Public health is an exciting and growing field. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vital role of public health in keeping people healthy and safe. Public health covers a broad and diverse range of issues that intersect with many other disciplines. A minor in Public Health provides the opportunity for students from other majors to develop an understanding about the intersecting determinants of public health and health inequities, including people’s biological, socio-economic, psychological, and behavioural characteristics, and their social, cultural, economic, commercial, political, natural, and built environments. The minor in Public Health also focuses on strategies to protect and improve the health and wellbeing of people at all levels from the community to national, regional, and global levels.
The minor in Public Health is offered by the Department of Public Health. Enrollment in the minor will be an option available to female students who are not majoring in Public Health. Students may complete the minor within or in addition to their degree requirements depending on their program of study.
Admission for the minor is open in spring and fall semesters to all female undergraduate students.
Declaring the minor
Applicants must satisfy QU requirements for declaring a minor. Admission requirements as per QU competency requirements. English proficiency: A minimum score of 5.5 in IELTS OR A minimum score of 61 in TOEFL OR ACCUPLACER ES. Acceptance depends on student academic performance and CV depending on the department's capacity.
Students must meet the below requirements for the Public Health minor:
- Successful completion of 19 or 24 CH: 16 or 21 CH from required core courses, 3 CH from an elective course
- A GPA of 2.00
It is the student's responsibility to ensure that she has met the minimum required CH to graduate in her major.
Minor in Public Health (19 CH)
Students seeking a minor in Public Health must complete a minimum of 19 CH including the following:
- A minimum of 16 CH in minor requirements courses
- A minimum of 3 CH in minor electives courses
Minor Requirements Courses (16 CH)
Students must complete a minimum of 16 CH in minor requirements courses:
- PUBH 101 Public Health Sciences: Principles and Practice
- PUBH 201 Environmental Health and Disease
- PUBH 202 Health, Behavior, and Society
- PUBH 303 Epidemiology*
- PUBH 310 Needs Assessment and Planning for Health Education Programs**
Minor Electives Courses (3 CH)
Students must complete a minimum of 3 CH in minor elective courses:
- PUBH 200 International Health and Global Society
- PUBH 205 Research Methods for Public Health
- PUBH 222 Foundations of Health Education
- PUBH 230 Strategic Planning and Marketing
- PUBH 301 Public Health Ethics
- PUBH 320 Health Communication
- PUBH 420 Design of Program Evaluation Systems**
*The program will override (exempt) students for the PUBH 151 is Biostatistics for Health sciences pre-requisite. Following the structure of some of the benchmarked minor programs, students will not be disadvantaged with this overriding.
**The program will override (exempt) students for PUBH 205 Research Methods for Public Health if they passed an equivalent course within their major. Otherwise, they will be required to enroll in the course before, or in the same semester they enroll in PUBH310 Needs Assessment and Planning for Health Education programs. Students may choose PUBH 205 as a pre-requisite or an elective course
Minor in Public Health (24 CH)
Some students may choose to complete the 24 CH study plan according to their major's requirements. In this case, they must complete 21 CH of minor requirement courses and 3 CH of minor elective courses. PUBH 320 and PUBH 421 will be moved to the minor requirement courses.