Public Health Internships
Four students talk about their Twin Cities internships in the world of public health.
Internships in Global Issues
Mac students learn about international issues by partnering with local organizations.
From Macalester to Mayo
Her courses, along with her Department of Health experience, helped Alese Halvorson land a job at the famed Mayo Clinic.
Asthma and Public Health
Omar Mansour investigated factors related to asthma and received the public health award for Outstanding Poster Presentation at a national conference in Washington, D.C.
Research at Mayo
Lisa Levoir studied the relationship between inflammation and colon cancer as a Mayo Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow.
Thanks to the Winter Mann-Hill Fellowships, every winter break there are students out in the world exploring career interests in health care or medicine.
The concentration in community and global health provides students with an array of analytical frameworks for understanding the complexities of population health and offers opportunities to integrate and apply these frameworks within the context of coursework, civic engagement, and independent research.
The issues, theories and methodologies presented in this concentration educate students in critical and quantitative reasoning, writing and integrative learning.
Recent Topic Courses
- Biology 194: AIDS, Influenza, and Malaria: Ancient Pathogens in a Brave New World
- Biology 394: Environmental Toxicology
- Economics 294: Health Economics
- History 294: Black Death
- Sociology 294: Medical Sociology