This program is available at the following locations:

• Corvallis
• Ecampus

The Public Health minor provides students with a general background in public health. Students pursuing a Public Health major cannot add the Public Health minor. 

Minor Code: 496

Upon successful completion of the program, students will meet the following learning outcomes:

• Understand the methods by which public health identifies potential causes of population health status, and identifies potential targets for intervention.
• Describe the fundamental roles of public health and how those roles are operationalized in public health organization, funding, workforce, and regulations.
• Demonstrate the importance of public health data in understanding health and disease in populations.
• Explain the foundations of public health.
• Identify environmental health hazards and their potential effects on human health.
• Describe how behavioral factors contribute to specific individual and community outcomes.
• Differentiate the relationship between local, state, and federal public health systems and their roles in the US public health system.
• Effectively communicate public health information in both oral and written forms through a variety of media and to diverse audiences.
• Demonstrate ability to locate, use, evaluate, and synthesize public health information.

Students with this minor may not take any of the required courses listed below with S/U grading and must earn a grade of C- or better in all minor coursework and prerequisites, including the "any other H course" requirement.  Students may, however, take additional public health courses not required for the minor with S/U grading.

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Baccalaureate Core Course (BCC)

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Core Education course. Applies only to students admitted to an OSU undergraduate degree from Summer 2025 onwards

Minor Code: 496