The Johns Hopkins School of Arts and Sciences in Baltimore, Maryland, offers an undergraduate major called public health studies. Core disciplines of the program are epidemiology, health policy and management, environmental health sciences, behavioral health aspects, and biostatistics. It offers a summer abroad program in South Africa that deals with public health and involves work with local South African non-governmental organizations.
A public health major is offered by the College of Letters and Science at the University of California Berkeley. Students who major in public health at UC Berkeley gain and apply knowledge from across various disciplines for the purpose of protecting public health, and considering human rights principles and cultural perspectives.
There are requirements in math, social sciences and biology that must be met in order to obtain a bachelor's degree in public health at UC Berkeley.
Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health in New York, New York, began an undergraduate major in public health in Spring 2010. At that time, 75 undergraduates were enrolled.
This undergraduate program uniquely places an emphasis on the history of public health, in addition to the basic public health disciplines.
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana, offers an undergraduate public health program called Public Health Studies. The undergraduate program builds on the research of graduate research professors.
Tulane also offers a minor in public health studies.
The undergraduate department offers 13 core courses that focus on the basics of public health and 12 focused courses that are more specific to meet individual interests.