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Public Health Major, Minor

Undergraduate Program On Campus

What You'll Learn

Learn how to create health initiatives that affect and improve our air, water, and food. In Calvin's public health program, you’ll learn how education, policies, and advocacy work to protect the health of any community, from a single neighborhood to a nation.

With expert faculty advisors and a flexible program, you'll craft an academic experience that draws on many different disciplines that play a role in public health. You'll take classes in fields ranging from sociology and psychology, to biology and statistics, to political science and global development.

Your professors will guide you through every aspect of public health from a Christian perspective. They'll challenge and strengthen your convictions, equipping you to be a clinician or health service professional with a heart for the work of Christ’s renewal in the world.

What Makes This Program Great

  • Interdisciplinary collaboration: Public health is interdisciplinary, so you need faculty/program that is built on it. Our faculty come from many different fields throughout public health—your education will draw from many different professions.
  • Deeply Christian: Faith and justice live at the heart of every public health class you'll take and every project you do. You'll be challenged to see art as a way to enact real, meaningful change in your community and the world beyond.
  • Flexible: The public health major can easily be paired with another major.
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