Health is About People
The world's biggest health challenges demand collaboration across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Whether you dream of becoming a physician, researcher, therapist, public health leader, scientist, health communicator, policymaker, or advocate, every health career begins the same way: By understanding people.
Every breakthrough. Every discovery. Every treatment. Every healthier community. Starts with understanding people. That's why health at CLAS goes beyond medicine to encompas the whole person.
Our students study biology alongside psychology, communication alongside public health, history alongside health humanities, environmental science alongside policy, and research alongside real-world experience. Because the future of health belongs to people who can connect ideas—not just disciplines.
Health is one of CU Denver’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences most expansive and interdisciplinary strengths. As the largest college on campus, CLAS brings together diverse departments and programs spanning the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities— providing the momentum you need to address health from multiple perspectives.
This integrated approach reflects CLAS’s core strength: bringing more than 20 disciplines together to holistically tackle complex, real‑world health challenges.
At our urban university, you'll pursue degrees and training across a wide range of health-related fields, while faculty collaborate on research that connects biological processes, environmental systems, human behavior, cultural meaning, and public policy. You'll round out your education by exploring health-related career pathways through our partnership with the largest academic medical campus in the state: University of Colorado Anzchutz.
"Getting my health communication certificate helped me boost my salary and strengthen my resume. I would highly recommend the program to both undergraduates and adult learners." - Dr. Kelly Diehl
Meeting Your Moment in Health Means Thinking Bigger.
Your health career starts in CLAS with our ability to connect your passions across disciplines and scales—from molecules to communities, from research to real-world application. This gives you the educational momentum you need to meet your health moment at CU Denver.
Health isn't just practiced in hospitals. It's discovered in laboratories. Improved through research. Shaped by policy. Strengthened through communities. Explained through history. Advanced through communication. And understood through the humanities.
At CU Denver's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, you'll discover the many ways to build a career that improves lives.
In CLAS, health education and research are:
- Interdisciplinary: spanning 17 departments and multiple program areas
- Flexible: allowing students to design individualized pathways
- Research-integrated: connecting coursework with faculty scholarship
- Impact-driven: addressing real-world health challenges
