Interested in learning more about public health?

We offer public health at both the undergraduate level (BS or BA) and graduate level (MPH). Scroll down to learn more about each degree offering.

Undergraduate Public Health Major (BS or BA)

This major, unique among colleges in this region, prepares you to go directly into a public health career or to pursue a master’s of public health (MPH) or an advanced degree in a health care profession.

Public health teaches you to tackle health issues at the population level, learning how the environment, media, government policies, and health care delivery systems affect health. This program works well as a double major with programs such as anthropology or business and you can add valuable skills with a minor such as analytics.

Local and global internships and experiential learning opportunities show you first-hand how systems influence health. Examples:

• Nazareth students traveled to a Belize clinic to teach health literacy and learn.

• Students helped with a Rochester community project to give unused medical supplies and donated equipment to clinics in needy countries.

• Helping homeless gypsies or low-income elderly adults in Finland

• Week-long trips to Ireland or Hungary enable students to compare health care delivery systems, as part of a health care delivery course.

• One student project exposed the problem of bedbugs in elder care while another compared driving while intoxicated prosecution rates in two local counties, pointing out flaws in the system for protecting public health.

• Nazareth students have opportunities to initiate a project and build connections with people around the world through Clinton Global Initiative University.

Nazareth's breadth of course offerings enable you to design your own concentration. Available areas of focus include:

• Advocacy and health literacy

• Bioethics

• Environmental issues

• Gender and health

• Health entrepreneurship, such as setting up a program or non-profit effort to give voice to a segment of the community

• History, government, and public health practice

Click here to learn more about the public health (PBH) major

Fall 2022 Undergraduate Course Offerings

Masters in Public Health (MPH) — Launching Fall 2022!

Do you want to improve health on a community level? Do you want to prevent illness? Do you want to be at the forefront of a rapidly evolving field that touches all populations? A Master of Public Health (MPH) degree trains students to protect and improve the health of entire populations. Students learn how to tackle the challenging issues that affect communities, work with people across sectors, and educate the public about best health care practices. With an MPH degree, you will be able to analyze data, influence public policy, study and monitor threats to public health, and/or conduct health research.

The MPH program at Nazareth College is ideal for:

• People who aspire to help people and society — whether individually as an educator, on a larger scale as a manager or director shaping policies and services, as a researcher uncovering new understanding of public health, or in many other roles that influence public health.

• Various backgrounds are welcome to apply!

• If you studied public health, this MPH program will further your skills and competencies.

• If you’re looking to transition into public health, no prior exposure or experience with public health is required. You will gain exposure to the field, learn new skills, and gain hands-on experience.

• Public health especially complements nursing, legal studies, education, data analytics, community youth development, life/lab science, physical therapy, occupational therapy, communication sciences and disorders, sustainability, and ethical data science.

Click here to learn more about the MPH program