B.S. Public Health
Today, more than ever, public health professionals are actively working to ensure the health and well-being of the public as a whole. Make a real difference by earning your bachelor’s degree in public health, one of the most vital and essential industries today as we strive to sustain and maintain healthy individuals and communities in a post-COVID world. As a public health professional, you’ll turn your passion for healthcare and wellness into a career that helps the public at large in areas like health policy, health education programs, preventative care, infectious disease and disease prevention, epidemiology, environmental health (climate change), health data analytics, non-profit health organizations and more.
Chaminade’s Bachelor of Science in Public Health is designed to prepare you for a significant role in this network of care at a time of double-digit growth in the sector as well as to take the Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES®) examination.
Given the wide range of professional pathways available to public health graduates, Chaminade’s program emphasizes flexibility, allowing you to choose from one of four specializations (tracks) so you can customize your learning around what is most meaningful to you, and help you meet your personal academic and future career goals.
Concentrations
- Community Health Worker: Excellent preparation for a career in health education, health coaching, epidemiology, public health and policy.
- Data Analytics: Harness the power of ‘big data’ to improve healthcare, model and predict diseases and inform decision-making and policy, developing an in-demand skill set in a fast-growing area of healthcare
- Environment and Health: Explore the linkages between environment and health, especially in preventative health, policy and public health.
- Non-profit: Develop your expertise in healthcare administration in the non-profit sector with a deep dive into the economics, finances and operations of community healthcare organizations.
Examples of public health positions include and are not limited to:
Epidemiologist
Biostatistician
Toxicologist
Behavioral health scientist
Environmental health scientist
Health commissioner
Healthcare administrator
Public policy analyst
Public health adviser
Health director
Global health expert
Demographer
Health educator
Surgeon general
Sanitarian
Industrial hygienist
Maternal and child health specialist
Emergency preparedness professional
As part of a research project with the Social and Behavioral Interventions (SBI) program within the International Health Department of Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, Alexandrea Cole Patino ’25, has been involved in an extensive literature review of menstrual health and self-care, from menarche (the first menstrual period in a female adolescent) to menopause. The literature review will be used to inform health care educational materials, self-care and more.
Resources
Faculty
Our faculty members are leaders in their fields. They believe in the power of personal experience—stressing mentorship, collaboration and project-based learning inside and outside the classroom.
Accreditation
Chaminade University of Honolulu is accredited by WASC Senior College and University Commission.
