Public Health
Experiential Learning enables students to collaborate with the Experiential Learning coordinator to gain access to institutional resources and programs to engage in research, internships, cooperative education, study abroad programs, ministry programs, service learning, and much more. Public health majors need 4 credits (180 hours) of internship experience to graduate.
Specializations
- Community and Behavioral Health focuses on addiction science, including the fundamentals of behavioral health, the theoretical basis of substance use disorder, the complex interactions between physical and mental health, and the behavioral antecedents and correlates of chronic health conditions. (Vancouver | Spokane)
- General Option enables students who have been accepted into the public health major to select one of more than a dozen academic concentrations or create their own concentration in collaboration with their academic advisor. Some of these concentrations include:
Animal Science | Environmental Justice | Environmental Policy | Gender and Sexuality | Health and Communities | Health and Culture | Health Communication | One Health | Pre-Med | Pre-Vet | Pre-Nursing - Infectious Disease focuses on population health, health systems, methods, biostatistics, health communications, environmental health administration, and community health development. You’ll study epidemiology, infectious disease testing, vaccine development, data management, statistical analysis, and bioinformatics. (Pullman)
3 campuses, 1 vision
Providing public health education tracks in infectious disease (Pullman) and community and behavioral health (Spokane and Vancouver).
- WSU Pullman – Large residential campus in a vibrant college town
- WSU Spokane – Regional medical hub on WSU’s health sciences campus with basic and translational research labs
- WSU Vancouver – Small urban campus where students get extensive faculty interaction and mentoring
Career
With a Public Health degree, you can work in:
- Human and veterinary healthcare
- Health education, promotion and disease prevention
- Emergency preparedness and response planning
- Environmental health monitoring
- Biostatistics and research analysis
- Health policy and administration
- Epidemiology and disease surveillance
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Tuition and financial resources
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Tours & visits
Pullman is located in the Palouse region of the Inland Northwest, homelands of the Nimíipuu (Nez Perce) Tribe and Palus people. The Palouse has one of the most beautiful and unique landscapes in the world. Rolling hills and wide-open skies give the region its distinctive appeal. Residents enjoy outdoor activities and the benefits of small town living with the cultural richness of bigger city life.
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