What kind of job can you get with a public health bachelors degree?

Answer 1

A person with a public health degree (Master's or Undergrad) can work in many diverse areas. One area is working for the Centers for Disease Control, or CDC, which is based in Atlanta, but has offices all over. The CDC is a government entity, so consider the benefits and drawbacks associated with that. Many public heath people work for other public offices in fields involving epidemiology, field survey, administration for health departments, and program development. Let me give you some quick examples. Folic Acid is known to prevent neural tube birth defects in babies. The campaign to study this, and to design, produce, and administer a program to promote supplementation and awareness of folic acid for women of childbearing age would be an example of a public health program. Other people work in the fields of nursing or research. There is a known deficit of qualified people in the related field of BioSafety, which is concerned, in part, with epidemiology, or put simply, the occurrence and spread of disease. And example of a job in this area would be the documenting and tracking of the outbreaks of ecoli related to fresh spinach, and how it occurred at all. For a list of online accredited programs in Public Health, see the online edition of US News and World Report, Sept. 28, 2007 edition at this link

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/elearning/tables/pub_reg.htm

They also provide a ranking for onsite programs as well. LRV