Faculty of Health Sciences

Public Health Programmes

  • The Department of Public Health was established in 2015, combining two pre-existing departments - Health Promotion and Community Medicine.
    • The Department of Public Health now has three divisions:
    • Community Medicine
    • Preventative Medicine and Health Behaviour
    • Division of Health Systems, Policy and Planning.
  • There are five programmes currently offered by the department of Public Health:
    • Community Medicine (as part of the MBCHB programme, from Level 1 to Level 5)
    • Bachelor of Science in Health Promotion
    • Postgraduate Diploma in Health Promotion
    • Master of Science in Health Promotion
    • Master of Public Health.
  • The Department received accreditation from the Health Professions Council of South Africa in 2016 to train specialists in Public Health Medicine.
  • This programme will be introduced in 2017.
  • The Department continues to grow and plans to strengthen its programmes by continuously improving on the quality of content delivered, student throughput and research outputs; and through continued community engagement