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 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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