“Our Program is not meant to provide students merely with a corpus of “health care facts.” Rather, our graduates will be life-long learners, community leaders and active citizens defending and promoting the right to health and health care.”

Professor Paul Hamel
Director, Health Studies Program

Our Courses

The Health Studies Program provides a critical analysis of health and health care in Canada and internationally, emphasizing four major areas:

• The socioeconomic and political determinants of health These courses focus on social justice, human rights & public health with emphasis on women’s health and marginalized communities in Canada and around the world;
• Understanding the ways in which knowledge and research are translated into health-care policy and well-being in Canada & globally;
• Evaluating the public health-care system as a common social good and its role in promoting the right to health and well-being in Canada;
• Critical ethical studies, particularly they apply to health as a universal human right.

Our objective is to build on the progressive foundations of the current program. We will add teaching capacity, courses, scholarships, undergraduate research opportunities, and community outreach initiatives locally, nationally and international.

Your support will to ensure that our graduates are well equipped to promote social change and public health in the years ahead.

Click here to see the descriptions of our current course offerings.