Career options for students with joint degrees are almost endless. Law firms, educational institutions, state and federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, and private corporations all seek talented individuals with degree combinations that we offer through the Joint Degree Program.
Our website's JDP Affiliates page profiles selected individuals with joint degrees and illustrates the wide range of career options available to Joint Degree Program graduates. Below is a partial list of possible employers and career paths:
- Bioethics commissions
- Bioethics institutes
- Biotechnology regulation
- Centers for Disease Control and Protection (CDC)
- Clinics
- Colleges
- Community health centers
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Health
- Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
- Department of Interior
- Department of Natural Resources (DNR)
- Disease prevention programs
- Drug & device regulation
- Environmental advocacy groups
- Environmental law
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
- Food safety
- Forest Service
- Health insurers
- Health law
- Health promotion programs
- HMOs
- Hospitals
- Intellectual property firms
- Legislative committees
- Long-term care facilities
- Managed care systems
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Pharmaceutical manufacturers
- Philanthropies
- Pollution Control Agency (PCA)
- Research oversight
- Risk assessment
- Science policy
- Technology licensing
- Toxic substance control
- Trade secrecy
- Universities
- Proseminar
- Degree Program Options
- Concentration in Health Law & Bioethics
- Careers
- Jobs, Fellowships, and Other Opportunities
- Students in the News
- Honors and Achievements
- Student-Led Organizations
- Program Resources
- Fellows
- Alumni
- Affiliated Professionals
- Questions?
JDP Alumni Kari Bomash, JD, MPH and Alissa Lyon, JD MPH at the law firm of Dorsey & Whitney