Global public health is a highly interdisciplinary program with a multidisciplinary approach to preparing students to advance 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 learning 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, and social and cultural factors. These tools help them develop competencies in health assessment, social justice and ethics, politics and policy, communication, environment, history, culture, and population health, focusing on critical thinking and collaboration.
Students majoring in the Global Public Health Bachelor of Arts receive excellent training in the social, behavioral, and physical sciences, in addition to 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.