Students of this course must:

 Demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge and skills of the science and art of Public Health, Social and Preventive Medicine,

  Apply this knowledge to a broad range of population health issues in the socioeconomic, political, and environmental contexts in which they occur.

  Demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and attitudes related to assessing the determinants of health, including but not limited to income, environment, gender, education, social support systems, health behaviors, and access to health care, of the populations with which they work.


The overall goal of this course is to build and promote the competencies of the candidate  to take on  independently and on a recent advanced scientific evidence the practices of epidemiology to  recognize, analyze and assess health problems pertinent to population, and to  apply the basics and approaches of scientific research and critical evaluation,  and to promote the preventive and control strategies.

The course is worth a total of 8 credit hours to be accomplished over 15 weeks duration.

It consists of 3 main modules, each of which address one of the different epidemiology perspectives.



one of the two required  courses to pass the  first part MD public health. The general aim of this course is to build and promote the public health competencies of the candidate  to take on  independently and on a recent advanced scientific evidence the public health practices.core functions. The  course consists of  6 main topics that are integrated in various public health practice fields.the course requires  a total of 10 credit hours to accomplish.