Health Behavior and Health Education

Health Behavior and Health Education is devoted to the study of health-related behavior and to the development and evaluation of educational activities designed to improve individual and community health. We prepare you to function in leadership positions in educational, federal, state, and community systems.

Some samples of job titles our alumni have with their degrees:

Health education program coordinator
Director of health education
Patient health education coordinator
Manager worksite health promotion program
Coordinator adolescent health program
Health education consultant
Clinical health educator
Program coordinator for hypertension control
Director of community health programming

Chief health educator
County health educator
Paraprofessional educator coordinator
School health educator
Patient education coordinator
Clinical specialist in health gerontology
Administrator of long-term care programs
Long-term care planner
Director of agency on aging
Adult health planning coordinator
Smoking cessation contractor

View our most recent career survey of Health Behavior & Health Education students from 2006-2007

Graph of Placements of HBHE Graduates by Employment Sector

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"Being an alumnus can be helpful in unexpected ways. My supervisor is also a UM SPH grad. After she hired me, she told me that when she considered me for the position, she felt confident that 'I knew what you knew'...and that I was more prepared to take on the job based on what I'd learned at UM SPH."

- HBHE '06 Graduate