This course serves as an introduction to Public Health as a field of research and practice at DLSPH, in Canada, and beyond. It aims to provide a common grounding for incoming Public Health Sciences graduate students as they proceed to specialize in their chosen programs and fields of study. Through a series of interactive lectures, small group sessions, and other educational activities, students will gain insight into the diversity and complexity of pressing contemporary public health issues and how various public health disciplines and fields of practice address them.