The Certificate in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) at the Rollins School of Public Health (RSPH) is offered through the Center for Global Safe Water, Sanitation and Hygiene at Emory University (CGSW) and aims to train graduate students to be competitive for WASH-related careers. Please be advised, the Graduate Certificate in Water, Sanitation & Hygiene is not available for online or distance learning at this time. It is only offered to enrolled RSPH students. The WASH Certificate is not offered as an online course at this time.
Students must complete a WASH related practicum. They must also generate WASH-related knowledge through completing a capstone or a thesis. HPM students please contact Kathleen “Kat” Peters, the WASH certificate coordinator at kpeter5@emory.edu, to learn about alternative thesis and capstone requirements.
Successfully complete a WASH-related capstone or thesis and practicum.
Read and complete all of the steps below.
Send to Kat Peters (kpeter5@emory.edu), the WASH certificate coordinator, an email with your intention to pursue the WASH certificate program as soon as possible. You will be added to a listserv that will inform you of upcoming seminars and other WASH certificate related activities.
Students who plan to use a WASH-related capstone/thesis/practicum that is not supervised by a CGSW faculty or staff member must fill out a Provisional Approval Form and receive approval from Dr. Joanne McGriff, the CGSW Associate Director. Without this provisional approval, there is no guarantee that the capstone/thesis/practicum will fulfill the certificate requirement.
WASH certificate-seeking students who would like to use a non-listed, WASH-related class towards the certificate requirements must apply for provisional approval from Dr. Joanne McGriff, the CGSW Associate Director. Without this provisional approval, there is no guarantee that the intended class will fulfill the certificate requirement. Students should complete the Provisional Course Approval Form .
All students must complete a Declaration Form and give it to Kat Peters by the graduating semester: no later than February 15th for spring graduates, July 1st for summer graduates, and September 15th for fall graduates. This form will be used to verify that all of the WASH certificate requirements have been fulfilled.
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