The School of Public Health was established to train professionals who will be able to improve public health and engage in research on the subject. The field of public health deals with improving and promoting health at both local and global levels, such as lowering incidence and mortality rates as a result of cancer, heart disease, stroke, depression, malnutrition, malaria, AIDS and influenza epidemics. The methods used for public health include: prevention, early detection, policy, environmental change, behavioral change, communication and more.

The school adopted an interdisciplinary approach based on social sciences, to better understand health related and prevention of illness behaviors. It also trains the next generation of public health professionals in the fields of community health, health promotion, health-care service management, environmental and occupational health, epidemiology and nutritional behavior.

The academic program is structured towards preparing students for positions in the health-care system, the medical industry, research and academic institutions, international organizations and NGOs.