Introducing the center:
1- History:
Water and Wastewater Microbiology Laboratory started to work in 1993 to offer an associate degree program in environmental health and in the following years, the laboratory also admitted students in non-continuous and continuous bachelor, master, and PhD programs in environmental health.
2- Visions:
To train necessary skills to would-be environmental health engineers, including the following:
- Assisting in improving health and solving environmental problems as teamwork;
- Identification of physical, chemical and biological operations and processes in order to improve the environment;
- Recognition and application of pollutants measurement devices and equipment;
- Recognition and selection of efficient technologies for pollution control;
- Recognition of the methods of evaluation, monitoring and management of environmental health and environment; and
- Gaining knowledge about laws, standards and pollution control programs.
3- Perspective:
We intend to offer applied courses to the graduates so that they will be able to design, manage and implement environmental health plans, and to offer one of the most prominent educational programs across Iran by improving our program qualitatively and quantitatively.
4- Mission:
- Providing a suitable platform to conduct experiments and training related to environmental microbiology; and
- Promoting research in environmental microbiology
5- Equipment:
Research priorities:
1) New methods of water treatment and pollutants removal;
2) Monitoring of risk factors and pathogens in water;
3) New methods of wastewater treatment and removal of hazardous pollutants;
4) Environmental epidemiology and identification of environmental factors and burden of related diseases;
5) Environmental factors and biomarkers and their relationship with health;
6) Zoning environmental factors and their pathogen load;
7) Health measures during the outbreak of environmental pollution;
8) The authenticity of food and beverage production and storage;
9) Microbial complications;
10) Preparing equipment, identifying and sampling chemical and biological agents; and
11) Causes of outbreaks of food and waterborne diseases.
Contact information:
Address: Laboratory and Workshop Complex of Environmental Health Engineering Department, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences
Tel: +98-38-33345652
Extension: 206
Fax: +98-38-33334678
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