Course Overview
Inadequate access to safe water and sanitation services for significant percentage of the world’s population, coupled with poor hygiene practices, kills and sickens thousands of children every day, and leads to impoverishment and diminished opportunities for thousands more.
The WASH certificate course equips learners with knowledge of the context of wider public health challenges and illustrates the practical interventions necessary to deliver on health, development, and emergency needs.
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, a WASH certified student will be able to:
- Examine indicators of performance in WASH and overall environmental health
- Understand the practicalities around community water supply, waste management, and related environmental health issues for effective community hygiene promotion
- Understand public health and appreciate the current and future disease burden in developing countries
- Correlate WASH and Environmental Health with Public Health (including nutrition) in the context of community development
Course Outline
- Introduction to Public Health Definitions and Concepts
- Global Disease Burden: A Review of Key Health Determinants – The Case of Developing Countries.
- Assessing Public Health Priorities in Emergency and Development Settings
- Effectiveness of Evidence-based WASH Interventions
- Direct Water Supply Interventions
- Types of Water Sources
- Water Source Protection
- Determining Water Quantity, Quality and Accessibility
- Rural and Urban Communities Sanitation Management
- Types of Wastes
- Waste Management
- Effective Community Hygiene
- Understanding Social Behavior Change
- Key Community Hygiene Behaviors
- Sustainable Community Health/Hygiene: Mechanisms for Delivery and Measurement
- Typical WASH Aspects:
- Vector Control (Mosquitoes and other Flies)
- Housing and Settlement Planning
- Controlling Indoor Air Pollution.
- WASH Performance and Impact Measurement.
Assignments
Students will be required to submit three assignments to demonstrate their understanding of the course content.
DURATION: 3 Months
REGIONS TARGETED: Global
COURSE FEE: €500
ORGANIZERS: GRI
LANGUAGE: English and French
FORMAT: Online Learning
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