While doctors treat individual patients, you think bigger. Much bigger. From tobacco control to vaccine programs, public health professionals save millions of lives each year. You’ll study the social, cultural, political, biological, and geographic forces that impact individual, community, and population health. You’ll also examine trends, behaviours, and inequalities in health systems, and how to tackle these big challenges too. At Waterloo, you’ll learn from celebrated experts who work with governments and regulatory bodies to make positive change in Canada and worldwide. By shaping real life cigarette and vaping regulations and by utilizing wearable technologies to collect important patient data in a non invasive way, your professors are saving and enhancing lives. In a program that's fully accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health, you can feel confident that what you learn will prepare you for your career. You’ll have the flexibility to expand your expertise through options like community learning, a health apprenticeship, independent study, an undergraduate thesis, and more. Waterloo’s top co op program will let you explore potential careers while earning money and gaining valuable contacts.