Health Sciences

Our graduates can choose from a varied range of careers. Some of the most common types of role include:

• Gathering, analysing and interpreting health-related data and information
• Developing, implementing and evaluating interventions for changing behaviours and structural conditions to the benefit of individual, group and population health
• Gathering, analysing and interpreting data on the take-up and performance of medical treatments and therapies
• Project-centred and management tasks in organisations in the health, social care, education and environmental sectors, and heading up small-scale research and policy units
• Occupational, environmental and consumer health; occupational and community health promotion
• Health reporting and monitoring, epidemiological analysis, teaching, training and research for public authorities, health and accident insurers and health-related professional associations or institutions

The course will teach you how to independently explore issues and tackle projects from various areas of health sciences and enable you to access the requisite methodological tools.

The course’s first year is occupied with fundamental principles in health sciences, health promotion, epidemiology, human sciences, nutrition, sociology, psychology and empirical research in the social sciences, alongside classes on good academic and scientific practice and study skills.

In your second and third years, you’ll study the following required modules: occupational studies, health-sector-specific business administration, medicine, epidemiology and statistics, health education, surveillance and health monitoring, project and quality management, health economics and health markets, occupational health and safety management, health systems and health policy, and evaluation in health systems. You’ll learn via topic-specific projects to apply your knowledge and skills in practical contexts.

Your choice of required electives includes the following: epidemiology, protecting consumer health, nutritional behaviours, providing advice and effective communication skills, research methods, health and the environment, methods in health management, and exercise, relaxation and health.

The six-semester course incorporates a sixteen-week professional placement and your Bachelor thesis. Our department works with a number of partner institutions abroad, giving you the opportunity to study or do your placement outside Germany.

You should, of course, have a keen interest in all things to do with health – preventive and health-promoting interventions, the psychology, sociology and economics of health, health policy, health-related statistics, medicine, health management and health impacts of environmental factors. If you’ve ever wondered why we place more emphasis on what makes people sick than on what keeps them healthy, why socio-economically disadvantaged people die much earlier, on average, than wealthier ones, or why women suffer more with illnesses throughout life, but still live longer than men, then this course may be the one for you.

Interested – but not quite sure yet whether this is the right course for you? Our self-assessment test can help you make up your mind. Take it here: HAW Navigator