Address the public health challenges of tomorrow and protect the health of millions.
Through our unique service-learning component, you will directly engage with populations and observe how your coursework translates into real-world settings.
Don't hesitate to reach out if you have questions about the BSPH program!
Note: The School of Public Health is not directly involved in the admission, financial aid, or scholarship process for those applying to enter as first-year students.
Mara Leff Koperwas (BCHS '16)
Director of Undergraduate Curriculum
If you are a current Pitt student with questions about transferring into the program, contact Mara Koperwas.
Christian Goetz
Undergraduate Recruitment Coordinator
With other questions or to request more information about the program, contact Christian Goetz.
When Grace Osborne, a junior at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, noticed peers struggling to access basic necessities, she decided to act.
“People are watching thousands and thousands and thousands of hours of television every single year, but people go to see their primary care physician once a year. So a lot of people are gaining most of their health content from the stuff that they watch on TV, the stuff that they experience on TV,” said lead author Ore Fawole, a student at the University of Pittsburgh Schools of Public Health and Medicine.
BSPH student Kaylah Fleming is studying how genetic conditions affect African American communities and how research can better serve them. “I like the science,” she says, “but I always come back to the person behind the data, the person who’s suffering.”
