Academics

All Hazards Emergency Response and Protection Certificate

This non-credit certificate is for those who collaborate with health care staff in emergencies. It focuses on threats and hazards, appropriate response and mitigation efforts, and pathways to recovery.

Learn how to:

  • Identify threats and hazards that require a specialized response
  • Determine appropriate plans, procedures, personal protective equipment (PPE), and considerations to mitigate the impact of threats and hazards
  • Demonstrate the appropriate use of PPE
  • Identify recovery steps after an emergency or disaster to restore operations and communities to a normative state
  • Examine organizational and/or community gaps in planning and preparedness to respond to, protect against, and recover from the impacts of threats and hazards

Courses

This certificate is completed as a series of courses (6 total) offered through the DelValle Institute and the College of Advancing and Professional Studies.

Required Courses

The following courses are offered by the DelValle Institute in Boston for $0.

Courses More Information & Registration
All Hazards Disaster Response and Protection for Healthcare Workers – Awareness http://delvalle.bphc.org
All Hazards Disaster Response and Protection for Healthcare Workers – Operations http://delvalle.bphc.org
Refresher – All Hazards Disaster Response and Operations http://delvalle.bphc.org

Electives

Choose 3 of the following online courses (offered by the College of Advancing and Professional Studies):

Courses More Information & Registration
Reconstruction after the Cameras Have Gone caps.umb.edu/corporate/
Human Dignity, Human Rights and Sustainable Post-Disaster Reconstruction caps.umb.edu/corporate/
Practical Project Management caps.umb.edu/corporate/
Independent Study caps.umb.edu/corporate/

More Information

For additional certificate information, please contact:

Professor Adenrele Awotona
University of Massachusetts Boston
crscad@umb.edu

S. Atyia Martin
Boston Public Health Commission/Boston EMS
delvalle@bostonems.org

In Collaboration

This certificate is offered by the College of Advancing and Professional Studies in collaboration with:

  • the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters (CRSCAD) at the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies

  • the DelValle Institute for Emergency Preparedness, a program of the Boston Emergency Medical Services, a bureau of the Boston Public Health Commission