Public Health Department

Puplic Health

Public Health Program was established as one of the College of Applied Medical Sciences - Khamis Mushait programs as a development and extension of the Epidemiology Department, College of Applied Medical Sciences. In 1429-1430 the college was included in the university's faculties system after the approval of the Higher Education Council No. 5088/MB on 7/8/1432  so that the program grants a bachelor's degree in public health to graduate a  public health specialist.

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About the Head of the Department 

 

Dr. Saeed Mastour Alshahrani is an accomplished epidemiologist and public health expert with extensive experience in research, academia, and public health practice. He earned his PhD in Epidemiology from Loma Linda University, California. Before his PhD, Dr. Alshahrani obtained a Master of Public Health (MPH) in Biostatistics from Florida International University, USA. Dr. Alshahrani joined the Department of Public Health at King Khalid University in 2023 and was a chair of multiple departmental committees, including the curriculum and academic planning committee. Besides being the department chair, he is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Throughout his career, Dr. Alshahrani has been involved in numerous research projects, focusing on public health nutrition, infectious diseases, vaccinations, and chronic disease epidemiology. His work has led to multiple publications in high-impact journals, and he has been an active peer reviewer for several prestigious journals. He also has been a thesis supervisor for multiple MPH students throughout their journey to earning the degree. In addition to his academic and research contributions, Dr. Alshahrani's statistical expertise includes advanced techniques like imputation, survival analysis, and bootstrapping, and he is proficient in using statistical software such as SPSS, SAS, and R.

 

Accreditation
Public Health Research Group & Research Data Bank
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Establishing a research group in the fields of public health in partnership with local and international scientific and research bodies

Mission and Goals

 

Mission:
Preparing qualified public health specialists adhered to scientific research standards and community participation to promote public health.

Value:

  • Teamwork
  • Responsibility
  • Transparency
  • Precision

Program Goals:

  • Preparing trained competencies in public health to meet the needs of the labor market and keep pace with development plans.
  • Preparing graduates theoretically and practically and upgrading their technical skills to enable them to continue higher studies.
  • To provide graduates with a broad knowledge of important theories and methods of public health and the skills to address community health problems.
  • Preparing graduates to conduct research based on scientific grounds in public health.
  • Graduating skilled health workers with a commitment to principles, professional capacity, social awareness, and national and international ideas.
  • Develop health problem-solving skills.

Fields of the Department of Public Health:

  • Epidemiological investigation and control of infectious diseases
  • Health Education
  • Environmental Health 
  • Occupational Health 
  • Food and drinking water safety

Community service areas and partnerships for the department

  • Participation in national events 
  • Participation in international world days
  • Partnerships with public health-related bodies
  • Health awareness in schools, universities, and institutes 
  • Providing training courses through associations and clubs
  • Presenting lectures to government and private institutions 
  • Participation in healthcare activities with other parties
     

The scope of the department’s scientific research

  • Epidemiological studies of infectious diseases
  • Epidemiological studies of chronic diseases
  • Areas of occupational health
  • Nutrition and food safety studies
  • Health and safety of water
  • Emerging diseases
  • Diseases surveillance and Epidemiological investigation
  • Health administration and health economics
  • Studies of vector behavior and control
Graduate Attributes
  • Commitment to high ethical standards, Islamic values, ​​and integrity in the workplace
  • The ability to identify the health research needs of the community
  • Conducting health research correctly, analyzing it, and benefiting from the results
  • The ability to design and deliver health education programs for all segments of society
  • The ability to employ the latest technology in health informatics to serve the community in the field of public health
  • The ability to communicate and present health services effectively
  • Can identify and deal with risks affecting public health from epidemic diseases, Chronic diseases, and occupational diseases efficiently to prevent them.
  • Can predict and deal with environmental factors that pose a threat to the health and safety of society
  • Able to maintain the health and safety of food and its link to public health
Published Research
Student Research
Members

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المزيد ...

The Master of Public Health aims to qualify professional specialists and researchers in the fields of public health and community health, who can plan and implement health programs, evaluate…

The program aims to qualify students to become specialists in the fields of public health with skills that will help them develop and present health programs in various fields of public health and…

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  Master's Degree Courses Description
Bachelor
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Laboratories of the Public Health Department
Laboratory of Public Health

Objectives:

The Public Health Lab is designed to prepare students and provide them with basic public health skills, which are:

  • Familiarity with public health concepts, including diagnosing diseases and health problems in the community and how to prevent them.
  • Knowing the natural history of epidemic diseases in terms of their nature, the methods of their spread, and how to prevent and control them.
  • Surveillance and monitoring of epidemic diseases at local, regional, and international levels to prevent their spread.
  • How to deal with vaccination in terms of their nature, schedules, and modes of administration.
  • Knowledge of the meaning of aging and how to deal with it, common diseases, and age-related health problems.

Equipment and devices:

  • Digital Blood pressure monitor (electronic)
  • Sphygmomanometer(mercury) Blood pressure monitor.
  • Glucometer (Blood glucose). Urine Testing Kit (Urine).

Applications:

  • Demonstrate the methods of measuring blood pressure by using measuring devices.
  • Learn how to measure blood sugar using the device.
  • Find out how to measure sugar in urine with the device.
  • Find out how to calculate incidence and prevalence.
  • Learn about the notification system in disease surveillance
Water Safety, Food Safety, and Nutrition Lab

 

In which students are trained in the necessary skills:

  • Water safety and its compliance with health standards and requirements and the efficiency of the treatment process.
  • Food safety, complying with health requirements, human consumption suitability free biological, chemical, and physical pollutants.
  • Nutritional assessment for different age groups, planning healthy meals, calculating nutritional requirements, and using nutritional MyPyramid.
Epidemiology and Entomology Lab

Objectives: Students are provided with the following information

  •  Information on the morphology and functions of insects' organs as the largest class of invertebrates.
  • Distinguish the orders of different insects based on the displayed morphological information.
  • Students learn about the anatomical features of some insects.
  • Recognizing the internal and external structures of Insects.

Equipment and devices:

  • Multimedia device
  • An anatomical microscope
  • Optical microscope

Applications:

  • Study the shape and structure of the head.
  • Study of the thorax (types of leg mutations in the adult phase)
  • Study of the abdomen.
  • Metamorphosis (examples of non-metamorphic and hypertrophic insects)
  • Respiratory system (bronchial orifices and gills
Committees
  • Plans, Curricula and Quality Committee
  • Schedules and Examinations Committee

التقارير

المزيد..
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Activity Report 1443H
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Community Partnership
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World Quality Day