Are you interested in analysing issues in the field of health, and planning how we should be addressing them now and in the future? Would you like a job in the vast field of healthcare but without the clinical responsibility? Health Sciences at UC provides students with a non-clinical degree and a multidisciplinary introduction to a range of important health issues: from genetics, to the health of populations, evidence-based decision making, psychology, education and public policy.

The health workforce includes a wide variety of clinical roles defined by legislation. There are also many non-clinical roles which make up about one third of the total health workforce. The undergraduate Health Sciences courses will provide an essential foundation for those seeking non-clinical health sector roles. Depending on the major(s) taken, an interdisciplinary non-clinical Health Sciences background has high prospects of employment in such areas as health promotion, early intervention, environmental health, health and safety, health psychology, community health, Māori and iwi health, behaviour change, health policy, administration, health education, health technology assessment and health research.