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Public Health and Management Dual Degree Program
Public Health Major
Public health at the Maxwell School prepares students to improve community health through education, service and action. You'll explore how access to care, housing, education and the environment shape health outcomes across populations.
From your first year, you’ll gain hands-on experience through service learning and community engagement, culminating in a senior capstone internship.
The program includes a 30-credit public health core and a concentration in healthcare management. The combination of real-world learning and academic preparation positions graduates for a range of careers or advanced study in public health, health care administration or the health professions.
Public Health Core Courses
This 30-credit core covers key areas of public health practice.
Foundations of Health
- Community Health Promotion
- Environmental Health
- Health Disparities and Underserved Populations
- Personal and Social Health or Human Health and Disease
Skills and Methods
- Public Health Data and Decision Making
- Epidemiology
- Implementing and Evaluating Health Programs
- Internship
Systems and Policy
- Public Health Policy
- Understanding Health Systems
Healthcare Management Concentration
As part of the public health major, the healthcare management concentration helps you understand how health care systems function, and how to make them better. You’ll learn to:
- understand key ideas around ethics, law and regulation in healthcare;
- explore how hospitals and clinics use continuous improvement to provide better care and the challenges they face in putting those practices into action and;
- identify the biggest challenges facing the U.S. health care system today and explore ways to solve them.
About the Management Program
As a dual-degree student, you'll also earn a bachelor of science in a business major from the Whitman School of Management.
This degree provides a strong foundation in core business principles and the flexibility to focus your studies in areas like analytics, entrepreneurship, finance or marketing.
Through coursework, internships and case-based learning, you’ll build skills in strategic thinking, financial decision-making and effective communication—essential tools for leadership in business and health-related fields.
Whitman majors include: accounting, business analytics, entrepreneurship, finance, management, marketing, real estate, retail management and supply chain management
Related Careers
- Accountant
- Actuary
- Clinical research coordinator
- Community development professional
- Environmental health advocate
- Medical device entrepreneur
- Pharmaceutical sales executive
- Public health director
- Public health analyst
- Health services manager
- Health care consultant