Scope of the units

Health Promotion and Bio-informatics unit

  • Behavioral science
  • Sociology of medicine
  • Health Education
  • Biostatistics
  • Applied biostatistics
  • Statistical software applications, SPSS, EPI/INFO, Stata etc
  • Bio-informatics

Epidemiology and Disease Control

  • Principle and Practice of Epidemiology
  • Epidemiology of communicable disease
  • Epidemiology of non-communicable disease
  • Epidemics investigation control
  • Disease Control and IDSR
  • Epidemics Intelligence Services
  • Surveillance
  • Field Epidemiology
  • Research Methodology
  • Vaccinology

Reproductive Health and Population Medicine Unit

  • Maternal Health services
  • Neonatal/Child health services
  • School health services
  • Public Health Nutrition
  • Adolescent/geriatric health services
  • Gender/Girl Child Issues
  • Demography
  • Family Planning and contraceptive technology

Occupational and Environmental Health Unit

  • Human Ecology/Man and his environment
  • Medical entomology
  • Industrial health and safety
  • Ergonomics
  • Health care in small, medium and large scale industries
  • Environmental health services (Water, Refuse, Sewage etc)
  • Environmental Health Legislation
  • Disaster Management and control
  • Refugees
  • Environmental Impact Assessment (EIS)

Health Policy and System Development unit

  • Principles and practice of health system management (Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation)
  • Strategic and operational planning
  • Public health Policies, Formulation/analysis/Implementation/Evaluation
  • Health system organization/governance
  • Primary health care/secondary/tertiary health systems
  • Quality Assurance in Health Care
  • Health Sector Reform/ Strengthening
  • Health Care Financing
  • Heath Economics
  • Health Management Information System
  • Public Private Partnership in Health Care

International Health and Travel Medicine

  • Theories of International Organizations
  • The UN Charter, systems
  • The World Health Organizations
  • The Bilateral International Organizations
  • International health regulations, programmes and activities
  • Global Health Initiatives
  • Regional Health Initiatives
  • International health regulations
  • Port health services
  • Travel medicine
  • Organization of health services for mass movement ( Muslims Pilgrims, Christian Pilgrims)