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Professional AI Certification

AI is changing your profession. Become the AI-ready professional.

McKellar delivers professional certifications in the practical application of artificial intelligence across public health, pharmaceuticals, clinical research and other specialised fields.

No coding degree. No career change required.
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Certification pathway
Foundation certified
Public Health + AI
Practitioner · Yellow Belt · in progressPractitioner · Yellow Belt complete
8%
Evidence synthesis with AILockedOngoingComplete
Surveillance data workflowsLockedOngoingComplete
Responsible use in practiceLockedOngoingComplete
Built for Professionals
Designed for people with careers, not computer science students.
Applied, Not Theoretical
Learn through problems and workflows from your profession.
Progressive Pathways
Build capability level by level, as far as you want to go.
Responsible by Design
Understand limitations, risks and professional responsibility.
Career Advantage
Prepare for the AI-enabled roles emerging inside your field.
Choose your professional pathway

AI capability, built around your profession.

We start with your profession. A public health professional learns AI in the context of public health; a clinical researcher, in the context of clinical research.

Public health professional analysing a global outbreak mapNext intake · Feb 2027
Public Health Pathway

Public Health + AI

Build applied AI capability across public health specialisations.

EpidemiologyOutbreak IntelligenceSurveillanceHealth PolicyGlobal Health
Multiple certificationsWhite → Yellow → Green → BlackExplore Pathway
Clinical research professionalsNext intake · Feb 2027
Clinical Research Pathway

Clinical Research + AI

Build AI capability for modern clinical research.

Clinical TrialsTrial OptimisationMedical WritingDigital PathologyClinical Data
Multiple certificationsWhite → Yellow → Green → BlackExplore
Pharmaceutical professionalsNext intake · Apr 2027
Pharmaceutical Pathway

Pharmaceuticals + AI

Build AI capability across the pharmaceutical lifecycle.

PharmacovigilanceRegulatory ScienceDrug DiscoveryGxP QualityMedical Affairs
Multiple certificationsWhite → Yellow → Green → BlackExplore
Health systems professionals
Health Systems Pathway

Health Systems + AI

Build AI capability for better health systems.

Hospital OperationsHealth InformaticsDigital HealthQuality & SafetyInnovation
Multiple certificationsWhite → Yellow → Green → BlackExplore
Economics professional analysing network and data visualisations
Economics Pathway

Economics + AI

Build AI capability for analysis and decision-making.

Health EconomicsFinance & RiskBehavioural EconomicsClimate PolicySustainability
Multiple certificationsWhite → Yellow → Green → BlackExplore
Start where you are

Progress as far as you want.

There is a difference between knowing how to use an AI tool and being capable of leading AI-enabled work within an organisation. Each level builds on the last.

IFoundationWhite Belt
IIPractitionerYellow Belt
IIISpecialistGreen Belt
IVLeaderBlack Belt

From White Belt to Black Belt — AI-aware professional to advanced applied practitioner.

How work is changing

The profession stays.
The workflow changes.

The responsibility stays with the professional. What changes is the speed, scale and intelligence of the workflow — and the capability organisations now expect. Keep scrolling — the new way of working arrives over the old.

Before applied AI capability
Traditional workflow

Manual effort. Fragmented information. Reactive decisions.

Manual searching

Hunting across multiple disconnected sources before the real work can start.

Repetitive review

Reading, summarising and re-summarising by hand.

Slow pattern-finding

Insight arrives after the moment has passed.

Disconnected tools

Spreadsheets, documents and systems that don't talk.

Preparing over deciding

Most of the day goes to admin, not judgement.

After applied AI capability
AI-enabled workflow

Faster synthesis. Prioritised signals. The judgement stays yours.

Faster synthesis

Evidence discovery and summarisation in minutes, not days.

Patterns at scale

Recognition across datasets no person could read alone.

Prioritised signals

Decision support that surfaces what matters first.

Integrated workflows

Connected, efficient and repeatable ways of working.

Time for judgement

The day shifts to deciding and acting — your expertise in control.

OpenAIGoogle GeminiNotebookLMAnthropicMicrosoft CopilotPerplexity
Why this matters now

The world doesn't need more AI engineers. It needs professionals who can work with AI.

Third-party evidence keeps making the same point: in healthcare, public health, pharma and clinical research, the demand is for domain experts with applied AI capability.

01Global health workforce
World Health Organization
Every level
of the health workforce needs AI literacy
The signal

Health systems worldwide are being urged to build AI competency across their existing workforce — not to replace clinical and public health judgement, but to strengthen it.

What it means

The gap isn't more AI engineers. It's health professionals who can apply AI safely inside their own practice.

02Hiring trends
Reuters
3× growth
in roles asking for domain expertise plus AI skills
The signal

Employers across healthcare, pharma and research are rewriting job descriptions: the same professional roles, now with applied AI capability listed as essential.

What it means

The fastest-growing opportunity sits with professionals who add AI to what they already do best.

03Workforce research
McKinsey & Company
70%
of organisations cite skills, not technology, as the barrier to AI adoption
The signal

The constraint on AI value in specialised industries is no longer the tools — it is the shortage of domain experts who know how to work with them responsibly.

What it means

Certification that pairs professional context with AI capability is exactly what organisations say they're missing.

What changes after McKellar

More capability. More opportunity.

The goal isn't another certificate sitting in a folder. It's greater professional capability.

Evidence review
AI-assisted draft

Work differently

Use AI to improve research, analysis, documentation and everyday professional workflows.

Should we fine-tune a model for this?
Not for this use case — a validated workflow gets us there faster.

Speak the language

Participate confidently in conversations about AI adoption, opportunities, limitations and responsible use.

Added to the AI implementation committee
New project: AI risk review
“Can you assess this vendor's model?”

Take on more

Contribute to AI-related projects, committees and decisions inside your organisation.

Clinical trialsSurveillance dataRegulatory submissionsLiterature reviewsPatient safety

Connect AI with your domain

Recognise where AI genuinely adds value — and where professional judgement still matters.

EpidemiologistClinical Research LeadHealth Data AnalystPharmacovigilanceProgram DirectorPolicy AdvisorBiostatisticianResearch CoordinatorQuality & Safety LeadPublic Health OfficerMedical WriterImplementation Lead

Progress in your career

Signal verified AI capability for the roles emerging inside your profession — whatever your title today.

Public Health + AIVerified
Advanced · Green Belt
3 of 4 levels

Credentials that stand out

A belt-based certification employers can read at a glance, from White Belt through Black Belt.

How it works

Five steps from where you are to certified capability.

01

Choose your field

Select a certification pathway aligned with your professional background or career direction.

02
Build practical capability
03
Demonstrate what you can do
04
Earn your certification
05
Keep progressing
From our certified professionals

Results that speak for themselves.

What changes when domain experts add real AI capability.

2×
Faster evidence reviews
”

“After the Foundation level I stopped treating AI as something for the data team. I now run our evidence reviews in half the time, and I understand exactly where the tool's judgement ends and mine begins. Practitioner level is next — my whole team is following.”

SCDr Sarah ChenDirector of Public Health Programs
3Belts earned in fourteen months
”

“I've done generic AI courses before. This was the first one built around clinical research — the examples were our workflows, our documentation, our regulatory constraints. That's why it stuck.”

MODr Michael OseiClinical Research Lead
”

“McKellar gave me the language and the confidence to sit on our AI implementation committee. Now I ask the questions nobody else thinks to ask.”

PRPriya RaghavanHead of Pharmacovigilance
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“The belt progression kept me going. Each level had a clear bar to clear, and my employer could see exactly what capability came with it.”

JWJames WhitfieldSenior Epidemiologist

You already know your profession.

Now learn what AI makes possible within it.

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