Health Policy Studies (B.A.)

Careers

Careers and Graduate Work

The Health Policy Studies major provides students with a foundation in the liberal arts and in-depth knowledge of the history and current operations of domestic and international health policy agencies. Also, students must select a minor in a focused area of interest.

With this broad-based approach, students have a wide range of career and graduate school opportunities, including:

International health

• organizing and management
• health education
• non-clinical assistance

Health policy lobbying and government

• legislative aide
• special interest lobbyist
• positions in policy analysis, public health, or finance in government or not-for-profit agencies

Health Administration

• manager of hospitals, nursing homes, and clinics
• finance, marketing, and planningCommunity activist
• environmental groups
• poverty and aging agencies
• health care reform organizations

Health Communication and Social Marketing

• government health agencies
• non-profit advocacy organizations

Graduate School

• law
• public health
• business
• medicine
• politics
• social science
• liberal arts