The overall aim of the postgraduate programme in public health is to provide training opportunities to university graduates in the discipline of Public Health, so as to enable them to contribute to the general improvement of the health of communities through participation in public health programmes in the public and private sectors, as well as those supported by non governmental organizations. The graduates of the programme should be able to provide service
as project managers at district and community levels, administer field programmes run by non governmental organizations (NGOs) and manage environmental and workplace-related occupational health and safety programmes.

Graduates should be able to carry out the following functions:
A.
- Use the Public Health approach to:
- Assess the health status of communities and population groups
- Make community diagnoses
- Plan and propose public health interventions
- Implement public and community health interventions
- Evaluate the outcome of interventions
- Integrate knowledge from the epidemiological, behavioural and statistical information in the planning and provision of public health interventions
- Use information technology in the planning and provision of care.
- Participate in public and community health programmes by collaborating with professional colleagues and act independently when the need of the community so indicates.
B.
- Manage basic community health projects
- Develop education programmes for community health care workers, as well as for groups and community
- Conduct community health educational programmes using appropriate education theories
- Evaluate community health education programmes using appropriate evaluation principles.
C.
- Apply management theories in the management of community health projects.
- Demonstrate leadership skills in various community health projects
- Undertake operational research with enhanced efficiency in planning, implementing and evaluating community health practice.
- Supervise lower cadres of health care workers
D.
- Develop research proposals relevant to the health of groups and communities
- Conduct research studies.
- Evaluate research studies for their adherence to the research process, appropriateness, relevance, and completeness.
- Use research findings to improve community health practice.
E.
- Demonstrate skills in the use of information technology, communication and counselling skills while interacting with groups and communities and team members
- Understand and critically observe ethical and legal parameters of service and care
- Maintain professional competence through continuing education.

Professor Peter O. Fasan
Email: deanfms@africau.ac.zw
Internet: http://www.africau.edu/academic/prospectus/FHS.pdf

This degree programme of Africa University will be the first comprehensive undergraduate degree programme in sub-Saharan Africa aimed at preparing a well informed cadre of health services managers as described above. Africa University is convinced that the graduates of the programme will perform better as Health Services Managers in public and private health institutions than most of the present cadre of sectional or unit health administrators.

The main components of the programme are Health Sciences and Public Health, Health Informatics, and Financial and Human Resources Management and Administration. The health science and public health component focuses on the skill and knowledge base of disease prevention and patient care support services. The information technology training provides the health service professionals with a unique advantage over traditional information system graduates. The management and administration component exposes the student to complex management problems solving techniques and functional knowledge of accounting, finance and general business studies. The programme is jointly offered by the Faculty of Health Sciences in collaboration with the Faculty of Management and Administration.

Professor Peter O. Fasan
Email: deanfms@africau.ac.zw
Internet: http://www.africau.edu/academic/prospectus/FHS.pdf

The overall aim of the post-basic Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree programme is to provide higher education to Registered Nurses and registered midwives (RN, RM) that will enable them to offer quality nursing care in hospitals and in the community at the preventive, promotive, curative and rehabilitative level, as well as to equip them to work as nurse educators or participate in nursing research.

Programme Objectives: The Bachelor of Science programme will equip graduates to be able to carry out the following functions:
A.
- Use the Nursing Process in clinical practice to:
- Assess the health status of patients
- Make nursing diagnosis
- Plan nursing interventions
- Implement nursing interventions
- Evaluate care.
- Integrate knowledge from the behavioural and natural sciences and information technology in the planning and provision of care.
- Provide quality-nursing care to individuals of all age groups, family, and community.
- Integrate education and counselling in the planning and implementation of care.
- Implement the plan of care by collaborating with professional colleagues and act independently when the need of the patient and the nursing practice so indicates.
B.
- Manage basic nursing training schools
- Develop education programmes for nurses, other health care workers, as well as for patient, family and community.
- Conduct educational programmes using appropriate education theories.
- Evaluate education programmes using appropriate evaluation principles.
C.
- Apply management theories in nursing practice.
- Apply quality models in the development and evaluation of nursing management and clinical practice.
- Demonstrate leadership skills in various nursing situations
- Undertake operational research with enhanced efficiency in planning, implementing and evaluating the nursing education programmes.
- Supervise lower cadres of health care workers and nursing personnel.
D.
- Develop research proposals relevant to health and nursing practice.
- Conduct operational research studies.
- Evaluate research studies for their adherenceto the research process, appropriateness, relevance, and completeness.
- Use research findings to improve nursing practice.
E.
- Demonstrate skill in the use of information technology,
- Demonstrate communication and counselling skills while interacting with patient’s relatives, community and team members
·-Critically observe ethical and legal parameters of service and care
- Maintain professional competence through continuing education.

Professor Peter O. Fasan
Email: deanfms@africau.ac.zw
Internet: http://www.africau.edu/academic/prospectus/FHS.pdf