Upon completion of the B.S. degree program in Public Health at UMass Lowell, our graduates will be able to:
- Articulate critical public health problems and their causes, including an understanding of the environmental, social, behavioral, and biological factors influencing health.
- Apply the basic concepts of data collection and analysis to health data.
- Identify and use evidence-based approaches to address population and community health needs.
- Identify prevention strategies for a range of public health, applying critical analysis and reasoning skills to problem solving.
- Apply the fundamental concepts of program assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation and management in a culturally appropriate fashion.
- Evaluate the economic, historical, ethical, and political/legal contexts of public health problems and solutions and the challenges that practitioners face.
- Identify and access resources for researching public health problems and critically evaluate research.
- Use the public health-specific tools of communication.