Community Medicine is that branch of medicine, which deals with the study of provision of preventive, promotive, curative, rehabilitative, and evaluative services to the community at large, through an organized comprehensive healthcare delivery system.
Department of Community Medicine Peoples University of Medical & Health Sciences Nawabshah is working since 1974 and is imparting knowledge to undergraduate in the third professional, 4th year MBBS students through lectures, tutorials, presentations and field visits in the subject. Field visits of places of public health importance, household survey and research work are being arranged regularly. The Faculty of Community Health Sciences was established in January 2011. Since 2012, the department has been running MPH program which is of two years duration. After that BSPH Program was started in 2017 and then in 2018, MSPH Program was introduced. M. Phil Program was also introduced in the year 2019.

Vision

PUMHSW-SBA will stand recognized leadership in Medical & Health Sciences delivering patient-Centered and technologist advance meeting education, transformative research and exceptional clinical and preventive care, leading to healthier community.

Mission The PUMHSW should take up for the better health through excellence in patient care, research, and biomedical education.

Goal

1) Promote sustainable and positive change in public health learners though knowledge communication, field work and research.
2) Educate the generation leaders for endeavors to be change agents for health problems through research and trainings.
Objectives

1) Conceptualize the concepts of community health & measures for levels of health.
2) Learning of the Epidemiological methods.
3) Apply appropriate epidemiological methods to communicable and non-communicable diseases in hospital & community situations.
4) Use of epidemiological tools to make rational decisions relevant at the individual and community levels.
5) Describe the demographic pattern of the country & its relation to Health.
6) Learning and use of basic bio-statistical methods.
7) Vital Statistics and various methods which are used to collect vital statistics in Pakistan.
8) Environmental hazards inside homes. At the work place and in the community.
9) Importance of water and sanitation in human health.
10) Feasible methods of environment control at household and community levels.
11) Common occupational hazards
12) The Role of individual, family, community & socio-cultural in health and disease.
13) Diagnose and manage maternal and child health problems and advice couples and the community on the family planning methods available.
14) Diagnose and mange common nutritional problems at the individuals and community level.
15) School Health Programme
16) Health information system in Pakistan
17) Health care delivery system in Pakistan.
18) Organization and functions of the health care team at primary health centre, community health centre and district level.
19) Disaster management
20) Principles and components of Primary Health Care.
21) National health policy & its implementation in the country