the Department of Mental Health to be a Special Student Regular. The GRE test score requirement will be waived. Please email the Administrative Contact after submitting the application.

Course of Study
Courses denoted with .81 suffix are available online as well as onsite. Students may take these courses in either format.

Required courses:
330.601.01 (.81) Perspectives of Psychiatry(This course may be waived by psychiatrists and clinical psychologists upon permission of the faculty sponsor - in which case the minimum number of credits in the Department of Mental Health is 16, not 19).
330.603.01 .81) Psychiatric Epidemiology
330.607.01 (.81) Prevention and Control of Mental Disorders: Public Health Interventions

340.601.01 Principles of Epidemiology
---OR---
340.751.01 Epidemiologic Methods I


One of the following Biostatistics series:
140.611 ---and---
140.612 Statistical Reasoning in Public Health I & II

---OR---

140.621 ---and---
140.622 Statistical Methods in Public Health I & II

---OR---

140.651 ---and---
140.652 Methods in Biostatistics I & II

Three courses from the following list:
330.602.01 Epidemiology of Drug Dependence
330.604.01 Gender and Mental Health
330.606.01 Economics of Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders
330.609.01 Alcohol Problems: Epidemiology, Prevention, & Treatment
330.612.01 (.81) Introduction to Behavioral and Psychiatric Genetics
330.618.01 Mental Health in Later Life
330.620.01 Issues in Mental Health Research in Developing Countries
330.623.01 Brain and Behavior in Mental Disorders
330.628.01 Principles of Public Mental Health Delivery in the Community Context
330.661.01 Social, Psychological and Developmental Processes in the Etiology of Mental Disorders
330.667.01 Mental Health and the Law
330.674.01 (.81) Suicide as a Public Health Problem

Requirements for Successful Completion
This certificate consists of a minimum of 19 credits in the Department of Mental Health, with an additional requirement of 5 credits in the Department of Epidemiology and 6 credits in the Department of Biostatistics. All classes must be taken for a grade, and a 2.5 grade average in these courses is required for certification. The certificate must be completed in three years.

Faculty Sponsor
William Eaton

(410) 955-3908

weaton@jhsph.edu

Administrative Contact
Patricia Scott

(410) 955-1906

pscott@jhsph.edu