The accredited degree Curriculum has been designed to equip environmental health practitioners with the skills, knowledge and competencies they need to operate across the public, private and non-profit sectors and play their full part in joined-up public health management.
The Curriculum combines academic study with the development of a range of skills EHPs need to do their jobs. While giving students a firm grounding in the five key areas of environmental health – food safety and hygiene, housing, environmental protection, health and safety, and public health – it also develops general management, communication, negotiating, analysing, problem-solving and a range of other skills.
The course looks at interventions for dealing with environmental health issues, using education and persuasion and, where necessary, enforcement to achieve the right outcome.
The CIEH has produced a document A Curriculum for Courses leading to the Registration of Environmental Health Practitioners 
, which discusses the design and aims and objectives of the Curriculum.