<p>for community health/preventive medicine:
U of Maine Farmington
Thomas Edison St College (NJ)
Hofstra
North Dakota St
U of North Dakota
Youngstown State U (OH)
(Youngstown sounds like a good option for an Ohio native)</p>
<p>for community health services:
Western Conn St C
U Illinois Urbana Chapaign
Indiana St U
Indiana U-Purdue U Fort Wayne
Michigan St
Erie Community C (NY near Buffalo)
Youngstown St (OH)
Seton Hill (PA) ...not "Hall"
Brown
Stephen Austin St U (TX)
U Texas Austin
Old Dominion</p>
<p>for public health:
Loma Linda U
USC
Southern Conn St
Delaware St U
Trinity C (DC)
Cumberland C (KY)
U of Maine Presque Isle
Johns Hopkins
Springfield C
Central Michigan
Minn St at Mankato
Minn St at Moorhead
U Southern Miss
Richard Stockton C of NJ
Rutgers New Brunswick
<strong><em>Kent St (OH)</em></strong> this might be good
Southwestern Oklahoma St
Portland St (OR)
Slippery Rock St (PA)
West Chester (PA)
East Tenn St
Utah St
U Washington</p>
<p>There are also programs in public health education and in public health nursing</p>
<p>For graduate programs, The Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia is famous for its graduates' work in AIDS. Johns Hopkins SPH and Harvard SPH are also fine institutes, obviously.</p>
<p>BBall, most private schools, elite or not, charge $40,000+ these days. Most of them, including average private schools. Michigan, we can both agree, is one of the top 25 universities in the nation. As such, its $37,000 price tag is not "insane". It is indeed expensive, but there are hundreds of out of state students each year who chose Michigan over elite private universities, in-spite of paying full price.</p>
<p>At any rate, the OP wishes to study PH at the undergraduate level, Michigan is a no-go.</p>
<p>I'd really like to second (third?) the input from Warblersrule86 and tsdad. If you're not interested in or comfortable with the science, then I'd suggest re-thinking public health. Perhaps something like health policy would be a good compromise, as someone suggested.</p>
<p>As for educating African heads of state about AIDS, I'd like to use the same analogy I recently used with my niece who wants to be the first astronaut on Mars. To me, that's like wanting to live in New York City so that you can watch the ball drop in Times Square on New Year's Eve. You need to actually want to do the stuff that will occupy the other 99.9% of your time if you make that choice, whether it's living in NYC or studying rocket science, or public health.</p>
<p>I'm rambling on here because I am in public health (an epidemiologist who recently left CDC for a research post with a non-profit in Wash DC) and hope I can provide some perspective. The entry degree for public health really is a master's degree (typically MPH), so I wouldn't spend too much time fretting over which undergrad campuses offer public health majors. Most of the senior public health folks with whom I come into contact come from a small handful of programs: Cal-Berkeley, UCLA, Tulane, UNC, Michigan, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Columbia & Emory. Some of the up-and-coming programs seem to be George Washington, Ala-Birmingham, Washington, South Florida, and I'm sure I'm leaving out some more.</p>
<p>Because most public health positions are government-based, civil service criteria dictate that they be very credential, i.e. degree, driven. An MPH is generally needed for entry-level professional positions, with a doctoral degree required for more senior positions. For a large number of positions, a PhD won't suffice, as an MD/MPH combination is often required.</p>
<p>No one is disputing the fact that Michigan is an amazing school, I am a big supporter of michigan, especially the honors program. However, i will tell you what my parents felt and i am sure many others agree: u mich out of state is very expensive and to pay the 40,000+ for large classes makes one think twice.</p>
<p>Bball, first of all, Michigan costs $37,000 (all inclusive), not $40,000+. Secondly, Michigan classes are not big. You are confusing Michigan for some typical state university. At $5 billion, Michigan's Endowment is the 6th largest in the nation, its operating budget, at $2,5 billion, is the 3rd largest in the nation and its faculty of over 5,000 is the largest in the nation. Thanks to those facts, Michigan classes are roughly the same size as classes at Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Stanford and several other elite private universities, especially in non-intro classes.</p>
<p>At Duke, Public Policy majors can concentrate in Health policy and get a Public Health certificate. At Brown I think there's a similar program. I'm sure there's tons of school that offer certificates or concentrations. I think most people in public health today were bio majors in college and went on to be doctors first (at least most people at the CDC).</p>
<p>Someone mentioned the "public health" undergraduate concentration at Tufts. That's actually a "second" major: you must declare another primary major first.</p>