The mission of the Department of Health Sciences is to educate and train students who will collaboratively address human health from interdisciplinary natural and social scientific perspectives to promote health and to improve the lives of individuals and communities.
The department offers a BS in Health Sciences, with concentrations in Bioscience or Public Health Sciences, and a Master's in Public Health (MPH) with concentrations in Community Health Practice or Social Epidemiology. The department also offers a minor in Public Health Studies and several combined degree and accelerated programs, including combined degrees at DePaul with the Master of Public Health (MPH) program, the Occupational Therapy (MS) program, the Master's Entry to Nursing Practice (MS) program, and five accelerated (3+) professional degree programs (physician assistant, physical therapy, pharmacy, pathologists' assistant, and podiatric medicine) in collaboration with Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science.
The curriculum is built on the principle that professionals working in health need to understand the factors that impact both the health of individuals and the health of populations. This degree:
- provides students pursuing a career in health-related professions with a common core of knowledge;
- allows students to meet the requirements for entry into graduate and professional programs;
- provides flexibility to enable students to explore topics as their interests develop; and
- brings students entering multiple health-related professions into on-going cross-disciplinary conversation with each other.
Faculty
Margaret Bell, PhD
Associate Professor
Michigan State University
Suzanne Carlberg-Racich, PhD
Associate Professor
University of Illinois, Chicago
Sarah Connolly, PhD
Professor and Chair
University of Pennsylvania
Eiron Cudaback, PhD
Associate Professor
University of Washington
Jessica Jerome, PhD
Associate Professor
The University of Chicago
Craig Klugman, PhD, MA
Professor
University of Texas Medical Branch
Julia Lippert, PhD, MS
Associate Professor
University of Illinois, Chicago
John Mazzeo, PhD, MS
Associate Professor
University of Arizona
Maya Miyairi-Steel, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of Utah
Cricel Molina, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
University of California, Los Angeles
Jessica Polos, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Daniel Schober, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of Kansas
Naomi Wangler, PhD
Teaching Associate Professor
Texas Tech University