Health and Human Sciences, BSc (Hons)

Durham University's BSc Health & Human Sciences provides a comprehensive foundation in the anthropology of health, integrating social and biological anthropology. It combines biological and evolutionary insights into human genetics and physiology with ethnographic analyses of social, political, ideological, and ecological factors influencing health risks and treatments. This interdisciplinary approach equips students to critically evaluate healthcare across local, regional, and global scales.As one of the UK's largest Anthropology departments, Durham blends social, biological, and medical anthropology, with passionate lecturers delivering research-led teaching across diverse topics like evolution, genetics, forensics, and health. Facilities include skeletal collections, fossil casts, and labs such as the Infancy and Sleep Centre and Ecology and Endocrinology Laboratory. Ranked 3rd in Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026, 5th in Guardian and Complete University Guide 2026, and Top 100 QS World University Rankings 2026, graduates gain transferable research and communication skills for careers in health, conservation, education, international development, journalism, law, and more.