University of Community Health, Magway

University of Community Health, Magway

အခြေခံ ကျန်းမာရေးတက္ကသိုလ် (မကွေး)
Motto	To born public health specialists to uplift health status of the nation
Type	public
Established	1995; 29 years ago (1995) [1]
Rector	Dr. AB
Academic staff	102 (2009)
Administrative staff	256 (2009)
Location	Magway Magway Division, Myanmar
Affiliations	Ministry of Health
Website	www.uch.gov.mm

The University of Community Health, Magway (UCH) (Burmese: အခြေခံ ကျန်းမာရေး တက္ကသိုလ် (မကွေး), pronounced [tɕáɰ̃màjé tɛʔkəθò (məɡwé)]) is a Community Health University under the Ministry of Health (Myanmar), and located in Magway city , Myanmar. The university offers a four-year Bachelor of Community Health (B.Comm.H) degree program. Students have to study how to perform community health. Also, they must take clinical subjects as integration for rural population whom can't get primary health care. Formally, the graduates are allowed to practice as Health Assistants (HA) in Department of Public Health and FDA of Myanmar, many of whom are the main providers of primary health care in rural Myanmar where access to regular physicians is difficult.

First, it was established as Health Assistant’s training school in Yangon in 1951. Health Assistant’s training school and Aung San Health Demonstration Unit (Field Department) were combined and emerged as School of Health Science for Basic Health Workers in December 1991 that was upgraded up to University of Community Health in 1996. The University moved to Magway in 2000. Field Department was also moved to Tawsaint village, Salin Township in 2006.

Nowadays, most of the alumni are working in various sectors such as NGOs, INGOs, UN, Department of Food and Drug Administration and Department of Public Health of Myanmar Government.