After gaining some experience in the clinical setting as an emergency department scribe, Haley Cothern decided to study public health and pursue a degree in health services management and leadership.
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Our faculty and students study a wide range of topics affecting population health. Specialty areas include diabetes self-management, occupational injuries, racial disparities, health effects of air pollution, mindfulness, childhood obesity, tobacco disparities, self-injury mortality, substance abuse and more.
As the first and only School of Public Health in West Virginia, we provide all the resources you need to launch your career in Public Health.
While the world has been focused on COVID-19 as a health crisis, individual communities may have other specific health concerns that need attention. Population health, which integrates healthcare and public health practices, is an emerging healthcare field that allows professionals to identify a locally pressing health issue, intervene and transform the community’s health outcomes.
