Bachelor of Public Health (Honours) - Health Research

University of Waterloo

Doctors might help a dozen or so patients a day. Public health professionals help thousands. Explore how social, cultural, political, and geographical conditions play a pivotal role in health and how understanding these factors can help us tackle smoking, obesity, infectious diseases, and other modern day health challenges. By drawing on skills from different disciplines, you’ll learn how to develop health policies that work and health messages that hit home. In your final year, you’ll complete a thesis, an independent study, or a community engagement placement.Learn to examine and improve the health of communities and populations. You’ll focus on the social, ecological, biological, political and psychological factors that influence human health and how these factors can help us tackle and anticipate health challenges.A specialization provides a secondary area of study in addition to your major. It is an academic plan that offers an area of concentration and provides depth to a student's primary area of study. Specializations are only available to students within their primary department. Employers need professionals who can understand, generate, and interpret health research to help them make effective decisions. Graduate and professional schools are looking for students who have experience in research design, data management, and analysis.