Health Without Boundaries
Finding Bold Solutions for Complex Problems
Health Without Boundaries is the vision of UTHealth Houston School of Public Health. It is the driving motivation behind everything we do. We believe that everyone deserves the opportunity to be healthy - without obstacles, caveats, or conditions.
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health is changing the culture of health through excellence in graduation education, research, and engagement. Every aspect of our educational experience puts our core values into action: students learn to collaborate, lead, transform, and diversify within the field of public health.
With locations across Texas, UTHealth School of Public Health is responsive to the cultural and geographic diversity of Texas, making it a unique environment to undertake research or implement interventions. With populations that represent future demographic trends for the entire U.S., the locality of our impact is balanced by its ability to scale to national and global consequences.
What is Public Health?
Public Health is a multidisciplinary field focused on protecting and improving people's health where they live, work, study, and play. Public health includes identifying the causes of disease and disability, developing interventions and solutions to protect the health of communities, ensuring equitable access to healthcare, advocating for evidence-based policies, and protecting people from threats to their health and safety posed by the environment. Public health aims to protect the health and safety of communities as small as a school or local neighborhood or as large as a state, country, or the world.
Our five academic departments offer students the opportunity to pursue public health programs with a specialization in the following core areas of study:
- Biostatistics and Data Science
- Community Health Practice
- Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
- Epidemiology
- Health Economics/ Health Services Research
- Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences
- Healthcare Management and Policy