The Department of Epidemiology as the basic educational and research component of the Faculty of Military Health Sciences (FMHS) is divided into three groups: the epidemiology group; the microbiology, disinfection, disinsection and rodent control group; group of experimental biology.

The Department of Epidemiology has fulfilled the following main tasks:

It has provided undergraduate education at the FMHS and at the civilian Medical Faculty of Charles University in Hradec Králové, as well as postgraduate training and postgraduate doctoral studies. The teaching activities have been particularly aimed at general and special epidemiology with respect to the topical situation in the Czech Army and in the Czech Republic. The topics of „Emerging and Reemerging, Infectious Diseases“, „Travel Medicine“ and „Dangerous Pathogens“ have also been emphasized. Two doctoral study programmes (Ph.D. – epidemiology and medical microbiology) are certified by the Czech Governmental Commission. Since 1990, more than 30 students have finished their Ph.D. studies in the department. The department has state accreditation for habilitation and for professorial appointment in two medical branches: Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology; and Medical Microbiology.