Global Health Minor Boosts Your Marketability
The Global Health Minor gives your resume a competitive edge.
Choose a focus from one of six key areasfind the perfect focus to match your major, your career goals, or the changes you most want to see in the world.
Explore the challenges of achieving health equity for people worldwidewhile building new career directions into your job outlook.
Choose a Focus Such as Hunger, Environmental Justice, or Reproductive Health
Focus on one of six global health pathways:
- Food, Nutrition, and Hunger
- Environmental Justice
- Law, Ethics, and Policy
- Disaster, Conflict, and Displacement
- Gender, Sexuality, and Reproductive Health
- Aging
You'll complete 12 credits (four classes) in the pathway you select. You'll also take Introduction to Global Health and either Medical Anthropology or Medical Sociology. See the program coordinator to check for any prerequisite classes you may need or courses you can substitute.
Combine This Minor with a Variety of Majors Such as the BS in Public Health
Our minor in Global Health is an excellent addition to the bachelor's degree in Public Health. The minor fits well with any of the BS in Public Health degree's three tracks: Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Behavioral and Mental Health.
Practicums, Internships, and Field School Experiences
You can gain greater insight and awareness of the real-world impact of health issues with hands-on opportunities. An ethnographic field school, independent study, practicum, or internship may be applied to any pathway with approval from the Global Health Minor committee.
Good Prep for Graduate School, Medical School
This minor is an excellent choice if you wish to further your education with graduate school or with a health-related professional school such as medical school or optometry school.
Why Study Global Health?
Whether you are majoring in biology, political science, journalism, public health, nursing, business, anthropology, chemistry, or another field, adding this minor can enhance your job prospects and lead you to careers that make a difference.
Major health issues affect people all around the world.
- According to the World Health Organization, "in Sub-Saharan Africa, one child in 12 died before his or her fifth birthday in 2016."
- "A profound change of the global food and agriculture system is needed if we are to nourish today's 795 million hungry and the additional 2 billion people expected by 2050," according to information from Goal 2 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals of 2015.
- Diarrhea continues to be a major killer of young children worldwide, though relatively simple solutions could be used to save children's lives, according to data from UNICEF.
- "HIV continues to be a major global public health issue, having claimed more than 35 million lives so far. In 2016, one million people died from HIV-related causes globally," according to a fact sheet from the World Health Organization.
- According to the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), 80 percent of the Maldives, a tropical nation made up of islands in the Indian Ocean, is only one meter above sea level. The country, according to the UNISDR, abandoned 13 islands following the devastation caused by a tsunami in 2004.
- NPR reports that after Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane Maria, entrepreneur Elon Musk, through his company, Tesla, set up solar panels and energy storage batteries at Hospital del Nio, a children's hospital in San Juan.