The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) has developed an advanced occupational and environmental medicine programme in collaboration with the World Health Organization's (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean. The programme is one of the outputs of the occupational health objectives outlined in the Second National Health Strategy.

MoPH said that a work plan has been established to implement the advanced programme as part of the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Initiative, a priority under the National Health Strategy 2024–2030.

A scientific committee, comprising MoPH staff, an expert from the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, and WHO representatives, was formed to study and outline a mechanism for the programme’s national implementation and to identify trainees, targeting specialists and consultants in occupational medicine, family medicine, and community medicine.