Extracurriculars for a Career in Public Health Specialist
21 high school activities and programs that build real experience toward a career in public health specialist.
Program covers health careers and scientific knowledge relevant to understanding public health and disease prevention.
Direct alignment with the program's focus on injury and violence prevention research and public health applications.
One featured program path focuses on leadership and public health in an international community service context.
Students engage in substance use prevention and personal health and safety programming aligned with public health work.
Exposure to behavioral science and biomedical research informs public health intervention and policy work.
Students develop science communication skills to discuss biology and genetic engineering with diverse audiences.
Program emphasizes maternal and child health research and career preparation in public health sciences.
Students engage in disease awareness, prevention advocacy, and health-focused community mobilization.
Students engage in comprehensive cleft care education and health systems strengthening across multiple countries.
The hackathon focuses on developing innovative solutions to health challenges and health equity issues.
Walk participants contribute to a large public health initiative addressing the opioid crisis and prevention nationwide.
Working with chronically homeless individuals addresses public health challenges and housing-related health disparities.
Work directly addresses food insecurity and health equity disparities in underserved communities.
Program emphasizes wellness, professionalism skills, and community health exposure across diverse healthcare specialties.
Community service focus and health career exploration align with public health awareness and professional pathways.
Program emphasizes health care in underserved regions and community service engagement.
Environmental health sciences connects to public health through studying environmental factors affecting communities.
Exposure to population sciences research helps students consider public health as a career direction.
Community service component and STEM career exposure align with public health education and community health awareness.
The center's disease prevention, epidemiology, and global health research areas connect directly to public health career paths.
NIDA work addresses drug abuse as a public health issue through research and evidence-based treatment approaches.