Pepperdine Graziadio and Dignity Health Global Education Announce Partnership

Exciting news! Pepperdine Graziadio Business School and Dignity Health Global Education (DHGE) announced a partnership last week to offer online professional certificate courses for healthcare professionals. Initial courses will focus on healthcare analytics/informatics and healthcare marketing to provide training and education designed to improve workforce development, quality, and, ultimately, patient outcomes. The agreement combines Pepperdine Graziadio's experience in creating applied learning and DHGE’s access to data, informatics, and lifelike scenarios. Leading the way creating the healthcare analytics certificate is Pepperdine Graziadio faculty member Samuel Seaman, PhD, professor of decision science. The healthcare marketing certificate program development will be led by Lynda Palmer, MBA, practitioner faculty of marketing. Read more about the healthcare certifications here. The announcement comes in advance of the Pepperdine Graziadio 50th Anniversary celebration Industry 4.0: The Future of Humanity in the Smart Machine Age, an event to be held on April 2, 2019 at The Novo at L.A. Live in Downtown Los Angeles. The event will explore how to prepare today’s students for the future of work and the fourth industrial revolution.