Our vital One Health initiative will accelerate, amplify and elevate life and health sciences at Purdue, positioning this great university for excellence at scale in these consequential areas.
Mung Chiang
Purdue University President
One Health initiative
Standing at the intersection of human, animal and plant health, Purdue University’s One Health initiative is designed to solve the complex, interconnected issues that define today’s health environment. Through academic programs, research and industry partnerships, the One Health initiative seeks to improve the health outcomes of all living things and leverage Purdue’s existing strengths in health science to create new opportunities, discoveries and innovations.
Utilizing academic programs from various colleges within Purdue, One Health’s online and hybrid program portfolio includes both for-credit and professional development programs that span many disciplines and teach critical skills in health-related areas. Hybrid programs are courses that are online but also have some on-campus touchpoints. The programs are organized by the following categories:
- Data – interdisciplinary programs that focus on building core competencies in data science and data technologies like artificial intelligence (AI). These programs reflect the growing relevance of data in solving health and environmental-related issues.
- Industry – interdisciplinary programs that cover key skills related to human, animal and plant health industries and agriculture—from engineering to pharmaceuticals and regulatory science.
- Health Leadership – built from various disciplines, these programs teach valuable business, leadership and communication skills to help professionals become leaders in their respective fields.
- Human and Animal Health – focused on veterinary medicine, biomedical science, and human and animal nutrition, among other topics related to improving health outcomes for people and animals.
- Plant Health and the Environment – programs focused on improving environmental health and making progress in agriculture, with many programs coming from Purdue’s College of Agriculture.
Together, One Health’s battery of online programs provide learners with marketable skills that can be used to solve pressing challenges, innovate industries and influence the future of our planet. Offered fully online or in a hybrid format, these courses and programs are accessible to working professionals and can fit into even the busiest schedules. Whether you’re pursuing an online master’s or taking a professional development course, the programs included in Purdue’s One Health initiative offer rigorous, high-quality training that can move your career, and the world, forward.
Our Online Programs
Data
These programs and courses teach valuable STEM competencies that can be used to make data-driven health decisions and innovations in a wide variety of industries, from agriculture to engineering.
- Master’s in Applied Geospatial Analytics
- Master of Science in Applied Statistics
- Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence
- Master of Science in Data Science
- Applied Data Analytics Graduate Certificate
- Applied Statistics Graduate Certificate
- Foundations of Artificial Intelligence Graduate Certificate
- Foundations of Data Science Graduate Certificate
- Spatial Data Science Graduate Certificate
- Artificial Intelligence and Math Tools
- Applied Machine Learning
- Data and AI Storytelling
- Data Analytics – Google Career Certificate
- Data Science for Healthcare Professionals (upcoming)
- Data Science Primer I
- Foundations of Machine Learning and Statistical Modeling
- Introduction to Data Mining
- Machine Learning Algorithm
- Manufacturing Analytics
- Natural Language Processing
Industry
From regulatory science to quality control, the topics covered in these programs and courses prepare students to ensure the safety of industry products and safeguard the health of the public.
- Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering
- Master’s in Biotechnology Innovation and Regulatory Science
- Master of Science in Radiopharmaceutical Manufacturing (hybrid – upcoming)
- Biotechnology Quality and Regulatory Compliance Graduate Certificate
- Regulatory Affairs for Medical Devices Graduate Certificate
Health Leadership
These programs and courses build professionals’ leadership skills so they can influence health policy, become skilled health communicators and improve health outcomes locally and globally.
- Master of Business Administration
- Master of Health Administration
- Master of Public Health
- Master of Science and Master of Business Administration in Food and Agribusiness Management (hybrid)
- Agricultural Sciences, Education, Extension and Communication Graduate Certificate
- Business Essentials Graduate Certificate
- International Development Graduate Certificate
- Healthcare Leadership Graduate Certificate
- Healthcare Operations Graduate Certificate
- Healthcare Quality Improvement Graduate Certificate
- Health Communication Graduate Certificate
- Agile Project Management
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
- Artificial Intelligence Policy and Governance
- Business Essentials
- Community Coaching
- Demystifying AI, Understanding Risks and Shaping the Future
- Global Regulations of Artificial Intelligence
- Lean Six Sigma
- Project Management
- Prompt Engineering
Human and Animal Health
These programs and courses focus on improving health outcomes for animals and people via veterinary and biomedical sciences.
Plant Health and the Environment
These programs and courses focus on improving plant health, innovating agriculture and managing natural resources.
Hear from our students
The BIRS program has been a transformative experience. It deepened my understanding of regulatory science and provided the practical tools I needed to make a broader impact on public health and the biotech industry.
-Santwana Thukral, MS in Biotechnology Innovation and Regulatory Science
Environmental Historian Uses Urban Ag Certificate for Innovative Research on Beekeeping
“A lot of the topics in the urban agriculture program, especially pest management, have been very useful for me…Purdue’s program also gave me great insight into growing trees in urban settings, and when I mentioned Purdue’s program during my interview with Exeter University, they seemed to really appreciate that additional experience.”
After big career switch, new MHA student named Graduate Student of the Year
“All of the program’s professors have a ton of industry experience. So when they’re teaching us about how the industry works, they’re using their own experiences. If they’ve made any mistakes in the past, or there’s something they wish they knew when they were starting out, they can teach that to us so we can avoid those mistakes.”
Former Retail Manager Uses Purdue’s Agronomy e-Learning Classes to Help Her Manage Her Family’s Agricultural Construction Business
“In this business, we help farmers with so many different things – from precision grading the land, to clearing it, to building it back up. Having good working knowledge of agronomy helps with every step of the process.”
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