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Julia Gardner, Program Director
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Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences: Public Health
Public health professionals are often working behind the scenes preventing disease and injury by promoting healthy lifestyles. This program will prepare you to confront regional, national, and global health issues through helping to control infectious disease and reduce environmental hazards, violence, substance use, and injury.
This degree broadly prepares graduates in foundational public health concepts and processes that can be applied within multiple health-related disciplines and in graduate study. This degree is offered both in-person and online.
About Accordion Closed
NAU’s Public Health degree is uniquely designed to be individualized depending on your desired path. Whether you want to go straight into the workforce, or choose to pursue a graduate education, this degree provides a variety of electives that can be grouped to create an education tailored to you.
Throughout the curriculum, service learning is infused, from assignments and courses to your capstone and internship. The program also offers a number of global health field school experiences so you can travel the world and earn credits towards your degree. This degree provides you with real, hands-on experiences to prepare you for your career and enhance your resume so you’ll be ready for the workforce.
What can I do with this degree? Accordion Closed
With your degree, you’ll have access to meaningful careers in a wide range of settings. Possible careers paths you could explore include:
- Health educator
- Community health worker
- Health researcher
- Health policy analyst
- Water quality specialist
- Environmental health specialist
- Social services program coordinator
- Sexual health educator
- Grant writer
- Program evaluator
- Epidemiologist
- Disease investigator
Or you could continue your education and pursue careers such as:
- Occupational therapist
- Speech-language pathologist
- Physical therapist
- Physician
- Nurse
- Nutritionist/Registered Dietician
- Teacher/Professor
Meet a faculty member Accordion Closed
Meet Julia Gardner, Program Director and faculty member for the Public Health undergraduate program at NAU. Recently, Julia was recognized with the Award for Excellence in Teaching & Learning. She says, “I’ve always had a passion for helping others. When I first started college, I didn’t even know what public health was. Like many of our public health students, I initially considered pursuing nursing. However, after a personal experience involving a family member suffering from a preventable disease, I realized I wanted a career dedicated to preventive healthcare.” Learn more about Julia on the blog.