Investigating, detecting and responding` to new and emerging environmental and public health threats require a chance to do something extraordinary, through an integrated and intensified research and training in the key domains and dimensions of environmental and public health field. The Act, No.11 of 2002 that established the Environmental Health Council of Nigeria (EHCN), was amended through the gigantic effort of the Registrar/CEO, Dr. Baba Yakubu Mohammed and signed on the 25th August, 2022 by Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, President and Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, to contain the National Institute of Environmental Health (NIEH). The NIEH will strive to conduct research, surveillance and risk assessment, through Environment Public Health laboratory, to acquire knowledge on environmental issues affecting public health. he key thrust of the Institute, is to develop evidence-based, cost-effective tools and strategies to safeguard environmental public health practice. The NIEH will also strive to conduct and support the very best environmental health science and practice, in alignment with the real-world environmental public health needs and translate scientific findings into knowledge and skills that can inform real-life individual and environmental Public health outcomes. The NIEH work, falls under five highly strategic, transdisciplinary, interdependent, interactive and inclusive thematic programmes. They include: Preventing the effects of environmental health risk factors through research and dissemination of research findings; Promoting translation of data to knowledge and to action; Enhancing environmental health science and practice; Advancing environmental health science and practice; Providing collaborative and linkage services for all Environmental Health professional stakeholders. NIEH will as well contribute to the continuous advancement of Nigeria’s environmental and public health status. NIEH Vision: To prevent disease, disorder and disability, promote health and prolong life through scientific-control of environmental media and risk factors. NIEH Mission: Providing national gateway for innovative research that improves environmental public health through preventing disease, disorder and disability posed by environmental health risk factors. NIEH Motto: Research, training, innovation and skills for environmental public health sustenance.
The Act established a Council charged with the responsibility of regulating Environmental Health profession in Nigeria.
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We set improve standard in training and practice, adding value to Environment Health Services. Our vision is to position Environmental Health Practice as the fulcrum of public health. Our mission is also to improve standards in training and practice, adding value to Environmental Health Services. Environmental health remained unregulated in Nigeria over the years until 2002, when the democratic government then decided to grant it professional recognition through the enactment of the Environmental Health Officers (Registration, etc) Act 11 of 2002.
The Act established a Council charged with the responsibility of regulating Environmental Health profession in Nigeria.
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We provide professional certificates in all aspects of Environmental Health.
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We offer diploma courses in Environmental Health.
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At National Institute of Environmental Health, we offer Postgraduate study with aims of producing the students with good moral, capable of competing with any graduate globally.
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We have courses that give you the flexibility to pick and choose what works for you, these includes but not limited to workshops, certificate programmes, diplomas, and conferences.
Investigating, detecting and responding` to new and emerging environmental and public health threats require a chance to do something extraordinary, through an integrated and intensified research and training in the key domains and dimensions of environmental and public health field. The Act, No.11 of 2002 that established the Environmental Health Council of Nigeria (EHCN), was amended through the gigantic effort of the Registrar/CEO, Dr. Baba Yakubu Mohammed and signed on the 25th August, 2022 by Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, President and Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, to contain the National Institute of Environmental Health (NIEH). The NIEH will strive to conduct research, surveillance and risk assessment, through Environment Public Health laboratory, to acquire knowledge on environmental issues affecting public health. he key thrust of the Institute, is to develop evidence-based, cost-effective tools and strategies to safeguard environmental public health practice. The NIEH will also strive to conduct and support the very best environmental health science and practice, in alignment with the real-world environmental public health needs and translate scientific findings into knowledge and skills that can inform real-life individual and environmental Public health outcomes. The NIEH work, falls under five highly strategic, transdisciplinary, interdependent, interactive and inclusive thematic programmes. They include: Preventing the effects of environmental health risk factors through research and dissemination of research findings; Promoting translation of data to knowledge and to action; Enhancing environmental health science and practice; Advancing environmental health science and practice; Providing collaborative and linkage services for all Environmental Health professional stakeholders.
Our mission is also to improve standards in training and practice, adding value to Environmental Health Services. when the democratic government then decided to grant it professional recognition through the enactment of the Environmental Health Officers (Registration, etc) Act 11 of 2002.
Our mission is also to improve standards in training and practice, adding value to Environmental Health Services. Environmental health remained unregulated in Nigeria over the years until 2002, when the democratic government then decided to grant it professional recognition through the enactment of the Environmental Health Officers (Registration, etc) Act 11 of 2002.
Our mission is also to improve standards in training and practice, adding value to Environmental Health Services. Environmental health remained unregulated in Nigeria over the years until 2002, when the democratic government then decided to grant it professional recognition through the enactment of the Environmental Health Officers (Registration, etc) Act 11 of 2002.
Our mission is also to improve standards in training and practice, adding value to Environmental Health Services. Environmental health remained unregulated in Nigeria over the years until 2002, when the democratic government then decided to grant it professional recognition through the enactment of the Environmental Health Officers (Registration, etc) Act 11 of 2002.
While acknowledging other developmental footprints in the Agency, such as the Digital Economy Center, office accommodation, working tools among others
