A workforce training program with an emphasis on public health informatics and technology will launch two new certificate programs this year at the University of California, Irvine, adding to its existing summer internship program and a minor degree program.
It will have an emphasis on diversity among its students,and was funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for nearly $7 million, the university said in a statement yesterday.
A pilot internship program took place in the summer of 2022 and program coordinators are accepting applications for the summer 2023 internship, open to UCI undergraduate and graduate students.
The program anticipates that enrollment over the next four years will exceed 445 students and trainees, among whom 300 will graduate by the end of the fourth year.
