Diploma in Environmental Health Sciences
The overall goal of this highly marketable competency-based medical professional programme is to train public health officers who are skilled in identifying and promoting community health needs and mobilize the community into action. It aims at producing graduates with appropriate knowledge and skills for promoting environment friendly practices. Graduates of this programme will be able to organize, plan, manage, supervise, monitor and evaluate comprehensive, preventive and promotional health services targeted at individuals and communities at all levels of the health care delivery system in the country and elsewhere.
Admission Requirements
KCSE mean grade of C (Plain) with C in English/Kiswahili and Biology/Biological Sciences, C- in Mathematics and any one of the following: Physics/
Physical Science, Chemistry
Course Duration
2 years
Career and Employment Opportunities
Graduates roles include planning, implementing and evaluation of environmental and public health programs; managing occupational health and safety programs; enforcement of legislation related to public health; execution of public health services in ports and other inland parts of entry; instituting environmental pollution control measures; planning and implementing immunization programs; designing waste management systems in rural and urban areas; carrying out sanitary inspection of various premises and advice on health requirements; carrying out food quality control; and carrying out disease surveillance and instituting measures for prevention and control.
Potential Employers
This course is highly marketable with high demands in the following settings:
- Hospitals
- Private clinics/ Hospital
- Community based rehabilitation centers
- Medical research institutions
- Ports and other inland parts of entry
- Environment and pollution control organizations e.g NEMA
- Quality Assurance Institutions e.g. Kenya Bureau of Standards
- Manufacturing industries
- Chemical processing industries
- Agricultural research institutions e.g. KARI, ICRAF, / ILRI, KEFRI, KETRI, KEVEVAPI etc
- Pharmaceutical industries
Institutions offering the programme
Mount Kenya University
University of Kabianga
Academic Progression
Bachelor of Science (Environmental Health)
Bachelor of Science in Environmental Health Sciences (Public Health)
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