Within the pages and resources below, you will find more detailed information about pursuing your interest in Public Health & Life Sciences. Careers in these areas encompass a wide range of roles, skills, and career paths that often intersect with, and support one another. Public Health and Life Sciences can also be pursued from a Health Professions (or clinical) perspective, some of which will be included in the resources on this page. For more in-depth information, please visit our Health Professions page.

Public health is a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary pathway with the unifying goal of protecting and improving the health of individuals, families, communities, and populations at local and global levels. Employers may include hospitals and clinics, direct service organizations, health departments, and public health advocacy and policy organizations. Although there can be substantial overlap with clinical practitioners, one important distinction to keep in mind is that public health focuses on prevention rather than treatment.

The Life Sciences are, generally, comprised of the sciences concerned with the study of living organisms, including biology, botany, zoology, microbiology, physiology, biochemistry, and related subjects. Most of the information on these page concern non-patient facing options but there are opportunities to create career paths that merge patient and non-patient care.