2024-2025 Binghamton University Academic Guide
Global Public Health
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 Return to: Harpur College of Arts and Sciences
Global public health is a highly interdisciplinary program that takes a multi-disciplinary approach to preparing students in advancing health equity through education and research. The curriculum provides students with a solid foundation in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences through courses, research opportunities, and experiential learnings locally, nationally and globally.
Students learn and apply methods through global public health questions, theoretical concepts and frameworks. They learn tools to study the social determinants of health and the complex relationships between health, environment, social and cultural factors. These tools help them to develop competencies in health assessment, social justice and ethics, politics and policy, communication, environment, history, culture and population health with particular focus on critical thinking and collaboration.
The program offers three tracks: Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Science (BS general) and Bachelor of Science (BS for future healthcare providers). Students majoring in the BA & BS (general) receive excellent training in the social, behavioral and physical sciences in addition to the humanities courses that prepare them for a range of careers and education options in public health, law, health sciences, business, economics, government and non-governmental organizations and much more.
Students in the BS (future healthcare providers) track also receive excellent training in the social, behavioral and natural sciences while gaining historical, indigenous and ethical perspectives, as well as building rhetorical and technical writing skills which are highly sought after by medical, nursing, and allied health schools.
Double Majors
Students in the Global Public Health BA as well as those in the general Global Public Health BS track may double major in any subject. Students majoring in the Global Public Health: Future Healthcare Provider BS track may double major in any subject except Integrative Neuroscience due to significant overlap in course requirements.
Programs
Return to: Harpur College of Arts and Sciences
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