Health & Health Sciences

Explore strategies to promote positive health changes, contribute to public health knowledge for entire populations, and help improve the health of individuals and communities.

Help shape the future of healthcare in one of the few fully online DHA programs. Learn multidisciplinary, data-driven leadership approaches for a practice-based healthcare setting.

Explore both individual and population health, focusing on health behavior theory and techniques for changing behaviors. Using the latest technology, students will review case studies that touch on current trends and research and explore best practices from a global perspective.

Gain the skills to evaluate the effectiveness of healthcare policy and advance research and practice in health services, and prepare for a leadership or academic position.

Lead organizations in promoting healthy, safe communities with a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) from Walden University.

Develop a greater understanding of policies, organization, and dynamics of the U.S. healthcare system in our online BS in Health Studies degree program.

Develop skills in the business side of healthcare. Prepare to improve patient care and excel in the thriving field of healthcare management.

Gain skills to address challenges in healthcare systems, environmental health, disease prevention, health informatics, policy, global health, ethics, and behavioral and cultural issues.

Protect and improve public health worldwide. In this program, you can learn multidisciplinary approaches to improve food and water safety, combat infectious diseases and pandemics, and more.

Walden's online master's in health education and promotion degree program is uniquely designed to help you advance in both your career and life. Learn more today.

Become an innovative healthcare leader with a global perspective. Our MHA program offers course-based and competency-based options with flexible scheduling.

We offer hundreds of for-credit individual courses in education, counseling, business, IT, psychology, and health, among other areas which may be applied to Walden degree programs.

Addresses how to assess and improve the well-being of communities and public health systems. Learn to analyze a community’s overall health by examining available health resources and the quality of living conditions.

Broadens your understanding of how these diseases affect populations and explores strategies for maintaining the health of communities.

Prepare to make a positive difference in the health and well-being of men, women, and children in developing countries around the world.

Students who want to focus on research in the field of HEP would find this focus area of great interest.

Understand and address the many factors and influences on health and well being. You will investigate the motivation, psychology and theory behind health and health related behaviors of diverse populations.

Become an effective, ethical, and energizing leader in the local, national, or global healthcare promotion arena.

Prepare to effectively engage, teach, and inspire adult learners in the online classroom. Through specialized coursework, you can gain insight into the needs of adult learners, explore principles of online instruction, learn best practices for reaching diverse student populations, and examine the latest technologies impacting online learning.

Examine microeconomic and macroeconomic models, the influence of public finance on policy decisions, and the tools and techniques used to evaluate the impact of social programs.

Explore a wide range of factors that influence health including psychology, public health, genetics, medical care, behavior, education level, social status, and the environment.

Gain the skills to become a healthcare leader who can work effectively with diverse workforces and communities in a variety of political and economic settings.

Choose courses that best match your personal and professional interests as you develop your own specialization. You have the flexibility to select from courses that cover such topics as health policy, health promotion and education, and healthcare administration.