ERHD Graduate Certificate Program “OFFICIALLY APPROVED!”

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Yesterday was a historic day for our program!

We were officially approved by the Chancellor of East Carolina University to start our graduate certificate online program for the university. This is a day that I had envisioned for the past 5 years when I started brainstorming the ideal about creating a certificate program specifically for ethnic and rural health disparity populations particularly since ECU and eastern North Carolina is an ideal setting and institution to lead a public health training initiative such as this one.

From the MPH students in my first courses taught at ECU (5 years ago) in the traditional face-to-face lecture style to today’s online Department of Public Health courses, I am thrilled to make these special courses AVAILABLE for more individuals who want and need this specialized training in ethnic and rural health disparities. Whether its one course or completion of the entire certificate program courses (12 credit hrs), graduates will come away from this program with a brand new set of public health skills and perspectives that will be unique, special and timely for our ever-changing, ethnically-diverse, rural populations in the United States and globally.

This is a new program that is already sponsored by our federal government — Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the Department of Health and Human Services. They have been instrumental in assisting us with the initial infrastructural setup as well as our ability to offer scholarships for those who qualify and enroll into the graduate certificate online program.

I also want to thank the key administrators, coordinators, committee members, council members, department chairpersons, faculty members, Dean of Brody School of Medicine, and family members who supported me each and every step of this certificate program.

Now it’s time to get busy!

ERHD Graduate Certificate Online Program – Approved by Academic Council and Faculty Senate

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Here is the latest:

The ECU Academic Council approved the ERHD program in February and it was later forwarded and approved by Faculty Senate. We now await the official signature from the Chancellor for final approval.
All indications are that it will be ready to go for the Fall 2010!!

Stay Tuned! As soon as it is officially approved, we will have an announcement about ERHD Scholarships!

ERHD Graduate Certificate Online Program Approved by EPPC Committee

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Greetings Everyone,

Just to keep you updated on the progress of the ERHD Graduate Certificate Online Program, yesterday I presented the program before the Educational Policies and Planning Committee (EPPC). By the end of the meeting, the EPPC approved our ERHD Graduate Certificate Online program.

The next step is to request approval of the certificate program from Academic Council.

I will keep you posted.

ERHD Certificate Gets Approved by GCC

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Greetings Everyone,

A few days ago, I learned that our ERHD Graduate Certificate Program was approved by the university’s Graduate Curriculum Committee (GCC) on October 21st. After this approval, it moved to our Graduate School Administrative Board (GSAB) and it was approved at this level committee also.

Now our Certificate proposal moves to the next level of committee evaluation and hopefully approval.

That’s the latest from our innovative, ground-breaking Graduate Certificate Program in Ethnic and Rural Health Disparities.

Happy Holidays to all!

Still Pending – “Official Approval” of the ERHD Graduate Certificate Program

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As stated in our previous blog entries, we are truly grateful for the initial interest in our ERHD Graduate Certificate Program at East Carolina University. We are also very grateful for the support from HRSA to fund our proposed certificate program for this year and 2010.

Nonetheless, we are still seeking “official approval” from the university as we continue to complete the revisions of our proposed program for the administration and the university. During the past few months we have made great strides in conceiving, developing and organizing this certificate program. Although we are not “officially” there yet, we are doing our best to provide a needed service to all of you who are interested in wanting to obtain specialized training in ethnic and rural health disparities.

So thank you again for your interest and continue to send us your questions. We will continue to update you of the “official” status of our program each week here on this ERHD Blog.

ERHD Graduate Certificate Program – Open to All Students Who Qualify

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I want to thank all the inquires from potential students, professionals and faculty who have inquired about our new ERHD program over the past few months. We have been working diligently to get our new program into the system at East Carolina University and to obtain federal funding from HRSA (Health Resources and Service Administration).

We want to emphasize to all that this program is OPEN TO ALL GRADUATE STUDENTS AND PROFESSIONALS WHO QUALIFY AND WHO WANT TO BECOME EXPERTS IN THIS AREA OF ETHNIC AND RURAL HEALTH DISPARITIES. THERE IS NO LIMIT IN THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS WHO WE ADMIT AT THIS TIME. WE ARE LOOKING FOR AS MANY INTERESTED GRADUATE STUDENTS OR PROFESSIONALS AS POSSIBLE.

We are however, limited in the number of students we can fund to take the courses. Therefore, if you can afford to take one course at a time, we welcome your application and your record so that you can become apart of a brand new type of expert in the field of public health, medicine, nursing, allied health and medical anthropology — Specialists who are experts in Ethnic and Rural Health Disparities.

Spring 2010 Course – Ethnic Health & Health Disparities: MPH 6008

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The ERHD Graduate Certificate Online Program will be offering for the Spring 2010 semester the course: Ethnic Health & Health Disparities: MPH 6008. . This course is one of the foundation courses of the entire program. It is a course that is not offerred at many other universities so this is a very special class.

Course Objectives:
1. Identify and assess the major health issues associated with specific ethnic and health disparity populations in the United States;

2. Describe ethnic and health disparity isues, including its unique and important features; and

3. Apply principles and strategies derived from public health and medical anthropology toward planning, implementing and evaluating specific ethnic health and health disparities intervention programs.

In addition to the course objectives, one of the requirements for students in this course is to conduct an applied ethnic health & health disparities fieldwork project or proposal. If you would like to see a listing of some of my former student projects from this class, go to my Course Happenings Blog at: http://blogs.aos.ecu.edu/anth-baileye

Once students complete this course, they feel like they have discovered a brand new orientation and appreciation for all the ethnic and health disparity groups in the U.S. and abroad. That’s what I really like about this course – it challenges our stereotypes and moves us to a culturally competent approach to public health and medical care.

Send me an email if you have any questions concerning this course: MPH 6008 – Ethnic Health & Health Disparities

Funding Available for Students in the ERHD Program

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Now that we have our budget for the year, the ERHD Program can fund 5 (full-time or part-time) students who enroll into the program. We have allocated funds for each student. Students can use the funding to pay for an ERHD class and/or expenses related directly to their ERHD course.

In order to receive funding, students must apply to the program and submit their materials to the Admissions committee as soon as possible if you want to be eligible to receive funding for taking a ERHD course in the fall 09. However, if you are planning to take an ERHD course in the Spring 2010, please submit your materials by October 1st, 2009 to be considered for available funding for the spring 2010 semester.

Remember, we only have funding for five students in the program at this time. We hope to receive additional funds to support more students taking our innovative Ethnic & Rural Health Disparities Graduate Certificate Online Program in the near future.

UPDATE – ERHD Graduate Certificate Online Program Starts

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Welcome Everyone!

Greetings,
My name is Eric Bailey and I am Director & Professor of the new Ethnic & Rural Health Disparities Graduate Certificate Online Program at East Carolina University. I want to welcome you to this very innovative online certificate program. It is the first of its kind in the entire United States and we officially started on August 21st, 2010.

Update: Please feel free to check out my NEW 2020-2021 ERHD WELCOME ADDRESS!

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Enrolling Into the ERHD Certificate Online Program

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So how do you enroll into our Ethnic & Rural Health Disparities (ERHD) Graduate Certificate Online Program? It’s very easy and here are the steps.

Send the following materials:
1. A letter stating your interest in the ERHD and what you expect to get out of the program.
2. A copy of your transcript.
3. A sample of your writing.

Send the materials to:
Director Eric Bailey
ERHD Graduate Certificate Online Program
East Carolina University
209 Flanagan
Greenville, North Carolina 27858-4353

Remember that all applicants must meet East Carolina University’s admission requirements: an earned baccalaureate degree or its equivalent from an accredited college or university with a grade point average of 3.0 or above and acceptable scores on an approved standardized exam. Completion of the ERHD Certificate Online Program can also be a pathway to earn a Master’s of Public Health from the Department of Public Health at East Carolina University.

If any potential students have questions before enrolling into the program, you can send an email to:
baileye@ecu.edu or call Director Bailey at: (252) 561-5886. We look forward to your participation in our new program.

Finally, if you want to check out my Course Happenings blog to review the types of research projects conducted by graduate students in the specific ERHD courses, go to: http://blogs.aos.ecu.edu/anth-baileye/