• Bachelor of Health Science in Public Health at Cape Breton University is offered as a 4-year teaching program.
  • This bachelor program has a co-op work option.
  • In order to be eligible to participate in a full-time Co-op Work Term, students must meet the GPA requirements.
  • The student to faculty ratio is 16:1 which bridges the gap between faculty and students.
  • Some of the main courses that students will study in this program are:
    • Public Health Inspection
    • Food Hygiene
    • Integrated Pest Management
    • Bio contaminants
  • Public Health has been defined as a society, do collectively to ensure the conditions for people to be healthy.
  • The interdisciplinary nature of public health practice demands that all practitioners of public health develop skill sets that allow them to support each other, to develop surge capacity, particularly in times of crisis or emergency.
  • Career positions may include: 
    • Environmental health officer/public health inspector
    • Occupational health and safety coordinator/safety consultant
    • Food quality/HACCP coordinator
    • Occupational health and safety/labor inspector, etc with an average salary of 36,475 USD per year.