The minor and B.I.S. concentration in global health provides students in other majors with a general background in the global health field in order to enhance their degree. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences designed the global health minor for students who seek a broad and flexible set of skills for understanding contemporary health challenges and thinking about how they might best be solved.
Global is understood in the anthropological sense, meaning ways of understanding and addressing disease, health and well-being that can incorporate all cultures, places and time, and in ways that integrate knowledge of health's social, historical, biological and ecological dimensions.
The health field provides enormous and varied career opportunities both nationally and internationally. Demand is high and growing for graduates with these skills. This minor supports the goals of those pursuing careers in academic research, teaching and health services.