Diploma in Public Health

Public health is the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals.

It involves prevention of disease through vaccinations, health education, health promotion, disease surveillance and outbreak investigation & control, population control among other disciplines of public health. It is a course equal to medicine and surgery since it reduces the number of people who were to get sick hence reducing the burden to the healthcare facilities and mortality in a country.

This course is targeting health managers, community leaders, NGO staff and employee, government civil servants, students in colleges or universities, unemployed people, proposal writers, programme managers, management and implementation staff.

At the end of this course, the grandaunts will have gained skill, knowledge and experience in:

• -Carry out appropriate needs assessment and demonstrate understanding of determinants of health.
• -Plan appropriate public health interventions and implement strategies that empower communities to undertake public health initiatives.
• -Apply strategies that focus on policy formulation, structural and environmental change.
• -Develop and implement partnerships for health
• -Communicate effectively with other professional and clients.
• -Demonstrate appropriate knowledge for conducting public health .
• -Organize, manage and evaluate public health interventions.
• -Demonstrate the application of appropriate information technology