Want to study something exciting and be on the cutting edge?

Do you care about your health, and the health of your community?

If you want variety in courses and career options, enjoy promoting disease prevention, and are looking for excitement in school, then an undergraduate or graduate degree in public health is a great choice.

Public health is a great mix of various fields (medicine, economics, sociology, anthropology, mathematics, communications, and much more). One of the many great qualities of public health is its diversity. Combine your many interests with a degree in public health and add your perspective and expertise to the field’s diversity.

A degree in public health brings job security. Public health workers will always be needed and the broad scope of the field allows you to broaden your horizons as well.

As an undergraduate student, you can learn about and test ways to reduce infectious or chronic diseases. Create digital maps of a recent outbreak of influenza or interview a local community to learn which barriers may prevent people from using a local clinic.

• Biostatistics - The use of statistical methodology for analyzing health related data.
  
• Epidemiology - The study of the distribution and determinants of disease and disability in populations.
  
• Health Policy and Management - The study of health care systems, health care reform, health care law, financial management, clinic management, and policy analysis.
  
• Health Education/Behavioral Sciences - The process of selecting, applying and monitoring appropriate behavioral, social and political change strategies to enhance the health of populations.
  
• Environmental Health - The study of issues associated with the adverse chemical, physical and biologic agents in the environment on human health.