The former Department of Human Kinetics and Health Education was split into two departments on the directive of National Universities Commission (NUC) on 23rd January, 2020. It is instructive that the splitting only affected the administrative aspect. This is because prior to the splitting, the Department of Human Kinetics and Health Education had been operating under two units (Human Kinetics and Health Education) each unit having its own courses, examination results and certificates indicating clearly the unit of the students. This made the splitting process to be smooth and easy.

The Department of Health Education which came into being in 2020 was to develop, teach and carry out researches on health education courses. The primary objective of the Department is to provide health education programmes at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. At the undergraduate level it operates Bachelor Degree in Health Education programme while at the postgraduate level, the areas of specialization are: (1) Curriculum, Instruction and Evaluation (2) Health and Safety Education (3) School and Community Health Education.

The Department of Health Education took off with six academic staff and four Non-teaching staff. The first Head of Department was Professor Benjamin Olusegun Ogundele who served between1st August 2019 and 31^st July, 2021. He was followed by Professor Fransisca Chika Anyanwu from 1^st August, 2021 to 31st July, 2023 and presently Professor Jacob Olusola Odelola who became Head of Department on 1^st August, 2023 till date. The Department is populated by dedicated, experienced and effective lecturers who are highly committed to teaching and research. The Non-Teaching staffs have good mastery of their job schedules thus making administrative service delivery to be efficient.

The activities of the lecturers in the Department of Health Education have contributed immensely to academic enrichment through Seminars and Conferences, Professional Associations, and Government and Non-Governmental Agencies. The lecturers are researchers’ par excellence having published in high impact journals both local and international. The research areas include but not limited to family life education environmental pollution, lifestyle intervention for communicable and non-communicable diseases, health policy, green spaces, mental health, nutrition and food safety, e-health and digital tools for health education delivery, ageing and dying, drug and alcohol use and global health.

The Department has since its inception produced students who have been doing well in their chosen career. Reports have it that they have been gainfully employed as teachers at all levels of education both nationally and internationally, programme officers for Government and Non-governmental Organisations, industrial health educators, health journalist and freelance writers of health education, health educators in hospitals and other health care centres, fitness officers and recreation officers. The department is making efforts to attain the vision and mission of the University and global best practice.