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Promoting and ensuring MCH health and wellness requires strong and skilled leaders at all levels, from the local community to the state and national level. The Hawai’i MCH Leadership Program provides practicing and aspiring MCH professionals with the vision, skills, education and expertise needed to develop and implement policies and programs which help ensure that women, infants, children and their family members develop in an optimal way.

Our HRSA-funded MCH training program is specifically designed to reach community-based MCH professionals in rural Hawai’i and the Pacific as well as increase ethnic and social diversity in public health practice. It emphasizes leadership skills and abilities relating to problem-solving, interpretation and communication of data, cultural sensitivity, as well as policy, advocacy and community health development.

Public Health Certificate in Maternal and Child Leadership Program is a 17- credit program that offers graduate-level coursework in public health and maternal child health. The Program and Office of Public Health Studies awards a certificate of MCH Program completion to the student when all required courses are completed. Courses are taught by MCH and public health faculty, utilizing both regular and distance learning.