Postgraduate Opportunities
Discover a Career in Global Health Studies
The global health studies program equips you to change the world by drawing on your superior knowledge, eye-opening experiences, and newfound skill set. Your empathy for others, coupled with your education and outside of the classroom opportunities, will allow you to produce life-changing solutions to complex health problems. With this degree, you have exciting career opportunities from which you can choose, such as:
- Behavioral scientist
- Federal environmentalist
- Health journalist
- Health teacher
- Legislative policy advisor
- Public health lawyer
- State epidemiologist
- Tropical disease specialist
Continue Your Education in Graduate School
If you choose to pursue graduate school, one of the global health studies professors can guide you in your academic endeavors. Many of our students pursue higher-level education in fields such as epidemiology, behavioral science, population and family health, and environmental health.
My double-major in global health studies and global development studies, along with my minor in anthropology, gave me a holistic understanding of the social and environmental factors that impact health outcomes. The skills and knowledge I gained at Mercer have been essential in guiding my work with NoirUnited International and inspired me to pursue a career in public health that intersects with social justice and emergency response.
My Mercer degree has been invaluable throughout my career. The global health studies foundations that encourage comprehensive, global thinking prepared me to understand and apply epidemiology with a broad lens in domestic and international settings. Academically, I was prepared for the rigor of my Master of Public Health in global epidemiology, and I will draw upon the skills I learned as a global health studies major as I pursue my Doctor of Public Health.
My experience as a global health studies and international affairs double-major confirmed my desire to enhance the health of populations. When working to optimize inclusive care opportunities, combat social determinants of health, and advance health equity initiatives across the Duke University Health System in my current role, the fundamental knowledge I've gained from classes like global health challenges, health research methods, and global health policy, to name a few, inform my decisions.
