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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 and environmental pollution context of 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
- Dentistry
- Disability and Chronic Illness
- Environment and Health
- Global/International Health
- Health
- Health and Safety Officer
- Health Community Worker
- Health Program Evaluator
- Health Project Manager/Administrator
- Health Promotional Coordinator
- Health Researcher or Policy Analysis
- Healthcare and Regulatory Systems
- Indigenous Health
- Infectious Diseases and Pandemics
- Law
- Lifespan Studies
- Medicine
- Midwifery
- Naturopathy
- Nursing
- Occupational Therapy
- Optometry
- Paramedic
- Pharmaceutical Industry
- Physiotherapy
- Social Work
- Teaching
Sample Courses
HLTH 1002 - Health Science Communication
Introduction to using library, database and/or bioinformatics resources to develop informed verbal, non-verbal and written communication within the context of healthcare, public health and health research. Concepts in ethical scholarship, proper use of sources and plagiarism will be introduced.
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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