This course is designed to introduce students to the concepts of microbial ecology, principles, and the world of microorganisms from the point-view of the role of microorganisms in the environment. Topics covered include microbial habitats (air, soil, and water); biodegradation of environmental pollutants; microbial interactions; plants as microbial habitats, and animals as microbial habitats.

This course provides a general introduction to public health and the main concepts of infection control. It focuses on basic infection control and public health skills and the role of infection control in applying precautions. Moreover, it addresses the health problems and diseases related to general health, to minimize the health problem in the deferential aspect of the promotion of public health in the kingdom.

This course is designed to prepare Master students for conducting their own research project toward the end of their degree by consolidating all relevant research principles and activities needed for this endeavor as well as strengthening students’ autonomy, creativity, self-reliance, and critical thinking abilities. The course will review main principles of research in the microbiology field, it will discuss in detail the steps of constructing a research proposal for both academic and funding purposes, and it will introduce students to principles of reading and critiquing research reports. Students will also be introduced to professional scientific writing of research articles for publication in terms of structure, format, contents, and style. Finally, students will learn the process of publishing a research report and the many issues related to this activity such as the choice of scientific journal, copyright issues, publication ethics, impact factor, and plagiarism.

This course focuses on understanding the dynamics of disease occurrence and transmission and applying this knowledge in disease prevention and health promotion. Further, the course enhances students’ ability to identify different epidemiological studies and analyze epidemiological data to promote, protect, and restore health.

The course will allow students to expand their knowledge of essential Immunology features, develop their immunological diagnosis skills, and enhance their competence in designing laboratory-based projects. It also includes immunological mechanisms and processes on how the immune system contributes to diseases. This course will also expand students' general understanding of the immune system and the application of vaccination for the 21st century.  The course’s scope will ensure coverage of knowledge appropriate for practicing immunologists in scientific and professional needs.

This comprehensive course explores advanced concepts in bacteriology, from fundamental cellular structures to the latest applications in clinical microbiology and antimicrobial resistance. Students will explore the mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis, the dynamics of the human microbiome, and contemporary strategies to combat antibiotic resistance. The course combines traditional microbiological techniques with emerging technologies in laboratory diagnosis, such as AI applications, CRISPR gene editing, and automated diagnostic systems.

This course is designed to go through the principles of Cellular and Molecular Biology and apply them to advance the understanding of the molecular basis of life in health and disease. The laboratory-based approach is a key component of the course.  Students will gain proficiency in using specialized laboratory equipment and techniques, collecting data, analyzing results, and critiquing research papers relevant to the practical.

This course emphasizes on the nature and characteristics of the most commonly used quality management system specially that is related to medical laboratories and how to achieve, maintain, and improve accuracy, timeliness of testing and how it relates to other health care systems. Since these are representing a major challenge for health laboratories. Management of quality in health laboratories will enable laboratories to produce test results that the national and international community will trust in cases of emerging and re-emerging infectious disease, and their applicability to specific health care problems within the context of medical laboratories.  

Students develop skills and knowledge in the understand and apply policies and regulations on national and international level and to reinforce learning through course work and assignments, including data analysis and interpretation of lab results in general. In addition to laboratory regulations implementation process for regulatory framework practices such as CBAHI, ISO 15189 and CLSI GP26-A3 and others.

The course introduces student with advanced knowledge about the scientific method, research design, and quantitative and statistical analysis of data. The course offers students with opportunity to conduct research on topics within their field of study. 

This course provides students with an understanding of statistical data reasoning in modern molecular medical research, and its application to epidemiological studies and the ability to read and critically evaluate the statistical section of journal articles. The course planned to introduce basic statistical concepts to analyse large-scale molecular data to able students to present data, probability distributions, confidence intervals hypothesis testing, sample size and power. Moreover, it is focused on discussing the wide high-throughput techniques and software’s implemented to gather information and the statistical issues on biological systems involved from initial data processing steps to end-stage research objectives. Specifically, time permitting, the technologies we will examine include two-dimensional protein gel electrophoresis, protein mass spectrometry, and several flavours of microarray experiments.