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BSPH-GHP
BSPH - Global Health Protection
This degree prepares students to begin a career in health protection and injury/disease prevention; to apply to advanced degree programs in public health and related fields; or to prepare for further training the clinical health professions. With careful planning, this curriculum meets the basic science requirements for many of the clinical health professional programs at Indiana University, including medicine; these requisite courses vary by program and are subject to revision, so always check with the admissions officer of the professional program you are interested in pursuing.
The following degree requirements are required of all students majoring in Global Health Protection and are admitted to Indiana University beginning with fall 2017. Students who are returning to the Fairbanks School of Public Health (FSPH) after a leave of absence but have not enrolled in classes for three or more consecutive years will be required to follow these degree requirements.
Some courses in the major are not offered each semester. Students should contact the Office of Student Services (278-0753) in the FSPH for advising information, the course rotation, and to ensure that they will meet graduation requirements.
Competencies
Upon completing this degree, you will be able to:
- Describe a framework to anticipate, recognize, evaluate, prevent, and control environmental exposures.
- Use analytical tools and methods to characterize and address environmental health issues.
- Practice critical thinking to characterize and address environmental health issues.
- Acquire experience in communicating effectively with diverse stakeholders – both written and oral, public and interpersonal, professional and technical – on environmental health issues.
- Classify human health effects of environmental exposures.
- Identify barriers to health equity related to environmental health.
Academic Requirements
Environmental Health Science majors must fulfill the IUPUI general education requirements corresponding the IUPUI's Statewide Transferrable General Education Core.
Global Health Protection Requirements
15 courses for a total of 49 credits
Foundations and Methods
11 courses for a total of 34 credits
Public Health Fundamentals - All of the following courses
- PBHL-A 316 Environmental Health Science (3 credits)
- PBHL-B 300 Introduction to Biostatistics (3 credits)
- PBHL-E 322 Principles of Epidemiology (3 credits)
- PBHL-H 220 Policy and Management for Population Health (3 credits)
- PBHL-S 315 Community Health (3 credits)
Health Protection Fundamentals - All of the following courses
- PBHL-A 310 Exposure Assessment Laboratory & Data Analysis (4 credits)
- PBHL-A 320 Prevention Strategies to Improve Population Health (3 credits)
- PBHL-A 325 Injury Prevention (3 credits)
- PBHL-A 330 Humans in Extreme Environments (3 credits)
- PBHL-A 404 Public Health Applications of Geographic Information Systems (3 credits)
- PBHL-A 410 Fundamentals of Toxicology (3 credits)
Applications
4 courses for a total of 12 credits
Cornerstones of Health Protection Practice - One of the following courses
- PBHL-A 433 Occupational Health and Safety (3 credits)
- PBHL-A 428 Public Health Sanitation (3 credits)
- PBHL-A 440 Terrorism as a Public Health Threat (3 credits)
Contemporary Global Health Issues - One of the following courses
- PBHL-A 435 Energy, Climate Change, Resilience, and Health (3 credits)
- PBHL-A 445 Global Environmental Health and Sustainable Development (3 credits)
- PBHL-A 450 Food and Water: Safety, Scarcity, Security (3 credits)
Sustainability and Human Health - One of the following courses
- PBHL-A 430 E-waste, Toxic Materials, and Conflict Minerals (3 credits)
- PBHL-A 425 High Cost of Fashion: Environmental Hazards and Cheap Labor (3 credits)
Preparing for and Responding to Emergencies - One of the following courses
- PBHL-A 415 Explosions, Collapses, and Toxic Spills: Prevention and Response (3 credits)
- PBHL-A 420 Armed Conflict, Natural Disasters, and Health (3 credits)
Experience
1 course for a total of 3 credits
- PBHL A380 Environmental Health Science Internship (3 credits)
Recommended Electives
- PBHL-A 100 Environment and Human Health (3 credits)
- PBHL-A 120 Regional Cultures and Mortality (3 credits)
- CHEM-C 342 Organic Chemistry Lecture II (3 credits
- CHEM-C 344 Organic Chemistry Laboratory II (2 credits)
- BIOL-K 483 Biological Chemistry (3 credits)
- BIOL-K 322 Genetics and Molecular Biology (3 credits)
- BIOL-K 324 Cell Biology (3 credits)
- BIOL-K 338 Introductory Immunology (3 credits)
- BUS-X 204 Business Communications (3 credits)
- COMM-C 223 Business and Professional Communication (3 credits)
- COMM-C 380 Organizational Communication (3 credits)
- EMER-E 201 Emergency Medical Technician – Basic (6 credits)
- ENG-W 290 Writing in the Arts and Sciences (3 credits)
- SOC-R 121 Social Problems (3 credits)
- SOC-R 317 Sociology of Work (3 credits)
- SOC-R 425 Gender and Work (3 credits)
- SOC-R 478 Formal Organizations (3 credits)
- SHRS-W 361 Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (3 credits)
- TCM 220 Technical Report Writing (3 credits)
- TCM 320 Written Communication in Science and Industry (3 credits)
Other public health courses
Other biology, chemistry, physics, or mathematics courses
Other writing, communications, or foreign language courses
Other social science courses
Degree Electives: A minimum 114 credit hours (65 credit hours General Education + 49 credit hours Environmental Health Science) of required courses are listed for this curriculum. In addition, students must take a sufficient number of elective courses to total a minimum of 120 credit hours. We have provided some recommended electives above; please discuss elective courses with your academic advisor.
Last Updated: April 2020
