2023-2024 Academic Catalog

Public Health Technician, A.S.H.S.

Overview

The Public Health program provides education and training in the major disciplines of preventive medicine operations to include: introduction to public health, public health communication, food service sanitation, aspects of water, deployment environmental surveillance program (DESP), medical threats, operational preventive medicine, and entomology. Army specific courses include: chemical biological radiation nuclear event, industrial hygiene, and an Army field exercise. Navy specific courses include: public health administration, microbiology, biostatistics, epidemiology, medical parasitology, immunizations programs and vaccines, occupational safety and health, environmental sanitation, shipboard preventive medicine, and a Navy field exercise. This program provides graduates with technical skills and knowledge required to achieve public health specialist entry-level competencies. The program prepares the student to perform preventive medicine operations in both traditional and non-traditional preventive medicine practice settings.

 

Accreditation or Related Information: N/A

 

Credentialing Information: Graduates of the Public Health program are certified with the following credentials: ServSafe through the National Restaurant Association http://www.servsafe.com, the DoD Pesticide Application through the Armed Forces Pest Management Board http://www.afpmb.org/, Basic Industrial Hygiene through the Medical Center of Excellence (MEDCoE), and Shipboard Sanitation through Navy Medicine (Navy specific).

Army Requirements

Program Requirements

PVNT 1201Introduction to Public Health - Army

2

PVNT 1302Aspects of Food Safety with Risk Communication

3

PVNT 3202Operational Preventive Medicine

2

PVNT 3301Occupational and Environmental Health Surveillance – Army

3

PVNT 3403Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety – Army

4

PVNT 4401Water Quality in Environmental Health (Consolidated)

4

PVNT 4502Integrated Pest Management (Consolidated)

5

Total Credit Hours:23

Navy Requirements

Program Requirements

PVNT 1302Aspects of Food Safety with Risk Communication

3

PVNT 2201Microbiology - Navy

2

PVNT 2502Introduction to Epidemiology and Biostatistics – Navy

5

PVNT 3202Operational Preventive Medicine

2

PVNT 3204Parasitology - Navy

2

PVNT 3206Shipboard Environmental Health - Navy

2

PVNT 3302Occupational and Environmental Health Surveillance – Navy

3

PVNT 3303Public Health Program Administration - Navy

3

PVNT 3305Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety - Navy

3

PVNT 4401Water Quality in Environmental Health (Consolidated)

4

PVNT 4502Integrated Pest Management (Consolidated)

5

Total Credit Hours:34