Community Health Department

The Community Health Department aims to provide a healthy environment for individuals and communities, promote health education, and provide skilled health care professionals for individuals and communities.

Provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to keep pace with developments.

It is a branch of public health that focuses on people and their role as determinants of their own and the health of the nation. It also studies medical and clinical sciences that focus on community health and protection.

The department seeks to graduate qualified personnel capable of providing comprehensive health care.

Admission for 2026–2027 is centralised through the Qaddim platform of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.

• Eligible applicants: graduates of secondary school in the biological and scientific streams.
• Minimum average to apply: 69.5% for morning study, 64.5% for evening study.
• Places are allocated competitively by average, order of preference and capacity.
• Applicants for morning study must have been born in 1996 or later.
• A medical examination meeting the requirements of the programme.

Annual tuition for 2026–2027: IQD 2,000,000,. First-year students receive a 20% discount on this department's tuition. Discounts are explained under “Fees and scholarships” on the admissions page.

Graduates work in fields including:

• Primary health care centres
• Immunisation and health education programmes
• Public health, health inspection and environmental health departments
• Local and international health organisations