Drexel Dornsife Office of Global Health, in partnership with non-profit organization Asia Catalyst, developed a free, online micro-credential on health and human rights documentation and advocacy.

What Is a Micro-Credential?

Micro-credentials are short credentials that are focused on a specific subject. Micro-credentials provide opportunities for continuing education, new skills, and professional growth. A micro credential in health and human rights advocacy provides training through real-life examples, videos and brief quizzes.

What Are the Benefits of Earning a Micro-Credential?

Micro-credentials can help students improve certain skillsets. The human rights micro credential provides an overview of human rights research and advocacy as it relates to public health.

Micro-credentials give evidence of achievement via digital badges. Completing each section of this micro-credential earns a digital badge, allowing students to display completion and attainment of competency.

What Is The Difference Between a Micro-Credential and A Certificate?

Micro-credentials and certification serve different purposes but both are about attaining knowledge and skills in a particular field. Generally, students complete a micro-credential more quickly and earn a digital badge. A certificate is a more formal recognition of achievement.

Drexel Dornsife offers both micro-credentials and certificates.

Know It, Prove It, Change It: The Health and Human Rights Advocacy Micro-Credential

Asia Catalyst’s original curriculum was created hand-in-hand with grassroots organizations across Asia. Through this global public health partnership, the course has been updated and brought into the online space.

Program Details

This free micro-credential was created to provide tools and strategies to human rights activists, community advocates, grassroots organizers, and global health students in Asia, the United States, and beyond.

Over 10 self-paced modules, students learn about:

• The international rights frameworks and how it can be used for change (Know It),
• How to collect evidence of rights abuses (Prove It), and
• How to launch effective advocacy campaigns (Change It).

The modules focus on issues that have never been more relevant, including access to healthcare, non-discrimination, and access to justice.

Video lectures, quizzes, and exercises walk students through understanding basic human rights, documenting rights abuses, and creating an advocacy campaign with the goal of making change.

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The Free Health and Human Rights Advocacy Micro-Credential Includes:

• Easy registration
• 10 modules, which each takes about one hour to complete:
  • The beginning modules cover the intersections between public health and human rights.
  • The middle modules focus on project planning, data collection and analysis and report writing.
  • The remaining modules cover how to develop and execute an advocacy strategy, including considerations around monitoring and evaluation and partnership building.
• More than 20 video lectures
• Course exercises and quizzes to apply your knowledge
• Access to the resource library of treaties, reports, activist interviews & case studies
• Earn a digital badge for each completed section of the micro-credential Know It, Prove It, and Change It.

Who Should Enroll In This Free Public Health Micro-Credential?

This training is well-suited for public health practitioners with varying professional experiences and diverse educational backgrounds.

Other intended audiences include activists, advocates, organizers, and students interested in learning more about human rights advocacy.

Micro-Credential Admissions Requirements

There are no admissions requirements, however the technical requirements are: A high speed internet connection and a computer that can stream videos.

This course does not offer continuing education credits.

For questions about this module, please email dornsifeacademics@drexel.edu.

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