This BSc Public Health programme at Birmingham has been specifically designed to provide students with the academic skills and passion required for a career focused on improving the health and well-being of whole populations. Public Health is about creating a fairer, healthier and happier world. It is about understanding the threats faced to health both locally and globally, and learning how to ensure communities thrive. The programme will equip you with the tools to identify the risks that affect different people, in different places, at different stages of their lives. As well as preparing you to be a public health professional, the analytical, critical thinking, and communication skills you gain will be highly valued in, and transferable to, a wide range of other health and non-health career options. Our BSc Public Health programme will shape the change agents of the future who will work to ensure the population experiences substantial and ongoing improvements in health. Students will have excellent career opportunities, with Public Health professionals playing an important role in many organisations including: National bodies such as the Department of Health; NHS general practices and hospitals; Councils; The private sector; Healthcare insurance; Charities; World Health Organization.