<p>My school doesnt offer a public health bachelors, only a masters program. What is a good major to do till then? I was thinking health services administration, would that be a good choice? Other people told me to choose heavy science majors like biology...</p>
<p>I ultimately want to specifilize in either epidemiology, or health promotion and disease prevention or at the very least health policy and management.</p>
<p>Which major would be best? Health services administration?</p>
<p>I’m not sure what would be the best. None of the proposed ones seem like particularly bad choices; just make sure whichever you pick has the kind of courses that the master’s program would consider as prerequisites. Inquiring with the appropriate people in that department would seem like a good idea.</p>
<p>But whatever you choose, consider doing a minor in statistics. To work in public health, you need to understand the latest scientific developments, and health research is very statistics heavy (unlike in “purer” hard sciences, health measurements are more complex and involve more uncertainty, and studies involving real-life patients are not as controllable as physics or chemistry labs, thus the use of fancy statistical techniques to deal with the complicated data).</p>