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Objectives of the Association

Environmental Health (EH) is the assessment and management of environmental influences (e.g. chemical, physical, biological, social and psychosocial factors) on human health. This entails the study of water and food safety and hygiene (including production, distribution and fitness for human consumption), occupational health and safety (including investigation and control of work-related ill health), communicable disease (including investigation, control and prevention), the built environment (including homes, workplaces and public spaces) and environmental protection (including the control of the air, land and water pollution). EH is about taking a preventative approach to tackling disease and ill-health rather than relying only on the curative approach.

The goal of MEHA therefore is to make Malawi free from diseases arising from poor environmental factors (e.g. cholera, dysentery, typhoid, malaria, Bilharzia and other Worm Infections, Conjuctivitis, Scabies and injuries) and deaths which could arise due to poor environmental health.

The main aims of the association are:

  1. promote the objectives of Environmental Health Sciences and related subjects through:
  2. To promote and encourage professional efficiency and ethics and advancement of the members of the association through
  3. To promote high standards of Water quality, Waste Water Disposal, Air Pollution Control, Noise Control, Occupational Health, Basic Sanitation and Hygiene in both urban and rural settings of Malawi through:
  4. To establish relationship, as long as approved by two – thirds majority vote, when and where desirable, with such bodies, local or foreign, governmental or non-governmental, which shall advance the course of the association and the public it would like to serve.
  5. To establish a national executive committee and other committees, as may be required from time to time, with powers to constitute various categories of membership of the association, to determine qualifications or requirement for membership of such categories.
  6. To acquire funds, land or any tenure with power to sell, lease, mortgage or erect buildings for the smooth running of the Association and advancement of its ideals.
  7. To accept gifts, endowments or bequests made to the Association, generally, or for any particular purpose of any specified object or objects connected with the association or advancement of environmental/public health.