Environmental Health Specialist

The aim of the curriculum is to prepare environmental health specialists who will perform successfully in the divisions of the Health Board and in other fields of supervision of health factors and health promotion. The environmental health specialist is a professional who advocates a healthy living environment and daily well-being, monitoring the fulfilment of health protection requirements and, if needed, gives advice or applies legal sanctions.

The graduates of the environmental health curriculum are competent to practise in health protection facilities and also in the following fields: environmental health, occupational health and food safety.

Workload of programme: 180 ECTS
Standard period of study: 3 years
Language of instruction: Estonian

The curriculum consists of fifteen basic modules:

professional and personal development
human study
legal regulation of supervision proceedings
pathology and study of diseases
chemical and physical risk factors
biological risk factors
psychosocial and physiological risk factors
infection diseases and epidemiology
occupational health
outdoor environment pollution
water
food safety
children’s and social welfare institutions
safety of services and products
public health

Kristi Vahur

Head of the Physiotherapy and Environmental Health Department

+372 737 0228 kristivahur@nooruse.ee