20 Best Public Health MOOC / Non-credit Programs Online
We compared 20 Public Health courses currently listed on Coursera and edX, priced from $49.00 to $379.00. 6 come from a named university or institution, including Imperial College London, Johns Hopkins University and University of Michigan. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 20
- Price range
- $49.00 – $379.00
- Providers
- Coursera, edX
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 20 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, edX, matched to "Public Health" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $49.00 to $379.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Introduction to Statistics & Data Analysis in Public Health
Offered by Imperial College London
Welcome to Introduction to Statistics & Data Analysis in Public Health! This course will teach you the core building blocks of statistical analysis - types of variables, common distributions, hypothesis testing - but, mo...
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Systems Thinking In Public Health
Offered by Johns Hopkins University
This course provides an introduction to systems thinking and systems models in public health. Problems in public health and health policy tend to be complex with many actors, institutions and risk factors involved. If an...
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Impacts of the Environment on Global Public Health
Offered by University of Michigan
In this specialization, you will explore how many public health outcomes are directly influenced by human contact with the environment. The four courses in this series will introduce you to the environmental health scien...
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Fighting Misinformation in Public Health
Offered by University of Alberta
This introductory course examines the foundations of health misinformation and disinformation and how they affect public health. Learners explore the distinction between public and individual health, key drivers of misin...
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Tobacco & Nicotine: Public Health, Science, Policy, and Law
Offered by University of Michigan
This course provides a strong foundation in the history of smoking and other tobacco and nicotine use; the individual and public health impact; tobacco use prevalence trends in adults, youth and key subpopulations; and h...
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A Public Health Approach to Hearing Loss and Aging
Offered by Johns Hopkins University
At the Johns Hopkins Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health, we are dedicated to training up the next generation of clinicians and researchers to study the impact that hearing loss in older adults has on public he...
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Linear Regression in R for Public Health
Offered by Imperial College London
Welcome to Linear Regression in R for Public Health! Public Health has been defined as “the art and science of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts of society”. Knowing w...
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Leadership for Public Health Crises
Offered by The State University of New York
Leadership for Public Health Crises will enable current and prospective managers, directors, unit heads, and elected officials to effectively lead their organizational response to profound health-related emergencies and...
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Epidemiology for Public Health
Offered by Imperial College London
Thousands of new epidemiological studies are conducted every year and their results can have a profound impact on how we live our lives. Decisions regarding the food you eat, how much you exercise, where you live and wha...
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Evaluating Public Health Programs at Scale
Offered by Johns Hopkins University
This course provides an introduction to evaluating public health programs at scale. This course focuses on evaluating public health programs and policies in low- and middle-income countries, however, core skills of desig...
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Statistical Analysis with R for Public Health
Offered by Imperial College London
Statistics are everywhere. The probability it will rain today. Trends over time in unemployment rates. The odds that India will win the next cricket world cup. In sports like football, they started out as a bit of fun bu...
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Public Health in Humanitarian Crises 2
Offered by Johns Hopkins University
This course, Public Health in Humanitarian Crises 2, addresses public health issues of people affected by disasters, both natural or conflict-related. It discusses the many changes that occur in people’s lives when they...
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Survival Analysis in R for Public Health
Offered by Imperial College London
Welcome to Survival Analysis in R for Public Health! The three earlier courses in this series covered statistical thinking, correlation, linear regression and logistic regression. This one will show you how to run surviv...
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Foundations of Public Health Practice
Offered by Imperial College London
This specialisation will enable you to reflect on and cultivate the behaviours you require to become an effective public health professional –whether as an academic, practitioner, clinician, manager or leader.The special...
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Community Change in Public Health
Offered by Johns Hopkins University
In bringing about behavior change in public health, we often focus on the individual mother, student, or farmer. We should not forget the community structure and norms constrain for encouraging individual health behavior...
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Biostatistics in Public Health
Offered by Johns Hopkins University
This specialization is intended for public health and healthcare professionals, researchers, data analysts, social workers, and others who need a comprehensive concepts-centric biostatistics primer. Those who complete th...
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Participatory Approaches in Public Health
Offered by Imperial College London
This specialisation guides learners through the process of designing an appropriate participatory approach to a given public health challenge, focusing on the history, theory and practice of participatory approaches to p...
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Pathways to Public Health
Offered by George Washington University
Pathways to Public Health provides learners with a working knowledge of the issues public health professionals are striving to address every day. You will meet public health specialists who focus on dimensions of health...
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Epidemiology in Public Health Practice
Offered by Johns Hopkins University
This specialization is intended for people working or aspiring to work in the field of public health at the local, regional, and national level. Over five courses taught by faculty from the preeminent school of public he...
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edX MOOC / Non-creditPublic Health Advocacy Academy
Offered by PHAA
Public health is under attack. Billions of dollars in public health funding have been cut, crucial laws have been revoked–yet public health students aren’t always taught how to understand and create policy change. Until...
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Best Public Health MOOC / Non-credit Programs Online compared
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