健康与行为科学（HBSC）计划的任务是应用社会科学理论和创新的研究方法来批判性地解决健康方面的新问题。该计划通过关注健康和疾病的社会决定因素，训练学生面对影响社区和人口健康的问题。这些决定因素比卫生保健系统对人口健康的影响更大。该计划的总体框架整合了社会，文化和生物医学的观点，以了解健康的基础以及其创建和维护的必要条件。学生和教职员工对新兴疾病，母婴健康，药物滥用，健康差异和全球健康等主题进行跨学科研究。毕业生是直接从事公共卫生实践的创新研究人员，有效的教育者和领导者。这项为期5年的学位课程结合了公共卫生
These degree requirements are subject to periodic revision by the academic department, and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences reserves the right to make exceptions and substitutions as judged necessary in individual cases. Therefore, the College strongly urges students to consult regularly with their major and graduate advisor and CLAS advisor to confirm the best plans of study before finalizing them. This 5-year degree program combines the Bachelors of Art/Bachelor of Science (BA/BS) of Public Health (PBHL) and the Master of Public Health (MPH). These degrees are offered, respectively, at the University of Colorado Denver by the Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences on the downtown campus, and the Colorado School of Public Health, a joint venture of the University of Colorado, Colorado State University and the University of Northern Colorado. Students will receive both degrees in the program simultaneously at the end of the program.<br>BA/BS-MPH students may choose any of the MPH concentration areas available across the three campuses. Concentration areas include the five core areas of public health (Biostatistics, Community and Behavioral Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, and Health Systems, Management and Policy) as well as several other areas such as Maternal and Child Health, Health Communications, Community Health Education, and others.<br>Public health is working to protect the environment, identifying sources of illness in population groups, controlling disease outbreaks, evaluating the economic impacts of changing demographics, developing interventions to promote healthy behavior, and producing health policy legislation. Public health draws from a broad array of disciplines, such as the social and behavioral sciences, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, physical therapy, business, economics, statistics, epidemiology, law and biology, and each provides unique insights for the diverse set of activities involved in public health practice.