The Public Health Studies Program offers undergraduates a major that links them to the world of public health through core courses taken on the Homewood campus, as well as electives taken at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Learning Goals

Public Health Studies majors:

• Explain what public health is (and what it is not)
• Describe the major components of the public health system in the United States and globally, and the role each component plays in advancing toward the overarching goals of public health
• Identify and describe current public health problems and trends
• Discuss the social, behavioral, biological, and environmental determinants of health and the epidemiologic methods used to identify risk factors for disease and injury
• Discuss the key types of prevention strategies used in public health and the epidemiologic methods used to determine their efficacy and effectiveness
• Discuss the strategies used to bring effective interventions to the larger population, particularly healthcare policy, the policy process generally, and challenges to making policy change
• Discuss public health issues in terms of how they affect parts of the world outside the U.S.
• Describe principles of emergency preparedness
• Identify, gather, evaluate, and synthesize information about a public health issue, and communicate effectively to a variety of audiences
• Seek out public health related experiences, work in a public health setting, and engage in reflection on those experiences

Requirements

Please see the degree requirements listed on BA Program page.

If you are unsure of which requirements apply to you, make an appointment with your PHS adviser.