Bachelor of Science in Public Health

Public Health offers solutions to these questions. The goal of public health is to protect, preserve, promote, and improve the health of communities and populations and to keep everyone safe from disease and harm on a local, national, and global scale. Public health addresses disease, as well as the social, behavioral, environmental, political, epidemiological, statistical, and biological, processes in communities that affect health. Understanding these issues depends on concepts and skills drawn from diverse liberal arts disciplines. Public health is an interdisciplinary field with the common purpose of promoting and protecting the health of a population. Public health programs focus on proactive prevention (versus reactive treatment) and address the needs of a population as a whole (rather than individuals). Public health practitioners work in concert with clinical medicine in environmental health, health promotion and protection, disease prevention and surveillance, health policy, nutrition, and health assessment and statistical modeling.