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. 2020 Jun 19;86(1):65. doi: 10.5334/aogh.2837

Table 1.

Classifications for major and minor programs in public health, global health, and related fields.


Public Health
  • Community and Behavioral Health

  • Community Health

  • Community Health Education

  • Community Health Promotion

  • Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Studies

  • Health Promotion and Science

  • Population and Public Health

  • Population Health

  • Public and Community Health

  • Public Health

  • Public Health and Education

  • Public Health and Health Equity

  • Public Health Education

  • Public Health Science(s)

  • Public Health Studies

Global Health
  • Community and Global Health

  • Community and Global Public Health

  • Global and Comparative Public Health

  • Global and Public Health Science

  • Global Health

  • Global Health and Health Policy

  • Global Health Promotion

  • Global Health Studies

  • Global Health, Culture, and Society

  • Global Public Health

  • Global Public Health and Epidemiology

  • Public Health Global Health

Public Health Related To be considered “public health related,” a major or minor had to be in a traditional discipline within public health (such as environmental health or epidemiology), focus on health and society or related areas (such as medical sociology or medical humanities), or otherwise include required courses on community or public health. Programs in areas such as behavioral health, health education, health promotion, health sciences, and health studies were excluded if they required only premedical science courses, were teacher credentialing programs, or were in other excluded program categories.
Global Health Related Majors and minors in subareas within global health were considered to be “global health related.” This included programs in biology of global health, global disease biology, global health affairs, global health and humanitarian assistance, global health technologies, international health and development, language and international health, medical anthropology, and medical geography in global health.