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Students in the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health help create solutions to critical public health concerns. Understanding that complex interrelated forces combine to affect people's health and well-being, the students of HDPFH conduct, synthesize, and apply service-based research to improve both public health practice and policy.
Students in each of the four tracks of study (Forced Migration, Global Health, Reproductive and Family Health, and Sexuality and Health), address especially complicated topics, including:
 The sexual and reproductive health of men, women, adolescents, and sexual minorities;
The physical and mental health of displaced people living during or following emergencies;
The health and well-being of children and adolescents (including normative development, causes of disease, and the social and
environmental conditions that place children and adolescents at risk).
Specializing in one track, students pursue curricula designed to convey essential knowledge – along with key public health competencies – through coursework, practica and internships, and writing. The Department emphasizes competency in research and programmatic skills for students in every track (as detailed in its learning objectives).
Having acquired the skills they need to develop, implement, and evaluate public health interventions in their specialty area, graduates of the Department continue on as effective (and reflective) public health professionals, confident of their abilities to serve as researchers, practitioners, and policy advocates.
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