Public Health

New - Starting Fall 2013

The BS in Public Health strives to prepare students for progressive independence, maturity, knowledge of the world, understanding of diverse inhabitants, and respect for their differing points of view. This degree is intended to convey technical detail and analytic skills, but with the liberal arts philosophical base, it also has the educational objectives of nurturing critical thinking, analysis, and synthesis of information, and recognizing the historical and societal associations of current trends in public health and health care delivery.

This curriculum will allow the students to incorporate many different aspects of a liberal arts education through the various specialization areas including: environmental health, public policy and administration, infectious disease epidemiology, health education, pre-medical, and biostatistics.  In addition, this curriculum provides a pathway to medical and graduate schools for students in the health sciences and human services.

Research, Projects and Program Features
	Global Health in Costa Rica A class led by Dr. Dorothy Anthony and Shirley Michaels, departed for Costa Rica in May, 2010 for a two week-long course. The purpose was for the students to understand critical health issues from a multi-dimensional perspective and to think critically about how health and disease in a global society impacts everyone on the planet.

Program News

New degrees in Geology and Public Health Keystone College continues to expand its academic offerings with the introduction of two new bachelor’s degrees in public health and geology, both starting in the fall of 2013.