Health Courses

Overhaul your diet and nutrition with a simple, 6-week plan assembled by Harvard experts.

To address your physical fitness needs, you’ll want a mix of aerobic, strength training, and balance exercises. Learn how to create an effective workout plan in this special online course.

Learn how various therapeutic modalities are discovered.

Understand advances in drug discovery and development and how new therapeutics are developed.

Learn foundational concepts in physiology and see how the material is used in taking care of patients.

This advanced course offers a unique way for professionals to learn from leading Harvard Medical School faculty and industry leaders about nucleic acid therapeutics.

Learn about developments in the creation of vaccines. 

Advance your expertise in conservative kidney management (CKM) by joining an immersive, interprofessional masterclass. Gain evidence-based insights, practical skills, and collaborative strategies to deliver high-quality, patient-centered CKM.

Access to healthcare services is critical – but is it enough?

Gain insight into the sources of back pain through this course. Harvard Health Publishing will provide strategies on how to successfully overcome and eliminate back pain.

Learn foundational concepts in genetics and gain new insight into the rapidly evolving field of genomics.

Learn from the Harvard specialists offering clear explanations of symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment options for prostate cancer, BPH (benign prostatic hyperplasia), erectile dysfunction and other worrisome conditions experienced by men.

Enhance your clinical expertise with General Medicine for Specialists, a unique course that delivers expert-led updates across a wide range of medical topics beyond your specialty.

Explore genetic testing and its clinical applications.

This course provides a unique opportunity for hands-on learning of the basic principles, standards of use, and potential applications of TMS in clinical neurophysiology, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, and psychiatry.

Learn about advances in interpreting biomedical signals and the use of machine learning and deep learning to aid in analysis and diagnosis.

Understand the principles governing how drugs impact the body, and see how these concepts apply to the treatment and prevention of disease.

This Harvard Medical School six-month, application-based certificate program aims to provide high-impact, evidence-based education for medical faculty and health care professionals.

This Harvard Medical School one-year, application-based certificate program equips surgeons with the skills, strategies and confidence to take on greater leadership roles. 

Learn how global warming impacts human health, and the ways we can diminish those impacts.

This self-paced leadership development program equips mid-level nurse managers with essential skills in performance management, negotiation, health care technology, resource management, quality improvement, and more. Start any time.

Struggling to get your energy level back to where it used to be? Fighting fatigue more often than you'd care to admit? The 75 lessons in our lively course will lead you to the secrets of recharging your energy level.

This Harvard Medical School six-month, application-based certificate program provides the essential skill sets and fundamental knowledge required to begin or expand your clinical research career.

In this Harvard Health Publishing course you will gain the tools to control your blood pressure and cut your risk of heart attack and stroke in half.

This is a Harvard Medical School online executive education program designed to give you the tools and confidence to create personalized healthy living plans for clients, patients, friends and yourself.

Discover the powerful 2,000-year-old practice of Yoga. You can use this course to ease pain, lower blood pressure, boost immunity, reduce anxiety, and protect against the stresses of life.

This online course from Harvard Health Publishing brings you information from Harvard experts on staying mentally sharp as you age. 

Inflammation is a key sign your body is fighting off infection or healing from an injury, but chronic inflammation may cause serious problems. Three out of every five people around the world die from a disease linked to inflammation.

Learning about the process of clinical drug development has important implications for anyone working in health care and related sectors.

See how the immune system is being used to improve cancer treatment.