At Rochester, the study of public health incorporates both the science and art of protecting and improving the health of families and communities through education and research.
Our interdisciplinary undergraduate program in public health features:
A comprehensive set of course offerings drawing on expertise from many departments on the River Campus and the Medical Center.
Educational programs in the Department of Public Health Sciences that are accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health.
The study of public health provides a rich intellectual framework for the multidisciplinary study of some of society's most challenging problems.
This major has 13 required courses and one pre-requisite course. The health policy major leads to a bachelor of arts degree and satisfies the social sciences requirement of the Rochester Curriculum.
Key goals for this major:
Understand health policy as it relates to the organization, financing, and provision of health care in the US, including its history and law, Demonstrate how the principles of statistics, economics, and political science apply to health policy, Understand the current situation relating to population health (including environmental health), private insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, long-term care, and mental health at the federal, state, and local levels, both public and private, Understand how to apply the principles of health policy analysis to population health (including environmental health), private insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, long-term care, and mental health at the federal, state, and local levels, both public and private.