A undergraduate degree in public health can not only change your future, it also can help you shape the future of healthcare. Turn your passion for helping individuals into improving the general health of communities by earning a bachelor’s in public health.
With countless opportunities in the public health sector and related fields that make a lasting and life-changing impact on communities and the world, a career in the vastly versatile, high-paying, and rewarding field of public health can take you far.
A career in public health can mean creating innovative programs to benefit the general health of your community, drafting public policy to protect vulnerable populations, or even brainstorming global solutions to combat climate change. Just like your health, the public health sector is widely broad. Whether your passion lies in advocacy, community education, legislation, public health can help you explore new opportunities while cultivating a real impact.
Your desire to help others is in high demand. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, careers for a B.S in Public Health see approximately 330,495 openings annually, a 7% projected growth in the following 10 years, and an average salary of $93,457, making the field a stable, growing, and highly rewarding profession, wherever your specialty falls.
Ready to see where a bachelor’s in Public Health can take you?
Health Educator
As a health educator, you would promote health on an individual or community wide level. By accessing the needs of a community, a health educator works to create tailored programs, advocates for health related legislation, and educates community members. Health educators aid in promoting well-being, healthy habits, recovery programs, and disease prevention tailored to a community’s needs.
Median Annual Salary: $62,860.
Environmental Health Strategist
Environmental health strategists work to create innovative ways of combating and mitigating the effects of climate change both globally and community-wide. Through long-term solutions, environmental health strategists work to identify, address patterns, and the effects of human impact, pollution, urbanization, and air quality on environmental impact and its threat to human health. Through policy design and regulations, technology solutions, public education, and developmental programs, environmental health strategists work holistically to implement solutions to help mitigate the impact of environmental stress on human health.
Median Annual Salary: $80,060
Public Policy Writer
A public policy writer with a focus on healthcare works to communicate with community members, analyze data, and identify current threats impacting vulnerable communities. They work to convey issues to other policy writers, develop programs with non-profits, draft innovative policy forms to protect, and lobby with legislators to develop policy that addresses health issues and potential risk factors facing underrepresented communities.
Median Annual Salary: $55,000.
Epidemiologist
An epidemiologist is responsible for promoting public health by identifying patterns of current and potential risk factors that lead to disease in a population, conducting research, analyzing data, and surveying populations. Then, drawing conclusions from their findings, epidemiologists develop strategies such as vaccine promotion campaigns, communication efforts with legislators, and drafting grant proposals for new programs to aid disease prevention issues in communities.
Median Annual Salary: $85,222.
Public Health Nutritionist
Public health nutritionists help to assess the nutritional needs and risks of food insecurity in a community. By analyzing trends of a community’s diet, illness and disease, financial accounts, and accessibility, a public health nutritionist works to create programs to battle food insecurity, advocates with policymakers, and collaborates with organizational groups like food banks to ensure access to affordable and nutritional diets are accessible to the community despite financial troubles.
Median Annual Salary: $73,850
Health Services Coordinator
Within the setting of various healthcare facilities, a health services coordinator uses strong communication and organizational skills as they work to oversee administrative operations of an establishment to ensure smooth functioning and primal care to its patients. Health services coordinators work to manage patient care by administering individualized and optimal care plans, create appointments, facilitate effective communications between all parties to best improve patient outcomes in their facilities.
Median Salary: $117,960
Why Choose SDSU Global Campus?
The SDSU Global Campus Bachelor of Science in Public Health program was recently ranked as the nation’s top-15 online public health programs by Bachelor’s Degree Center, ensuring your decision to level up your career will be backed by a quality education.
“I would definitely recommend this program to others who are similarly committed to putting in the effort as SDSU’s Global Campus offers a rigorous, but straightforward, curriculum to those seeking to expand their knowledge and skill sets in public health research and program implementation” said recent program graduate Annika Manlutac.
With the versatility in the field of public health, get a degree that’s built to work with you. Our B.S in Public Health program is designed for busy adults looking to level up their career or change fields without putting your life on hold. The SDSU Global Campus believes that education should be accessible to everyone, with the option of 100% online courses, two years minimum completion time, and interactive coursework taught by our experienced healthcare professionals.
“I chose the online program to balance my academic goals with raising a family, ensuring I am present during my little one’s early years. Throughout the program, I had the opportunity to learn from and connect with exceptional faculty and receive guidance from knowledgeable advisors, which I really enjoyed and appreciated,” said recent program graduate Rawan Iriqat.
Build the skillset necessary to enter a profession that can reimagine your community by learning a range of sectors in public health like Health Promotion and Behavior, Epidemiology, Statistics, Environmental Health, Health Services Administration, and International/Global Health.
You have the power to change lives and your future with a quality-backed education that works for you in a rewarding, ever-growing, diverse field with competitive wages. Use your degree to start making a difference.
