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Public Health

By Prof. G. G. Hammad Ahmad Shadab   |   Aligarh Muslim University
Learners enrolled: 133
ABOUT THE COURSE:
This course introduces the concepts of Public health and hygiene & health determinants, and provide knowledge about various food components and to educate about communicable and non-communicable diseases. The course will provide awareness and education about various disease preventive and control measures. Students will understand the importance of food components and their deficiency related diseases and balanced diet. The students will learn about causes, and preventive measures of communicable diseases. This course will make the students understand about the cause of life style diseases and how to control them.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: Undergraduate and postgraduate level students with interest in Zoology and/or Life Sciences and/or Biomedical Sciences.

PREREQUISITES: 12th PCBM and BSc

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: Public Health sector of Government and NGOs.
Summary
Course Status : Upcoming
Course Type : Elective
Language for course content : English
Duration : 12 weeks
Category :
  • Zoology
  • Public health
  • Medical
Credit Points : 4
Level : Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date : 21 Jul 2025
End Date : 10 Oct 2025
Enrollment Ends : 28 Jul 2025
Exam Registration Ends : 15 Aug 2025
Exam Date : 25 Oct 2025 IST
NCrF Level   : 6.0

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1: 
  1. Introduction to Public Health 
  2. Introduction to Health and Hygiene 
  3. Determinants of Public Health 
  4. Factors Affecting Health and Hygiene-I
  5. Factors Affecting Health and Hygiene-II

Week 2: 
  1. Personal Hygiene 
  2. Community Hygiene 
  3. Environment and Health associated hazards 
  4. Water borne diseases 
  5. Air borne diseases

Week 3: 
  1. Prevention of diseases through health education 
  2. Principles of health education 
  3. Prevention of diseases through environmental improvements 
  4. Physical and Biological environment and health 
  5. Relation between Health, Hygiene & Sanitation

Week 4: 
  1. Balanced diet 
  2. Malnutrition 
  3. Diseases caused by the deficiency of proteins, carbohydrates and fats 
  4. Diseases caused by vitamin deficiencies 
  5. Diseases caused by mineral deficiencies

Week 5: 
  1. Food adulteration-1 
  2. Food adulteration-2 
  3. Nutritional problems in India 
  4. Nutrition related government programs in India-1 
  5. Nutrition related government programs in India-2

Week 6: 
  1. Health care system in India-1 
  2. Health care system in India-2 
  3. National health programmes in India 
  4. National health policies in India 
  5. National Rural Health Mission (2005-2012)

Week 7: 
  1. Current scenario of health and hygiene in India 
  2. Infectious agents responsible for communicable diseases in humans 
  3. COVID-19 
  4. Measles 
  5. Polio

Week 8: 
  1. Chikungunya
  2. Rabies
  3. Leprosy
  4. Tuberculosis
  5. AIDS

Week 9: 
  1. Hepatitis 
  2. Dengue 
  3. Parasitic diseases 
  4. Malaria 
  5. Vaccines and vaccination programmes in India

Week 10: 
  1. Non-communicable and life style diseases and their preventive and control measures 
  2. Hypertension 
  3. Coronary heart disease 
  4. Rheumatic heart diseases 
  5. Stroke

Week 11: 
  1. Diabetes 
  2. Obesity 
  3. Mental ill health 
  4. Cancer 
  5. Public Health enemy number one-Tobacco

Week 12: 
  1. Injuries and occupational health 
  2. Maternal and child health as a social problem 
  3. Solid, Medical and Hazardous wastes 
  4. Public health and the aging population 
  5. Public health in the twenty-first Century: Achievements and challenges

Books and references

  1. Introduction to Public Health – Mary Jane Schneider 
  2. A Short Book of Public Health – Muthu, V.K. 
  3. Oxford Textbook of Public Health (6th Ed.) – Roger Detels 
  4. Public Health Nutrition – Gibney 
  5. Nutrition, Health and Disease - Wong

Instructor bio

Prof. G. G. Hammad Ahmad Shadab

Aligarh Muslim University
Prof. G. G. Hammad Ahmad Shadab, received his M.Sc. degree in Zoology (Genetics) in 1994 and Ph.D. in Zoology (Genetics) from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh in 2000. Thereafter he worked as Senior Research Fellow (SRF) and Research Associate (RA) of CSIR (2001-2005) and as a Young Scientist DST (2005-2008). He has published significant number of papers in journals of national and international repute like Bioorganic Chemistry, Mutation Research, Frontiers in Biosciences, Metallomics, Teratogenesis Carcinogenesis Mutagenesis, Journal of Environmental Biology, Advanced Science Letters, Advanced Science Engineering and Medicine, Epigenomics, Scientific Reports etc. He teaches Genetics and Molecular Biology, Developmental Biology, Public Health and Hygiene and Animal Behaviour at UG level and several papers of Genetics at PG level. He has cultivated 02 DST-SERB-PDFs and 01 CSIR-RA, 06 PhD, 02 MPhil, and 15 Master Degree students in the field of Genetics, Genotoxicity and Toxicology. Presently he is mentoring 04 PhD students. He is among the pioneers of Animal Dissection Alternative efforts in India. He has been selected for the prestigious best poster award (worth 1,000 $) sponsored by Doerenkamp-Zbinden Foundation, Switzerland, in the 8th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences held at Fairmont, Montreal, Canada in 2011.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 25 October 2025 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

Please note that assignments encompass all types (including quizzes, programming tasks, and essay submissions) available in the specific week.

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup. It will have the logos of INI and AMU.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- INI team


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