The Family Medicine, Global & Public Health Unit (FMGPH) is one of the oldest in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) and started training in public health in 1973. It falls under the Department of Primary Health Sciences and trains a range of public health practitioners including health promotion practitioners, biostatisticians, epidemiologists, occupational and environmental health practitioners, and family medicine physicians. The Unit is situated at the University of Zimbabwe FMHS campus which is found at Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare. We are in the 3rd floor, New Health Sciences Building. The Unit’s establishment consists of 1 Professorial Chair and 17 lecturers. It is a service department teaching key courses such as public health, biostatistics, epidemiology, research methods and health informatics across the FMHS and also runs short courses for the professional development of staff and students. Such short courses include:
- Basic and Advanced Biostatistics
- Research Methods
- Basic and Advanced Epidemiology
- Principles of Public Health
- Major public health issues, including HIV and AIDS, TB, Malaria
- Elements of health systems, health financing and human resources for health
- Zimbabwe’s health services at national, district and primary health care level
- Community and non-health sector roles in health
- Public health law
- Monitoring and evaluation of public health interventions