Hunter College Public Health Programs: Shaping Future Healthcare Leaders

Hunter College offers a range of public health programs designed to empower future healthcare leaders and address critical issues facing communities. With a strong emphasis on social justice and practical skills, these programs prepare students for impactful careers in diverse healthcare settings.

Overview of Hunter's School of Health Professions

Since 1968, Hunter's School of Health Professions has been a leader in healthcare education. It empowers future leaders in Nutrition and Public Health, Physical Therapy, and Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology. Located on the Brookdale and Silberman Campuses, the school's dynamic programs combine rigorous academic training with hands-on experience. This ensures graduates are well-prepared to make a meaningful impact in various healthcare settings. Whether students aspire to work in healthcare centers, schools, or private practice, the supportive faculty and state-of-the-art resources will help them turn their passion for health into a fulfilling career.

Public Health Minor

The Public Health minor offers a background in the history, principles, and practice of public health. Students will become aware of issues facing US society in areas such as climate change and health, healthcare policy and financing, or the monitoring and prevention of disease.

Eligibility and Prerequisites

The 12-credit Public Health minor is open to Hunter College students with ANY major.

To be eligible for specific Public Health (PH) courses, students generally need to meet certain prerequisites, including:

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SOC 10100 (Introduction to Sociology)
Introductory or higher-level statistics course
Psych 10000 or Psych 15000 or Anthc 10100 or transfer course equivalents or waiver from NPH.
Some courses may require PH 30100 as a pre- or corequisite.

It is important to note that alternative psychology and sociology courses do not replace the prerequisites described above.

Course Offerings

Public Health (PH) minor courses are typically offered once per academic year. Course modes can be in-class, hybrid, or online. PH courses are listed under 'Public Health-PH' in the CunyFirst schedule pull-down menu. Click the course section hyperlink in the schedule for any given special course notes.

Department of Nutrition and Public Health

The Department of Nutrition and Public Health (NPH), formerly the School of Urban Public Health at Hunter College, houses multiple degree pathways at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Focus on Social Justice and Practical Skills

Public Health students will develop skills to effectively answer a vast array of public health issues such as disease, violence, and healthcare through a social justice lens. Public health professionals work to improve the health and well-being of entire communities. Public Health students will learn to analyze how behavioral choices and social structures - including poverty, racism, and environmental exposures - shape a community’s health. Majors take courses in health disparities, epidemiology, community health assessment, grant writing, and public health biology to develop their analytical, health communications, and social media skills; essential tools for addressing public health problems. Public health research and Capstone courses further enhance necessary skills for professional practice and/or graduate work.

Academic Support Resources

Hunter College provides a range of academic support services to help Public Health students succeed:

Hunter Health Professions Library (HPL)

The Health Professions Library supports the curricular and research needs of students and faculty at Hunter's Brookdale Campus. It serves the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing, School of Health Professions, and Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences. It also serves many Brookdale research institutes, namely the Brookdale Center on Healthy Aging and Longevity, the Center for Community and Urban Health, the Center for Environmental and Occupational Health, and the Center for Communication Disorders. The library houses 26,500 volumes and 224 professional journals with digital access to full-text articles from over 50,000 journals.

Health Professions Education Center (HPEC)

The Health Professions Education Center (HPEC) is an academic learning center serving all students and faculty at the Hunter College Nursing and School of Health Professions. A variety of comprehensive support services and programs are offered at the HPEC to enhance student academic success, retention, and completion rates by applying best practices and addressing student learning needs from multiple pedagogical perspectives. Our services are designed to develop critical thinking, reinforce practice of clinical skills, and foster a supportive, professional environment for student collaboration and scholarship.

Center for Communication Disorders

The Hunter College Center for Communication Disorders (Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic) is located at the Brookdale Health Sciences campus, 425 East 25 St., Room 133 North. The Center is an integral part of the Communication Sciences Program. The Center provides diagnostic and therapeutic services for a wide variety of language, speech, voice, fluency, swallowing, hearing, communication modality, and social communication disorders. Audiological services include complete audiological evaluations, auditory processing disorder testing, and auditory brainstem response assessment with state of the art instrumentation. Services are available to the Hunter College community as well as the general public.

Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Jennifer Brite

Recent Faculty Work includes Dr. Jennifer Brite Featured as Speaker in Cornell Population Center. In "Public Burial, Private Anguish: An Examination of Unclaimed Deaths in the United States," Dr. Brite spoke about her work examining unclaimed deaths at the Cornell Population Center as part of her Association of Population Centers fellowship. Unclaimed deaths occur when family and friends are unable or unwilling to claim a body and burial or cremation is administered and paid for by a government agency.

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