Overview

Through legislation, education, and promotion, our graduates work with people in almost every industry to safeguard public health. It’s an important job. Our students gain current, practical experience to become certified and start working as soon as they graduate.

This Environmental Health - Public Health Inspection program at British Columbia Institute of Technology prepares students to enter the field of environmental health as professional, effective members of a multi-disciplinary health team. Graduates will be able to recognize, evaluate, and manage environmental factors that impact on human health. They will have the knowledge and skills needed to meet a growing range of environmental health roles and responsibilities, specifically:

• expanded knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to meet the current and evolving needs of employers, the profession, and the community;

• a commitment to life-long learning and professional growth;

• an appropriate combination of specialty, research, and multi-disciplinary courses that will promote the development of critical thinking, problem solving, decision making, and communication skills.