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Colleges and Universities Offering Bachelor of Science in Public Health in Liberia
Course Name:
Bachelor of Science in Public Health(Public Health)
Major Subject:
Public Health
Course Category:
Degree Courses
Institutions Offering Bachelor of Science in Public Health
William V. S. Tubman University
, Monrovia
Program Objectives
Upon completion of the Public Health Program, graduates will be able to:
- Apply analytical reasoning and critical thinking skills in the incorporation of
knowledge synthesized from the discipline of public health, the humanities, the
biological and social science into professional public health practice.
- Utilize information technology to include traditional and developing methods of
discovering, retrieving and using information relevant to the practice of public
health.
- Effectively communicate with culturally diverse persons and other health care
disciplines in a caring, compassionate manner, using a variety of strategies.
- Utilize the principles of epidemiology to provide culturally competent public
health care to persons and communities.
- Collaborate with members of the public health care team to assist individuals,
families and communities to achieve identified goals.
- Assume a leadership role within the scope of public health practice.
- Participate in research that focuses on evidence-based practice and use findings to
support practice decision making and the delivery of care.
- Incorporate professional standards and accountability into the practice of public
health.
- Recognize the impact of economic, political, social and demographic forces
affecting the delivery of regional, national and global public health care.
- Demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning, personal and professional
development through continuing education and participation in professional
organizations.
1. Concentration in Health Administration
This Discipline combines the courses of general education and relevant sciences with
skills to develop the student for careers in all facets of health care management. The
BSHA curriculum is designed to integrate variety of facts known and available in the
provision of health services like accounting, legal, finance, ethics, health and disease
factors, human and information technologies.
2. Concentration in Epidemiology (EPI)
This Discipline offers training of students who are interested in careers of public health
with concentration in epidemiology which is a study of disease origin and spread
including the pattern of disease development. The EPI curriculum combines courses in
public health, biology, chemistry and physics, psychology, statistics and anthropology to
determining the scientific and medical transmission of disease in a population.
3. Concentration in Community Health Promotions (CHP)
This Discipline offers training of students who are interested in careers of public health
with emphasis on community health education and human development involving use of
known and innovative principles of theories and practices of education, knowledge and
instruction. The CHEHD focuses on processes that lead to positive health behavioral
change in persons toward community benefits. The CHEHD curriculum combines
courses in public health, sociology, health behavioral models, psychology,
communications, biological sciences, health and medicine,
4. Concentration in Environmental Health Sciences (EHS)
This Discipline offers training of students who are interested in careers of public health
with emphasis in environmental health sciences which deal specifically with the studies
of the natural environment, including land, ocean, and air and impact of interaction by
human beings, and other living organisms. The EHS explore the various perspectives of
scientific, economic, aesthetic and societal impact on environmental issues as to actions,
motives, characteristics and consequences. The EHS curriculum combines courses in
public health, ethics, biology, chemistry, pharmacology and toxicology and engineering
to determining the heath status of the environment and inhabitants.
5. Concentration in Biostatistics (BIOST)
This Discipline offers training of students who are interested in careers of public health
with interest in biostatistics, a discipline that is dedicated to both quantitative and
qualitative analysis of biological systems and organisms. The BIOST curriculum
combines courses in public health, mathematics, computations, and algebra, calculus,
biology, chemistry, biostatistics and computer sciences.
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