Associate of Arts Degree in Health Sciences

Langara College

Health Sciences is a wide-ranging field which uses knowledge from many disciplines to understand and improve all aspects of human health. At Langara, Health Sciences focuses primarily on public health, a branch of medicine that explores the causes of variation in health within and between human populations, with the goal of developing and delivering effective interventions to reduce health inequity and inequality locally, nationally and internationally. Our program is rooted in epidemiology, the core science of public health. Epidemiology provides a framework and tools to enable health professionals to describe population health, develop hypotheses to explain observed differences, test hypotheses, and ultimately develop, implement and evaluate interventions based on high quality evidence.The complexity of understanding the contributors to both good and poor health, and furthermore enabling populations to improve their health, requires a multidisciplinary approach which draws on both arts and science. Health scientists furthermore need excellent communication skills to translate scientific research into accessible, empowering information for the public.

Department of Health Sciences