Aims:

The goals of The School of Public Health is to train specialists in postgraduate fields of health sciences, to do field studies on the country’s health problems, to devise necessary executive plans, and to cooperate with national and international organizations. In teaching the specific objectives of this School is for our students to gain an understanding of how health care affects the global economy and government policies; to gain management skills and health economics; to learn about how psychological and sociological issues affect health care research and practices; to gain a broad knowledge of biological and chemical sciences; and to become a critical thinking, broad minded, and ethical individual. The School’s research programs are meant to promote experimental sciences and applied research.

• Providing you with the knowledge, experience,

and multicultural perspective that allow you to explore, learn, question, create, and thrive as productive members of a global society in your chosen

careers.

• Developing talents through scientific teaching and

research and prevailing medical and allied sciences

in order to help equip and supply specialist workforce needed for the country.

• Establishing research facilities in order to recognize unknown potential factors and to increase scientific strength to deal with health problems.

• Developing health facilities in the society through

treatment centers and organizations and their related

health care centers.

Duties:

• Training students in different areas of Allied Health

Sciences and developing community-based medical

education.

• Establishing relationships with other universities

and exchanging academic staff and students with

universities inside the country and overseas.

• Holding scientific and educational seminars and

conferences.

• Writing and translating books and publishing

journals in different areas of medical sciences.

• Attempting to perform general policies of the

Ministry of Health and Medical Education and supervising those attempts to provide public health

and improving it through the application of health

programs, especially in the following domains of

environmental health and fighting against diseases,

family and school health, teaching public health

and occupational health while emphasizing public healthcare measures especially with regard to

“mothers and children”.

• Guiding and briefing authorities involved in planning when preparing plans and programs for subunits, integrating and coordinating programs with

regard to priorities.

• Supervising demo-graphical studies and analyzing

the resulting statistics related to health programs

in order to be aware of the quality and quantity of

health activities.