Abstract
This short communication describes an academic semester-long choice-based elective program that was offered to students of senior classes of bachelor of architecture. The intent of this communication is to document and share the work with practitioners and the academia. This way it can be replicated and students of architecture and planning be made aware especially as the world had a recent memory of the COVID-19 pandemic, when public health became all the more important. They were taught the role of building laws which building practitioners can utilise in preventing disease causing conditions that may occur through the built environment. The basis of instruction was evidence derived from peer-reviewed scientific literature. Various class exercises were performed in order to train the students to get a sensitivity towards the health of inhabitants while designing the built environment. The course was structured into six exercises which were taught over a semester. This was also followed by small scale research projects that students designed and undertook independently. This short communication is a description of the same and warrants further work to replicate and test the effectiveness of the same.