The Programme aims at various concepts related to general environment, environment at the work place, related hazards and evaluation of health risk assessment by providing solutions to various aspects of environmental health occupational hazard management, epidemiology, health policy and management, and environmental health promotion. The successful learners will be able to work with health practitioners, researchers and policy makers to develop, evaluate and monitor health policies, programmes and practices related to healthy environments.
The program was designed with an exit option with PG Diploma after a study of 40credits. After successful completion of I year the learner can get Post Graduate diploma.

Programme Objectives: After completion of Post Graduate Diploma in Environmental and Occupational Health programme the learner will be able to:

• Describe how the environment and human health interact at different levels.
• List the types of occupations and discuss how they can cause risk to human health
• Describe pathways of human exposure to hazardous agents and stressors in the environment and workplace and their impact on human health
• Investigate how individual and population factors affect vulnerability and evaluate epidemiologic methods used in occupational and environmental research and interpret findings.
• Identify and measure environmental and occupational hazards and develop strategies to prevent these hazards affecting workers, property, environment and the general public.
• Develop mitigation strategies to contain and manage environmental and occupational hazards for positive health
• Exhibit the knowledge and skills needed to improve the environmental sustainability of human health systems