12 free public health courses that award a certificate upon completion — from a Yale course on disease clusters to a CME-eligible course on COVID-19

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• Coursera has made 100 of its online courses completely free from now until May 31.
• Newly free courses span categories from essential public health knowledge to how to craft the best resume.
• Below are 12 of the best public health courses that currently have no paywall and offer a certificate of completion — including one that's CME eligible.
• Find the full list of 100 courses you can enroll in for free until May 31 here.

Most online learning platforms consider improving mass access to education as a primary objective. And as one-third of the global population hunkers down in some form of lockdown to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, many prominent e-learning sites are orienting themselves closer to that mission.

For example, edX created a free online course with Harvard to teach non-ICU healthcare professionals how to operate a ventilator.

Osmosis, an online medical education site founded by former Johns Hopkins med students, created a CME eligible course with the latest information from the CDC and WHO on the ongoing pandemic.

Codecademy launched a scholarship program and gave away 100,000 Pro scholarships to students in 147 countries.

And Coursera has lifted the paywall on 100 of its courses until May 31 — including 12 public health courses below.

Coursera's free public health courses span topical public health topics ranging from disaster preparedness to infection prevention in nursing homes, and disease screening in epidemics. Students can learn the essentials of global health from Yale University, as well as what a disease cluster is and how it is studied from Johns Hopkins University, all for free. Some of these classes even rank among the company's 23 most popular courses right now.

Here's how to enroll in eligible Coursera courses for free:

1. Click on the class you'd like to take below and make sure that there's a blue promo banner at the top of the page stating you may enroll for free. If not, refresh the page and let it load fully.
2. Click the 'Enroll for free' button.
3. Select "Purchase Course." If the promo has applied, it should say below that "Your promotion will automatically be applied at checkout."
4. At checkout, the course should be free and state $0 as the total cost.

Coursera's newly free courses include everything that's typically found behind a paywall such as certificates, graded homework, projects, and unlimited access to a course's reading material. Certificates can be added to a LinkedIn page, CV, or resume to certify completion of a course or mastery of a skill, and help advance a career or professional growth.

For this access, courses typically range from $50 to hundreds of dollars depending on the topic — though students can pretty much always "sit in on" and audit a course for free.

Find all 12 public health courses below, which will be free until May 31, 2020, or until enrollment is full.Read the original article on Business Insider