B.S. In Public Health
Washington, USA
BSc
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2026
STUDY FORMAT
Key Summary
About: Gallaudet’s Bachelor of Science in Public Health (BSPH) focuses on protecting and promoting health across individuals and communities through disease prevention, health promotion, and research on epidemics. The programme prepares students for work or graduate school and offers a Public Health minor for students in other fields. Gallaudet supports deaf and hearing learners and emphasizes American Sign Language, deaf history, and technology.
Career Outcomes: Graduates work as public health analysts, health care managers, patient educators, risk assessors, and occupational health and safety technicians and may enter epidemiology, community health, health promotion, or policy roles in public and private sectors.
Public Health is a science concerned with protecting and promoting health in individuals, families, communities and entire populations through such measures as disease prevention, promotion of healthy lifestyles, and research on epidemics and infectious diseases. The Public Health Program at Gallaudet offers a major (Bachelor of Science in Public Health - BSPH) which prepares students to work in a number of health-related fields or enter graduate or professional school. A minor in Public Health is also offered and is designed to increase awareness and understanding of public health principles among students preparing for careers in other fields such as, but not limited to, physical education and recreation, social work, business, medicine, health education or psychology.
Public Health is a science concerned with promoting and protecting health in individuals, families, communities and entire populations through such measures as disease prevention, promotion of healthy lifestyles, and research on epidemics and infectious diseases. The BSPH prepares students to work in a number of health-related fields or enter graduate or professional school. Public Health professionals with this degree are in increasing demand for employment by government agencies and private organizations as public health analysts, health care managers, patient educators, risk assessors, and occupational health and safety technicians.
