Academy for Public Health

The Academy of Public Health, based in Dusseldorf, is a public educational institution funded by the federal states of Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Schleswig-Holstein.

It was founded in 1971 as Germany''''s only transnational institution for the training, further education and further training of all employees in the public health service. In addition, applied research in the field of public health is one of its tasks.

In particular, the Academy conducts courses for

Pharmacist for Public Health
Official specialist assistant
Specialist in public health
Specialist in public health
Hygiene inspector / -in
Food inspector / -in
Social-medical assistant
Medical Devices Law
special tasks in public health

In addition to its courses, the academy offers one-day and multi-day training events, which address both individual occupations of the public health service as well as multi- professional as well as topic- and problem-centered.