Wartburg College will expand its degree program offerings in fall 2017 with the addition of a new major in public health. The Bachelor of Arts degree, which recently was approved by the Board of Regents, was designed by Lorinda Sheeler, Wartburg’s visiting associate professor of public health.
The field is growing in Iowa and nationally, with the Association of Schools of Public Health estimating a shortage of about 250,000 qualified public health workers by 2020. Students who graduate from this program can expect to have access to careers in health care administration, community health, public policy and environmental science.