A degree in Public Health will provide a grounding for a wide variety of careers and employment opportunities in the NHS, local authorities, the social care sector, voluntary organisations and many private sector organisations. 

You could work in areas including:

• Public health
• Environmental and climate health
• Epidemiology and data analysis
• Health protection
• Health Services Management and administration
• Child protection
• Health promotion / community health
• Housing
• Health policy.

You will find public health graduates in the following kinds of roles:

• Public health practitioner / officer
• Public health intelligence analyst
• Health improvement practitioner
• Environmental Health officer
• Community health worker / health promotion practitioner
• Policy officer
• Outreach or engagement officer
• Research assistant
• Children and young people’s development officer
• IAG officer for vulnerable service users
• Population health coordinator
• Advocacy worker
• Service improvement officer.