Short Course on Sanitation and Public Health
IHE Delft Institute for Water Education – IHE Delft
This course will provide you with an in-depth understanding of the relationship between sanitation and public health, and how we can control diseases and improve human health. By the end of this course, you will be able to identify a range of health hazards associated with human excreta in communities, identify disease and transmission routes, and evaluate the control and prevention of health hazards. You will look at case studies of sanitation intervention trials and learn about the latest risk evaluation technologies. You will embrace the critical role that sanitation plays in promoting public health, and you will be equipped with the knowledge and skills you need to design and implement sanitation systems that protect and promote the health of communities.
Curriculum
• Introduction to public health
• Human health hazards and human excreta
• Review and assessment of transmission routes
• Characteristics and lifecycles of sanitation-relevant pathogens
• Control measures
• Risk evaluation tools
• Public and Environmental Health in Emergencies
• Water and Sanitation in Urban Humanitarian Contexts
• Building Resilient Systems in Fragile Contexts
