You are interested in clinical care, as well as public health. I need to make a choice, you think to yourself. “Not necessarily,” your advisor says. “There are many ways to combine clinical care with...

You are interested in clinical care, as well as public health. I need to make a choice, you think to yourself. “Not necessarily,” your advisor says. “There are many ways to combine clinical care with public health.” After a little investigation, you find out that undergraduate public health education is increasingly seen as preparation for clinical education, and clinical prevention and population health are increasingly becoming part of clinical care. In addition, many careers, from health administration, to health policy, to health education, to clinical research, combine the individual orientation of clinical care with the population perspective of public health. So what is the best pathway to a public health career for you?