兰加拉学院的四个健康科学计划提供了一种跨学科的方法来研究人类社区的健康，疾病和疾病。卫生是该国最大的就业部门之一，预计增长速度将超过平均水平。就业选择多种多样，远远超出了担任医生或护士的范围。一旦成功完成，健康科学课程的学生将在这个快速变化的领域中获得扎实的基础知识。学生可以选择艺术或自然科学专业的课程，并获得文凭或副学士学位。完成副学士学位课程后，学生可以在西蒙弗雷泽大学健康科学学院或维多利亚大学的健康与社区服务课程中继续学习，然后无缝过渡到三年级学习。
Health Sciences is a wide-ranging field which uses knowledge from many disciplines to understand and improve all aspects of human health. At Langara, Health Sciences focuses primarily on public health, a branch of medicine that explores the causes of variation in health within and between human populations, with the goal of developing and delivering effective interventions to reduce health inequity and inequality locally, nationally and internationally. <br><br>Our program is rooted in epidemiology, the core science of public health. Epidemiology provides a framework and tools to enable health professionals to describe population health, develop hypotheses to explain observed differences, test hypotheses, and ultimately develop, implement and evaluate interventions based on high quality evidence.<br><br>The complexity of understanding the contributors to both good and poor health, and furthermore enabling populations to improve their health, requires a multidisciplinary approach which draws on both arts and science. Health scientists furthermore need excellent communication skills to translate scientific research into accessible, empowering information for the public.