Intex Management Institute offers Online and Distance Learning Diploma Course in Public Healh

Start Date: 4th September 2026

Course End Date: 15th July 2027

Registration Deadline: 3rd September 2026  

Public Health

Public Health is all around us. It is in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the homes we live in, and the behaviors in which we engage. It includes our health care systems and the agencies and services that protect our health and environment. Public health is a vital yet often overlooked component of modern life; most of us do not think about it as part of our daily lives. It may only receive public attention when a crisis occurs or when the public health system falters or fails. It may become an important personal focus when we need a specialized service, when we don ’ t have access to a private clinic, or when we face a neighborhood environmental concern. Public health encompasses a broad range of activities and functions, but among its most important are promoting and preserving the health of populations through prevention.

Course Objective

After studying the Course, the student will be able to:

• Define health and public health.
• Understand ethics and be aware of situations in public health in which ethical concerns arise.
• List and define the three core functions of public health and provide a real – life example of each.
• Define surveillance.
• Describe how data apply to the core public health function of assessment.
• Recognize sources of bias in the collection and analysis of epidemiological data.
• Identify the steps involved in investigating an infectious disease outbreak.
• Describe different types of vaccines.
• Identify several diseases that can be prevented by vaccination.

Course Outline

 Module One:  Foundations of Public Health

1. Public Health: Science, Politics, and Prevention
2. Why Is Public Health Controversial?
3. Epidemiology: The Basic Science of Public Health
4. Epidemiologic Principles and Methods
5. Statistics: Making Sense of Uncertainty
6. The “Conquest” of Infectious Diseases
7. The Resurgence of Infectious Diseases
8. The Biomedical Basis of Chronic Diseases
9. Public Health Enemy Number One: Tobacco
10. Public Health Enemy Number Two and Growing: Poor Diet and Physical Inactivity
11. Maternal and Child Health as a Social Problem
12. Environmental Issues in Public Health

Module Two: Public Health Surveillance

1. Considerations in Planning a Surveillance System
2. Economic and Policy Justification for Public Health Surveillance
3. Collecting Public Health Surveillance Data: Creating a Surveillance System
4. Informatics and the Management of Surveillance Data
5. Analyzing and Interpreting Public Health Surveillance Data
6. Communicating Public Health Surveillance Information for Action
7. Evaluating Public Health Surveillance
8. Ethics in Public Health Surveillance
9. Legal Considerations in Public Health Surveillance in the United States
10. Public Health Surveillance for Infectious Diseases
11. Public Health Surveillance for Chronic Diseases, Injuries, and Birth Defects
12. Surveillance for Determinants of Population Health
13. Public Health Surveillance for Preparedness and Emergency Response: Biosurveillance for Human Health
14. Healthcare Quality and Safety: The Monitoring of Administrative Information Systems and the Interface with Public Health Surveillance

Module Three: Foundations of Epidemiology

1. Foundations of Epidemiology
2. Historic developments of Epidemiology
3. Practical disease Causes in Epidemiology
4. Design Strategies and Statistical Methods in Descriptive Epidemiology
5. Descriptive Epidemiology According to Person, Place, and Time
6. General Health and Population Indicators
7. Design Strategies and Statistical Methods in Analytic Epidemiology
8. Experimental Studies in Epidemiology
9. Causality
10. Field Epidemiology
11. Chronic Disease Epidemiology
12. Clinical Epidemiology

Module Four: Public Health ethics

1. Consequentialism
2. Non-Consequentialism
3. Liberal Political Philosophy
4. Beyond Traditional  Liberalism
5. Epidemiology
6. Health Concepts and promotion
7. Health Promotion as behavioral modifications
8. Harm Reduction
9. Immunization
10. Screening

Module 5

1. Introduction
2. Entrepreneurship and Economy
3. Types of Business
4. Effective Business Communication
5. Business Plan
6. Start-up Investment and Financing
7. Government Regulations
8. Managing Purchasing
9. Franchising and Licensing
10. Decision-Making and Problem-Solving
11. Time Management
12. Managing the Business
13. Management skills
14. Managing Systems and Processes
15. Leaders and Stress Management
16. Change Management

Who should attend
The course is designed for project development managers, project leaders and team leaders, NGO staff, Community offers and leaders involved in implementing and designing community based programs.

Course Organizers

Intex Management Institute was registered in 1983. We have been offering a wide range of Capacity Building Training Programs both online and open workshops, building capacity to enhance effective service delivery for NGOs, CBOs, Public and Private sector.

We have trained and currently training participants from various organizations across Africa such as UNDP - Burundi, World Food Programme - Zimbabwe, SOS Children – Somalia, and specifically organization from South Sudan are State Ministry of Education, MEDAIR, Norwegian Refugee - Liberia, Zenab for Women Development, Action AID, Caritas, International Organization for Migration, International Committee of the Red Cross, UNHCR, Save the Children, Medical Corps, Peace Relief Development, World Vision, Action Against Hunger, UNICEF, Plan International, Norwegian Refugee Council, Johanniter International, Islamic Relief Worldwide, Peace Relief Development , AMREF, World Health Organization, USAID, International Committee of the Red Cross, Action Africa Help (AAH) International, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) just to mention but a few.

Training methodology:

• All training materials will be availed through online or distance learning.
• You are expected to submit assignments via email
• You will receive feedback from our committed instructors.
• Learn at your own time schedule
• At the end of the course you will be issued with a certificate.

Other requirements

You will be required to use email, upload and download documents in MS-Word format.

Learning materials

Course materials and Assignments will be provided at the beginning of the course.

Course exercises

Students are required to test their own learning by completing exercises and tasks for each unit of the course.

Course Assignments

In order to demonstrate their understanding of the course content, students will be required to submit 10 Assignments and a Research Project Paper.

Benefits to Our Learners

• Have confidence that the Course is credible and has high standards from a credible Institute.
• Know their programme has been designed at the right level, meets its intended outcomes and its assessment methods are robust, secure and appropriate
• On successful completion they gain a Diploma and Transcript with Intex Management Institute branding, a global leader in training that adds permanent value to their learning

Course Duration       :      40 Weeks (10Months)