As part of Coursera’s new health content vertical, the MOOC platform aims to launch 100 new courses and 30 new Specializations throughout 2019 in order to address the skills shortage in the fields of Health Informatics, Healthcare Management, and Public Health.
The following 10 Specializations launched in January 2019 will help prepare learners for many in-demand jobs including Clinical Analyst, Bioinformatics Scientist, Healthcare Manager, Researcher, Policymaker and more.
Basic Science
Fundamentals of Immunology
Rice University | Intermediate Level | Approx. 2 months to complete
This specialization is designed to equip students with the basic concepts and vocabulary of immunology. The goal is to provide students from different backgrounds with a fundamental understanding of immunology and the ability to appreciate and analyze new developments in immunological therapies designed for the treatment of disease.
Try for Free: Enroll to start your 7-day full access free trial
Anatomy
University of Michigan | Beginner Level | Approx. 2 months to complete
In this Specialization you will explore human anatomy using a systems approach, and a vast library of multimedia materials, so you may understand the features of different organ systems in relation to the human body’s form and function.
Try for Free: Enroll to start your 7-day full access free trial
Patient Care
Integrative Health and Medicine
University of Minnesota | Beginner Level
If you want to help your patients or clients manage conditions or symptoms such as pain and anxiety, this specialization will provide the knowledge and skills needed. In these five courses, you will explore integrative therapies, including herbal medicine, guided imagery, aromatherapy, and mindfulness. For each therapy studied, you will gain skills to: Assess if a therapy is appropriate, Educate patients or clients about benefit and risk, Administer or advise on use, and Evaluate if the therapy was useful (our AEAE approach).
Try for Free: Enroll to start your 7-day full access free trial
School Health for Children and Adolescents
University of Colorado System | Beginner Level | Approx. 1 month to complete
The courses of this specialization are designed to equip learners to manage common health conditions including asthma, allergies, diabetes, and seizures. Next they will learn to manage common behavior conditions such as ADHD and autism as well as learning disabilities and concussion. Upon completion of the specialization, learners will be ready to apply newly acquired skills in the provision of social, emotional, behavioral, and special education services. Importantly, they will also be ready to promote healthy practices such as nutrition, physical activity, and community and family participation in their own school community.
Try for Free: Enroll to start your 7-day full access free trial
Newborn Baby Care
University of Colorado System | Beginner Level | Approx. 2 months to complete
The courses are designed to move the learner through the progression of care for healthy newborns in the first month of life. The first half of the specialization consists of clinical provisions such as initial medical interventions and screenings, health assessments and resulting diagnoses. The second half focuses on care provided at home including transport and sleep safety, nutrition, and parental and caregiver bonding.
Try for Free: Enroll to start your 7-day full access free trial
Healthcare Management
Healthcare Organization Operations
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey | Beginner Level | Approx. 2 months to complete
The healthcare tetralogy specialization is intended for anyone interested in healthcare organization as practiced in the United States. A range of healthcare organizations are discussed (e.g., medical, dental, pharmaceutical, and public health). The specialization is particularly useful to anyone working in the healthcare industry who either has: 1) a developing interest in the issues important to the administration of healthcare organization operations; or 2) some expertise, but wishes an overview or refresher of the issues. However, those who do not work in the healthcare industry, but who interact with healthcare organizations of any type as patients/consumers will also find the specialization informative. Through the four courses in the specialization, you will cover many aspects of healthcare organization operations including the relationship between healthcare organizations and the health system as well as health care delivery, business process management, and quality improvement within healthcare organizations. Upon completion of the specialization, those who interact with healthcare organizations as patients/consumers will have a better understanding of the issues involved in the effective administration of healthcare organizations and operations. Those working in the healthcare industry, upon completion of the specialization, will be better able to contribute to the effective administration of the healthcare organization’s operations.
Try for Free: Enroll to start your 7-day full access free trial
Healthcare Trends for Business Professionals
Northeastern University | Beginner Level | Approx. 3 months to complete
This Specialization will provide learners with the knowledge and skills to recognize key shifts in the industry and to have an agile perspective on how these shifts might impact their organizations. Learners will be exposed to the key drivers in the global healthcare industry today so they might apply what they have learned to help their organizations.
Try for Free: Enroll to start your 7-day full access free trial
Data Analysis
Clinical Data Science
University of Colorado System | Intermediate Level | Approx. 2 months to complete
This specialization provides learners with hands on experience in use of electronic health records and informatics tools to perform clinical data science. This series of six courses is designed to augment learner’s existing skills in statistics and programming to provide examples of specific challenges, tools, and appropriate interpretations of clinical data.
Try for Free: Enroll to start your 7-day full access free trial
Governance and Society
Social Policy for Social Services & Health Practitioners
Columbia University | Beginner Level | Approx. 3 months to complete
Teachers, health care workers, police, and social workers interact with policy daily, but all of us should care about the impact and effectiveness of these programs. Health and mental health programs, education, housing and income supports, pensions, criminal justice services, veterans’ programs, child protective services, and immigration services create a support system all Americans will draw upon. They also reveal Americans' ethics and values, indicating how we regard and care for our most vulnerable. This specialization will explore the size, structure, and outcomes of U.S. social policy and includes an HONORS track in which learners will complete a professional social policy analysis.
Try for Free: Enroll to start your 7-day full access free trial
Public Health
Statistical Analysis with R for Public Health
Imperial College London| Beginner Level | Approx. 1 month to complete
In this specialisation, you’ll take a peek at what medical research is and how – and indeed why – you turn a vague notion into a scientifically testable hypothesis. You’ll learn about key statistical concepts like sampling, uncertainty, variation, missing values and distributions. Then you’ll get your hands dirty with analysing data sets covering some big public health challenges – fruit and vegetable consumption and cancer, risk factors for diabetes, and predictors of death following heart failure hospitalisation – using R, one of the most widely used and versatile free software packages around.
Try for Free: Enroll to start your 7-day full access free trial
Discover more courses in MoocLab's MOOC Directory: Life Sciences | MoocLab - Connecting People to Online Learning
The following 10 Specializations launched in January 2019 will help prepare learners for many in-demand jobs including Clinical Analyst, Bioinformatics Scientist, Healthcare Manager, Researcher, Policymaker and more.
Basic Science
Fundamentals of Immunology
Rice University | Intermediate Level | Approx. 2 months to complete
This specialization is designed to equip students with the basic concepts and vocabulary of immunology. The goal is to provide students from different backgrounds with a fundamental understanding of immunology and the ability to appreciate and analyze new developments in immunological therapies designed for the treatment of disease.
Try for Free: Enroll to start your 7-day full access free trial
Anatomy
University of Michigan | Beginner Level | Approx. 2 months to complete
In this Specialization you will explore human anatomy using a systems approach, and a vast library of multimedia materials, so you may understand the features of different organ systems in relation to the human body’s form and function.
Try for Free: Enroll to start your 7-day full access free trial
Patient Care
Integrative Health and Medicine
University of Minnesota | Beginner Level
If you want to help your patients or clients manage conditions or symptoms such as pain and anxiety, this specialization will provide the knowledge and skills needed. In these five courses, you will explore integrative therapies, including herbal medicine, guided imagery, aromatherapy, and mindfulness. For each therapy studied, you will gain skills to: Assess if a therapy is appropriate, Educate patients or clients about benefit and risk, Administer or advise on use, and Evaluate if the therapy was useful (our AEAE approach).
Try for Free: Enroll to start your 7-day full access free trial
School Health for Children and Adolescents
University of Colorado System | Beginner Level | Approx. 1 month to complete
The courses of this specialization are designed to equip learners to manage common health conditions including asthma, allergies, diabetes, and seizures. Next they will learn to manage common behavior conditions such as ADHD and autism as well as learning disabilities and concussion. Upon completion of the specialization, learners will be ready to apply newly acquired skills in the provision of social, emotional, behavioral, and special education services. Importantly, they will also be ready to promote healthy practices such as nutrition, physical activity, and community and family participation in their own school community.
Try for Free: Enroll to start your 7-day full access free trial
Newborn Baby Care
University of Colorado System | Beginner Level | Approx. 2 months to complete
The courses are designed to move the learner through the progression of care for healthy newborns in the first month of life. The first half of the specialization consists of clinical provisions such as initial medical interventions and screenings, health assessments and resulting diagnoses. The second half focuses on care provided at home including transport and sleep safety, nutrition, and parental and caregiver bonding.
Try for Free: Enroll to start your 7-day full access free trial
Healthcare Management
Healthcare Organization Operations
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey | Beginner Level | Approx. 2 months to complete
The healthcare tetralogy specialization is intended for anyone interested in healthcare organization as practiced in the United States. A range of healthcare organizations are discussed (e.g., medical, dental, pharmaceutical, and public health). The specialization is particularly useful to anyone working in the healthcare industry who either has: 1) a developing interest in the issues important to the administration of healthcare organization operations; or 2) some expertise, but wishes an overview or refresher of the issues. However, those who do not work in the healthcare industry, but who interact with healthcare organizations of any type as patients/consumers will also find the specialization informative. Through the four courses in the specialization, you will cover many aspects of healthcare organization operations including the relationship between healthcare organizations and the health system as well as health care delivery, business process management, and quality improvement within healthcare organizations. Upon completion of the specialization, those who interact with healthcare organizations as patients/consumers will have a better understanding of the issues involved in the effective administration of healthcare organizations and operations. Those working in the healthcare industry, upon completion of the specialization, will be better able to contribute to the effective administration of the healthcare organization’s operations.
Try for Free: Enroll to start your 7-day full access free trial
Healthcare Trends for Business Professionals
Northeastern University | Beginner Level | Approx. 3 months to complete
This Specialization will provide learners with the knowledge and skills to recognize key shifts in the industry and to have an agile perspective on how these shifts might impact their organizations. Learners will be exposed to the key drivers in the global healthcare industry today so they might apply what they have learned to help their organizations.
Try for Free: Enroll to start your 7-day full access free trial
Data Analysis
Clinical Data Science
University of Colorado System | Intermediate Level | Approx. 2 months to complete
This specialization provides learners with hands on experience in use of electronic health records and informatics tools to perform clinical data science. This series of six courses is designed to augment learner’s existing skills in statistics and programming to provide examples of specific challenges, tools, and appropriate interpretations of clinical data.
Try for Free: Enroll to start your 7-day full access free trial
Governance and Society
Social Policy for Social Services & Health Practitioners
Columbia University | Beginner Level | Approx. 3 months to complete
Teachers, health care workers, police, and social workers interact with policy daily, but all of us should care about the impact and effectiveness of these programs. Health and mental health programs, education, housing and income supports, pensions, criminal justice services, veterans’ programs, child protective services, and immigration services create a support system all Americans will draw upon. They also reveal Americans' ethics and values, indicating how we regard and care for our most vulnerable. This specialization will explore the size, structure, and outcomes of U.S. social policy and includes an HONORS track in which learners will complete a professional social policy analysis.
Try for Free: Enroll to start your 7-day full access free trial
Public Health
Statistical Analysis with R for Public Health
Imperial College London| Beginner Level | Approx. 1 month to complete
In this specialisation, you’ll take a peek at what medical research is and how – and indeed why – you turn a vague notion into a scientifically testable hypothesis. You’ll learn about key statistical concepts like sampling, uncertainty, variation, missing values and distributions. Then you’ll get your hands dirty with analysing data sets covering some big public health challenges – fruit and vegetable consumption and cancer, risk factors for diabetes, and predictors of death following heart failure hospitalisation – using R, one of the most widely used and versatile free software packages around.
Try for Free: Enroll to start your 7-day full access free trial
Discover more courses in MoocLab's MOOC Directory: Life Sciences | MoocLab - Connecting People to Online Learning
