Global Health Certificate

Learn outside the lecture hall

Step outside of the classroom with a global health field experience course, where you’ll have the chance to learn from community partners and experts in the field. You could explore how the way cities are designed impact public health, teach elementary students the importance of nutrition and food equity, and so much more.

All students enrolled in the global health certificate take a field experience course. Study abroad programs, internships, and UW courses are all options for completing this requirement.

Study abroad and gain a global perspective

See the world and complete your global health field experience course with a study abroad course. Choose from many semester, summer, and short-term study abroad programs that meet the requirement.

Study tropical horticulture in Costa Rica, the interconnections between human use of water resources and health in Ecuador, and so much more.

Get involved. Find your people.

Explore some of the many global health-related student organizations at UW–Madison:

Or get involved and volunteer with local organizations and student groups:

• Slow Food UW
• Community Health Volunteers of Madison
• Partners in Health Exchange

Get involved in mentored research

Build your resume, explore career paths, and help solve real world problems with faculty across campus. You can build valuable bench or field research skills in a bioscience lab or research social science on public health challenges.

Study the effects of climate change on human and ecosystem health, research ways to prevent Lyme disease-spreading ticks, and more.