Specifically, the degree addresses the health of global populations and communities through instruction, service, and community-based projects.

A degree in Global Health Studies will provide you with the skills to analyze the factors underlying domestic and international health challenges, to combine research and service experience with the ability to make difficult social choices; to devise solutions to individual and population-wide health problems, and to implement disease-prevention strategies.

Mercer?s Global Health Studies program builds skills directly applicable to the field of public health. It furthermore uses the broad curriculum of the College of Liberal Arts to build knowledge in research methods, international relations, and the social and behavioral sciences, with the goal of creating well-rounded graduates who can address public health challenges.?