{"id":13953,"date":"2009-04-22T14:13:01","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T21:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=13953"},"modified":"2015-08-17T14:50:38","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T21:50:38","slug":"nau-to-offer-graduate-certificate-in-health-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-to-offer-graduate-certificate-in-health-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU to offer graduate certificate in health policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAU\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthpolicy.nau.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Interdisciplinary Health Policy Institute<\/a>\u00a0soon will be offering a graduate certificate to help enhance public health-care options.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are many complex factors that influence health and the environment,\u201d said\u00a0<strong>Bill Wiist<\/strong>, certificate director and the special assistant to the dean in the College of Health and Human Services. \u201cThe perspective of many different disciplines is necessary to understand those factors and to plan effective policy to do something about them. The certificate draws upon courses from nine NAU departments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new Interdisciplinary Health Policy Graduate certificate, offered beginning in fall 2009, will focus on providing students information about the societal and individual factors that form health policies.<\/p>\n<p>Students will study how to analyze policies, write policy, influence policy makers and advocate for change in their community or their country, Wiist said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNAU graduates need to know how to protect human health and the natural environment from factors that are outside of a single individual\u2019s control and that have to be controlled through policies,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>NAU established the Interdisciplinary Health Policy Institute last year following a needs and feasibility study identifying the need for a graduate certificate and an emphasis on interdisciplinary health policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-to-offer-graduate-certificate-in-health-policy\/\">NAU\u2019s\u00a0Interdisciplinary Health Policy Institute\u00a0soon will be offering a graduate certificate to help enhance public health-care options. \u201cThere are many complex factors that influence health and the environment,\u201d said\u00a0Bill Wiist, certificate director and the special assistant to the dean in the College of Health and Human Services. \u201cThe perspective of many different disciplines is necessary to&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}