School of Health

Introduction of School of Health affiliated

The School of Health, with its extensive and strong infrastructure, offers various degree programs in public, environmental, and professional health. Furthermore, it runs research centers and referral laboratories throughout the country. The School of Health has gained extraordinary records during the past decades due to relentless activities at national, regional, and international levels. The active and continuous cooperation of the school with the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, National Health Research Institute, and WHO has been playing a prominent role in solving the public health problems of the country.

The department of health at ARUMS was established in 1995 and began its activity by accepting students in associate’s degree program for family health. The department later extended its activities by accepting students in the associate’s degree programs for environmental health in 1996 and diseases control in 1999. Regarding the appropriate conditions of the province with respect to health issues, the department was separated from the school of medicine in 2006 and continued its activities independently. Thanks to the efforts of officials of the university, the department began accepting students in discontinuous bachelor’s degree program in the fields of environmental health from September,2007 and general health from September, 2008. It also started accepting students in continuous bachelor’s degree program for environmental health and associate’s degree program for professional health from September, 2009, and continuous bachelor’s degree program for professional health from September, 2010. Finally, owing to the efforts of the officials of the institute, the department of health was promoted to the school of health in August, 2009.

Postgraduate degree programs of the school started with accepting students in master’s degree program for environmental health from February, 2013.

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