Health and Human Physiology

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Your pathway to the health professions

Prepare for your health and wellness career with Iowa's research and training programs.

Why Iowa?

Our professors will teach you the science, medicine, and social awareness necessary for a successful career in the health professions. You'll have resources and opportunities that only a world-class research university with a comprehensive teaching and research hospital can offer.

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Find your path

The health professions are wide open and growing, so we offer lots of options for achieving success. Begin your journey now.

Find your path

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Advance your career

Open professional doors. Further your education. Earn your MS or PhD. Whatever your goal, you'll have the instruction, training, and opportunities to succeed.

Advance your career

Learn from expert faculty

Our faculty brings national academic respect and real-world professional experience into our classrooms and labs.

Learn from expert faculty

You belong here

As a health and human physiology student at Iowa, you'll get the best of both worlds—a health sciences education preparing you for your career and a broad liberal arts education showing you the world.

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"I found a home in Health and Human Physiology at Iowa. My professors have taken the time to learn about me and my peers–and they genuinely care. I have always dreamed of being in a helping profession and the faculty here are helping me achieve my goal.”

- Kalie Williams, HHP student at Iowa

Write your story

You might be laser-focused on a specific career in the health and wellness sciences. Or maybe you want to see your options and uncover your professional path along the way. However it begins, you can write your own story at Iowa. Apply and begin your personal journey of exploration and discovery.

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