Overview
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Discover how behavior, environment, and public policy influence health outcomes across individuals and communities. Our program explores the principles of health promotion and behavior change, equipping you with the knowledge to design, implement, and evaluate strategies that improve health, prevent disease, and create lasting impact.
Starting in fall 2026.
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Key benefits
Design effective health promotion strategies
Learn how to develop, implement, and evaluate evidence-based health promotion initiatives that improve wellbeing and encourage positive behavior change.
Apply evidence to real-world practice
Examine case studies and best practices from the United States and United Kingdom to understand what works in diverse healthcare and community settings.
Earn a professional credential from UEL
Expand your expertise in health promotion and behavior change while earning a professional certificate from one of the United Kingdom's leading career-focused universities.
Who should enroll?
Creating healthier communities requires professionals who understand how behavior, policy, and the environment influence health outcomes. Our Professional & Executive Education program is designed for individuals looking to make a meaningful impact through prevention, education, and health promotion.
- Individuals interested in designing evidence-based programs that promote healthier lifestyles and reduce health disparities
- Professionals looking to strengthen their expertise in health promotion and behavior change
- Healthcare professionals seeking to improve patient education and preventative care strategies
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FAQs
What is the difference between health promotion and health education?
Health education focuses on helping people understand health information and make informed choices. Health promotion is broader. It can also address services, environments, policies and social conditions that shape health choices and influence health outcomes.
A health promotion course therefore looks beyond the message itself. It considers whether people have the opportunity, resources and support they need to act on health information.
Does behavior change focus only on individual responsibility?
No. Effective health behavior change considers both personal factors and the wider environment in which decisions are made.
Motivation and knowledge matter, but access, culture, income, policy, social support and the design of services can all affect behavior. Good interventions avoid blaming individuals for barriers they cannot control.
What makes a behavior change intervention effective?
An effective intervention begins with a clearly defined behavior, an understanding of the audience and evidence about the barriers and influences involved.
A behavior change course helps professionals look beyond awareness campaigns by connecting objectives, behavior change techniques and delivery methods to measurable outcomes and the needs of a particular community.
How can professionals tell whether a health promotion initiative is working?
Evaluation should measure more than participation or satisfaction. Depending on the initiative, teams may examine changes in knowledge, confidence, behaviour, service use, health outcomes or inequalities.
They should also consider whether the change can reasonably be linked to the intervention. This approach to evaluation is an important part of evidence-based public health training.
How can health promotion knowledge support professional development?
Knowledge from a health promotion course can support work in public health, healthcare, community services, patient education, policy, workplace wellbeing and non-profit organizations.
It does not replace a regulated professional qualification, but it can help practitioners design more thoughtful interventions, communicate health information effectively and assess whether an approach is achieving its intended impact.