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Program Details
Gain the biological, psychological and social knowledge required to address current and developing health issues that affect world populations. We focus on issues such as globalization, climate change, infectious diseases, the social and political factors that influence healthcare practices and policies.
Work Experience
Participate in a paid summer research internship or explore getting involved in research as part of the program curriculum. Your Capstone project will give you practical experience in research field placements to advance your personal and professional goals.
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Career Outcomes
Explore your passions, refine new skills and discover the career that’s right for you.
The concentrations in the BHSc program will prepare you for a diverse array of health-related careers and will provide excellent preparation for professional schools, graduate training or health-related employment opportunities.
Sample Careers
- Business
- Clinical Research Coordinator
- Community Health Worker
- Dentistry
- Drug Submission Evaluator
- Global/International Health
- Health and Safety Officer
- Health Program Evaluator
- Health Project Manager/Administrator
- Health Promotional Coordinator
- Health Researcher or Policy Analysis
- Law
- Medical Devices Evaluator
- Medicine
- Midwifery
- Naturopathy
- Nursing
- Occupational Therapy
- Optometry
- Paramedic
- Patient Advocacy
- Pharmaceutical Industry
- Pharmacy
- Physiotherapy
- Research Analyst
- Research Technician
- Social Work
- Teaching

Sample Courses
HLTH 3102 - Indigenous Health in a Global World
The health conditions of Indigenous peoples in different regions of the world; social and biological factors that contribute to greater risk and poor health; strategies of Indigenous peoples to restore health to their peoples.
HLTH 4301 - Pandemics and Infectious Disease
Factors that influence disease processes, including viruses, bacteria, protozoa, fungi and infectious agents, how these agents come to have the effects that they do in a given individual, how they spread within and how to limit their spread.
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