Public Health BA

About this programme

The Berkeley Public Health (a graduate school) offers an undergraduate major through the College of Letters & Science . The goal of the major is to provide students with an understanding of epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental health, health behavior, and health policy. These areas of emphasis range across the spectrum of natural science to social science. Public health is the interdisciplinary science of preventing disease and injury to improve the health of communities and populations. Public health professionals work to identify solutions to address complex issues as wide ranging as air pollution, chronic disease, gun violence, infectious diseases, tobacco control and mental health. The Berkeley Public Health offers a major and summer minor . The curriculum prepares students to become changemakers in public health for a more equitable and just world. Applying to and Declaring the Major Students should apply to or declare the public health major after completion of the lower division prerequisites in math, biology, and the social sciences. Students will either apply through a Comprehensive Review or complete their declaration as an Applied High Demand Public Health student. Non-transfer students must apply to the major by the end of their fifth semester in attendance at UC Berkeley. Transfer students must apply by the end of their first semester in attendance at UC Berkeley. Depending on their admit year and admit status, students can find the appropriate application instructions in Undergraduate Admissions Requirements and Instructions . For any questions, email the academic advisors at sphug@berkeley.edu . Applied High Demand Public Health Public Health is a high demand major and follows the L&S High-Demand Majors for First-Year Students process.