This course is concerned with introducing students to various resources and information about values, contexts, principles, and frameworks of public health and policy. It also provides an introduction to public health, explores the history of public health, health determinants and measurements, impact of health disparities on race, class, and gender, moral and legal foundations, public health structures, historical trauma, and cultural competence, health and human rights, advocacy and health equity and the formulation and analysis of public health policies. Students learn the importance of public health concepts and issues in daily pharmacy practice, with an emphasis on applying the fundamental issues of public health within pharmacy practice.