The standalone baccalaureate program at Appalachian State University, located in the beautiful Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, strategically aligns with the university’s mission of embracing its obligation to help create healthy, just, and sustainable societies by equipping students to live with knowledge, compassion, dedication, humility, and dignity.
The primary goal of our program is to train public health students to understand human health from a socioecological framework, to identify health-related needs of communities, and to implement interventions to improve the health and well-being of populations. Students in our program are encouraged to be critical thinkers in addressing complex health challenges and to be advocates for healthy and just communities.
Our vision is to be the leader in Western North Carolina for providing high-quality public health education and training with an emphasis on reducing health disparities in our surrounding rural Appalachian communities.
