Thanks for your reply. As a public health inspector food inspection, water/waste water quality, itegrated pest management, solid waste management, epidemiology, occupational health and safety, air quality, communicable disease, environmental engineering issues, microbiology, anatomy physiology, organic chemistry, occupational hygiene, statistics, etc are all included areas of study and scope of practice. This BTech in Public Health covers all of what you talked about and much more with the exception of vaccinations. There is a distance program that is offered at cbu and there have been PMeds in the past take this program to build on their education and obtain a degree and write the CIPHI certification. I actually did my mentorship in Fredericton with an ex PMed now public health inspector. (Arnold Mazerole). Anyway, it was worth asking but it doesn't make sense why a 4 year degree would not be something that could get my foot in the door but I will continue to look into this a little further. Thanks again for your time.