
Our Faculty
The public health faculty are active in community-engaged scholarship and draw from a wide range of disciplines.
Focus on the protection and improvement of health for individuals, communities and populations at risk for injury and disease through interdisciplinary study.
Public health prioritizes a focus on the protection and improvement of health for individuals, communities and populations at risk for injury and disease. Muhlenberg's Public Health program includes study in the natural sciences, mathematics, social sciences and humanities to educate and empower students about health-related issues from varying points of view.
Students who major in public health will gain an understanding of behavioral, economic, historical, political and social determinants of health, and of the important relationships that statistics and science have on the design of public health interventions. A core class, Issues in Public Health, introduces students to a wide variety of public health topics and includes historical perspectives, epidemiological principles and health intervention practices, health promotion and health communication and global issues of health.
The major prepares students for graduate work and professional careers in public health. Students are encouraged to participate in public health related experiences including independent research study, service learning or internships. The minor offers students flexibility to choose electives appropriate to their interests in public health that also compliment their respective majors.
The public health faculty are active in community-engaged scholarship and draw from a wide range of disciplines.
Public health students have opportunities to conduct research and pursue internships to gain invaluable field experience before graduation.
Muhlenberg's public health students have gone on to graduate study at prestigious institutions and have secured jobs within healthcare, research, nonprofits, government and more.
Esther Schlossberg ’20, a project coordinator in a Yale lab focused on opioid-use disorder and infectious diseases, landed that job after shadowing there as a student. Now, she’s hosting current students through the Career Center’s Externship Program.
I think the opportunity to study public health in undergrad at a liberal arts school is still rare ... Muhlenberg has really been on the cutting edge.
Something that I found to be pretty cool is that the department is eclectic ... professors come from a variety of backgrounds.
I thought it was really special to be exposed to a job... in which both doctors and scientists work to better the lives of their patients.
This opportunity says far more about the Muhlenberg family.
Shivani Iyer ’23 and Assistant Professor of Public Health Kathleen Bachynski are co-authors of the qualitative study of perspectives on headgear in girls’ lacrosse.
Nour Yousry ’23 is a prehealth public health major, anthropology minor and Shankweiler Scholar from Watchung, New Jersey.
Esther Schlossberg ’20, a project coordinator in a Yale lab focused on opioid-use disorder and infectious diseases, landed that job after shadowing there as a student. Now, she’s hosting current students through the Career Center’s Externship Program.
Students have the opportunity to make connections and explore potential careers between semesters.