RE-ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PRACTICE IN SOUTH AFRICA

About Course

This dynamic symposium and workshop is designed for practising Environmental Health Practitioners across all spheres of government and the private sector. The programme combines interactive sessions, real-world case studies, expert insights, online evaluations, and reflective dialogue, providing a powerful platform to rethink and reimagine Environmental Health practice. Participants will explore essential Environmental Health interventions and management principles while engaging with strategies that address systemic challenges. This course aims to reconnect professionals with the field’s foundational purpose and inspire actionable innovation to rebuild and transform systems.

Understand regulatory frameworks and accreditation systems in food environments.
Analyze multi-stakeholder perspectives and ethical considerations in public health.
Explore advertising practices and the impact of emerging contaminants on food safety.
Examine disaster preparedness strategies and climate change adaptation in health contexts.
Investigate cross-disciplinary approaches to environmental management and chemical exposures.
Assess public health impacts of urban lifestyles and infrastructure.
Apply the One Health approach to address interconnected human, animal, and environmental health issues.
Evaluate healthcare waste management and indoor air quality standards.
Study communicable disease control and rural health challenges.
Develop professional identity through engagement with policy debates and ethical frameworks.
Foster moral development and critical thinking in health-related decision-making.

Course Content

Workshop programme

Programme
Opening presentation
Assessment and course Evaluation

DAY 1- Strengthening Food Safety and Control Systems
Focus areas include regulatory frameworks, multi-stakeholder perspectives, accreditation, advertising, and emerging contaminants in food environments

DAY 2- Environmental Health in a Changing Climate
Focus areas include disaster preparedness, climate change, cross-disciplinary environmental management, chemical exposures, and public health impacts of urban lifestyles.

DAY 3- Management of Public Health Nuisances
Focus areas include One Health, healthcare waste, indoor air quality, communicable diseases, and rural health challenges.

DAY 4- Ethics, Policy, and Leadership in Environmental Health Practice
Focus areas include Professional identity, policy debates, ethical frameworks, moral development, for continuous professional development.