BS Public Health

Details & Semester Outlines for BS Public Health

BS Public Health at SZABIST is a four-year program spread over eight semesters and consists of 135 credit hours of teaching (45 courses), an internship of at least six weeks (03 credit hours), and a capstone project of 03 credit hours. The maximum time limit to complete the BS degree is six years.

BS Public Health and Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and Dietetics   

Candidates are required to have 50% marks in Intermediate (FSc with Pre-Medical and FSc with Pre-Engineering) or O-Levels (minimum 8 subjects including 5 compulsory subjects; English, Urdu, Maths, Islamiyat & Pakistan Studies) and A-levels (minimum 3 subjects including any two of these subjects; Biology, Chemistry, and Physics).


First Year

Fall Semester

  • Fall Semester
  • BPH 1102 English for General Purposes BPH 2304 Islamic Studies/Ethics
  • BPH 1107 Probability and Biostatistics BPH 1103 Life Sciences Biology
  • BPH 1106  Fundamental Mathematics /
  • BPH 1110 Fundamental Biology BPH 1201 Basic Epidemiology

Spring Semester

  • BPH 1204  English for Academic Purposes
  • BPH 1208 Ideology and Constitution of Pakistan BPH 1207 The Science of Global Challenges BPH 2404 Professional Ethics
  • BPH 2302  Community Nutrition
  • BPH 1206  Introduction to Computer Science (ITC)

Second Year

Fall Semester

  • BPH 1105 Sociology of Health and Disease BPH 1203 Community Services
  • BPH 2308 Tools for Quantitative Reasoning BPH 2402 Microbiology
  • BPH 3504 Primary Health Care BPH 2307 Entrepreneurship
  • BPH 1210  Teachings of Holy Quran*
  • BPH 2305    Pakistan Studies

Spring Semester

  • BPH 2405  Humanities
  • BPH 2401 Medical Anthropology BPH 1205 Principles of Psychology BPH 2306 Personal Hygiene
  • BPH 2403  Parasitology
  • BPH 2406  Introduction to Research Methodology

Third Year

Fall Semester

  • BPH 3501 Concept of Health and Disease BPH 3502 Health Promotion, Advocacy and
  • Social Mobilization BPH 3503 Population Dynamics BPH 3505 Community Paediatrics
  • BPH 3602  Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases

Spring Semester

  • BPH 3601 Environment and Occupational Health BPH 3603 Health policy and Management
  • BPH 3607 Epidemiology of Non-Communicable Diseases
  • BPH 3605  Reproductive Health
  • BPH 3608  Health Information System

Fourth Year

Fall Semester

  • BPH 4702 District Health Management BPH 4703 Health Planning
  • BPH 4704 Health Professional Education BPH 4701 Health Economics
  • BPH xxxx Elective-I BPH xxxx  Elective-II

Spring Semester

  • BPH 4801  Entomology
  • BPH 4803 Health Marketing BPH 4805 Mental Health BPH 4810 Capstone Project BPH xxxx Elective-III
  • BPH xxxx  Elective-IV

ELECTIVES

  • BPH 4829  Disaster Management
  • BPH 4731 Quality Management in Health Care BPH 4721 Adolescent and Sexual Health
  • BPH 4722 Art and Public Health BPH 4723 Community Nursing BPH 4724 Geriatrics
  • BPH 4726 Health Inventory Management BPH 4727 Prison Health
  • BPH 4728 Risk Management BPH 4729 School Health
  • BPH 4821 Addiction and Social Rehabilitation BPH 4822 Community Dentistry
  • BPH 4823 Community Psychiatry BPH 4824 Food Safety
  • BPH 4825  Health Financing
  • BPH 4826 Health Project Management BPH 4827 Nuclear Medicine
  • BPH 4828 Sports Medicine BPH 4804 International Health
  • *Non-credited Hours course (1.5)