The mission of DePaul University’s Department of Health Sciences is to educate and train students who will collaboratively address human health from interdisciplinary natural and social scientific perspectives in order 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. The department also offers a minor in Public Health Studies and several combined degree and accelerated programs for qualified students, including combined degrees at DePaul with the Master of Public Health (MPH) program, the Occupational Therapy (MS) program, and the Master's Entry to Nursing Practice (MS) program, and six accelerated (3+) professional degree programs (medicine, physician assistant, physical therapy, pharmacy, pathologists' assistant, and podiatry) 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
Doug Bruce, PhD, MSW
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
Assistant Professor
University of Illinois, Chicago
Maya Miyairi-Steel, PhD
Teaching Assistant Professor
University of Utah
Cricel Molina, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
University of California, Los Angeles
Naomi Wangler, PhD
Professional Lecturer
Texas Tech University