Why Choose Nazareth for Public Health?

This major, unique among colleges in this region, prepares you to go directly into a public health career or to pursue a master’s of public health (MPH) or an advanced degree in a health care profession.

Public health teaches you to tackle health issues at the population level, learning how the environment, media, government policies, and health care delivery systems affect health. This program works well as a double major with programs such as anthropology or business and you can add valuable skills with a minor such as analytics.

Local and global internships and experiential learning opportunities show you first-hand how systems influence health. Examples:

• Traveling to a Belize clinic to teach health literacy and learn
• Helping with a Rochester community project to give unused medical supplies and donated equipment to clinics in needy countries
• Working with people who are homeless or elderly people with low incomes in Finland
• Comparing health care delivery systems on a week-long trip to Ireland or Hungary, as part of a health care delivery course
• Choosing projects to examine flaws in the system for protecting public health, such as bedbugs in elder care and comparing driving while intoxicated prosecution rates in two local counties

Nazareth's breadth of course offerings enable you to design your own concentration. Available areas of focus include:

• Advocacy and health literacy
• Bioethics
• Environmental issues
• Gender and health
• Health entrepreneurship, such as setting up a program or non-profit effort to give voice to a segment of the community
• History, government, and public health practice

B.A. Degree Highlights

Ideal for students with a strong interest in the socio-cultural aspects of public health. You'll focus on:

• Advocacy
• Health education and promotion
• Public health policy and administration
• Non-profit organizational work
• Governmental work – local, state, federal

B.S. Degree Highlights

Ideal for students who want to go on for advanced education in health science or science-focused graduate and professional programs, such as:

• Biostatistics
• Dentistry
• Epidemiology
• Environmental sciences
• Medicine
• Nursing