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Public Health Minor

Work with students to set them up to live healthy lives with the Public Health minor.

The public health minor provides you with the opportunity to learn and apply public health theory and practice to address population health issues while enriching your core competencies in teamwork, critical thinking, and public outreach.

Program type:
Minor
Format:
On Campus or Online
Est. time to complete:
1-2 years
Credit hours:
16
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Why minor in Public Health?

UND's Public Health Minor is based on a strong foundation in the health sciences, social sciences, and population health. You'll think critically and scientifically, while enhancing communication skills and leadership experiences.

The Public Health Minor pairs well with any major at UND, and particularly Nutrition, Kinesiology, Psychology, Communication, Education, Sociology, and many others. and many others. You'll gain the foundation of success in topics such as public health, epidemiology, health promotion, and health care policy.

UND's Public Health Program

  • Complete a public health internship with organizations like the National Rural Health Association; Grand Forks Public Health; Polk County Public Health and others.

  • State-of-the-art learning facilities mean this minor is a great choice for students interested in health, public health and health policy.

  • Enhance your experience by studying abroad with opportunities at universities in Finland, Ireland, Hungary, New Zealand, Norway and elsewhere.

  • The college offers opportunities to be involved in scholarly research, including the search for grants and other funding.

  • Learn the principles of evidence-based public health and key elements such as health communications, health policy, law, and ethics.

  • Understand how community health programs are developed and implemented.

Required Public Health Minor Courses

PHE 101. Introduction to Public Health. 3 Credits.

Introduction to the population health approach to public health. Principles of evidence-based public health and tools for implementation including health communications and informatics, applications of social and behavioral sciences, and health policy, law and ethics. Methods for addressing non-communicable diseases, communicable disease and environmental diseases and injury. An overview of the U.S. health care system and comparisons with health care systems in other developed countries. Examination of public health institutions and systems at the local/state, federal and global levels as well as future issue in public health. F,S.

PHE 102. Epidemiology in Public Health. 3 Credits.

This course covers applications of epidemiologic methods and procedures to the study of the distribution and factors influencing health and diseases, morbidity, injuries, disability, and mortality in populations. Epidemiologic methods for the control of conditions such as infectious and chronic diseases, mental disorders, community and environmental health hazards, and unintentional injuries are discussed. Other topics include quantitative aspects of epidemiology, for example, data sources, measures of morbidity and mortality, evaluation of association and causality, and study design. F,S.

PHE 103. Introduction to Global Health. 3 Credits.

The purpose of this course is to provide the students with the basic knowledge of health indicators, major determinants, and trends of global health. F.

PHE 301. Principles and Foundation of Health Education. 3 Credits.

The purpose of this course is to provide the students the historical perspectives of health and health education; professional issues and ethics; credentialing; principles, practices, theoretical frameworks, and foundations of health education. F.

PHE 304. Health Program Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation. 3 Credits.

This course is designed to prepare public health educators to plan, implement, and evaluate health education programs that are context sensitive, culturally relevant, and technologically appropriate to the setting, the population of potential learners, and the resources available. Additionally, concepts and theories essential to program evaluation are highlighted. S.

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