Public Health Degrees
The field of public health focuses on the needs of the population. It includes politics as well as health care considerations. People who work in this field may spend their time providing health information to various groups or influencing public policy. A degree in public health can help to prepare you for these kinds of careers:
• Academic Policy Advisor
• Communications Specialist
• Corporate Medical Director
• Health Educator
• Journalist
• Legislative Policy Advisor
• Management Policy Advisor
• Mental Health Researcher
• Nutritionist
• Public Health Administrator
• Research Epidemiologist
• State Epidemiologist
Concentrations in a public health degree program include:
• Dental Public Health
• Disaster Management
• Environmental Health
• Health Care and Prevention
• Health Planning
• Health Policy
• Leadership
• Occupational Health Nursing
Here are some examples of the subjects you would be studying as part of this degree program:
• Applied Statistics for Health Sciences
• Behavioral Foundations of Public Health
• Behavioral Sciences
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Disease Prevention
• Environmental Health
• Environmental Health and Health Practice
• Epidemiology
• Health Administration
• Health and Public Policy
• Health Services Administration
• Health Promotion
• Healthcare Management
• Microbiology
• Organic Chemistry
• Philosophy of Public Health
• Principles of Biostatistics
• Principles of Epidemiology
• Principles of Statistical Inference
• Public Health
• Public Health Fieldwork
• Psychology
• Social Foundations of Public Health
• Social Sciences
• Statistics
• United States Healthcare Systems